Dirty Sanchez

Think it was blonde hair and blue eyes that Adolf had in mind, not no hair and four eyes.

It's weird that Shankland is such a diving b*****d when he is coached by a guy who had the Corinthian spirit of Naismith as a player.

That formation that Hearts adopted at kick off was one that my team honestly used to use in the Paisley and District under 11 league, where you flood one of the flanks with players then ping a hopeful ball into the middle of them from kick off. Eat your heart out, Pep.

It's not been a good day when the highlight of your match is the opposition having a goal disallowed. And your second highlight is the opposition having another goal disallowed. And your third highlight is the opposition having another goal disallowed.

Another dive from Shankland there. How many is he going to be allowed?

Six and a half dozen pushing and shoving going on with Olusanya at dead balls before that too. It's almost as though he's too fast for them and they're having to try something else to stop him. The boy hitting the deck over it was nearly as pathetic as that fat ginger haired oddity in the skinny jeans who I can see in N5.

I've been at it for a couple of years. It's grown a lot in that time with the site having a lot more to it, and many more ways to play. Playing competitively via Twitch had a bit of peak a while back too. There are some unbelievably skilled players out there. I could wipe the floor with a novice and can instantly identify Albanian car plates, Czech bollards, etc, but some of the guys you come across seem to have zero gaps in their knowledge and could pish all over me.

I wasn't watching this until I read this thread, but I've tuned in to hate watch the commentary team.

At least there's a heads up this time. On the handful of occasions they've pulled this shite in the past, it's come as a surprise to folk coming out of the ground to find their cars ticketed in a spot where they've always parked without issue. I wonder if they have any suggestions to where people should park. Seems like it's empty streets that are off limits, leading to extra traffic in streets where people actually live.

There have been occasions in the past when they have bizarrely decided to ticket cars for parking in certain locations where they normally park without issue at every other game, e.g. the Greenhill Road end of Murray Street. When they decide to make use of these:

Bears press conference incoming shortly. Everyone treading carefully legally over the DC departure.

Best sightseeing tip I ever received about going up skyscrapers and the like was to time your visit so you get up there just before it gets dark, then you get the day and night views for the price of one.

And it was only 1-0 they needed. They'd have stayed up on goals scored.

Presumably that's how long it takes for some little pint sized twerp to frantically search for, then exhaust, all potential spurious reasons to spoil someone's day.

Half the kids in the country gave school a miss that day, including me. The controversial referee turned out to be spying for the Stasi back home. Makes sense that someone attracted to refereeing would also enjoy grassing citizens in to the authorities. I'll bet some of our pint sized whistling twerps would go for that too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Kirschen

All things considered, if I could time travel, I'd head back to this morning and advise myself to just stay in the garden.

Was beginning to think the early delay involving the ref was a VAR check. Especially given that f**k all had happened in the lead up to it.

Ticket website only offering the print at home option. Presume you can also scan these from your phone at the gate?

Presume references to players being "snapped up" as soon as they were free agents is a convenient euphemism for guys who had been tapped up by Fergie while they still weren't free agents.

I'm hearing Stuart Kettlewell cannae take it.

Recall Jim Goodwin ending Scott Severin's career in a challenge that was accepted as accidental, and precisely no one was salty about it despite Jim's pantomime villain reputation.

I always go back to when St Mirren opened their new stadium in the middle of winter, and week after week you were hearing compliments from the opposition about the novelty of playing on a pristine surface at that time of year. Then we knocked Celtic out of the Scottish Cup on it and the pitch genuinely got its own trial by Sportscene feature for being "too firey" and other such pish.

Viaplay will still try to screen the Celtic game in the next round.