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I'd say the lower picture there, of the English cup final, is an unusually good action shot for 1905, it's easy to imagine being there. I mean compare it with the picture of the Third Lanark team, which isn't even an action shot but it looks like it could have been taken in 1880. But what really shows that the past is a foreign country, is the fact that the Newcastle keeper is wearing the same strip as his team mates. Until right now I would never have guessed that that lasted into the 20th century, but googling reveals that it was only his cap which showed that he was the keeper. I am astounded!

It was not.

It was, as was losing the SC replay to Hibs 4-1 at Easter Road in 2007, and the QoS match the following year. I was at all these defeats. I also saw Scotland shit the bed 1-3 against Egypt at Pittodrie in 1990 and 1-4 against Sweden at Easter Road in 2004. I don't think the Sweden game really mattered but the Egypt one was about 26 days before the aforementioned Costa Rica debacle.

I haven't bothered to rewatch it but I think Patterson did successfully get through a few players with the ball in almost exactly the same position about 10 minutes before the goal. He managed it then and it obviously gave him the (misplaced) confidence that he would be able to do it again. The Robertson injury seemed to shake up the whole team, the goal came very soon afterwards. Not that that's an excuse.

Triple Crown decider for us and no one else.

Believe it or not, they were about the same size. If anything I've over-estimated the area for the Easter Road one as I couldn't get the area tool to work on the later map here and estimated, on the generous side, where it would be on the older map. The later map shows all the staircases, and you can also see that they moved the bowls club when the terracing was extended. Here is a link to the amazing National Library of Scotland maps website, centred on 2nd and 3rd Hampdens: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.6&lat=55.82908&lon=-4.25449&layers=170s&b=1&o=100

The confusion is that the thread title and OP have 2 contradictory questions - "Will Warnock HIbs it?" and "Will Warnock keep Aberdeen in the League?"

Nobody thought it was a fucking toepoke.

This isn't entirely accurate. The Bradford fire was on 11/5/85, the Heysel disaster was 18 days later on 29/5/85. The Taylor Report was triggered not by these but by the Hillsborough disaster 4 years later. I'm not sure if the Heysel disaster triggered any changes in British football grounds but if it did it would have been as part of the Popplewell Inquiry into the Bradford fire. Also, in the mid 1980s some smaller lower division football grounds were still in the process of being "designated" as part of the aftermath of the Ibrox disaster.

Yes, they edited that commentary track!

The darts in the title sequence bring back the unease alluded to years ago in the original "Only an Excuse" when they said something like "when Scotsport opens with Arthur Montford sitting in front of an ice rink and you know you're going to get an hour of curling instead of any football".

Doesn't the referee sometime say he doesn't know if the ball's been grounded and then ask the TMO to decide? By saying it had been held up it seems that in effect the ref unnecessarily prejudiced the outcome.

I don't give a shit about Scotland playing negatively, in fact it's easier on the nerves. We were completely robbed by that knock on decision and the TMO decision.

One of the few real tells that the Traitors gave away was Ross's reaction to Andrew lying. I think it was Molly that noticed this and carried on talking about it, so she wasn't completely clueless. However I think Harry accidentally gave himself away to her in episode 9 or 10. Nobody mentioned it on Uncloaked or online, but they were alone together and she was worried about being murdered. Harry said something like "Don't worry, you won't be murdered". There was a moment before he added "trust me" - he realised that he'd said the first part as a statement of fact as he genuinely wanted to reassure her and he knew that he and Andrew wouldn't murder her. So he then had to quickly add the second part to make it sound like he was guessing. The Faithfuls really needed someone with analytical skills towards the end. Zach presumably uses them at work but he got too caught up in stupid ideas, or failed to remember that there were 2 equally plausible explanations for the shield situation. Jaz was a good player but he messed up his explanation of the Paul tell - he was talking about a chain of 3 conversations, but it really wasn't clear what he was saying, it was so confusing that it was easy for Molly to ignore. Anthony is a chess coach, I think he might have been able to piece together the inconsistencies or holes in Harry's story. Unfortunately the other faithfuls piled on him at the start for stupid reasons. Jasmine was probably the most intelligent one towards the end but she was partly to blame for Anthony being banished. I had forgotten why I didn't take to Diane when everyone else was raving about her - it was because of the stupid way she went on at Anthony and others at the start (the stuff she's been doing since she was murdered has been hilarious though).