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I was in no fit state to post anything yesterday, it was hard enough getting through work my hangover from Sunday's celebrations was that bad! I won a 2 day Poker tournament just after Christmas for just over 6 grand- foolishly, before play began on the 2nd day (I was reasonably well placed in the standings at that stage) I told the girlfriend that if I managed to win it, we could forget going up North for holidays this year as originally planned to save money and we'd have a 3 week holiday in Florida, splashing out on tickets to all the parks and everything. I'm normally the guy who would be the one taking the piss out of mates who were on holidays, agreed to attend weddings etc. on Cup final day but this time, in an effort to miss the time when kids were on holiday and certain weeks at the start of June when certain festivals are held in the area, it was me who committed the cardinal sin. Without thinking about it, I forgot about the Scottish Cup Final and booked a holiday from the 5th to the 26th of May When I first realised I was raging at myself, but told myself it wasn't that bad. We hadn't been to the final stages of the real cup since 2006. Scraping a win against Talbot then being held to a draw by St Johnstone was certainly no form for a team that would make it to the final. Even after Zal scored the late late winner up in Perth, after being held to a draw by the other Saints and the first 10 minutes through in Paisley it was still looking like the nightmare possibility of being away on holiday when Hearts were in the final had a very slim chance of actually happening. The bookies had us at long odds against Celtic, but when Griffiths scored on Saturday I knew the football gods were conspiring to teach me the biggest fucking organisational lesson of all time. Bad enough I'd be on holiday when Hearts were in the final- we're playing Hibs for the first time since 1896! (only 6 years before they last won it incidentally ). I was jumping around with the rest of my mates behind the goal after the game on Sunday right enough, but it was already forefront of my mind I wasn't going to be there when it mattered. Things got worse when I got into work yesterday morning. My colleagues (the only 2 of whom profess any interest in Scottish football are both Celtic fans) were snidey, weaselly b*****ds. As soon as the final whistle went on Sunday most of them realised immediately the conundrum I had (I'm always getting the piss taken out of me for using holiday for European trips or for giving my time free because I'm on the Hearts Shareholders committee). It's bad enough when it's football fans because you can always take the piss out of them when their team has it tough, but these snivelling rodents (especially the Celtic fans) always have the "I couldn't give a shit" attitude when anything good happens to Hearts (or bad to Celtic). Combined with the hangover I already had, by the time I went home I'd lost my usual cool, calm, collected and level headed demeanour and was ready to lash out at anything (especially if it was Green). The final straw was my old man (who's a Hibby, but normally forgivable because it was him who took me to Tynecastle when I was too young to go by myself) phoning up to take the piss. Immediately after putting the phone down I jumped on the internet and looked for flights. £1200 later, my girlfriend and I (to be fair to her she didn't even try and convince me not to- the only condition was I paid for her to travel back and for her match ticket!) are now leaving Orlando on the 17th, arriving in Edinburgh on the 18th and heading back to Orlando on the 20th. I'd be shitting myself anyway about the final (no idea how I'm going to sleep before then) but the possibility that I've just paid £1200 to watch Hibs end their hoodoo against Hearts is actually literally sickening. The alternative (and I'm more than willing to accept the challenge of convincing airport staff I'm sober enough to fly on the Sunday) will be one of the best days of my life and well worth 10 times the amount paid. The same work colleagues today are telling me I'm crazy, and are incredulous that I'd go to such lengths because "of a game". Maybe they're right, but part of me thinks it's actually envy- what do they have in their lives (besides family) that they're passionate enough about to "justify" such craziness? Bring on the Hibees.

Immature as f**k, but I couldn't help laughing:

He sells letters out of his name to raise cash. He's done a few deals on this basis before.

Honestly. You go down to London for a week, and when you return, Rangers are being bought by the periodic table of elements. Surreal. Things are progressing nicely for the only 'consortium' that really matters. That consortium is Whyte/Haudit/Daudit... A triumvirate who are bang on track to firstly own Rangers for a quid, make this pantomime drag on as long as possible, and hit their goal of liquidation. Whyte will be positioned as the main man to get a massive wedge before fcuking off to Monaco permanently, while his lackeys (and part-time administration impersonators and Angry Birds expert players) Haudit & Daudit will be first in line to be paid in the post-liquidation wreckage, before fcuking off to faceless London offices again, and moving onto the next lame-duck asset-stripping exercise. "Can you see him yet? Is he near!?" "No, gawwdammit, the new sheriff's a Ng...."

Cena's lost the last two Wrestlemania Main Events.

Have you been in jail?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Veet-Hair-Removal-Creme-200ml/dp/B000KKNQBK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1334303468&sr=8-1 First review

Sorry if this has been mentioned before but wasn't it Rangers response to BillNg that caused this whole mess/spectacle in the first place? Surely they'll continue to ignore any BillNg.

DB is still the man. Yes Lock!!!! EDIT: Just noticed this was my 5,000th post. Not my best effort but fitting to have made it in this thread, which I'm pretty certain I have made at least 2,500 posts in. Best thread on P&B. Here's to another 5,000 chatting with all you dicks.

I hope Hibs win and i hope they sing this when they do

Aye, they were asked for money.

Our "third kit" for next year is actually decent quality. The away one (black with red diagonal stripe) also looks like it will be not to bad. Who cares about the strips though tbf. It's all about who's wearing them

Who got ridden on the ship? What kind of place is this, in the name of God?

Gavin Riley ‏ @hmfcriley @GreggAWallace So have we convinced you to come? I'll buy you a top, scarf and a beer if you do! Gregg Wallace ‏ @GreggAWallace @hmfcriley looking into it, have contacted the club Retweeted by JambosKickback [/url]

Who cares what the manufacturer is? This will be a proper kit deal for the club which I presume will be far better financially.

Poor blog imo. Hope his usual standard is better than that. Company in administration don't settle creditor claims in full. Erm, yes. That's kindof the point. If you can afford to pay £350 out, then the largest creditor gets the biggest share of that, if a CVA is agreed.

Think there was a Dundee United fan who made a similar point above, but the nonsense being spouted by Chick Young about not punishing the fans but punishing those who got them into this mess really pisses me off. Those people were representing the club. For the most part they had the backing of the fans. They acted on behalf of the club and in running up those debts had a major effect on all the clubs in the league that played within the rules. My club spent seven years in Division One while clubs all around us were going into administration and racking up debts they couldn't possibly pay. Our chairman was laughed at for pointing out the Gretna "dream" was unsustainable. Rangers went out and bought the best players of all the other clubs with money they didn't have - punishing the fans of those more responsible clubs by stripping them of their best talent all the while rewarding their fans. You can't really separate those who were in charge with the club. As such, you have to punish the club who at the end of the day benefitted endlessly over those years thanks to non payment of tax, alleged tax evasion and the running up of enormous debts that could never be paid. Rangers FC must be punished for what amounts to the biggest episode of financial doping in Scottish football history. And Yorkston's quote just shows how out of touch he is with his own fanbase and the wider SPL fanbase. Surely Dunfermline fans will get him telt?

Aye. East Stirlingshire away.

Just the administrators trying to spin things so the focus is off them. Must have some bad news coming up they are trying to deflect from.

It's quite funny reading posts from Hibs Fans about this being their year. If all of us Hearts fans, Hibs fans hell even the players and management and everyone connected with both clubs are completely honest with ourselves and each other. We all know when it comes down to it, Hibs will shit themselves and Hearts will win this game with a couple of goals to spare.

for wages? you mean the wages we paid early this month?

I heard that in the main event of Lockdown Vince Russo was speared out of the cage and thus won the world title.

My arse piece was going faster than a Japanese tourists camera shutter lens on Sunday. I'm pretty sure I'll end up shitting out my own skeleton at the final.

I'd prefer this option personally.

very clever but i think you will have found a similar level of collective delusion just last Sunday past especially in the Hamden general area. Getting bored of all this bullpaarp that has been spouted. take this old dog out back and get rid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NoqJPMlz_w

Got to love the accent

Last time "deek" tried to injure a Hearts player he shat it off Kevin Kyle.

Its like some Eurolottery scam. "Yes you will get your £24 million, we just need your bank details and £500,000 processing fee"

Who's Chick?

For those that didn`t hear it Alex Thomson on Clyde. http://soundcloud.com/jinkylarsson/alex-thomson-on-clyd

It's a fuckin tip,the same as Somerset,you deluded c*nt!

Il join you in the winners enclosure DJP. I had Sugar Beet 14/1 and Main Line 10/1! Brilliant day

fao helen keller

It's spelt 'with', you fucking idiot.

with.

I've heard/read enough from journalists to realise that a lot of them browse these very forums it's probably the only way they will hear about teams like Inverness and St Johnstone. The stuff these guys print to suck up to the old firm is breathtaking and they surely must be embarrassed writing and printing the drivel. It took a very long time for any paper to even contemplate the idea that HMRC wont agree to a CVA and liquidation was most likely, yet they continued to write about lord Paul Murray who was gonnae ride in on his big horse and save the day with his fellow knights. Finally the penny has dropped with most papers and now they are wheeling out ex old firm stars to tell us how the new raft of SPL liquidation rules are unfair and that it's their baw and they're no longer playing. I find my hatred growing for Rangers on a daily basis and weirdly it isn't because of the ogres that follow follow them but mostly due to the papers telling me daily that Rangers should be let off and us diddy teams should know our place. If 1 more journo spews out that line that "Scottish football is dead without Rangers" i may just combust with rage. That line is guaranteed to get me shaking and angry no matter how good my day is going. Maybe i am being unfair to the journos though, to them Scottish football would be dead without Rangers, it's all they know to write about the fuckwits

Niamh was 1 today. Ruairidh's face when Fireman Sam came onto the stage at the show today. Todays like today is why we have children.

As I said on another thread I'm beginning to think the Ng bid is a front for a gambling syndicate. Ng claims to be a Ger but the other members obviously aren't. He's worth £40/50M and the club has three times that much in debts. What's in it for the others? Easy to take over a struggling high-profile club who will have to cut spending and use them in betting scams in the Far East. The Scots running the club will be the fall guys if anything should go wrong. Goals let in at certain times in matches, games lost against lowly teams, the players well paid to keep their mouths shut. Either that or a means to launder dirty money. Rangers ought to be a perfect target for a Russian oligarch or an Arab oil sheikh but they aren't, which leaves one asking why in hell are two foreigners, one who knows nothing about football and another who's been a "fan" for 40 years and has heard of John Greig but has never taken the trouble to fly over to Europe for a cup final, even the 2008 UEFA Cup, so desperate to take them over. Far too dodgy to be kosher.

Your mrs sounds like a daft old boot tbh.

We all know how that'll go... Headie opens his office door...'RANGERS, get in here this minute and sit down. You've been a very naughty boy' Headie closes his office door...'Alright lads. Help yourself to the single malt. I got that box of Havana's you mentioned. Right, I've started to get the new league set up you wanted in place....'

Sounds like Mr Ng has been taking advice from Willie McKay and is basing his strategy on the highly successful Doncaster Rovers business model. Excellent.

I just woke my mate up by doing a really loud yawn and now he's fucking raging at me (he was sleeping on the floor, for the record). Extra laddage points for aye casino.

Scottish football has always been a joke this side of the boarder. If Rangers get away with this then you all may as well go the whole hog and play wearing clowns suits next season. C'mon Jimmy Crankie.

Scottish football has always been a joke this side of the boarder. If Rangers get away with this then you all may as well go the whole hog and play wearing clowns suits next season. C'mon Jimmy Crankie.

I can see it now..... 20k+ Hibs fans going totally mental as James McPake steps up to lift the Scottish Cup. Not a jambo to be seen in sight,

It should be Hibernian v Heart of Midlothian as we qualified first.