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Stop letting them use your phone then. They’re supposed to be driving a bus.

I moved away about 1994, but I probably knew him. It's that kind of place - about seven streets trying to pretend the rest of the world doesn't exist.

Anywhere large enough to support an SPFL team is unlikely to be homogenous enough to fit simplistic definitions of "good" or "bad" - Paisley contains both Ralston and Feegie for example, Greenock has Fort Matilda and Larkfield. For the same reason, it's also pointless naming cities as being the worst as they're a patchwork of wildly different areas - try telling the punters in the £1.5m houses in Hyndland and Jordanhill they're living in a dump... The real worst places for my money are the villages and towns which have been drained of all resource and ambition - a lot of the former heavy industrial areas for example, where hopeless unemployment is the norm. There's nothing more depressing than one of those wee main streets where the only things not boarded up are a Spar, a bookies' and a couple of jakey-looking pubs.

I was brought up in Old Drumchapel, and it's a strange wee place - it used to be a village in the countryside until it was built all around in the 40s and 50s, and it still retains a lot of village characteristics. Lot of curtain twitching goes on there, and a lot of the punters blithely carry on in splendid isolation trying to ignore he fact there's some pretty mental places spitting distance away.

Had no idea she was as old as she is - she's knocking 70 - so fair play, she's holding up well all things considered. Was well tidy back in the day though.

Noooooo!

The whole vibe I'm getting from the pair of them is it's the end of the night and she's grabbed him by the ear and told him he'll do. He's not sure whether it'll be the experience of a lifetime or if his face will end up on a milk carton.

Le Havre AC MSV Duisburg Crusaders Vastra Frolunda IF HB Torshavn Most of them teams I've been to see when I've been in the various countries and started following their results - Duisburg I haven't, they're just one I used to go in Champ Manager years ago.

The songs on St Anger weren't that bad - the band running through them on the accompanying DVD sound pretty good - it was the deliberately grating production that killed them on the album. Although strictly not a Metallica album, there's also not a lot of love out there for Lulu. I thought it was actually quite good, but a lot of old school 'tallica fans lost their shit about it.

St Anger doing great I see First three and Garage Days for me. Always found ...And Justice a bit of a dirge, and the Black Album's one of those ones that's excellent but has suffered from overexposure - wouldn't bother me if I never heard it again.

A while ago I was doing some HR stuff, and someone showed me an application from some English lassie who obviously couldn’t decide whether she wanted to be an elf or a vampire – she’d changed her name by deed poll (from something prosaic like Sharon Smith) to something along the lines of Lilith Arwen Galadriel Lestat. Never met her, but I assume she was a bit of a goth.

Yeah, the royal connection hasn't helped St Andrews - the whole place seems to be full of burds from the home counties called Lucinda or Sophie doing History of Art.

The best she's ever looked was in Terrance & Phillip's Not Without My Anus tbh.

This is a job for:

Wouldn't be my first choice, but any old port in a nuclear firestorm...

Also answers the perennial question "What would you do if you knew you only had five minutes to live?"

Never had it down as a suicide hotspot - I always assumed the cage was there to stop the local foosties dropping bricks, Bucky bottles etc on passing trains. It's certainly one of the bleakest places I've ever had to wait ten minutes at.

Ground zero in a nuclear strike. Can't get any quicker than that, and I'd imagine it would ruin the day for some other people in the vicinity.

Or Kiss fans.

It's at a 90 degree angle to the old one a wee bit west. There's still a bit of the wall of the old one left on Southloch St leading up to where the social club was, and an old set of stairs as you take the path up from Petershill Rd, but that's about it.

Did a bit more digging - looks like the guy who filmed that did some great work documenting various grounds back about then. Going off topic a bit, as most of these teams are still around, but how's about these for some West Region blasts from the past? Old Petershill Park: Old Southcroft Park: Moore Park (Ants): Station Park, Baillieston: Brandon Park, Bellshill

Royal Albert's Robert Smillie Park lasted until maybe 10 years ago, although the stand was long gone by then. Found some footage from the 90s from there - I was only there a couple of times, and the only thing I really remember about it was that it was one of those grounds where you always seemed to be miles away from the game on account of the track around it.

They were a league club as late as 1926, where they finished 7th in Division 2!

There's quite a few that lay claim to being the oldest, although some haven't played in the Juniors the whole time, were continuations of other clubs or had gaps of a few years where they weren't active. Most clubs' records from that far back are a bit sketchy to say the least. To illustrate this, I was talking to the Ants' club historian who had found out recently that they were actually formed two years later than anybody thought.

Harthill took over Polkemmet's old park when they joined the Juniors. ETA - Polkemmet went bust in '88, Harthill joined in '92. Park used to be called something else other than Gibbshill Park AFAIK.