Dirty Sanchez

Commentator just wanted to tell someone he'd spoken to Noel Gallagher.

Yes, probably. Looks like Jimmy Bone is scoring in the bottom picture and he wore 7 and scored in both of those games. Any remaining doubt, if there is any, would be settled by identifying the Kilmarnock goalkeeper because Alan McCullouch played in the April one and Alistair Wilson in November.

St Mirren v Kilmarnock from the Main Stand. Appears to be 1980, but don't know if it's the game on 12th April or the 29th November one.

I spent two days travelling to Euro '92 on a double decker coach from Buchanan Bus Station to Western Sweden, via Dover, mainland Europe and another ferry from Denmark to Sweden because fans were banned from North Sea Ferries. News of alcohol prices in Sweden meant a stop at a hypermarket in Calais, after which quite literally every unoccupied space on the bus was taken up by cans and bottles. There was so much drink on the bus that our encounter with customs officials in Halmstad made it into the Daily Record. The bus toilet inevitably broke during the tournament and, in fact, the whole bus broke down on the way back resulting in us having to be rescued by another, far inferior, bus from a roadside in Belgium for the rest of the journey back. It was a welcome development when budget airlines came on to the scene a few years later.

For the record, I did a deep dive on our history with Thistle earlier. Won't wheel out all the figures, but we were much of a muchness until about 1970, and since then we've swapped places in the top league a few times, with us having the better of it by about 28-14 in seasons spent in a higher league. Big differrence being that we pick up a trophy now and then, whilst they take a trip to the third tier now and then.

I watched the 2016 Scottish Cup tie on St Mirren TV when I was too ill to attend, and for some reason they had a Thistle fan co-commentating. He was a droning cretin, who was talking about the game as though it was some sort of David v Goliath encounter because we were in the Championship and they were in the Premier. I remember wondering how long it would be before the roles were reversed, and it would be daft to take any liberties about them reversing again sometime.

Roughie could have warned them...

Nothing against Thislte, but that's all-timer.

Both missers had penalty miss written all over their body language.

When I saw that tweet of the Thistle team bus to Dingwall getting a send off from a sizeable crowd outside Firhill, I did briefly think that it had Argentina '78 vibes about it.

Walker: "I've never felt it's a good look, looking at still images." While we're looking at replays of moving images.

There's a strange force in the universe that prevents Partick Thistle and St Mirren from existing in the same division for any length of time. it's uncanny how many times that various promotions and relegations, in the same year, or soon afterwards, have seen us avoid each other, for two fairly similar clubs. 6 times in the last 41 years we've been in the same divsion. If they come up today it would be nice if we could both buck that trend.

Get out the mic, roll on the "Scottish Cup Winners again..." speech.

Belated one from Talk Sport here.

Fixed it for you Stubbsy.

Yes, I was rooting for Dennis the whole time. He had a track record and you could see there was something there. Just never quite clicked for him here. As it happens, Carlisle equalised just after he came on today. Hippolyte also had an outrageous effort from an overhead kick.

Currently watching the St Mirren squad player derby from Wembley. Kristian Dennis v Myles Hippolyte in the English League Two play-off final. Both on the bench, but we've had a close up of Dennis explaining that he scores lots of goals but he's usually injured. Sounds familiar.

A stance they returned to for most of the 1990s.

Shades of Rino Gattuso diving in a pre season friendly at Love Street here.

Who is it that keeps falling for parking on that grass verge next to the driving range? Easily 50+ cars ticketed there tonight. A good night for the council too. Not the first time I've seen that.

Yes, definitely no foul on Main there, at the start of that move.

VAR to see who threw the pyro.

It's actually just poor reading comprehension from you tbh, or wilful misinterpretation to facilitate a weaselly, snarky response. The 'funny' part, in isolation, is that a goal for Rangers at that stage hands the title to their city rivals, not the fact that they are quite naturally chasing that goal anyway, irrespective of its implications. But thanks for playing.

The funny thing for me was, after Glasgow City went in front, Rangers needed three goals to win the title, and it was already deep in stoppage time. It wasn't happening. However, if they had equalised it would have handed the title back to Celtic, and they were going all out for the equaliser and were unlucky not to get it.

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