Ken Fitlike

splendid pub the Blue Bell. Was in there when Peterhead played Annan at the end of the season.

Spartans straight into the SPL?

I was doon in the FK distict last week-end. The Plough in Stenny has definately gone to seed,eh?

monuments to Stenny's candy bar heritage...

nah, they'll overnight at Dunblane Hydro and then bus up in the morning...

http://www.footballcrests.com/index.php

One one level you can sympathise... who wants to risk getting your windows panned in or crude letter bombs in your post if you are ID'd as voting to keep Triggers Broom FC out of the SPL. The Killie boy who is already down as a 'Yes man' is probably floating this on behalf of all SPL chairmen. The fact that this fear is even an issue is one big reason to be rid of them for good.

Just catching up here - had to skip about 15 or so late night / early morning pages - and watched last night's STV show plus listened to the Sportsound programme. What an odious jerk-off the Michael Kelly is! All that is wrong with the Scottish Game is captured in his 'who wants to go to Brechin or Dumfries?' soundbite. Actually there is a lot more wrong with Scottish football, but most of that is centred on Govan.

the white shorts are ghastly...

that's a novel interpretation....

OFFS,can you not just post a few 'let's all laff at Rangers' gifs and maintain the vibe of the thread... or offer your views on geology....

Bleak (Big) House

The SPL chairmen should think long and hard about pissing off their supporters - if Stuart Milne voted to let the Govan Zombies straight back in, I estimate the already dwindling Pittodrie crowds would melt by an immediate 4-5 thousand. Certainly with 41 years regular attendance, I'd retreat to peterhead, fraserburgh, inverurie etc a lot more. (Not cove though)

I think the audiobook version should be narrated by Brian Blessed....

I liked the comment at the end of that article 'Titanic given permission to dock at New York'

Willie Aka Tadger Puller

That was a nice dream last night..... Rangers liquidate, newco fail to get SFA licence due to more and more corrupt stuff emerging and cease to exist. 11 clubs in the SPL combine with 10 clubs in division 1 and a reprieved Queen of the South to make a 22 club 'Normal' League with 1 home and away fixture against each other - a 42 game season. It's not as if there is going to be any great date clashes with European ties... ...and then Uma Thurman came through wearing a skimpy negligee, carrying a pint of Deuchars IPA........

did the Norwich City fans realise that Neil Doncaster was a cockwomble while he was there? They must have suspected.

No chance of Ian Black being offered an EBT then?

Aye, if we just 'Keep Rangers and Carry On' without any appropriate penalty* inflicted upon them, then that's my forty year love affair with Aberdeen consigned to the bucket.... Fraserburgh, Peterhead and all the Aberdeenshire Highland Leaguers would see me passing through their turnstiles a lot more. (this has been done before right enough......) (1-5 versus Signma Olomuc) My bottom line opinion is that the appropriate penalty if they are liquidated is that Rangers No Longer Exist and that any NewCo (Govan Zombies) has to start from scratch - applying to the SFL for admittance - not saunter merrily back into the SPL without any of their debts, competing against financially hamstrung Diddy Clubs and back to Obnoxious Arrogance mode. * what would be an 'appropriate' handicap for these goons?

http://www.donssupporterstogether.com/open-letter-to-stewart-milne-re-upcoming-spl-meeting/

*applause* 'we are all Granny Danger'

this years 'must have' xmas gift for fans of Diddy Teams.... the collected Pie and Bovril Rangers Administration thread book

Good Luck Hearts Good Luck Hibs As a Dons fan, I'm not fussed who wins (after 110 years it would be nice for Hibs to get the monkey off their back) Quite a good post on the When Saturday Comes message board.... informative then nicely loopy..... http://www.wsc.co.uk/component/option,com_kunena/Itemid,73/func,view/catid,27/id,665245/ Due to the sheer novelty of a Hearts-Hibs final, I did some poking about to see if I could find any golden nuggets from the 1896 game. The 1896 final remains the only Scottish Cup Final to be played outside Glasgow, the venue being St Bernard’s (then the third force in Edinburgh football) Logie Green ground. Ironically both teams wanted the final switched to Glasgow- Hampden or Ibrox as the Logie Green was deemed far too small for a match of this stature. It roughly held about 20,000. Hibs and Hearts went into the game having finished third and fourth in the league respectively behind you know who.......YAAAWWNN......zzzzzzzzzz.... In reaching the final Hibs beat Rangers 3-2 at Ibrox. The Rangers goalkeeper John Bell had such a terrible game that apparently he dressed in silence in the changing room walked out of Ibrox and was never heard of nor seen again. I hope he didn’t bump himself off. Hibs also had to negotiate a high court case as the semi-final victory over Renton was disputed by the Dunbartonshire club. Renton claimed Hibs fielded an ineligible player but ultimately this was overturned. It’s amazing when you look at the history of the early game how many fixtures ended up in the hands of magistrates, mostly due to the thorny issue of professionalism with clubs accusing and counter accusing each other of using ineligible players and professionals. As for the game itself, the following Monday’s Scotsman report sums things up in that inimitable Victorian syntax: “Generally speaking, the Heart of Mid-Lothian had the best of matters, and played pretty football, but it cannot be said that their opponents by any manner of means lay down.” “Result:- Heart of Mid-Lothian, three goals; Hibernians, one goal. The victory, it might be said, was popular in every sense of the word. Those who witnessed the demonstration following upon the third point will not readily forget it. Regarding the arrangements, it is satisfactory to note that everything passed off without a single hitch.” Thank goodness for that. The hearts right half was called Isaac Begbie. A name, which conjures up a disturbing image of Old Testament fire and brimstone preacher, crossed with Edinburgh psycho radgie. There is one other noteworthy aspect of the game. A young Arthur Montford called the game on to an Edison wax cylinder. In so doing created the world’s first football real time commentary. Unfortunately only a fragment of this commentary remains (at the National Museum in Edinburgh). There’s no web link unfortunately but I’ve heard it. I'll have to write the next section in bold as the cylinder is hard to hear as you will understand- “.......ccchhhhh.......can’t see what’s going on.....ccchhhcchchch......a real stramash in the Hibernians box…ffffzzzssszzzz…GOAL!.....it’s a goal for the Heart of Midlothian!......ffftftftftftftf......Heart of Midlothian 3 points, the Hibernians 1 point.......disaster for Hibernian!......ftftftftftftftcchhhhhh......” An even younger Bob Crampsey, who was on hand to give a historic perspective on this momentous occasion, ably assisted Montford. Crampsey recently graduated from the University of Glasgow with a first class honours in ‘Third Lanarkology’ likened the Hearts formation of 1-1-8 to the great Queens Park side of the mid 1870’s and reflected that the inside wing play of Hearts Hogg and McClaren was similar to the great RS McColl and Andrew Watson of the famous Hampden club. Montford and Crampsey subsequently toured pubs and public places around Gorgie and Tynecastle playing the wax cylinder to much amazement and acclaim. There was not only astonishment at the aural commentary but also at the young Montford’s daring checkered leisure frock coat and waistcoat combination. One young lady was heard to remark that “it is most uneasy on the eye, unlike the dashing Mr Montford”. The whole of the last section may not necessarily be true.