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He was banned while playing for Reading in 1999 after testing positive for cocaine and cannabis, never used heroin. He was an alcoholic, after Reading sacked him the PFA in England put him through rehab and he sorted himself out. He revealed late on his career that he'd been sexually abused as a child and turned to drink and drugs as a coping mechanism; he went through therapy to deal with that and depression, he's been sober since about 2000. Within a year of getting out of rehab he'd won a Scotland cap and was playing in Europe. As an aside, before going public about the abuse as a child, he told Jim McInally, who was his manager at Morton at the time. He revealed that he was still on medication to deal with depression which arose from what happened to him and wanted to open up to his manager, both to ready himself for potentially being more open about it in the future and just to have someone he trusted within football to talk to about it. McInally's response was to give him the cold shoulder then release him via a phone call a few weeks later with no pay off despite the fact he'd played enough games to automatically trigger a contract extension under the terms of his deal. The next time you see some puff piece in a tabloid saying how nice Jim McInally is and how everyone in football respects him, remember that he's actually a despicable, shameless b*****d.

Ask and you shall receive

I'm several days behind, but I heard the Spiers/Pressley one today. Sweet Jesus, as an exercise in point missing, it was truly top notch. I don't think the discussion was helped by the silly tabloid billing of how we might be missing out on the next Dalglish. That was a throwaway remark from McLaren and was utterly beside the purpose of what he does. His raison d'etre is not to unearth a superstar, but is to improve lives that could use his input. However, the pitch of the story led Spiers down a path of arguing against some non existent drive to reverse the slum clearances. He was maybe right in that it's not a notional 'working class' that is now disenfranchised. The issue though is that it's still a significant constituency and its exclusion is thoroughly unjust. I think he realised what a twat he'd come across as when messages came in, and he did some backtracking re poverty. The fact that he'd already prattled on about his own kids' opportunities to play tennis and rugby did render him a bit of a fool in the discussion though. But Pressley took idiocy to new, previously undocumented levels. He honestly could not see a discussion about abject poverty and what football based projects could do, in any terms beyond those related to the development of professional footballers. It was genuinely embarrassing. His slow, deliberate delivery had never conned me into thinking he was as clever as he does. It had perhaps though, masked the fact that he's actually pretty thick. A bewildering performance that's kind of depressing.

After the first couple of days mainly hiding and sleeping, Taco has started to tear the place up. She's 5 months old and had apparently lived in a cage in the rescue centre her whole life so is loving the space.

Big River 2.40 at Kelso today 4/1. Ran mostly well in 2nd on its last race (couple of dodgy jumps as it started gettting competitive towards the end). Back on ground that suits today, goes off rock bottom weight plus has the assistance of an in form 7lb claimer today. Might have some competition from Seeyouatmidnight who is potentially angling towards the Scottish national and has won some good races in its time but pulled up when last seen over 4 months ago.

If our old cat was anything to go by moans can mean "I'm hungry. Feed me you slob" "I want attention. Love me" "I want to go out but the weather's shite. Fix it human" "It's 3 a.m. in the morning and I feel like being a cnut for no apparent reason"

Thankfully it's looking likely that Calderwood will never work in football again. Although it's nice to read him bleating to the papers about how he can't understand why no club will take him on every once in a while.

Yes, it reminded me of that too. The macho nonsense in football is pretty resilient.

A Kappa revamp of our early 90s Samp Kit would be quite tremendous however.

My plans for the weekend were a quiet few drinks at my pal's 30th last night, 50 miles on the bike today, then driving over the Skye to camp on one of the Cuillin ridge's outlying summits. Instead I got absolutely cunted on Sloe Gin, feel fucking rotten today and have just been reminded by my other half that I got up at 3am and pished on the hoover. Might not bike the 50 miles tbh.

FTFY

Fairly put, matey, but you're not yer average Jungle, are you? Just as the the rangers rely on their idiotic horde, so do celtic rely on the income from loons identifying with potatoes, armalites, and all that guff. Strip the pair of them down to actual football fans, and we'd see a healthier competition. And a healthier society, to boot.

This chat has got very serious when you consider that all I was really complaining about was the fact I can't have a few pints and a takeaway tomorrow.

The Adventures of James Penrice - Part 3 Since the last report, this boy has just been getting better and better, an exceptional "man's" performance against Livingston two weeks ago when he was up against some big, experienced, shall we say clever, players and he flew through it with flying colours, as did all the team to be fair, and then on Saturday past an amazing performance, not only proving he could be in the running for a place in the League One Team of The Season, which will be getting picked soon, with his defensive displays, his attacking skills are getting highlighted now with his work with King Kev Smith up the left wing, but his confidence is now at the level that he is chancing his mit with some shots, something we haven't seen from him yet, but we did against Alloa!!! His display not only won him the Match Sponser's MoM award, he was also awarded it from the local press and the weekly Supporter's Award on Social Media, you are going to get such a better player back than the one you gave us and the one you gave us was quite good, that I'm actually jealous!!! Here's the game, there's only about 4 mins of action but he's involved quite heavily in it!!! And also after such a performance obviously the press want to talk to him, so his media training is still coming on!!! I really don't think he'll be getting farmed out again next season, I don't know who your current Left-Back is but he must be some player if he's going to keep this lad out your side!!! Saying that though,you know we'll have him back!!!

I love you x

Is it a hoof pick for your polo pony?

Lead article currently on the BBC website is about their live coverage of the Challenge Cup Final. Right next to it the top article is 'League overshadows Challenge Cup Final'. All involved in Scottish football continue to show they graduated from the Gerald Ratner school of sales.

Parents taking their shitey wee bairns into the barbers on a Saturday and letting them get daft mohicans/shaved in patterns/blend ins that take ages, leaving busy 'short back and sides' guys like me waiting.

Muffy on a relentless killing spree just now. He must have found a family of mice nearby and is casually munching his way through them.

The Libertarian bit of right wing Republicans are suggesting a totally free enterprise model. People get together in large groups and approach insurance companies as a collective and ask for a quote for everyone, taking into account pre-existing conditions etc but meaning the same premium for everyone. Sounds communist to me. America's weird.

Decent day.

A lot of people can barely cope with their outgoings from their income. If shit happens they struggle.

Your meltdown after your team won a draw at Celtic Park has got to place you into the uber diddy category with the amount of shite you posted that night. Multiple spelling errors and bad grammar was a delight to read post after post and not to mention the ned like slurs you were posting made you look like the folk you were insulting on a daily basis for many years. The mask slipped.

Templeton Yep: you clearly had to bat off a host of suitors to get that free agent at the end of March. If that was the sum of Hamilton's big announcement over the international break then you're clearly fucked. 'Welcome to League One' fucked frankly; any credible club would have ditched their failing manager instead.

I can only dream of sleeping until 5am thanks to this wee p***k. At least in another week we can go out for walks/runs in the morning.

Barry Ferguson's last 10 league games as Clyde manager: W0 D2 L8 F8 A20 If the players are "arguably better than the league" it says a lot about Barry Ferguson's managerial abilities that he contrived to get such abysmal results. Alternatively, the players are in fact shite and no manager could be expected to do any better with them, in which case it says a lot about Barry Ferguson's managerial abilities that he contrived to build such a poor squad with one of the best budgets in the division.

Fun fact: nine out of eleven DR and SM 'journalists' at the start of the season tipped "Barry Ferguson's Clyde™" to win the League Two title this season. In any credible business, they'd be getting sacked for such gross incompetence covering Scotland's only credible sport.

Dictaphone

We played the same courses last year (New, Eden, jubilee) and it chucked it down for the last 8 holes on the Eden. Absolutely miserable but it was my best scoring course of the weekend. Meant to be a cracking day today though.

Played the Eden a couple of years ago in the wind and it would have got golf stopped. Balls rolling about the green and falling off the tee, it was ridiculous. When the wind blows on that course it's hard to concentrate on your shot. Wouldn't mind going back to play it on a nice day as it seemed a good course but I still have nightmares about it.

I'm sure the lines are normally magnetic strips, and there's magnets in the wheels that lock up.

I would pay an amount of money for a @LiamDFC interpretation of either the winning goal or the goading or some combination of the two, so long as Kenny Miller's corpse being held aloft by the Hibees is included as well as Lee Wallace (Grass) being mocked by the referee.

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is a masterpiece. One of the most underrated films of all time.

Mini Hostess Trolley?

Stop pumping it?

Trump embarrassing himself yet again. Trying to blame the Democrats for what's happened. Only the stupidest of Trump supporters will buy his bullshit, I wonder what his approval rating will be like in 2 or 3 weeks?

Buy two on monday and throw one in the bint's eyes when you get in.

Had a libation at the Hanging bat on Lothian road at around 1700 this evening and a few things annoyed me. 1) It was full of c***s. 2) The toilets weren't clearly sign posted and it had been a while since I was last in so had forgotten where they were, and then on the doors instead of clearly saying male/female it said batman/bat woman and a picture that I presume was meant to resemble a bat but instead just looked like some weird design and just didn't work at all. Just clearly show where the toilets are ffs. 3) When inside the batman toilet the urinals were supposed to resemble a metal beer barrel that had been cut in half at the horizontal axis and mounted to the wall, this again just didn't work and looked like the metal edges would be rather sharp and I didn't feel comfortable having my penis out near to a potentially sharp edge. It reminded me of days when I used to take tin snips to an empty can of irn bru, those edges are just so sharp. 4) The female bar staff appeared to be malnourished and one of them referred to me as "man" as well as if I was some sort of trendy hipster. I don't think I'll go back there.

Turn up the microphone so you can hear the choice language of Lichtie23. Need an 18+ certification, right enough.

Thank you for that, I am really delighted that it has been so well received by the supporters. I am still working on different things for next season particularly getting the reverse angle replay for the goals perfected, anything else you or anyone would like to suggest or see in the highlights just suggest and I will see what I can do cheers again.

Highlights are back on you tube sorry about that and thanks for bringing it to my attention

Jeez - Trump's 'Time' magazine interview is an absolute fucking doozy ... still stands by all the shite he's spouted - the guy is mental. Bigly. Sad. He's still claiming that he predicted Brexit when he was in Scotland the day before the vote despite not arriving in Scotland until the day after the vote and Tweeting that Scotland had taken it's country back. His comments about Sweden were justified because of riots that happened after he said it. There's just to much shite to even mention. Guy's a fucking roaster.

Is the harness bothering Maisie?I think not.

Anyone getting relegated at Dens should just close down IMO.

The king is dead, long live the king. Unfortunately the king is now a guy who was involved with us when we finished lower than we are now in a league sans Hearts and Rangers. I was broadly a McGhee supporter but in a way I'm glad he's gone because, if I'm right, McGhee can no longer be used as a scapegoat for much larger and wider trends at the club by supporters. Personally I think a lot of our support has unrealistic ambitions for a club the size and budget of today's fan owned Motherwell. They have been spoiled by almost 20 years, with the occasional blip, of relative success and now they are struggling to adjust to a new reality. I'd love to be proved wrong because I go to almost every match and I'd prefer to see wins than 1-5 drubbings but I honestly don't see us getting significantly better, we won't get anywhere near Top 6 this season or in the foreseeable future and even if we stay up, next season will be even harder to compete with another city club coming into the league. On our current budget, which I support by the way, we can't turn over the sort of accounts we were in the Higdon/Randolph/Nicky Law days and financially survive, I just can't see us not getting relegated in the near future. 30 years of Premier level football has given too many of our support a Billy-Big-Boy attitude. They conveniently forget we should have been relegated numerous times in that period and that those 30 years are not on merit. My overview is that I think a lot of people are in for a big shock post McGhee. Maybe it will sink in, or maybe they'll just blame Samson.