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City destroyed Everton in under forty minutes with breathtaking football which drew admiring gasps from Evertonians in the stands. Sublime. They then retained possession with countless passes the length and breadth of the park for the rest of the game without seriously attempting to score. Christ, it was boring. A less polished spectacle, blood and guts, up and at ‘em, get wired in, thrills and spills would have been much more exciting but I am a dinosaur struggling in an age of sophistication. I didn’t suppose City fans could care less.

I think Ross was a probable for the World Cup until the SNP cry-babies whined so much about neglect of parliamentary duties that he pulled out. Imagine if it had been one of their own. Great honour for Sco’lan’. Best wee linesman nation in the world etc

Unless the buyer is celtic in which case £750,000 should do it although publicised at £7M. After all, when lennon ends up succeeding Rogers on the emerald throne, he’ll want his trusty midfielder available.

“ Neither England or Italy are that good, they're not brilliant, and I don't even expect either of them will make the quarter finals in Russia” A tenner says Italy will neither score nor concede in this year’s World Cup in Russia. What odds will you give me on that?

He must have gone to Hull because he couldn’t get the qualifications for Napier or Caley. (Thats the yoonie not the self-styled football club)

Moult played very well against Rangers but my granny might have done all right against Rangers’ central defence and she’s not a good player.

All of this is very interesting but we’re wandering off topic namely the corrupt gallusness of Pacific Quay Shamrock.

The accent qualification sounds good. On that basis Joe Baker could have played for Scotland but, eventually, Denis Law would have been dropped.

Pathetic, but that’s the caley for you.

I’d forgotten him but I remember him now. He was a farmer in Derbyshire, was he not? Who’s this Walsh guy?

Ah, Methil. The only place where I’ve seen a black beach. And Father Quinn. Did he play for EF? My last memory of him was at Hibs. Very good player in a terrific forward line at Motherwell.

Better than Cammy Bell but much less competent than Woods or Klos and without the match-saving genius of the goalie or even, to a lesser extent, McGregor. Alexander was a better ‘keeper.

Not gutted. Unlike Neil Lennon.

True but you go to see the game, not the grass. Looked like a good surface. Just lose the fancy bits.

If you go about on the streets with a mask you’ve obviously got some very important statement to make and people should pay attention to you especially if you’ve got a spanking new pair of white trainers like the young chap front middle of the picture.

That striped pitch is bloody annoying.

Murty suffers from the handicap of having no on-field driver. No Shearer, Greig, Brown or Ian Ferguson. Doesn’t have to be the captain. More like a foreman who gets other guys to roll up their sleeves and fight ‘til the day is done.

Gordon Brown the Scottish lock forward did weeks of recuperative training at Ibrox. One day he took in a rugby ball. Greig proceeded to hammer “conversions” between the sticks, over the bar and miles up into the terracing. Brown was well impressed. Maybe this is what DJ was referring to.

Was he not one of the heroes of the shamrock in that noble non-defeat at the hands of the Gallic billionaires? Neymar was scared stiff if I remember correctly.

Tory giving Rangers an advantage. Irresistible to the jocko press.

Mr Ian Blackford, SNP Leader in the House of Commons replying to the Chancellor’s Spring Statement yesterday: ”At the weekend, we saw the hon. Member for Moray (Douglas Ross) at the Glasgow Celtic versus Rangers football match, in his other job as a linesman, waving his flag and enthusiastically calling for a red card. If anybody deserves a red card today, it is the Chancellor of the Exchequer.” - Hansard. I suppose this is more anti-Ross than anti-Rangers but the link to the debate is tenuous and probably meaningless to most of the Members. If the Asst. Ref had been Liberal-Democrat and the red card had gone the other way he would never have said it. Blistering topical wit from the Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber.

The irony is that in his previous job Ross would have been up to his knees in filth and grime hours before the pasty-faced record scribblers had got out of their beds of a morning.

I was with you ‘til near the end but how much are they there for the football and how much for the look-at-us special clothing and anti-celtic signalling? As is often said about the assumed followers of another club do they hate the other side more than they love their own?

Couple of hardy tradesmen in that team, Willie Rae and Johnny Little plus the rollicking Sammy Baird. The legendary Geordie Young , the young Caldow on his way to world-class and the best right half I ever saw, Ian McColl. A solid ‘keeper, two dazzling wingers and Billy Simpson and Maxie to rattle them in. A very god side.

Or the new chap on the list from Vietnam, Mr Fee Nyun.