scrooge1928

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/arseholes-delighted-20230215231664

Allan and E.J. to 30th June, Jack to 7th January.

The Drumchapel United v Edinburgh Scottish Cup tie on 26 November will be at Maryhill Juniors' ground, Lochburn Park - the Donald Dewar Centre is being returfed. We played against BSC Glasgow at Lochburn Park often enough in the Lowland League days. There were a lot of problems with soggy pitches in those days.

I was getting the Kelty programme ready Wednesday morning and I spoke with our captain. He couldn't believe how a team as good as Queen of the South were as low in the League as they are. They will be rising up the table pretty damn rapidly.

This afternoon's score - FC Edinburgh Women 8 Airdrie Ladies 0.

Looked solid in the first half. Kelty thought they should have had a penalty - I'll wait for the video before I decide. We took a bit of pressure after half time but really came back into it towards the end; Robbo had a penalty saved, and in the last five minutes keeper made great saves from Murray and See before Ouzy got a second almost on full time. Great team performance, good debuts by Mutch, Johnson and Jacobs. All-black second strip looks smart.

City had a tie-up with Hearts just after the War - Willie Bauld was on loan to us for a season in C Division. The whole thing fell through, partially because players didn't want to be loaned to City. If they were freed by Hearts, they felt they would find a better position if they could say "I'm a free agent and my last club was Hearts" rather than "I'm a free agent and my last club was Edinburgh City".

I second this. I don't know anything at all about the circumstances, but City are still in a play-off position, despite horrendous injury problems all season. There have been times when almost half the matchday squad have come from the under-20s. Apart from Albion bleeding Rovers, no-one below us in the League has beaten us; there have been times when we have been played off the park and still taken one or even three points from the match, and the manager has to have had an input into that. He was within minutes of taking us into League 1 last season. Many thanks Gary, and all the best for the future.

Restarted 16:27. No assistant on stand side, ref will make decisions himself.

Second half hasn't started yet. Referee Stewart Luke is injured and there's a club linesman on the stand side. I don't think Gary Naysmith is too happy with that.

Actually got Ross from Hill of Beath Hawthorn, but it's all Fife.

The changing rooms are outside the perimeter of the new ground - Edinburgh Rugby will use those in the main stadium, but the SFA wouldn't approve that for a football club.

The 2013/14 First Round game between Edinburgh City and Fraserburgh was definitely played at Spartans, a result of a typical Edinburgh Council guddle. We booked Saturday afternoons for the forthcoming season in May/June, but were told that someone had sneaked in back in January to reserve the concourse at Meadowbank for some exhibition or another. In September we were then told that the exhibition had been cancelled, so we put in the necessary paperwork and after a rather long delay were advised that there had been a fuckup and the exhibition was going ahead as planned. The chairman tried to rearrange things so that other entrances, toilets, refreshment facilities etc could be set up without us using the concourse, but with the short notice there were so many problems we had to give up and look for another venue. Thankfully Spartans were away to Albion Rovers that day and were happy to let us use Ainslie Park, while Fraserburgh were also very decent about the arrangement. If they'd chosen to screw us over it could have been pretty awkward, but they thought that having travelled 170 miles or so it would be silly to complain about 2-3 miles diversion at the end of the journey.

Football isn't the most popular sport in Finland, and especially in the lower leagues you get the feeling they are not taking things seriously. Apart from Santa Claus there's Honka in the top division, FC Jazz in the third (I wonder if they produce a monthly magazine) and Sexypöxyt – it means "Sexy Pants" – in the fourth. There's Keltik, Rangers, Tikka, Blue Eyes Team, FC Tarzan, Sporting Kristina who sounds nice, and Sepsi-78 which sounds like an infection. If you want to be offended there's JIPPO, JäPS, Black Islanders and Åbo Club de Fútbol (the 5.4% of Turku's population who speak Swedish call the town Åbo. Why a Finnish club's name is a mixture of Swedish and Spanish I don't know). Finnish club names are often contracted to 3-5 letters. Lohtajan Veikot is "LoVe" in the League tables. Helsinki basement team RalliPerseet – according to Google Translate, "Rally Arses" – is shortened to "RaPe", which the 70% of Finns who speak English might not find all that funny.

Dean is on loan to Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale just now.