Dirty Sanchez

At first, I thought Rod's gear was from Ross Dress for Less, the discount chain in the States. Turns out there's been a big collaboration that we've all overlooked.

Looking like he needs a hair dryer himself, Fergie, hailing a taxi in Paisley, 1977.

We had the epic 3-2 replay loss to Celtic that year, complete with controversial goals and crowd chaos. Little did we know that if we'd knocked Celtic out that night night we'd probably have done ourselves out of a place in Europe. They way the league panned out we'd needed to have won the cup or lost the final to (champions) Aberdeen to qualify for Europe. No other outcome in the cup would have got us there, despite the 3rd place finish in the league, due to Dundee United having taken a UEFA spot with their League Cup win while finishing below us. And that guy on the Love Street DVD wouldn't have been able to warmly reminisce about the thrill of watching Michel Platini in Paisley even though he wasn't even playing that night.

Kevin Thomson revealing that fans are "the life and bread of the game".

Booooo.

That winning goal for Arsenal would have been a stick on to be disallowed by VAR.

Watt seemingly has two years left on his Dundee United contract. It might take their relegation to smooth the way for a deal that suits us.

Jota was superb in the The Wedding Singer, to be fair.

O'Hara also on a booking from a passage of play that shouldn't have happened.

We interrupt this VAR check for a football match. Apologies.

I've bought tickets in the car on the way to the game after 2pm before. You're at the mercy of hoping the emailed tickets will come through, but you've still got your purchase reference in the unlikely event that it doesn't.

I spotted this on the Pedro Porro thread on a Spurs Forum. He wasn't wrong.

In the first half at Hampden Park, everything happened to Porro. He slipped onto the grass shortly after the start. Andy Robertson took advantage of the loose ball and put it back to Scott McTominay. Scotland took the lead, taking advantage of the misfortune of Porro, who found himself immersed in a series of calamities accentuated a few minutes after the slip in a dispute over a throw-in. This ignited a nearby section of the stands, which began to accompany each touch from the Spanish winger with a boo. The connection with Porro spread to the entire stadium. They celebrated another slip on a clearance. The matter was triggered when, with the ball out of the field, he fell due to a collision with Robertson. He did not return after the break.

I'm Google translating the f**k out of the Spanish newspapers. One saying it's 81 games since they lost by two gaols, and 16 years since anyone had a clean sheet against them in a qualifier.

Spain need to get rid of that Wales strip they've been wearing. They don't even look like Spain without the blue shorts.

This mob join Brazil as a previously outstanding side who have turned into a bunch of wanks.

We're seeing this out for sure. The football gods have spoken. You can tell when the opposition start hitting shocking passes out of play inexplicably.

I see the new ref was also the 4th official for the real ref at all his recent Euro games including AC Milan v Spurs. A bit like Ant and Dec, these two.

Many years ago I had some roaster attempting to recruit me into what was effectively a pyramid scheme disguised as a business opportunity. I don't know this guy Richard from Adam, but I had a long look at his website, and the content and tone of it is the absolute epitome of what I have described above.

Made a change for Main to get a foul for f**k all rather than having them given against him for f**k all.

Yes, the Logan burial is at the monument in the background. Here's the mansion and monument superimposed on the current view.

There's a nondescript patch of grass behind the away end at St Mirren Park that wasn't touched when the stadium was built. This was because it contains human remains, namely those of the former landowner James Logan, who lived in a long demolished mansion on the site, that predates any other building in the area by donkey's years. The nondescript patch of grass was once a memorial garden to Logan, who died in the 1840s, featuring a fenced off monument incorporating his lead coffin. The mansion and gardens originally backed on to woodland, and it was only in the 1930s, when the council bought the land, that the housing estate was built up around the gardens. It was in Logan's will that the gardens should be maintained and accessible. I have a relative who claims to have been an eyewitness to some coffin material being brought up while local street urchins were...erm...'playing' on the monument in the 1960s, which caused a bit of consternation at the time. I've had that story corroborated elsewhere, and it was stuff like that which lead to the demise of the gardens and monument. There's only a slab still remaining where the monument used to be, but Logan's body was never removed. The two entrances to the car park are the entrances to the two streets that were formerly there, the bottom one being Logan Drive, named after our man. The footprint of Logan Drive runs right down the centre of the pitch, from end to end.

I went twice, two years apart during Giuliani's reign, and the difference, even then, was striking. Even around the Times Square area there were all manner of sketchy characters hanging around after dark, who were properly threatening. The area was also rife with adult cinemas, sex shops, etc. The number of adult themed businesses that had disappeared and been replaced by legitimate stores during that two year span was unreal. I've been back in the past couple of years and it's like Disneyland now compared to the 1990s, and by all accounts it was worse if you go further back than that.

Shades of STV's Bryce Curdy famously shoving a lightbulb up his arse.

Crocker actually acknowledged that, then added that even it it had stayed 11v11 they would have come back and won anyway. Why bother with the superlatives then? Or putting it on the telly?