Uilleam

Here's how it was: we were abject for half an hour or so; thereafter, we came into the game, and had several periods of domination; during these interludes we failed to convert our superiority into goals. The end.

That's Old Testament, mate. And I don't think the indoctrinators pay much attention to it.

That village team used to feature tanner ba' players like Ross Tokely, did it not? Shankland, on reflection, is really a 'No' from me.

I fear that Deep-Six will be the option, and that some IT bod will have appeared, hot foot, tout de suite, from his holiday debauch to implement it. I expect no help from the SFA, nor from the SPFL. As we know from Scottish BBC's Irish English, writing in Jan 2021: "Lawwell has not only driven Celtic these past 17 years, he's also been the most powerful man in the Scottish game for much of it, certainly in the last decade. Lawwell was never one to shout from centre stage. He much preferred to pull strings from the wings. He had a hawk-like vision for football politics and a chess player's capacity to be three or four moves ahead. It was Lawwell's influence that helped put Ian Maxwell in his role as as chief executive of the Scottish FA and it's been Lawwell's support that's helped Neil Doncaster in his role as chief executive of the SPFL." (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55864412) Nevertheless, we should pursue this until such truth as there is/will be emerges.

Is Scottish fitba' not just a tad robust for grannies, even if they can tie the occasional full back in knots? That ye cannae shove your granny aff a bus is one thing, but, forbye that, is it really the case that ye cannae kick her aff the park? Of course, 157 would indicate Ayrshire provenance, so maybe grounding in the Ways of the Juniors would enable her to survive, even prosper.

How old is she, your granny?

Allowing for the curvature of the earth, and the curvature of the rules at the Crime Scene

OK. I have been trying to understand the nuances of the cheating today, particularly wrt the 'penalty' against the fellow with the facial challenge. (Did Cher not do a film about this guy?) It is quite clear that -the fizzog handled the ball, and put it out of play -the fizzog prevented Sima from scoring or creating a goal scoring opportunity -the referee did not award a pen -the Var man (Colum) reviewed the decision and confirmed that there was no pen -the game re-started with a goal kick -subsequently (after 20/30 mins) it was revealed that Sima/AN Other was offside, and, thus, no pen could have been awarded Now, and this will sound like Timothology, but roolz is roolz, it is clear that -a goal was not scored -this constrained the involvement of VAR, excluding everything, bar its involvement in the pen/no pen decision -VAR confrimed the referee's verdict of no pen -this decision was based on nothing, given that the hand ball was as clear as you would ever wish to see -the referee awarded a goal kick, so the putative, and at that time, unremarked, off-side was irrelevant, as it was anyway, given that a goal was not scored Cheated? Rules abused? Surprised?

It is a strange local Law of the Game that sellik players may take a yellow card with impunity, because they know that officials will not profer them a second formal admonition.

Indeed, but surely we can't....

Bad to worse

Rotary Club

Nah. Fully in keeping with the rules of Scottish fitba'

Bring on Sam Lammers!

Done for, now, I fear.

Dessers should be shot for that!

We can't say that hasn't been coming. The question is can we hold it to one, until HT? I am not optimistic.

So far, we have been rubbish, nervous, and riding our luck, too. It can't continue.

He's a wrong 'un.

Think Thierry Henry. (And hope he is half the player.)

Shankland; he is the spot-kicker for the Hertz, and it is suggested that we pay 4M GBP, or more, to secure his services. He took a penalty last night, and missed. (I watched that game v Hibs, and it was dross, the ball squealing for help for most of it. Shankland, himself, played like a carthorse stuck in a drain, although at the death, he took a nice goal. Despite that, he is no Jelavic.)

This may sound naive, but we have an adept penalty-taker, as it stands, in Tavenier, so do we, then, need another?

Apparently, the lad rejected overtures from the fhilth, which they now spin otherwise, as one might expect from these masters of the half truth and the outright lie. He is happy to come to Govan for Europa football, and Clement/Koppen. He wishes no truck with tranny shaggers and child molesters, it seems.

What swung the deal was the opportunity it gives him to understudy the Great Man.

A very poor second half. I am inclined to put that down partly to the conditions, partly to the score (2-0 being adequate), but mostly to the need to avoid injury. If our lads had bust a gut, in the second half, there would have been, in all likelihood, a few walking wounded, given the referee's apparent inability to blow the whistle, and card the hammermen for their indiscretions.