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Sound the “Borders derby” claxon. Grounds I can get to from West Linton more quickly than I can get to Hawick: Cumnock Jeanfield Swifts / Luncarty Queen of the South Port Glasgow East Fife (It’s not a derby. Stop this madness, please.)

Rose Reilly portrait has been added to the collection at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

Arab Strap. Intertoto cup tie at Gateshead.

Pollok A: 1st July Falkirk H: 4th July Edinburgh football team with regularly changing name H: 8th July Not a bad set of friendlies.

Wee update on developments at New Moor Road.

Occasionally buy football books online from Stanchion Books and they pop in old football cards as your bookmark. A familiar face came with my latest purchase…

Bag of cans with your pals on the balcony at Pollok.

The spaceship at the Oriam.

Park at your own risk at Talbot.

The grandstand built by the corner flag at Turriff United.

Will be a novel experience me getting home from a game of football before 5pm! Wish them well. Not sure how often I’ll go as I’m a sucker for the up at dawn / road trip / massive walk / spot of lunch / fitba experience generally, as opposed to the potter about the house / walk five mins down the road type of game, but I’ll certainly pop along occasionally. Midweek games would be ideal for me!

Just wanted to flag this interview with Willie Haughey on GMS this morning. Start from 2:48 if you want to hear him wittering on about University of Life and his son’s 42 break on a snooker table. Jump to 2:54 if you want to hear more about his thoughts on his team’s new manager. Spoiler: it is not the QP manager job he is opining on. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001mlqw

4-0 Bo’ness. Dunipace missed a penalty at 0-0 which didn’t make much of a difference really. Bring back winter fitba. I’m puggled.

Prize and TV money for last season: £106,800. https://twitter.com/spflwatch/status/1665129997625880576?s=46&t=CZFg535gf7R8wkEonyL6Xg

Well done Cumnock!

There’s a portakabin newly installed at Linton Hotspur. If it survives the gala day* next week, I’ll believe it’s here for the season. Lots of fences going up. It looks a bit like Glastonbury over there. Nobody is getting in there without paying their admission fee. Other than the aforementioned geese, try prising a fiver off them, cup tie shared gate or nothing , they’re not paying you even if you’re Talbot and you’ve brought a wee clicker. * Gala day, or the “Whipman Play” as they insist on calling it in these parts. I’ll never yield. It’s a gala day. Even though it goes on for about eight days. The bloody horses will be knackered by the end of it.

Penalty to Glenrothes - missed! 5-3 Star. For now.

5-3 Star. Joint most goals I’ve seen in any game this season after… 5-3 Star when Stoneyburn came here in November.

4-3 Star. Ridiculous game.

4-2 Star.

3-2 Star. We have a game on our hands. Just about HT now. Nae Macaroni Pies left. Dash!

3-1 Star. Penalty for not terribly much.

3-0 Star. Playing some good stuff here. Three good goals and loads of chances. Glenrothes look pretty disjointed defensively. Haven’t been in the game at all. ps. Heard it’s Burntisland 0 Rosyth 1.

Chippy in East Lothian? Adriano’s in Dunbar is decent.

Star 2 Glenrothes 0.