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Petty things that get on your nerves thread for this pish. I still refer to the first division when talking about my team (although not for long) and people still know what I'm talking about. Weird thing to get your frillies in a twist over.

I'm still striving and failing to get worked up by all this. Completely changing the league set-up just to avoid relegation for a season is pathetic and short sighted. I didn't want us to get relegated, but we have been utter, utter pish all season (aaaaaall fuckin season!!!) and frankly would have gone down anyway, as there is no way we were catching Alloa (let that phrase sink in next time you fancy getting your frillies in a twist at the "injustice" served) and we would have gotten horsed in a play off by either Falkirk or Raith. I would have preferred some kind of financial settlement to soften the blow of early relegation (as the fair and sporting thing to do) but this may not be possible. I guess it's because I've been fairly well informed about the severity and extent of this virus that I struggle to give a shit about what division we're playing in next season. This is unique and unprecedented. We would have been happily getting it right up Morton fans (I would, for sure) or any other team should it have been them in our position (except for Ayr or ICT who are obvious good lads, and Arbroath whose pies deserve a michelin star). There's also the fact that I get to watch more games next season (Peterhead, Cove and Montrose) and that we have been here before. It'll be quite nice to get reacquainted with Airdrie, as I haven't felt burning hatred for a team in years, and I've been missing it.

I don't remember that. I remember the tune (utter banger) but it was Dario G and "carnival de Paris" that was the bangin dance choon du tournoi. Happy to be proven wrong here though.

Lockdown Failures Thread for this pish

Aye there are a few powderkeg fixtures there. That Greenock derby has a Besiktas v Galatasaray feel about it. Dyce v Culter will require a huge police presence too. I'm buzzing for our relegation battle with Accies. Are the pies in Brora any good? Great work.

So there are songs which I will forever associate with football regardless of the songwriter's original intention. I want to hear your favourite songs which have a footballing association for you. I want to hear also a wee explanation of the link (as long or as short as you please, most of us have time on our hands). Italia 90. In footballing terms it won't be regarded as a classic. many of the knockout games were decided by penalty shootout and a highly functional (and dull as f**k) German team lifted the trophy after defender Andy Brehme scored from the spot. It remains the most potent and vivid childhood memory and the year I came of age as a football fan. Warming up for the tournament my mum got me the sticker album which, for me, remains a gold standard in sticker albums. Seeing all the teams, the different faces from all over the world (I grew up in EK which wasn't exactly diverse) and the different types of names (the Korean fellas with their three names and the Egypt team with 5 players called Mubarak) really fired my imagination and I fell head over heels in love with football. This song was used as the theme song and the TV highlights program would run some action replays at the end of the show to Pav belting out "All'alba vincero!!" and I still see Leighton spilling the ball at Muller's feet when I hear this 30 years later. I'm very much a classical music fan and love the opera, but for me this isn't an opera song about a prince confident in his ability to win the princess. It's about the agony of watching my team concede a late winner to Brazil, it's about Gazza greetin, it's about Schilacci scoring against Uruguay on a pishing wet night and it's about knowing who Juan Cayasso is.

Splendid game tonight and an utter disaster from the Liverpool GK. Maybe it's just my age (37 and have only a neutral spectator's interest in English fitba) but the utter glee at Liverpool's failure tonight on this forum is a bit cringeworthy. The "grief merchant" patter is fuckin horrific imo. Anyhow. Marvellous from Simeone. I love him as a manager (as a player he was a shithousing dirty b*****d and tbf I loved him then too). Some amount of goals so far in this round. The Atalanta game was a throwback to the kind of scores you got in the 1950's.

Probably needing to start a new thread for this fella (before we get into Harry Souttar levels of derailment) but where do you see him playing m77?

Curious here, but why has it zero relevance today? Is there a cut-off point for relevance or are you just creating an arbitrary line to support your tenuous argument against including Gilmour?

Chris Kane, shirley.

Griff has been on good goalscoring form lately. I wouldn't use his performance against St Mirren as any kind of indication he should be playing for Scotland. Having French Eddie there to do all the hold up play helped him hugely. Scotland need a striker who can also hold the ball and bring others into play. Griff is a greedy bastart.

Ludicrous there is any debate on this. Roy Keane said he thought he was watching a world class, experienced footballer the other day. Lampard said he trusts him and doesn't care about his age. The idea that bringing Gilmour into the squad is a gamble is knicker-wetting in the extreme, and some of the gymnastics being performed to defend his exclusion are impressive. Get him in.

Congrats to Pep for once again managing to derail a thread with some utter moonball tangent (this time, the success or otherwise of the youth system at Brechin, a team which has no apparent connection with the thread's titular hero). Bravo sir.

Arbroath's steak and black pudding pie is far and away the best pie I've ever had at the fitba. It was so good I forgot where I was for a moment, which was great as we were getting gubbed at the time.

Parkhead is the area, not the stadium A77. Celtic Pugby

The lighting for these pictures is utterly horrendous, tbh. I'm a handsome b*****d, but I'd look like a tramp in many of these. Some of these people look positively gleeful and I quite enjoyed the happiness radiating out from some of them.

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Well this has aged beautifully.

Getting to watch Thistle games at Peterhead, Montrose and Cove next season.

Lovely lads. Just lovely.

FTFY, but I'm not terribly happy about it.

A surreal scoreline considering they came to Firhill the season before and horsed us 6-2 (if memory serves). My first game was a 1-0 home win against Meadowbank in October 1987. I remember my dad teaching me that I was to cheer for Thistle, and boo the opposition. Meadowbank were in black, as were the refs (and linesmen). The officials came out for their half-time warm up and were roundly booed by 4 year old me. First Scotland game was a friendly against Poland in 1990. I remember f**k all about the game. In fact, I was on the terrace playing about with some fellow wee boys and barely paid any attention to the game. I didn't really go to Scotland games until about 2000 because I'm an utter masochist apparently.

Aye Caldwell was right to let Dools go. His form seemed to drop off a cliff in a matter of a season. Piping hot form in the top 6 season, then some goals the following as we got relegated, and then being pretty poor in the second tier with no sign of rediscovering any sort of form (given his lack of involvement for Ayr also). If he played for anyone else in the division I'd probably want him to rediscover his touch and bang in some goals, but I have a weird and inexplicable loathing of Morton and wouldn't mind seeing them relegated. So I'm a bit torn.

This is a selective memory. In the same match Charlie Adam raked his studs down a Czech fella's shin, in the box, and the ref didn't see it. VAR would have given a penalty and a sending off. Utterly agree with the second sentence here. It makes me relieved I support a diddy team.