TheLip69

Coffee 4 weeks into a doctor imposed 6 week alcohol free period. Disappointingly I am finding it rather easy.

Camra's chairman didnt make himself too popular with some of his members after his performance. Camra have always been about preserving pubs and pub culture but refusing to recognise, or give credence to, craft beer was a shot in the foot as far as some people were concerned. Honestly,my twitter feed is full of blogs from brewers and breweries and quite a few are a bit pissed with his performance.

Fair play mate, but I never got the feeling I was watching something special when I watched Wee Dick's team. My Dad always said the Rangers side of the early sixties was the best. I think Stein took it to another level though, the fact that they dominated at a time when our league was, arguably, at its strongest speaks for itself. I was fortunate enough to be watching a lot of football at that time, my formative years.

Eerily, last time I was up in Scotland we had a similar discussion in the pub. Steins Celtic won hands down, with Dundee Utd second and Scott Symons early sixties Rangers side third. 3 Rangers fans, 2 'Well fans, and a Celtic fan were the voters. The '75 Well side got one vote.

Having ran pubs in Manchester for years that generalisation of Camra members is utter nonsense One of my pubs used to get a few of them in fairly regularly, depending on which guest ales I had on. Contrary to what you would expect they are fairly delighted at the upsurge in Craft/Real Ales and embrace it wholeheartedly. They will tell you that only a few years ago they used to get together and arrange outings to pubs which had decent ales. Now there are so many on their doorstep that outings have become a rarity. Manchester is brilliant for the craft ale scene, micro breweries all over the place and small bars cropping up everywhere. I cant remember the last time I was in a pub belonging to one of the major chains. I haven't seen a Fosters pump in months.

I noticed somebody had greenied you for that post so I evened it out with a red, to keep you happy.

I cook daily and always wear an apron, far too many shirts and t-shirts ruined by spitting fat, spilled soup, gravy etc.

Got Bridge of Spies DVD yesterday. Enjoyed it, but not as much as I thought I would. Slightly disappointed but no idea why. Weird.

Just opened one of these watching Leicester v Newcastle

Donations I believe, and everyone who donated got their name printed on this strip.

Wychwood's Goliath, lovely.

It is, as is becoming more common with Kincardine, pretentious pish.

..but not surprising.

That Ford advert in which you have to "Unlearn Everything", is that because you need to be a brain dead, uneducated, moron to buy one of their cars

I rarely put people on ignore for bigotry or bias, It'd be a pretty empty thread if I did that. For me the biggest crimes are trolling or being a boring f**k. Forever Blue and Dhenbhoy went for a combination of both, Bear in Sweden just got it for the latter.

Would that do any good though? There are loads of contemporaneous sources, newspaper accounts, eyewitness testimony, etc. of your clubs death but you somehow choose to ignore all that.

The SPFL has produced clubs that have knocked both Celtic and Rangers out of cups in recent years. It would be an accomplishment if this were 20 or 30 years ago, nowadays it's par for the course with these two. There's a tendency for people to assume Rangers and Celtic are bigger than they actually are, I don't understand that.

Why have a couple of pages disappeared?

Surely it doesn't matter how many or how few are offended by the singing of FTP or FTQ. It's the fact that it is sung to be offensive, lets face it if it was inoffensive it wouldn't be sung.

I have been following Motherwell for a similar length of time and my perceived religion has only ever been an issue for Celtic and Rangers fans. I have NEVER experienced sectarian abuse from any other fans.

Yes, that won't harm them at all, everything will be just fine. Tit.

Believe it or not this "Psychological Slavery" was used to explain how the bigger clubs in Italian Football managed to get the decisions. Of course this was before the shit hit the fan a few years ago and knocked it on the head. Try reading a book called Calcio, a history of Italian Football, written by Michael Foote's grandson. Cracking read.

Hopefully the rumour about the Premiership going to 16 next season is true, bringing Hibs, Falkirk and Rangers all back into the top level,as well as saving Dundee Utd, can only be good for the game.

The Hateful Eight, thought it was terrific. I like Tarantino's movies. They may not be to everyone's taste but they are right up my street. I just sit back and say "Entertain me Quentin" and he hasn't let me down yet. I rated this one higher than Pulp Fiction. 9/10

Not according to her two doors up at No. 60