Merkie84

Actually, when I think about it, having lived in the highlands and spent a lot of time on the Western Isles (Mrs Merkie 84 and family are from there) , they don’t pronounce it as fitba or fitbaw, it’s more fooootball.

I think that is more an east coast/ west coast thing. Growing up in Aberdeen, we always referred to it as the fitba. Only heard people referring to it as fit-baw when down in Glasgow area. I don’t think either is right or wrong or “English” Not sure how people in Edinburgh / Fife / highlands etc pronounce it?

Who should St Mirren’s starting XI be on Saturday?

I like Burntisland Shipyard. The mental image I get when I hear that name is like a scene from Peaky Blinders. Also like Kirkintilloch Rob Roy( sound like a group of mad outlaws) and Craigmark Burntonians. No idea what a “ Burntonian” is. So that stands out for me.

After the whole super league thing last year I have no time for any of those teams anymore. Delighted when any of them lose. But I have developed a particularly strong hatred for Tottenham. I can kind of get clubs like Man Utd and Real Madrid thinking that is where they belong due to continued success over a long period of time. Even Johnny come lately like Chelsea and Man City who despite being mediocre for most of their history have had a lot of recent success, so if that is the way it is going, why not throw their hat into the ring. But Tottenham? 2 league cups in 30 years, not won the league since before the Beatles released their first single and they think they deserve a place in a super league? I can think of several more worthy teams off the top of my head, several of them in the same league as Tottenham. Despite winning F all they often field weakens teams in 3 out of the 4 competition they enter in a given season ( if they are in the Europa league). Their new stadium with a cheese room and complaining to the local council that the streets surrounding it are too dirty without offering any cash to assist cleaning it up. Building a new stadium with hosting NFL games in mind( and I like watching the NFL) I think they are the purest manifestation of everything I hate about elite modern football. And Harry Kane.

Just caught this announcement. Have I got this right, the SFA’s master plan for the bright future of Scottish football is to screw over every club from level 5 down? Jesus wept!

Yet another game this season with both teams fans utterly convinced they will lose. No idea how this one will turn out!

That is because for the majority of them , football is a TV program, not something they regularly go to watch in a stadium.

On the grafter side I would have Brian Irvine for the Dons. Never the most gifted of players but had a solid career playing for his boyhood hero’s, earned a few Scotland caps and slotted home the winning penalty in the 1990 Scottish cup final. For flair, zerouali. As mentioned earlier. Some ridiculous bits of skill and goals, but could also be very anonymous and injury prone.

Those trousers are so ill fitting and baggy they make Jim Leighton’s legs look straight.

Important three points that one. I’m sure there will be people moaning that we didn’t play like Brazil 1970 but given how this season has gone , accumulating as many points by whatever means possible is what counts at this stage.

QR codes for the menus to pop up on your phone rather than paper menus. Often you can’t get a phone signal so no data so have to log onto the WiFi first. Literally using technology to make something more time consuming and complicated with no perceived benifit to the customer. Even if it work’s slickly, in what way is being able to read the menu on your phone better than on a paper menu?

One thing that really pisses me off is this new fad in restaurants/ cafes etc for the waiting staff not to write down your order and have to just memorise it. Inevitability the my get the order wrong most of the time. I am not impressed by your memory skills. I am impressed if you bring me the food I ordered correctly in a timely manner. Just write it down so there is no mistakes. !

To put that into perspective the karman line ( where the Earths atmosphere ends and space begins ) is 62 miles (approximately 100km) above sea level. The HS2 pile of tenners would literally reach space. The trillion pile of tenners would stretch about 1/16th of the distance to the Moon.

Any teams in the league in the process of getting licensed? If so how far along are they?

It would appear that is what caused the incident in Liverpool. A video circulating on social media of an alleged asylum seeker asking a 15 year old for sex. very Q—anon

It is quite terrifying and appalling the direction of travel for the U.K. scenes like the above turn my stomach. I genuinely fear we are not too far away from our own version of Kristallnacht. The incremental nudging of public discourse further and further to the right. The “othering” of basically anyone foreign or of a different ethnicity. Anyone not a raving right wing lunatic being labelled by the national press as an “enemy of the state” or a “Marxist”. The systematic lowering of the average persons quality of life while deflecting the blame away from those who are actually in charge onto “foreigners” Utterly disgusting. I can’t see how this ends well

Could be , wouldn’t put is past them. But I think a more likely reason is just breathtaking incompetence.

“I like your new jaicket, where did you get it?” “ my ma got it fae the clubby book”

But there was a chance they could have made it, no? Also a bit of a different between Rangers, a team who play semis most years and therefore likely to get to one, and Queens Park, who haven’t been in the SCF since the turn of the 20th century. In the very unlikely event they do reach, I would say, yes,the same principle applies. It is either a neutral venue or it is not. But I don’t think we will have to worry about that any time soon. I don’t see why the venue had to be chosen at the start of the season, in the league cup semi final venues are chosen based on what is most suitable depending on who reaches that stage, Hampden, Ibrox , Tynecastle , Fir park etc. Why could the same principle not be applied? Its not rocket science, there are only 4 stadia in Scotland big enough to handle a Rangers or Celtic semi, Hampden, Ibrox, Celtic park and Murrayfield. Hampden, was out of action, Ibrox is Rangers home ground. Therefore only Celtic park or Murrayfield left.

Why is that relevant? They still got to play a Scottish cup semi at home. Something no other club gets to do. Semi finals are either plays at neutral venues or they are not.

No, but remember , this is the country that when Hampden was out of action to ready it for the Commonwealth games, the choice of neutral venue for a semi - final involving Ranger was … checks notes… Ibrox.

Which begs the question, why there aren’t sanctions imposed by the SFA / SPFL when it happens week in week out here under their noses.

Remember a few years ago Celtic bitching and moaning about not getting their own end, in a neutral final then when they did get it, moaning that it had a slightly smaller capacity that the other end.

Headed goals. More so when watching in the stadium or playing as opposed to watching in T.V All goals are a great outpouring of joy but headed ones are even more instantaneous. With a shot , your team is generally has possession, builds a move, gets into a dangerous area then the striker shapes to shoot before the ball hits the net. You anticipate it a little. A headed goal generally comes from the ball swung in from out wide, from a not very dangerous position. The ball is not in anyone’s possession anymore, there is a 50/50 chance which team will touch the ball next. 9 /10 times it goes too long, is sliced out of play, gets cleared by a defender, caught by goalkeeper etc. It is not actually a chance untill the striker gets his head to it. An instant later it is in the back of the net. My favourite type of goal, especially in important moments in important games.