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They could hire Clement as a match consultant.

Last gasp equaliser for the Toffee Men.

No. No.

Tried and abandoned both.

Most of those of my acquaintance knew fine well what they were doing.

That was an honourable and therefore bearable defeat.

The League Cup Final catastrophe is the worst but Chesterfield is next. The three SC defeats to lower league/relegation opposition have been awful. None as bad as losing to ICT, though. A couple of six goal batterings by Aberdeen and a five goal defeat by Raith Rovers haven’t been pleasant. In mitigation, that Raith wasn’t the Raith we know now

I suppose it’s good to get a reminder about this. Been a few weeks since we last saw it.

Fans can do nothing. They can stop supporting. I don’t think that will help.

Pity it hadn’t been QPR. We would have walloped them no bother.

Not a fool. A supporter.

To let you understand how bad that one was, after the Butch Wilkins screamer 5-1 demolition of celtic my delirium was tempered by a slight resentment that Rangers hadn’t gone on to get eight.

Is that Graham Fyffe?

Not the worst. I’m thinking of a different cup competition but I’d prefer not to mention it. Just say it was before your time young man.

Tut tut, compo; a man of your experience putting money on Everton. I hope it was accumulated winnings you lost and not a stake.

Ryan Hardie knows how to take a penalty. Bring him home.

Berwick. Hamilton. QP. Will he resign. Neither Souness nor Symon did.

Justice done.

Penalty. I hope they miss. Don’t deserve anything.

1956/57 league match Queens v Rangers at Hampden, Queens leading 4-1 in the first half Hunter Devine scoring thrice. It would have been 5-1 if they hadn’t missed a penalty. Johnny Hubbard got two in the five minutes before halftime and Rangers got three more in the second half, 4-6. Niven, Shearer, Caldow, McColl, Young and Davis was the defence. How did QP score one goal let alone four? Geordie Young’s last season might be the answer.

I missed that. I was called away for twenty minutes.

Blaydon Races managed to overcome the End of the Road. Another good cup tie at St Andrews. Scott Wright didn’t do much - drew exasperated groans from the crowd in the second half. Davies wasn’t involved in any catastrophes. Dowell wasn’t involved at all apart from one decent cross.

Sunderland keep discarding points. West Brom up to fourth under Mowbray’s new régime.

Orient v City, a good old fashioned cup tie. Orient coud have scored twice in the last five minutes, City should have done. Leeds out. Didn’t see that coming. Looking forward to Brum City v Newcastle. I’m conditioned from youth to think of Newcastle United as FA Cup holders. They haven’t won it since 1955. High time I was reconditioned. Three Scottish internationalists in black and white, Jimmy Scoular, Bobby Mitchell and a young ‘keeper, Ronnie Simpson who went on to have a pretty good career at the Hibs. The wizard, Bobby Johnstone scored for defeated Manchester City.

Switched between Ayr/Hibs and United/Leicester. I watched one until I could stand it no more then the other until I could stand that no more and so on back and fore. All dire.