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4.6 miles by road today or 2.9 miles as the crow flies.

I suspect that the distance as the urchin darts would be less than the modern recommended mileage. Nonetheless it's no surprise the laddie was pechin' but I wonder if he went the distance or if there was a relay of urchins point to point.

You're usually a moderate voice on this Board, Davie. But I know what you mean. And you're right.

Taxation legislation always used to be construed strictly against the revenue and in favour of the taxpayer. Imposition of retrospective liability was impossible. Then George Osborne changed everythng. Not even Sir Stafford Cripps did that.

SPL/SPFL membership is a private contractual matter which the celtic hyenas and their jackal cronies cannot adjust retrospectively.

Caldow, surely Boabie. The man was immaculate.

Peder Yoofa.

McKay was a terrific player. Hearts had him and John Cumming in the same half line. That's midfield for the youngsters like Frankie and Ian.

Only if we can get the bulk of the So'ton squad he played with.

How many?

Baxter

Caldow

Law

Smith (Hibs In the days when they were the Hibs and not Leith Pathetic)

Any others? Cooper mibbees. John White perhaps

Don't bother with Alec James and Hughie Gallagher. The world was a small place in those days.

Be realistic with a benchmark of Pele, Beckenbauer, Cruyff, Maradona and Zidane.

Is English spoken in Glasgow? I didn't know that.

Is O-C fulfilling his early promise? Or is he like Walcott? Nearly there but not quite.

The ghost of Tiger Shaw says naw.

The last Scottish team actually expected to do well was the team at the 1974 World Cup ln Germany. Could have beaten Brazil. Drew with Yugoslavia (Serbia + Croatia + Bosnia + Slovenia - now we can't compete with any single one of them) The team that went to Argentina might have done well with a decent coach.

Before that, there were sides full of exciting footballers many of them Rangers players but I lost interest with Roxburgh, Brown, etc.

WBA is Evans' level but he could fit well at Arsenal or City. Neuther team favours a strong defence.

I like the Arsenal as a club but they've been wrong for a few seasons which seems hard given the number of top four finishes. Although they have that achievement they've never really been likely champions. Get a defence. Simple as that. Same advice to Manchester City.

Only saw the last fifteen minutes.

Pena looks as if he knows how to play. He might be pretty good if he converts some of his body weight to wire.

Wallace's thirty/forty yard diagonal passes into the penalty box are a forward's dream. Shame it's our box and the opposition forwards.

I quite like the red and black away strip.

How long will we keep Morelos?

Bournemouth 1-3 City

Palace 1-1Swans

Town 2-0 Southampton

Magpies 2-0 Hammers

Watford 1-1 Brighton

Utd 3-0 Leicester

Chelsea 2-0 Everton

Baggies 1-2 Stoke

Liverpool 1-3 Arsenal

'Spurs 4-0 Clarets

I thought Mel Gibson's accent was very good. Sir William Wallace was a Clydeside shop steward living in a clachan wasn't he? None of this son of a Norman laird nonsense.

They got annihilated in one tame last year but I've lost count of the times I've been waiting for the slaughter but it never quite happens.

If the horrible truth be told their record is better than ours.

God, that hurts.

Magic hat, I suspect you are new to football. Let me explain. In a league competition, teams play an equal number of games home and away. Usually a home game is followed by an away game though for logistical reasons at various stages of the season there are sometimes consecutive matches either home or away. Hope this helps

A wee question. Rangers v celtic at Ibrox - do you classify that as "home" or "away"?

I wonder what Tiger Shaw would have said if he'd been asked to have a wee talk with a psycho.

"No draws in 9 games so far. That cant last....Everton have to draw tonight."

Well spotted, Gribz.

Bus parking is not new. Only the terminology is different.

In the bygone days of yore teams usually came to Ibrox to defend. That was a doctrine introduced to Scottish football by the managers of Kilmarnock and Dunfermline after a trip to Milan to study Inter's methods. So, against Rangers and to an extent against celtic, those teams played eight or nine defenders instead of the conventional five and as the text book of journalism says, hoped to "nick one on the break". Dunfermline won the cup. Kilmarnock won the league. Other clubs followed the example.

The difference between then and now is that the eight defenders had to defend against constant pressure and it was knife edge stuff. Watching, you felt a goal had to come. Against recent Rangers sides all a defence has to do is keep their ranks closed up. The pressure is not intense. Watching, you feel a goal will never come in a month of Sundays.

The two managers were of course Willie Waddell and Jock Stein.

Birmingham and 'arry are just not a fit.

I curb my early season exhuberance and cautiously confirm this weekend's scores as follows:

Swans 0-2 United

Bournemouth 2-1 Watford

Burnley 2-0 West Brom

Leicester 2-0 Brighton

Liverpool 1-2 Palace

Southampton 1- 0 West Ham

Stoke 0-2 Arsenal

Town 1-2 Magpies

'Spurs 2-2 Chelsea

City 3-1 Everton

Why do the barely articulate insist on yapping so much?