Playing for Hollicom

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2 hours ago, 26th of foot said:

There was a time in Scottish football, oh 30 plus years past, when attendance presented an immediate mystery. Supporting Rangers, reserve games were the favourite for team lines containing A Newman, or A N Other, and very occasionally, A Junior. Trialists were a source of ambiguity, it usually took 15-20 minutes for some seer to appear and inform the uninformed of the player's name, past, and credentials. I believe there were regulations on the number of times a player could be listed as Newman, and I think clubs had a responsibility too? These days, I suppose it will be whatever Peter says?

 

Hollicom FC has already issued a number of team lines with Trialists, the most notable was, 'Gregor Cox'. A real hard charging all rounder with a great engine. Energy levels kept Gregor making hard tackle after hard tackle. Gregor Cox's preferred pitch was the readers comments sections of the National, the Herald, and the Evening Times. Gregor was fiercely supportive of Catriona Stewart's columns, casually dismissive of any news item deemed not sufficiently nationalistic, and particularly aggressive reference Rangers and Rangers supporters. It took a year for a number of Bluenoses to j'accuse Gregor Cox as journo, Catriona Stewart. It would appear Gregor has sustained a long term injury because these last few months, Cox has disappeared.

 

Hollicom FC continues to play fixtures and has a very real need of access. Last weekend, we had the organised chaos in George Square, Glasgow. Three different groupings took up position in the square; a protest focusing on making the lives of asylum seekers better, the national defence league intent on protecting statues, and the Green Brigade. I will say it, trouble makers all. Police Scotland assessed the threat and decided to kettle the 161 members of the Green Brigade and escort them back to the Gallowgate. Some scuffles broke out in the square and I believe there were six arrests?

 

Catriona Stewart pulled on the Hollicom FC jersey and utilised her column over three newspapers to pose the question, 'why were peaceful demonstrators kettled by Police Scotland'? This was galling to Catriona because fascist thugs were allowed by the same Police, to run wild. Now, both the First Minister and Justice Minister had issued statements condemning the George Square disturbance and supporting the Police. Catriona wanted the same reaction as the previous week, where the Green Brigade were allowed to wander around the city centre for three hours with extended ladders and new street signs. Despite videoing and posting the film on YouTube with their prominent skull logo, BBC Scotland reported their actions as, "anti-racism campaigners" and, "activists". Catriona wants them referred to as, "peaceful demonstrators". 

 

Further, there's an understanding, those nine members of the Green Brigade that hung two effigies from the roof of the north stand, noose around the necks, hands tied behind their backs, replete in both a Rangers scarf and an orange collarete; were NOT prosecuted, Humza Yousaf's PF Offices lost all the evidence. Catriona expects a similar convenience. It's best summed up by BBC Scotland's Michael Stewart's comments last January, "I support the political sentiments and aspirations of the Green Brigade". Being called out is not on, and Hollicom were up for firefighting.

 

Next up, reinforcing Catriona's column is SNP Councilor, Ruairi Kelly. He has published his letter across the same three newspapers, to the Chief Constable demanding to know why peaceful demonstrators were kettled, whilst fascist thugs were allowed to run wild. Remarkably similar language to Catriona Stewart, don't you think? Ruairi puts meat on the bones and expands the conspiracy. He tells us the 161 members of the Green Brigade had a Priest, a couple of elected officials and Trade Unionists within the number. Further, they noted police officers were wearing a blue patch on their uniforms. He asks if this was the thin blue line insignia which demonstrates, 'Blue Lives Matter'? He wants to know if this is legal under uniform regulations?

 

The thin blue line patch is a homage to PC Fulton, knifed to death on duty in Glasgow some 20-odd years ago, it is a UK wide tribute. Councilor Kelly has been told this by PC Fulton's widow, Christine, by the Police Federation, and the Chief Constable. Councilor Kelly has since done a Gregor Cox, departed the field of play. 

 

It's the sustained effort and energy demanded by Hollicom in supporting the actions of the Green Brigade. I fear posterity will not be kind, the Green Brigade will be redefined at some point as, 'a separate entity' and those playing an active part will be cast into anonymity, just like A Newman, A N Other, and A Junior. We should remember their names.

Could Gregor and Catriona be one and the same 

[Scott7 6,016]

Tut, tut, old chap. How can you suggest such a thing?

[26th of foot 6,084]

It's a new experience, casting off the kit and picking up a bar of soap. The water cascades from the watering can shower head, and James exhales as he steps into a new life. All his sins are washed away, his sin is clean, James morphs into the carbolic glittering young Adonis. He can look forward to a life spent in the north stand, heated green leather seats, hanging above are effigies twisting in the breeze, and the balaclava clad Green Brigade chorus songs of semtex. Who can deny James such relaxation?

 

The spectre of Hollicom has intervened, made James an offer he cannot refuse, and reluctantly, James pulled the jersey over his head and laced up his boots. 

 

Yep, James Dornan MSP has announced he has changed his mind about standing down in next year's Holyrood elections. He is going to stand again, proud to represent ra Sellik most of the time, and occasionally the SNP. Still, what a blow to John Mason MSP, he thought he was eventually going to be the only fcuking crack pot in the chamber? 

 

James Dornan, saved by Hollicom from a future involving soap. 

[26th of foot 6,084]

Ally Bally.

 

"It is not new, Mark Walters infamously had a banana thrown at him as a welcome to his first old firm game".

 

Above is a quote from Herald/National/Evening Times piece written by Freelancer, Alison McConnell during February last. Only last month, former Sellik manager, John Barnes answered BBC Radio Scotland's anchor, Richard Gordon's constant refrain, "are Celtic fans racist"; with a simple, "ask Mark Walters, he'll give you a different answer". Obviously, Alison McConnell would have benefited from asking Mark Walters, if she thinks a single banana was thrown at him during his Rangers debut at Celtic Park. A wee hint for Alison is to look at the screaming headlines on the 3rd of January'88, 'Yes, we have no bananas' - your fellow Yahoos emptied the Greengrocers of Glasgow.

 

Today, once again Alison has pulled on the Hollicom jersey. She is what every team needs, an old warhorse galloping around the crud, breathless and sweating. McConnell has earned her place, she began as a cub reporter at ra Sellik View. Five years hard, penning fluf articles and fluffing the players. Alison kept Chris Sutton's spirit up, had him breathless and sweating. When she moved to the Daily Record, her commission was to provide a most emotional and personal account of attending ra Stade de Gadd to view ra Sellik defeat St Johnstone, thus ending Rangers attempt to achieve ten-in-a-row. Alison wrote of abandoning her car on the Gallowgate, in order to make kick-off. She was convinced no court would convict her, see emotion, see Sellik emotion?

 

The column appears again in the Herald/National/Evening Times and it's one long dog whistle. Rangers launch of the new castore kit is sniggeringly analysed, Mike Ashley is trolled to taunt. Guffawing ensues and the usual Yahoo suspects pile on to the Readers' comments. This why Alison's place in the Hollicom side is secure, she guarantees happy endings. Alison also leaves a delicious barb - 'what do you do with a problem like Alfredo'? According to Alison, Morelos was no where to be seen during the launch, and this did not please Big Mike. Now, on Alison's twitter feed, you are recommended of the merits of Peter Martin, Hugh MacDonald, Stephen McGowan, .etc. I am sure they are all leaning forward on tender hooks, waiting for the reply?

 

Like ask Mark Walters, if Alison had asked Alfredo, she would have found out he was in Columbia with wife and new born child, when the photo-shoot occurred. Still, I know Alison will console Big Mike, guarantee him one of your infamous happy endings.

[26th of foot 6,084]

Steamy Windows.

 

The old double act have pulled on the Hollicom jerseys and are well to the fore these last couple of days. Big Chris is thrusting up front, Alison is taking it in, whilst stimulating and encouraging deeper penetration. Obscuration is required, lots of obscuration. The heavily animated pair are gesticulating, demonstratively indicating the preferred channel. Enduring concealment demands a fine balance between weighty particles and sufficient propellant to find the mark. Putting up a smoke screen is one thing, watching it blow away is another. We should realise the responsibility placed upon Alison's broad shoulders, blowing away for all her worth, hoping Chris can sustain his barreling performance.

 

You see the entire separate entity thing is beginning to unravel. Stronger lights are being shone into the darkest of corners, revealing carefully constructed layered defences. The cabal that is the Scottish Government, the SFA, and Celtic FC had constructed a squirrel. The SFA Review into Football Child Abuse is already a year late in delivering it's report. The Chair, Martin Henry has issued a nothing statement and also revealed he is currently too ill to say anything further. This, in the week where Solicitor, Patrick McGuire representing those sexually abused whilst playing for Celtic Boys' Club, is demanding the release of the SFA Review findings. It is believed Celtic are in possession of a copy of the findings?

 

Martin Henry's appointment as Chair of the Review is mind boggling. Academic qualifications and work experience in Social Work would deem Henry a reasonable choice?However, he founded LBGT Youth Scotland with James Rennie in 2003. Six years later, Rennie was convicted of sexually abusing a child for four years from the age of four months until nearly five years. James Rennie's life partner was Neil Strachan; he was convicted as part of an Edinburgh based paedophile ring. Strachan was Secretary of Celtic Boys' Club in Edinburgh. One wonders as to the suitability of Henry Chairing the SFA Review, when he failed to reveal the nefarious dealings of his founding business partner? Further, Martin Henry was the Safeguarding Advisor to the calamitous Cardinal O'Brien.

 

This last week, both Chris and Alison have made all the runs, they are demanding attention. Alison has trolled Rangers over the Castore strip launch, pointing at the spectre of Mike Ashley. Yesterday, she was proclaiming Kieran Tierney was an Arsenal snip at £25 million, based on one appearance against Leicester City. Chris has dismissed Rangers supporters claims of a SPFL fixture carve-up ie Rangers being away to last season's top six twice before the break and the first old firm game happening several weeks after it's usual slot, to allow Yahoos into the ground. Further, Chris has facilitated former team mate, Alan Thompson to tell us all, seventeen years after the event; that when Chris talked of Dunfermiline laying down, he spoke for us all.

 

I suspect, no matter how hard Alison and Chris go at it, the steamy windows being created are only as a result of condensation. They will clear away and the questions awaiting Martin Henry will still need answering?

 

 

[26th of foot 6,084]

What do you do about a boy named Leigh?

 

The Black Dog, depression, mental health issues, Bipolar Disorder, the Samaritans, despondency, dejection, ................................ etc. The last eighteen months has seen a plethora of articles articulating the mindset of someone on the brink of hopelessness and despair. Empathy and sympathy are expressed, reassurances quickly follow, it's okay to feel this way, and YOU are not alone. I am most familiar with the accompanying choreography. Sixteen years of service does not come alone, I have witnessed the most courageous of men succumb, decades after the guilty events. When your working tools are white phosphorous grenades and bayonets, when your working environment is peppered with heavy artillery detonations, and when the culminating arithmetic does not add up. I can only lend my every support.

 

The vast majority of those articles are not as a result of service personnel experiences, and they are not fixated on the horrors visited upon those working in Emergency Services either. No, the subject is a thirty grand per week footballer, living in a million pound plus house in Bothwell. It has been seriously important to be seen to be unquestionably supportive of a convicted racist, a father to six children by four different mothers, and someone who regularly displays severe behavioural problems. Leigh Griffiths likes a bet, likes a shag, and is never happier than when displaying triumphalism. It's all on film, from singing about Rudi Skacel's links to Travelers selling close pegs, through Leigh wiping his nose on Rangers corner flags, and flashing his Scots Nat' credentials by vigorously waving an Irish republican flag in the Broomloan stand.

 

There's a problem, Leigh scores goals for ra Sellik, lot's of them, and he occasionally bulges the net for Scotland. All those rumours eighteen months past about him having gambling debts and owing serious dosh to some unforgiving Edinburgh toughs. Peter knew he was an unsympathetic character and decided Hollicom had to provide the narrative. It was a complete surprise to the folks in Bothwell that Leigh had mental heath issues. It was an even bigger surprise to Leigh. Anyways, the Scottish main stream media got behind the Hollicom provided script and stories of Leigh keeping the Bothwell Bookies open, due to weekly five figure bets were suppressed. Ra Sellik had done the right thing, as responsible employers should; Leigh was removed from Leith and all bad influences.

 

The Bothwell rumour mill during Lockdown has been busy, Leigh has been seen leaving late in the evening to visit a kebab shop in Castlemilk. A ten mile journey to a Glasgow peripheral estate for a Donner is an even bigger shock than Leigh's mental health battle. Le Chateau de Lait has a burgeoning reputation for fine cuisine, or it will have by the time Peter has finished. We can only wonder why? Hollicom stalwart, Alison McConnell once again delivered an answer. The story broke on Saturday night, Leigh was not part of ra Sellik's pre-season traveling party to France, he was being left behind to work on his fitness at Lennoxtown. It must have killed Alison to pen he was almost a stone overweight? I thought Morelos was the fat striker?

 

Have no fear, Leigh has come from his corner, swinging. He is determined to knuckle down and prove his detractors wrong. He is quoting Rocky Balboa.Give it a few years and all those Journos that went out on a limb to keep Gazza out of the Scottish football hall of fame, will be whipped again, to ensure Leigh receives a seamless entry. In the meantime, I am sure Alison will keep Leigh's pecker up? 

[26th of foot 6,084]

Occasionally dipping into Jum Spence's Twitter feed can be interesting. He Tweets lots about Dundee United and ra Sellik, keeps you up to date on happenings at his local parish church, and splits the rest of his time keeping us abreast of Dundee University and providing teasers on that day's Dundee Courier news items. The last two are motivated by being Rectum of the Uni' and reminding us all he remains a columnist at the blat. Like all those that have been Hollicomed, often it's the stuff he doesn't flag up, that prove most interesting.

 

We know Jum is as thick as sh1t pouring from the neck of a bottle; highlighted by his second and last resignation from PQ. He told us all he knew all about the law because he lectured on it at the local Polytechnic. He demanded Rangers be stripped off their assets, because they profited from crime. The example of gangsters and yachts was offered. Of course, such a Law Lecturer had ignored the fact no crime had been committed by Rangers in his prejudicial rant. Today, in the Courier, in his role as football columnist, he failed to highlight a football connected story.

 

If we go back four months, the biggest story in Scottish football and it continues to rumble; is Dundee's missing vote in the SPFL fiasco. Remember, the vote was sent by e-mail by Dundee FC Secretary, Eric Drysdale. It went missing/awry/rogue for several hours, then we were informed it was recovered from the SPFL quarantine folder at one in the morning. Suffice to say, Dundee had changed their vote from the one they had intended to make. Rather, the vote they told other clubs they intended to make. Eric Drysdale, what's he like?

 

Eric Drysdale is also an SNP Councillor on Perthshire and Kinross Council. Over the weekend, he attended a Council meeting to decide on the merits of a proposed 187 house construction project in the small village of Stanley. The villagers objected to the construction, and Drysdale gave the impression he intended to vote for the project to go ahead. However, on reading the impact reports provided by those opposed, he was mindful to change his mind. During the on line vote, Eric's computer had technical glitches and his vote was not registered. This ensured a 6-6 tied result, allowing the Chair to cast his/her vote in favour of construction.

 

One can only wonder at Eric beset by computer difficulties again? One can only wonder at Jum, being a Law Lecturer, a Rectum, and a football columnist; NOT finding this story worthy of highlight? At the very least, he should persuade his BIG mate, Stuart Cosgrove to utilise his production company to commission a public information film, 'Eric Drysdale contemplates the ballot box'.

 

Was Eric waiting on the soft thud of a brown envelope, was he promised a pre-season friendly, was he guaranteed a lucrative TV match to be played in the States, .... etc?

 

We should be told ................. by Jum. 

 

  

[Uilleam 5,948]

If Spence did not exist, we would have to invent him.

 

Might we say the same about Mr Eric Drysdale/ 

[26th of foot 6,084]

3 minutes ago, Uilleam said:

If Spence did not exist, we would have to invent him.

 

Might we say the same about Mr Eric Drysdale/ 

In Jum's mitigation.

 

Everybody in Lochee knows Jum was sodomised through a hole in his balaclava.

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7 minutes ago, 26th of foot said:

In Jum's mitigation.

 

Everybody in Lochee knows Jum was sodomised through a hole in his balaclava.

It doesn't sound like sodomy to me, but I bow to your ex-Army expertise in such matters.