Uilleam

Cifuentes must be showing something to M. Clement, which the Manager of La Tricolor is missing, or ignoring.

Do we have 2 games in hand?

TAYTOS?

I see the fhilth had a VAR Pen in the 86th minute, although they never, ever, no, sir, get them. Motherwell has just equalised, so really only added time to play. Somebody 'phone the Guinness Book of Records, please.

It's a side-sporran, no?

Was it ever in doubt.....??

The East coast equivalent of the Ned is the "Schemie". I don't know if that term is used as far North as Aberdeen. What I do know is that when East coast types fulminate against or about West coast Neds, a mere mention of the speech, behaviour, and lifestyle, of the Schemie is enough to clam and clamp them. Wankers. Aberdonians? I have struggled for years to find a word which adequately conveys the utter contempt in which I hold them, having had the misfortune to work with such fowk, some years ago. They are, as I see it, transparently Rubes, Hillbilly types (without the musical talent). I would welcome any suggestions for an appropriate, accurate, pejorative label. "Teuchters" are, traditionally, native Gaelic speakers.

Couldn't leave the smartest boat in the tred without an engineer.

It has been put to me often -very often, indeed- that the supernatural beliefs of many Scottish fooball match officials greatly influence their decision making on field, and, now, off it, too, with the advent of VAR ( which, I am told, is as clear an example of superstition triumphing over technology as one might wish to see). If this proposition is correct, it is, surely, less than prudent to dismiss 'supernatural' aspects of refereeing as nonsense, and consign them to the oblivion of the Lounge, where cogent discussion is wont to disappear, untraceably, among the outpourings of the borderline criminally insane.

Here's a novel selection Goram Jardine McKinnon Caldow Greig Meiklejohn (Capt) Morton Baxter Laudrup Hately McCoist

OK. "Should Beale have been sacked?"

Jardine. There is, surely, no debate.

Neither of you are so, well, youthful.

I think , to be scrupulously fair, M. @Rousseauis trying to establish The General Will for each position.

Eric Caldow. Before my time really (really) but from what I understand, a proper full back, proper captain, and a gentleman, to boot.

Really? Everyone, anyone, broad church, and a' that, but really?

OK. Is it a £200K profit, or is it a £4M loss? I have seen both figures quoted.

The Goalie

I see that they, in customary manner, lay down and lost to the pederasts, this afternoon. 6-0 this time.

Thank God that's over. Now it's on to backing Aberdeen, which it pains me to say. It's a bit like being forced to choose between getting the pox or the clap. Anyhoo, all together now: The Coronal Mass Ejections of Old Aberdeen Mean home, sweet home.................

Sky advertising 'The Lazarus Project'. Does that seem, in some way, strangely appropriate?

True, but it's Hearts of Oak that we need, now, this season.

Happy talkin', talkin', happy talk Talk about things you'd like to do You've got to have a dream If you don't have a dream How you gonna have a dream come true? It's good to have some positivity, at last, and, dare I say, on field, and off field. It is only the beginning, of course, and The Man is having to play with the hand he has picked up. So far, it appears to me, he is doing pretty well, and with players many of whom we had consigned to the brock-bin only a few weeks ago. It is make do and mend, for the time being. Are we seeing, merely, the fabled 'new manager bounce', which, admittedly, is not really that high, which often ends with a reversion to the mean, in a matter of weeks? I'm not sure, but, for what it is worth, PC does not seem like the bouncy type. I think that he is shrewder, cooler, more anlytical, with an aversion to blethers, and blethering. As for the players, I do not think that they will/would be able to 'see-off' this Manger, readily. We'll see of course, but better organised football, more on the front foot is better to watch, and has so far been effective. It has, however, exposed a lack of fitness among the players, and that is a concern, albeit one which may be readily fixed in a fairly short timescale. The enigma of Lammers (and of Lammers' selections) remains, of course. Is he what is called a 'players' player'? I don't know. Maybe he is the only card that PC has in his current hand to play, a one-eyed Jack, or something. Don't ask me about Dessers.

You beat yourself too much