kennie makevin

Time for Cowan to go. Commander Cosgrove & Professor Leitch the steady cerebral helmsmen of a new and vastly improved Off The Ball !!!

I was 17 in the summer of 1978 and I don't recall it as cringeworthy at all. Now all that 'Yes Sir I Can Boogie' bullshit from a team that scraped through the mother of all backdoors to the Euros only to have their arse handed to them.....that WAS !!!

Was this before or after he joined The Stranglers ?

I'd like to think that enlightened artists would boycott venues built on the back of sectarian bigotry in much the same way as they would boycott venues built on the back of racist bigotry.

Would rather listen to Leitch than Tam 'Proud to be a Moron' Cowan.

I'm 'severely angered ' by the very existence of the vermin brothers Glasgow Rangers & Glasgow Celtic but I accept I may be in the wrong and just have to accept it.

As he was right to do. McLeish instead of Hansen is like Gerry & The Pacemakers instead of The Beatles, Friends instead of Seinfeld, Walter Smith instead of Alex Ferguson, Tony Blair instead of Clement Atlee, Andy Cameron instead of Billy Connolly etcetera etcetera etbloddycetera. So there ! And same goes twice over if it was Willie Miller picked over Hansen. ........on reflection maybe Walter Smith instead of Ferguson for Mexico 86 only.

But is that really catering for the English audience ? Are they so different from us that they wouldn't appreciate an Ally style 'fan yet fair & balanced ' co -commentator ?

At least Tam has a love for this supposedly 'shite ' music. It is all personal taste after all and he cares not whether it originates in England, USA, Scotland or wherever. Contrast that with his apparent love of football...a love that knows no bounds other than the Scottish border.

We will get at least three bookings. Paying that these go to Nisbett, O'Donnell and Hendry

That Inter Milan strip is one of the all time classics. Up there with Ajax circa 1971.

Villa have won the European Cup, something Rangers will never do. And on what particular planet do Rangers have worldwide appeal ? ??

We can all agree Walter was an 'absolute gentleman' . So unlike old school managers who seemed to revel in bullying journalists trying to do their job or kicking shit out of school age boys.

Yep he should have kicked on from that but somehow never did

Now that was one overhyped player .

In the week of the passing of Sir Uncle Walter(RIP)this thread is a timely tribute.

What about just kicking the Bigotry Brothers out of Scottish football completely ! God knows it's the only way this will get sorted.

Aw don't shout at me mammy....! All I said was a man who would rather watch an episode of Coronation Street than a World Cup Semi-Final between Brazil & Germany doesn't have a great deal of interest in football as a sport. What oor wee Tam does love is 'the fitba'. That's indisputable. That the sport of 'football' and the social and tribal construct of 'the fitba' are necessarily the same thing is a matter of dispute.

Ahh, fair play. I know for a fact Walter loved his satire. He and Tommy Burns bonded over a mutual love of 'Private Eye' , or something, apparently, I think...

Ugh, umm, erm ,getting a wee bit scary now !!

Mmm yep I wouldn't imagine it's how Walter or his family would want us to remember him. Far more glorious episodes abound.

Tam Cowan who has no interest, that I can tell, in any sport - and I include football in that - luxuriating in his ignorance of cricket on today's 'show'. Not funny, not clever, not in possession of a nice speaking voice. What is this tubby little man actually on the radio for ??

And they weren't the superhuman, all-conquering footballing gods you were alluding to either......and Nottingham Forest have still won twice as many European Cups as them !!

John McGovern didn't win a single Scottish cap despite being a European Cup winning captain. And what did McGovern 's Forest do the season after becoming European champions ? They won it again. What did the Lisbon Lions do the season after becoming European champions ? Got pumped out in the preliminary round. So they were fallible, we're not demi-gods and probably won about the right number of international caps but to a certain breed of paranoid Celtic supporter to suggest such a thing is tantamount to "spouting shite".

Every single one of them was capped..not too shabby for a side that won the European Cup half as many times as Nottingham Forest .