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Having “stormed the ground” what are they going to do? Wreck it? Does anyone think the Alban Polis will find out about this?

That’s a good looking league table @ian1964has posted. I’d be happy with that at the end of the season especially if Livingston could up their game a wee bit.

@Billis right to be cautious. I remember too well the hubris of 1963/64 and the Nine and I’ve seen celtic on their knees unlikely to rise a couple of times before and we’ve seen Liverpool with Klopp set to rule for a decade. Rangers had plenty of luck last season for a change. That probably won’t happen this time. I expect to win the league again but I’ll know better in nine months or so. If I’m tempting fate, the Witchdoctor-General on the Mods staff will delete.

Hastie surprisingly.

Score a pearler, then comes the purler. Ha ha. The spalpeen thought his bhoys were home and dry.

Never found wanting for lack of effort. Captain for a time?

Delighted with the poltroon’s predicament but on a serious note, what is bbc scotland doing there as well as all the regular bbc performers? Is there a notable Wullie or Wulma McWallace participating? Because Mrs 7 likes to watch the horses and the gymnasts, the telly’s been on a couple of times so I’ve heard some of the tedious witterings. Coleman, Carpenter, Bough and Pickering, I didn’t realise how good they were until now.

Some bench!

I like the red and black banded number featured above. I could seeBobby Shearer kitted out in that. No club has a monopoly of that style of shirt. Queens Park wear it stylishly. Partick wore/wear it. Kilmarnock and Dundee United used to wear it. Accies still do as do countless rugby teams. And Forres Mechanics. Maybe not such a good idea after all.

I’m hyper fussy about football strips and athletic outfits in general so needless to say I don’t like the away strip. I refer to critical comments above from honourable members with all of which I concur. The colour is a sort of purple-black which I suppose makes it sort of navy but you can’t really tell because of the shiny finish. Bad though it is, compared with ‘Spurs’ new away toddler’s Soft Play Area t-shirt, it’s almost dowdy.

A vile anti-Spaniard action. Braiden and his ilk are not Policy Advisers. They are Policy Makers under the direction of the Party inner praesidium, rubber-stamped by the Party executive and endorsed by the bleating membership.

And a figure.

Ref Clancy awarded Proud Preston a dubious penalty when Sean Maguire was brought down. Even their own are turning against them. Did they not know it was an important spalpeens’ birthday.

I’m umpire. I shouldn’t really have a weapon. I’ll bring my violin case, just in case.

I’ll umpire this. Rapier for you, old bean, pistol for asil.

Maybe that’s where the shilling should go.

Ach, you’re far too soft in your old age.

Chelsea might be worth a shilling. What odds United?

It’s Hell when the doors won’t close properly.

Maybe but which Greeks?

Transition went well, I see.

Unfortunately I don’t. Moss and Cruise and the rest are unlikely to have been at any match other than a prestigious event. They attend for publicity purposes to attach themselves to the event. The prestigious event is glad to have them for the same reasons but they aren’t football supporters. Perhaps I’m wrong. Maybe Cruise has a season ticket at Scunthorpe. Maybe Moss is dead keen on Leyton Orient.

They didn’t look dispossessed of food and drink, though and many were attired in football shirts that aren’t inexpensive. I wonder how many had smart ‘phones. How much does it cost to get tattoos? They were just selfish yobs.

Not appalling. The likes of Moss, Cruise and Johnson should be nowhere near a cup final. Doesn’t excuse the yobs, though.

It’s been a good tournament. Some decent football and some very good individual performances. How would England have got on against either Spain or Belgium who looked better teams? Or did those two and to a lesser extent, Portugal, only look so good because they weren’t playing against England? Belgium might have beaten Italy. Spain should have. De Bruyne and Ronaldo come home with no medals both much better players than any Englishman. Pickford surprised me in the final. Brilliant goalkeeping. Unlikeable but he’s not there to win friends. The referees were mostly very good. They looked as if they had turned up to watch the game rather than star in their own dramas. The Tally goalie makes a cup winning save and strolls away like an accountant leaving the office at five o’clock. Lastly, for the football lads who follow Bristol to Sunderland or Carlisle to Newport on Wednesdays in November, I’m sorry England didn’t win. For the celebs and politicians - the PM in a football shirt, God help us - and for the face-painted, fancy-dressed oafs and oafesses who’ve never pushed a turnstyle or queued for tickets in their lives, I relish their despair. Except that the despair will be play-acting despair for a couple of days only then they’ll jumping on to some other bandwagon.