Dirty Sanchez

One of the few games I've ever left early. My old man decided it would be best if we got a head start on the throng of Hibs casuals who were growling at us from the Main Stand enclosure.

The roof behind the goal at Easter Road featured one of the earliest electronic 'scoreboards' I can recall seeing. I put it in quotes because I don't think it actually displayed the score. I think it was only for advertising, but was a novelty nonetheless. My first game there was a 4-0 win for St Mirren at the tail end of the 1984/5 season and the scoreboard was in place at that time.

Went to take a look a Jimmy Page's house in Kensington. Joked on the way there that, knowing our luck, we'd run into (his neighbour) Robbie Wiilliams rather than Page. Sure enough, we're loitering across the street when the obligatory black 4x4 drives up and Robbie Williams bounces out of it and off through his garden gate.

In the long queue for the train back to the city after the Scotland v Brazil game at France 98. A voice from behind asks "Did you enjoy the game, Richard?" Richard replies in an English accent. It's wall to wall Tartan Army, so I turn around to see who the f**k has got an English accent in this crowd, and there's Richard Branson, of all people, standing a couple of places back in the queue, wearing a Scotland scarf, and going on to be very affable to all.

It's to divert your attention from the Morton strip that he's wearing.

Was reading the text on BBC while watching the end of Glasgow City v Partick Thistle in the SWPL. Thanks to the text updates, I thought I was watching an "Agueerrrrrrrrro" moment when Glasgow City scored a late winner. Turns out there's another round of fixtures next week. FFS, helicopter not required.

Quality girly scream from the Hearts No7 there.

A few candidates but I'll go for Stevie Woods.

The SFA mosaic still survives outside the old HQ at 6 Park Gardens. I recall being in there a few times, but can barely remember what the set up was like.

Funniliy enough, in today's The Rest is Politics podcast with Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart, the general "Will the PM congratulate my local football team" during PMQs was namechecked by Stewart as "his least favourite part of the week" in parliament. He used words like "disgusted, uncomfortable, trivial, embarassing, badly behaved disgrace" to describe people wasting time that could be spent on real issues with such pish at PMQs.

Listening to Walton, at least I know why that joke penalty Curtis Main got a Tannadice wasn't overturned, when everyone in the world could see it was wrong.

Yes, always cracks me up. If you're on the ground by choice and not because the laws of physics put you there, don't come greeting to me.

That's where we are with joke penalties, when a guy flinging himself down because someone touched his waist, is apparently a stone waller to top ex-pro.

It's not even like getting hosed away to a big team where the diddy fans can witter on about having "outsung them", and all that.

FFS, just heard about this and thought it was a wind up.

The carving up of the prize money has been changed for the better. It used to be weighted even more to the benefit of the top two. 1st and 2nd got much the same, then there was a bigger gap to 3rd and the rest. A real bonanza for whichever two random clubs tried hard enough to finish in the top two spots each year.

Ex-NFL star pledges to earn trust of Burnley fans

I've presumed the music interludes are the equivalent of a tea break for the presenter, given that they don't have any advertising breaks to fill that role. Can't fathom who thinks the audience for that show, or any other other live sports radio show, wants to have the chat diluted by music. It's tedious.

Never heard of this until I saw a guy doing a livestream from Toyko at Halloween dressed as one. Seems it's very popular and pretty mainstream in Japan.

Cammy Fraser of Dundee and Rangers. Spot the difference. A clean shaven Cammy sticks his fingers up at the Govan Stand.

Cammy Fraser* had to ditch his tache upon signing as well. Pretty sure the arrival of Souness put an end to it, understandably. *Unrelated to taches, but I remember being at Ibrox when Cammy Fraser stuck his fingers up at one his own fans, sparking a hilarious Staunch v Stauncher civil war, where the Govan and Copland Road stands turned on each other and were howling chants back and forth to each other for the rest of the day.

You know something is not right when you are agreeing with Andy Walker and sympathising with Hearts.

Most promising moment of the half was when the ref was lingering with his finger in his ear after the second goal, looking like VAR was about to intervene with some spurious nonsense.

I suppose this is nostalgia for an away day experience from the Stubbs era.

Quality. The Urban Dictionary confirms that. That's up there with Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones repeatedly using the word "gloryholes" with no one brave enough to tell him what it really means. e.g. "I'd sure love St Mirren to get back to the gloryholes of the late 70s and early 80s".