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The Belfast Telegraph comments on Facebook are a gold mine

I reckon it is a pen. Ambrose's hand starts off underneath him and ends up to the side. He's obviously moved it toward the ball

I had a choice at the start of the month to go to this game of one of my best friend's weddings I hate my friend

Someone just bought a rhyming dictionary

Saw someone mention this on facebook. Sauce?

I wish I'd seen this earlier. Just because I lived in Chelsea at the time and would have had a great time winding up the junior pleb

five and a half!

f**k MonkeyT. Morton will win the 1st division, challenge cup, league cup and get beat on penalties by Celtic in the Scottish Cup final. Our 2-0 victory against Fulham at Craven Cottage in the Europa League will go down in history, Scotland will get independence and become the richest country in the world, my dick will grow another four inches and my waistline will shed the same amount. Jet packs for all and Sean Connery will cure cancer. It's pre-season and I believe in miracles (until we get horsed by Cowdenbeath)

Everyone should have a litle optimism before a ball is kicked. It's what this time of the year's all about

But haven't you been paying attention? WE NEED Old Firm fans. They'd fucking love to leave the rest of us out of their programmes altogether

Hamilton Accies did. Got a 15 point penalty as well if memory serves. I think Livvy's was different as they were refusing to play until the outcome of an appeal?

Fucking right the playing staff is not an asset. Lee McCullloch? Poor b*****ds.

A few of my Rangers supporting mates are saying the youth players they have + guys like McCulloch will easily be enough to win the league. I just looked at some of the "promising youth players" Rangers have had over the years on that site: Iain Chambers, Steven McAdam, David Young, Kirk Willoughby, Michael Stone.... Play offs at best if this transfer ban is in place

If you pretend you're talking about people discussing homosexual encounters that's a really funny paragraph

It is a good bit more mental up the Port for some reason I've always noticed. Larkfield in Greenock's pretty bad for it as well.

Seriously. Not a clue. Not a fucking scooby until I was 14 or thereabouts. Never knew what the difference between prods and kafliks was (still don't really) as they were all Christians in my eyes. Don't know the difference between Sunni and Shi'ite either. Was confused as to why I went to the school that was a fifteen minute walk away instead of a five minute walk but no more confused as to why I had a Gourock phone number and Paisley postcode when I lived in Greenock. I couldn't even tell you which of my friends were protestant or catholic until I started high school. The idea that people judged, even disliked, other people based on that didn't even enter my head. None of my friends or family ever mentioned the words ******, orange, *****, proddy, pape, etc. Only became aware of this crap when we started drinking and then some of the guys I hung around with would start singing Old Firm songs. Call it risible if you will but if anyone is hearing and learning about this shit before their balls dropped they're probably hearing it at home (or, I will admit, from friends who are hearing it at home). But that's the real risible part of this situation.

I did say GREAT unwashed. You could almost take that as a compliment

I suppose for Thistle/Clyde/Spiders games the teams will play a fringe team or it would be five teams playing once like the original Europa League format. As a side note I'm all far the Glasgow Cup, Angus Cup, etc. all coming back into play. The Renfrewshire's a great wee money earner for us and the great unwashed as well as the amateur sides in the area. On top of that it's always our last pre-season match (or final match of the previous season if you want to be pedantic) and I think it's the perfect pre-season game before the serious stuff kicks in. Definitely a lot better than watch Morton v Arthurlie or Celtic Reserves. What will happen there then if Scotland gets independence? I've no doubt it will remain flying but the argument from Rangers fans is always "it's our national flag". I wonder how they'd explain it then.

They'll make it a round robin tournament with the top two (maybe even top four) playing off so they're guaranteed some dirty money

Is it weird I never noticed any sectarianism until I was well into my teens as well? Maybe it's my atheist upbringing.

But wouldn't BBC Alba's rightsholding be for the SFL rather than just Div 1? Surely shifting out the 3rd division games is just as much of an issue. I'd imagine if the SFL were to say they wanted other matches outwith Rangers shown it'd be like Sky's deal with the IFA. They pay for the rights to Norn Iron games but have to show six domestic matches a year. Sky make a loss from those games but they do a lot of good for the domestic league. If Sky want the internationals they have to put up with Linfield. If someone wants Rangers they should have to put up with Dumbarton.

Would the cash be split evenly amongst 30 clubs? Also wouldn't be too keen on both my teams home matches v them being switched for telly. And why limit it to 25? Throw in half a dozen 1st/2nd division games to get some exposure to the rest of the leagues.

They owe the bitch £80,000,000. Pretty sure she gives a f**k!

We're waiting on a vote from the SFL chairmen

There's pleasure in visiting Monstrose?