Uilleam

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.

The whole team is having a 'mare, this half (Bar JB)

As good an explanation as I've heard.

Any more games like that, and the Mogadon Works will be closed. OK, we were in control, and never in danger of dropping points, bar ridiculous refereeing decision(s), a monumental defensive error, or some arsehole winder of a shot from nowhere (all of which we have seen and despaired at), but is it too much to ask for a bit of zip about the park, and strikers, well, striking? And could somebody tell me what Sam Lammers is for? Other than taking the bad face off any of the rest who are having a mare? Still, onward, and, satisfyingly, upwards.

Dessers: he scored, and won a penalty. A goal is a goal, and enabling the customary confected controversy is, em, icing on that cake. We have our cake, and eat it, and the haters choke on the crumbs.

Sellik running football in Scotland is ruining football in Scotland.

I believe that's what they call a 'short time'....

A bit like Paisley, then, although it doesn't need the fog.

How long before you realised that an East coast haar wasn't a working girl from Leith?

And some poor ould sod's heirs still arguing for a payout from Messrs Littlewoods.

On checking with my Achaean correspondent, it seems that members of the Thracian diaspora settled there.

It is. The area went downhill, quickly, after capital punishment was abolished in 1965 (permanently in 1969). You may argue coincidence, but.....

Who won, then? Do you know the goalscorers?

Bob Crampsey told a story -true, apparently- about a football commentary during WW2. I don't suppose that you heard the match coverage, although old @compomay have, unless he was serving out East with the Pioneer Corps, or somesuch. Anyway, the BBC was scheduled to provide live radio coverage of a game at Tynecastle. It may have been only of the second half, rather than the full match. No matter. Unfortunately a fog descended upon Gorgie, a pea souper, and with no prospect of it clearing, the match was postponed. At this point, the War Office contacted the BBC, fearful that the Lufwaffe, realising that the East coast was fog bound, would cancel any planned bombing raids, which, of course, would be abortive, and wasteful, in the prevailing conditions. It was agreed that the BBC, and its commentary team, would broadcast improvised coverage of a non-existent match, which, commendably, they did. Oh extempore, oh mores, as they said in the Pilton, when the story came to light. (The Hearts won 2-0, i I r c.)

Gods walk among us, and the trembling earth resounds their tread.

Captain, scores the winner. That' s Roy Race stuff

I say, you chaps, any of you interested in a charabanc?