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That is very disappointing. I suppose they were always going to go with a significantly higher offer but Sky having full rights is a kick in the balls (partly because I've historically refused to pay for sky and I do for BT sports...). I think what irritates me, other than the inconvenience of not having sky, is that by winning these rights Sky don't just buy the right to televise games, they are buying the rights to do a large part if not the majority of the marketing of the Scottish game. They dictate how Scottish football is showcased and we all know very well how Sky see it. It feels like we've finally gone full circle back to the pre-2012 days of Scottish football. Opportunity to change the game well and truly missed. It was fun while it lasted I suppose.

What a roaster

Yes, but it's something that people will lap up without actually being able/willing to research. Indeed. It's basically the equivalent of a Keith Jackson article written for an OF audience just written for an English audience who periodically like to look down on Scottish football for no apparent reason.

That article is totally accurate but it's about 20 years too late, especially for England. That some are treating this bonus for Scudamore as some sort of watershed moment of realisation as to what football down South has become is astounding in itself to be honest.

You can apply this to basically anything that starts off as an excellent niche product and then becomes massively popular. As a basic rule, the more people you're trying to entertain then the more beige it becomes as it moves away from its original principle. It's happened to football, it happens with TV series, movies, bands, just about anything. Eventually it succumbs to the additionallmoney to be made by appealing to the lowest common denominator.

Jesus, Bawwatchin has roped in several here. Give it a rest, lads.

Supremacist behaviour linked to a football team doesn't really work when the team on the pitch are utter dross, hence we haven't seen these idiots for a good 6 years or so.

Correct. Context and intent tends to get forgotten in a lot of these discussions.

Panic on the streets of London

I think what annoyed me most from Monday was how contrived it was to ensure they had a 'Michael Stewart getting angry' section. I didn't even think his opinion on the penalty was that big a deal until they brought it up, apparently he had 'created a storm' over it. Had he? It just felt like they were trying desperately hard to get an argument segment in. Cheap rubbish. His argument about 'factual evidence' and 'biomechanics' was cringeworthy in the extreme. And Scott Mcdonald is just a total idiot.

He did [emoji6]

Did he not assist mcginn?

Thought about replying with something similar but may have been out of place commenting in the saints thread but yeah pretty much this.

The last two pages of this thread

Last night's debate on Rangers penalty at the weekend was one of the worst and stupidest things I've heard on Sport sound ever. From all sides. Really dreadful stuff.

Not even saying he was right/wrong or whatever, but the attitude was very much how dare this outsider come in and question what we do.

It's similar to when Alex Thomson started reporting on Rangers during their admin/liquidation years. He appeared on a radio programme, possibly SSB, and that was the jist of their comebacks. We've been reporting on Scottish football for years, what do you know. Which was funny given his whole argument was that Glasgow journalists were too close to their sources and had failed in reporting the hard facts on Rangers.

Horrific article once again from Keith. There is a poor attempt to mask it as some sort of link to the tv deal when in actual fact it's just a reason to have a go at Livi. We would not have seen this article if Celtic had won 1-0. Also note that throughout he references 'Livingston away' as opposed to 'Livingston vs Celtic'. The message is clear, there is a protagonist in this and a supporting act. A weegie view of Scottish football in a nutshell.

ha no I was just being pissy as that day is a bad memory. Long journey from Edinburgh up to that one. First time I really noticed Christie, he took the piss out of us that day. In reality that goal was one small part of an excellent performance against us.

Grow up. You're better than that.

Hmm longer than average but when I'm at work I am less fussy

I have visions of bob locked in a dark room, curled up in a ball singing the sash to himself over and over.

Eat sleep run repeat

Well that entire post is just wrong

Basically any 'fad' diet or get slim quick programme. Almost the entire 'health' industry is based around people who can't be arsed putting in the work over a long period of time to live right. And I say this is as someone who has been slim, fat, back to slim, to very fat and on my way back to slim