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Safeway in Wishaw had a fuckin book of condolences. My mate nearly got lynched for writing "Cheers for the half day."

The wee boy there has dressed as Velma from scooby doo

I dont' think people who weren't around or can't remember Diana dying will ever really appreciate how weird it was. Peter Sissons' broke down in tears on the news. I remember seeing footage of an HMV in London opening the day that Candle in the Wind went on sale and people were rushing in and buying armfuls of the single, dozens of CDs. The fact that the Queen wouldn't fly the flag at half mast, give an address to the nation or go and look at flowers was a national scandal. Every single town and city had at least one, sometimes more, public space completely filled with flowers and teddy bears. It was absolutely insane.

England played on November 11th 1987 and didn't wear armbands or poppies or anything like that. I'm not sure when Scotland last played on or near to the 11th but I don't remember there being any poppy on shirts before. This is probably me being a crochety middle aged man but I think in the last 15 years we've become a far more sentimental society, given to ostentatious displays of emotions. We have minutes silences for all sorts of things - Glenn Hoddle's dad dying for example. I buy and wear a poppy but I don't think they need to be on football jerseys or armbands.

What exactly is it about remembering those from other counties who have died as a result of war that makes someone an arse? Do the "sane people" that you speak of only remember the British? Try to give a proper answer without turning into a seething mess and making it an argument about whose grammar is better. Thanks.

Don't forget the pinning of white feathers on men not in uniform and presumed to not be fighting, and this, below. Forcing men to go and enact violence, or be killed, by preying on their sense of masculinity. Disgusting. Great deal you got in the early 20th century - killed, maimed or PTSD, but at least some soldiers will do "the bouncy" at Ibrox for you 100 years later.

Three winning days on the trot!

I'm no doubt an utter b*****d, but blind cricket sounds fucking hilarious. Would genuinely pay good money to watch that.

The thing about the Poppies and Rememberance, originally was that the sentiment was 'lest we forget' - not just the lives lost but the attitudes, the decisions that led to all out industrialised slaughter in the first place. The late 20s and 30s was full of people for whom the memory of war was one of utter futility, of pals battalions happily ignorant and marching off to give Johnny Foreigner a damn good thrashing. These days you've got the whole virtue signalling, poppy shaming disgrace of a society where kids walk around in T-shirts with "future soldier" written on them, where the respect due to soldiers has morphed into reverence and almost into full scale worship. It's that kind of military fetishism and jingoism that got all those people killed in the first place.

http://i.imgur.com/64F4vRP.gifv This may be the best gif I've ever seen, sadly it's a video so I can't embed.

The Scottish referendum was legally binding by Act of the UK parliament; the EU one was not. Parliament can of course choose to ignore the EU referendum if they wish. Legally they can do so, though it would be politically undesirable and would finish the government. I suspect May knows this, hence her opposition to a parliamentary vote that may not go in favour. Correct result, however - Parliament should decide rather than the royal perogative being exercised. This is parliamentary sovereignty in action.

Scotland to ditch the poppy just before the match and England to get a 6pt deduction as punishment. Shrewd move.

Scenes!

Aye, if you can hear this from lower mid table mediocrity with your fancy coaches and masseuses to keep you in top condition. Not that I'm bitter or anything.

British people are just fannies tbh.

Ten Years After - Hear Me Calling

You are? We already love to copy what they do down South so I'm not surprised. It's all become a big circus now. No place for it in football.

Hopefully we're both kicked out of the qualifiers if they both defy it. Who the f**k do they think they are?

I do not know anyone who is a 'big fan of the poppy'. We sane blokes are ok with simply reflecting on what has been and hope it won't be repeated.

"Drunk City hooligan goes on wrecking spree after 1-0 Cup win" - Evening News

Not had a win in weeks, this'll help my weekend.

Anthony Hopkins was fucking sensational in that 5th episode. His sit down with Ed Harris was the scene of the series so far. Two most interesting characters in the programme in my opinion.

[emoji23][emoji23] which one is ok?

"Are you looking for more goals from Crawley?"

Just put this on 5 minutes ago in play

Thank you.

I doubt he's going to be put off the area because of that one woman unless he's planning on moving into my block. It's good to know you will finally have a friend to hang about with though.

The one I remember is the Soham murders - absolutely awful double murder of two wee girls. Every ground in Britain had a minutes silence betore that game. I remember this because it was a Highland derby that weekend and there was a silence at our game. After the match I went out for a few pints and as I was waiting in front of the town house with my mate to get a lift home later on I noticed that there were flowers and teddy bears and candles piled up around the spot for the old cross, all for the two wee girls. I know it sounds cold but what sort of person does that, goes and buys a teddy and puts it at Inverness town house for something like that? A terrible crime but I just don't understand it.

Was just on phone to my missus (she was on her hands free thing in car). She said "hold on" and started beeping her horn and shouting at my mum (who had been her passenger). Turns out she had stopped at a cash machine for my mum, who then got her money but got into the wrong car with some random bloke.

I'll see yer Cadden, and I'll raise you an Agyeman.

I think Ross MacIvor has flown under the radar a bit so far, but this is his hat-trick against Dundee in the DL a fortnight ago. Each goal is as good as the other, IMO. 17 years old, plays up front or is sometimes put on the flank. ETA: A good assist by Chow for the third.

All started with the Diana hysteria. The people mewling about fifa banning the poppy are exactly the sort that were queuing outside the record shops so they could buy armfuls of that candle in the wind cd.

It's since been changed, but I'm outraged that one of the judges is an ex-fencer.

I'm old enough to remember buses stopping for the duration of the two minutes, as did people in the street. That was back in the days before every issue possible becomes a reason to be an attention-seeking p***k, especially on social media.

Accepted a job in Edinburgh today. Pretty chuffed to be moving away from Aberdeen.

His parents must have been real b*****ds to give him that name then. Bet he got beaten up at school.

Looks to me like Scholes wore one but tried to cover it up when the camera was on him....

I felt it yesterday. I took a selfie on the way to work:

Cat Stevens : Remember The Days Of The Old School Yard

Similar story in mine, and nah

Back from Dublin and my first marathon over the weekend. The target was 3:20 and for nearly 20 miles was bang on it. Hadn't really felt any pain until I got to the top of the hill to get to the 20 mile mark when I got cramp in both legs. The remainder of the race was a mix of running a bit, stopping to stretch and then walking for a minute, apart from the last km - knowing that me crossing the line was automatically being posted to Facebook was a great encouragement to cross the line running! - to finish in 3:41. Still pretty happy with getting through it and Dublin is a superb place to run. The crowd support all the way round was incredible - at some parts was so loud that you could barely hear yourself think!

Well played FIFA. So far they've managed to upset: - Rangers fans - 'Tartan army foot soldiers' - The Sun - Little Englanders - Brit-nat thickos - Craig Brown Troll level - expert.

VL found.

Kick them both out, no questions asked just do it.

What I heard of O'Connor was decent as was Fullarton's explanation of how he folded like an old deckchair after 2 weeks of management the other night.

Travel advice for Peasy23 & Swarley "You can cheer, you can do everything according to what you would like to do. "The dress code [of black] is recommended but not required."

They should be on footballers wages imo