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the bbc sport app has changed its layout making it even more difficult to find the limited scottish football content on it
This has actually had me seething this week too.2 -
Couldn’t be happier for Boyle. He must be the most improved player I’ve ever seen while playing for us. There was a time in his first season when I wouldn’t have been arsed if he left. Turned into a top player for us. Scottish Cup winner as well.
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From 'We welcome the chase' to the 'unprecedented injury crisis of Autumn 2018'.
Didn't take long.
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13 minutes ago, NJ2 said:
Sorry, none of their away games that should read.Ah fair enough.
It does seem a lot but do they play many away games on Saturday 3pm currently?
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22 minutes ago, NJ2 said:
So every Celtic and Rangers away game will be on tv? Subsequently no Celtic or Rangers games will be on a Saturday at 3pm. Seems legit...Surely their home games would still be Saturday 3pm (other than actual derbies)?
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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.
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5 minutes ago, Swello said:
Reads like it was written in the aftermath of his team getting a draw at Livi TBH.
The central theme of it is - like lots of columns - a complete straw-man argument. The idea that Scottish Football is still living in the 80's - where a leg breaker was greeted with a stern telling off from the referee and dire threats of a yellow card if you did 3 more - is pretty risible really. The idea that you don't get massively dirty fouls in South American football, or in Italy or Spain is a pretty bizarre point of view too - as is the idea that the midfield assasin/hatchetman is a thing in Scottish football anymore.
I'm not exactly a cheerleader for artificial pitches - but again, his suggestion that they are a sign of the backward nature of Scottish Football is another mile-oot piece of sophistry. Firstly, his comparison with hybrid pitches, without the mention of the expense of them, reads like typical OF supporter arrogance and completely ignores the financial realities involved. Secondly, artificial pitches are used in plenty of other northern/eastern european leagues where weather is shit and daylight is in short supply during the season - and given that these leagues are by (his own) definition more progressive than Scotland, his argument makes no sense at all.
I've always found McKenna's views to be pretty elastic depending on who he is writing for (apart from the subjects of Celtic (great) and religiously separate schools (fantastic)) - so I wasn't totally shocked to immediately find a polar opposite view from last year in the same publication under the headline "The English Can Stop Sneering at Scottish Football"
What a roaster
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10 hours ago, accies1874 said:11 hours ago, Monkey Tennis said:God, that's a really cheap piece.
The stuff about refs here not penalising wild challenges or those from behind with red cards, is simply made up.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.
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1 hour ago, senorsoupe said:
Div posted this article on twitter and I think it sums up why I struggle to get overly enthusiastic about the Premier League
https://www.football365.com/news/the-truth-we-have-gained-nothing-from-the-premier-league
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.
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1 hour ago, AsimButtHitsASix said:
"in ring" it might not be scripted but one of UFC's biggest selling points, at first, was if fans wanted two guys to fight, if it was the obvious fight to determine the best man in the weight division, then UFC made it happen. Compared to boxing that was amazing where fighters would do everything in their power to avoid each other and the different boxing orgs were too scared of the big promoters to go force it. Now it's went too far that way and the big fights are all about the "box office" rather than who deserves it from a sporting point of view.
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.
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Jesus, Bawwatchin has roped in several here.
Give it a rest, lads.
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2 minutes ago, Romeo said:
What's with the sudden and marked increase in *** like behaviour and right wing shite from the Jambos?
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.
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42 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said:
That was a Glasgow Sheriff court judgement so a Higher court or another sheriffdom would be advised by it but wouldn't necessarily be bound by it. It also a ruling on the term in a specific context. However that context was a nasty little nyaff trying to bam up other football fans so it's probably of some relevance here
Context is crucial in these things
Were you hear me say "I fucking hate ******* which is why I'm going to burn down my local convent next Tuesday, unless it's raining in which case I'll stay in and watch Faulty Towers on UK gold" that would clearly be sectarian hate speech and also a mistake as they're showing Gavin and Stacey on Tuesday .
Were you to hear me say "My brother in law is a ******** and he's a top bloke" then it wouldn't be sectarian or hateful and you'd also have misheard me as he's actually "Athenian"
Correct.
Context and intent tends to get forgotten in a lot of these discussions.
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Panic on the streets of London
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1 minute ago, paul wright scores said:
I used to quite like Stewart, but he is now a pain in the arse and thinks the show is all about his opinions- If someone disagrees with him, like you say he shouts at them.
I no longer listen to the midweek programme as there are now too many idiots on it. It is bad enough listening to the likes of Scott McDonald at the weekend without having to listen to him midweek as well.
I also wish they would stop referring to Thompson as Tommo.
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.
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oh ffs i don't know
He did [emoji6]1 -
He assisted Ryan Jack didn't he. I've erased him from my memory so I'll give Christie the goal.
Did he not assist mcginn?0 -
The team are playing well. Can't people just get their arses along and support the team and the club without daft videos on social media? Honestly, as much as I sympathise with folk who have to prioritise tight budgets, folk who clearly can afford to go but choose not to unless they get some sort of metaphorical arse kissing from the club piss me right off.
How the f**k are the backroom staff meant to know whether or not the team will perform well next Saturday?
Instead of waiting to see if the club can encourage more supporters, why not start attending and encourage someone else to come with you?
What the f**k is a stall in the city centre going to achieve?
Jesus fucking Christ, its a football match. Surely people know whether they are likely to enjoy it or not.
Absolutely fed up hearing shite like this.
Thought about replying with something similar but may have been out of place commenting in the saints thread but yeah pretty much this.0 -
The last two pages of this thread
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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.
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5 minutes ago, craigkillie said:
Alex Thomson was a bit of an oddball tbf.
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.
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32 minutes ago, The Minertaur said:
Agreed fully. It's an utterly pathetic way to act. The condescending tone in which they reply to him too really irritates me.
It's basically a "we've had articles published in the Daily Record for years - how dare you criticise our work". As with most things in Scottish football it's the jobs for the boys gang pulling together to try and stop anybody offering a more educated opinion.
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.
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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.
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5 minutes ago, RiG said:
Am I missing something here?
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.
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What a roaster
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Willie has you, like most forwards that came up against him in his career, right in his back pocket.