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Koscielny, Ozil and Giroud would have made a difference but over the season will they make enough of a difference?

Scot Symon's instruction to Davis, Telfer and Shearer was to win the tackle and give the ball to Ian (McMillan) or Jim (Baxter)

Lescott was pretty good at Everton, over-priced at City and not up to much at Villa. But he's not scared and can defend a bit.

Baggies champs? That would do nicely.

I see John Terry played last night. Thought he was finished. Never a Beckenbauer but if you like your centre halves to defend, captain the team and score a goal or two Terry's the benchmark.

.... well, "cleaners" and "clean the area" didn't make for a good sentence, so I used a synonym. A place full of unwashed is bound to need some cleaning every now and then?

Disinfect, perhaps?

Good, the cleaners will finally have a chance to defecate that area!

Are you sure, dB? The mind boggles.

Thought Biobanding was the Thailand centre half.

Dundee playing in a very smart strip. Especially the socks.

Perhaps a little too enthusiastic about celtic though I don't like the look of Sinclair but a reasonable assessment of Rangers' weaknesses. Perhaps he reads Gersnet.

A sizeable number of celtic supporters enjoy political posturing much more than the football.

Its a great article DB.

 

Do those of us who can attest to seeing Andy Penman play have to go in the old codgers section ??

I mind fine when young Penman was signed. Didn't perform for Rangers as well as he did for Dundee. How often does that happen?

At Dundee he was part of a beautifully balanced side at its peak. Rangers were in decline when he joined.

I'd forgotten that Dixie rendition of the Follow Follow. Epic. Whaurs yer flutes an' accordians noo, eh?

That's exactly my point. He felt contact and went down, therefore under the rules he isn't cheating. The rules are a farce, or more specifically the implementation of them is a farce. It isn't that long ago when I was playing that football was a contact sport....

The relevant part of Law 12:

"Direct free kick

A direct free kick is awarded if a player commits any of the following offences against an opponent in a manner considered by the referee to be careless, reckless or using excessive force:

charges

jumps at

kicks or attempts to kick

pushes

strikes or attempts to strike (including head-butt)

tackles or challenges

trips or attempts to trip"

Note the words "careless, reckless or using excessive force". That is more than just contact. If the player says what Walker said that sounds as if he himself made the decision to fall down rather than being knocked down or even knocked off balance.

Fine analyst of the game and a master of descriptive language.

Never mind, Tomas, your big team should do it tomorrow night.

Normal service resumed.

In his (ahem) exhuberance, will Petrie give lennon his jotters?

Only half as good as Fan Fan.

Hard to disagree with any of that, except Everton are in the long term a step up from So'ton.

So long as either City or Arsenal are Champs and Sunderland and West Brom are respectable I'll be pleased and I don't want Burnley to go down.

Even nowadays you need more than just contact.

As a matter of interest, Ser B, have you joined Manourinho United or are you sticking with Chelsea?

"The Hearts midfielder said: "I knocked the ball on and I've seen him [Tierney] coming out the corner of my eye and felt contact so I went down."

Sounds like cheating.

Good words from Roy McGregor. Ross-shire is predominantly blue so it was bad luck that County haven't shared a league with Rangers until now. It would have been a cruel blow for them if they had been relegated last season though for reprehensible tribal grudge reasons I would have laughed.

Pontifex Maximus? Is he not the bloke plays left wing for Vatican City?

You can't give credit to the opinion of someone who doesn't know how to spell "fisticuffs".

Eric Caldow the same.

naw..choochterville....loons and quines, fit la and all that shite

I'll let fs deal with that one, cs. Just let me say that Peterhead folk, for all there many faults, are not teuchters.