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I'd like to take a moment to take my hand off the shaft and make my love for Glen Kamara and Basque Jon known in a more scriptual manner. These two great c***s have strolled onto our shores and made a mockery of the footballers that ply their trade in this league. At Perth, Jon could've had his slippers, housecoat and San Miguel out for all the fucks he gave. Simply strolled the game without giving two hoots. As for Glen Kamara, the mans footballing ability is so beautiful that it would even raise the boaby of Granny Danger. This is the man who has never seen his thrupney bits since his pie eating epidemic of 1985, never mind popped a stauner in anger. These two are class acts and it'll be a joy to see Jon's wavy hair glisten off the trophy in the Hampden sunset as he lifts the Scottish cup with his big dirty b*****d of a Spanish swagger. His reflection will be gleamed off the walls of Govan, Pollok and Castlemilk as the Derry take over the city of the bigots for one wonderful day. Una Cerveza Por Favor, Cuntos. Gracias.

The Derek Lyle situation - surely I can't be the only one on here who thinks this is a bit of a non-story? Derek Lyle, in (possibly) his last season wants to feature more often in the first team - that seems a reasonable ambition on his part. Gary Naysmith makes clear that he can't guarantee this. That too seems reasonable. (as has been said before, Lyle is currently competing with Kane and Dobbie for a starting place - don't think anyone has suggested Lyle should be starting ahead of those two based on current form?). What's the result? If, at this stage of his career, playing regularly is a top priority for Derek Lyle - the only way he can be guaranteed that is to move elsewhere. (Seen some comments on here about him moving to our playoff rivals - I honestly don't think he'd be first choice striker in any other team in the Championship - with the possible exception of Brechin). Perhaps I'm in a minority of one here, but I think the fact that the club have told Derek Lyle he "can" move elsewhere - if he wants - is actually a generous gesture. He could have been "held" to his contract - warming the bench for the rest of the season. But if playing regularly is so important to him at this stage of his career, he's been given the go ahead to do this. I don't see any conspiracy, or mis-management in any of this. Don't get me wrong! It'd be really sad if a club legend like Derek Lyle leaves before the end of the season - I'm still hoping to be applauding him on the last day of the season after we clinch promotion to the Premiership through the play offs! But it's not the end of the world! I really can't understand those people on here who have said they'll "think twice" about going to games if he leaves. This is football. Players come and go. Managers come and go. Chairmen come and go. Only the real fans remain forever.

Fucking bring it right oan.

Diddy club = less fans/gloryhunting dicks = Club Saved Rangers 2012 = Biggest Most Successful Club in the world (my arse) with 500 million fans = Liquidation Mon the diddies

Signing for Clyde is like signing up for the Night's Watch

Good luck to them.

I think it was something she said, or done, that made him pack his bags up and run.

As the ‘elected’ Pie and Bovril Bairns Group Spokesman, I have been given the humble task of declaring you a total arsehole. Thanks for reading SB x

Yeah all of this. Well done to the club for clarifying the situation quickly. I don’t think the club or the manager are due any criticism now the facts have come to light. Sadly if anyone is the bad guy in this situation it’s Lyle himself. Him and the vile rag that is The Sun anyway.

This really is a bit of a non-event for me now. GN clarifies the position on the OS. It`s a bit disappointing that Del chose to go to the press with this in all honesty. Del is part of the plans. He isn`t guaranteed to start regularly. If it is crucial to him that he has to be starting then he can (if he chooses to) explore other options. I really don`t see the problem here. It`s a pity it hit the press but that isn`t the club`s doing. FWIW I really want him to stay and get a great send off at season end. That choice is his to make.

Hearts - The Foundation of Hearts. Hibernian - Hands Off Hibs. Motherwell - 'Well Worth Saving, The 'Well Society. Dundee - Dee4Life. Dundee United - ArabTrust. St Mirren - St. Mirren Independent Supporters Association. Dunfermline - Pars United. Rangers - Send money to a clown called Mr Custard.

Happy birthday Joe Harper. 70 today.

Player contract signing day at Broadwood:

My first ever Nadia. Women's cricket and inactive volcano the guesses.

Official announcement by Dalkeith Thistle which confirms their intention to relocate from the East Region SJFA to the East of Scotland League for next season: http://www.dalkeiththistle.co.uk/news/club-announcement-east-of-scotland-league-2145411.html

Definitely a couple of biggies.

More than you or any other of your kind did.

I Russell-ed something up.

People who are in favour of the death penalty should be shot.

I'd be delighted if Craigen came back. Another player who seemed to get berated by some sections of our fans, but was a huge miss the following season.

I was more annoyed at the "5 clubs dead in a month" article but there was a lot going on at the time and Reagan's social unrest stuff was merely a small part of a huge clusterfuck of media/administrators/chairmen losing the head on a daily basis - but reading that back a few years later after that chapter played out in a demonstrably less armageddon-y way - it's actually difficult to get your head round the level of craven, uninformed pish that he came out with. For the "head" of Scottish football to explicitly say that Scottish football is just the OF - and without a functional Rangers-Celtic duopoly, that the game would die a lingering death is *mental* - this is the c**t that's meant to be securing sponsors and talking the game up - how can someone with so little credibility and a terrible record still be in an actual job? The interesting part is that the scare stories are utterly spent - if this version of Rangers were to have an "insolvency event" similar to the old version, it wouldn't be remotely tenable to even try that sort of pish again - you can only turn the bullshit up to 11 once (and there is a clear precedent in place for how it should be dealt with). Also - SPL2.

Oh aye Craigen as well. Sakes. Get them to f**k.

I’m glad I was sitting down. #shocked

Of course no one would have an issue with it if the kid was white. Are folk genuinely not getting this? If so then they're thick as f**k.

Pish, only glory hunting h*ns have "big" and "wee" teams. Are your fellow Sevco fans aware that you also follow Clyde as your big team? As well as Sevco, who is your other English team?

For as long as I've supported Dumbarton FC (47 years now) the club's future has been in doubt and that has almost always been down to one thing, the heritable asset (the stadium) would be worth more as a cleared bit of ground than as a going concern i.e. a fitba club. The fact that DFC owned this heritable property has never been a protection. Indeed several times when the ground had been used as collateral for borrowing, the future looked bleak. Even under the ownership of Robert Robertson/Hutchison Engineering in the 1970s, when the club was riding on the crest of it's biggest successes of the 20th century, Robertson had a buyer lined up to build houses on Boghead and move the club to Cumbernauld. I seem to remember the rejection of a planning application for Boghead was the catalyst for this. In the 80s as the solicitor administering the Fraser estate was closing in on the club's heritable assert, to repay a £40,000 loan made by Sir Hugh, the sale of Stevie McCahill to Celtic saved the club at the 11th hour (according to then Chief Exec Alex Wright). In the 90s, with Neil Rankine having been declared bankrupt and with Jim Innes holding proxy on his shares, he (Innes) was ready to accept an offer for Boghead from a housebuilder (Bellway I think) and wind up the club. Only an emergency response from directors Gilbert Lawrie and Alistair Paton, resulting in Douglas Dalgleish becoming chairman, saved the club then. Believe me, there were some scary moments at the building of the new stadium at the Rock. I well remember John McFall looking me in the eye and saying "At that stage we thought the (new stadium) project was doomed and with it, the club" . This was circa October 2000 on my appointment to the board of Dumbarton Community Stadium Ltd. McFall was talking of events six months previous. Brabco is nothing new. There has always been someone wanting money/prestige/glory or whatever from Dumbarton FC. I have consistently taken the view that what Brabco is providing for DFC is a lifeboat. For a fee. The good ship DFC is sinking. And whilst some argue that the captain is exaggerating the situation, or the ship is flying under a Liberian flag or there's a salvage crew in the wings waiting to scavenge the wreck, the sensible thing is to examine the lifeboat and compare it to the sinking ship. Does it offer the chance of survival? Well yes, probably as much as John Waters who opposed Robert Robertson's Cumbernauld proposal in a live debate on STV. As much as that fee from the transfer of McCahill. Maybe as much as the Lawrie/Paton bit of magic. It also offers the risk of failure as all these things did too. If Cumbernauld Development Association had been a bit more persuasive, had Celtic changed manager and he didn't fancy McCahill, Had Innes not been persuaded, Had McFall not come up with funding, there would not have been a Sons Sorrow on P&B I think it's the lifeboat lads. It might be full of holes and it might hit an iceberg. It might not. It's a chance.

I think this is one of those situations where the racism is from those claiming that it's racism.

Beard game is strong. Welcome to the box office club.

Can I just say, this shocks absolutely nobody.

Why would anyone be interested in Bennetts opinion anyway?

No. The whole point of the prison system is no longer simply the removal of offenders from mainstream society. The emphasis is now on the rehabilitation of offenders with a humanistic approach which recognises that human beings have the capacity to see the error of their ways and be reformed. How can offenders be rehabilitated if they are dead? People have also been tried and executed in the past and later found to have been innocent all along. Why reintroduce such a flawed system of punishment when the potential consequences of "getting it wrong" are catastrophic and cannot be undone? People who want the death penalty re-instated are invariably dribbling morons and Ones For The Watching.

First hearings around the public consultation are this month, as far as I know. As always, I'm sure the club will keep schtum until there is any news worth sharing. On another note, I'll be gutted if Basque Jon leaves. What a massive improvement he's been now that he's confident and fit. Get him signed up!

Aye, but I want to be close enough to call Josh Norman a c**t for how he treated my bae OBJ

I think you had best spell it out to him, that ACC is Aberdeen City Council or he's going to dig clean through to Australia

Eric Burdon & War - Spill The Wine

Family - Drowned In Wine

Alan Hull - Squire / One More Bottle Of Wine

In comparison. Most fouls conceded - Hertz Most yellow cards - Hertz Most red cards - Hertz Most (hoofed) clearances - Berra, Hertz.

Posting about child abuse on a football forum isn't 'normal behaviour ' either.

Better than when we had the cheap gazebo at Ibrox for the AGM....the winter of our discount tent.

Unless it’s supermarket shite. Steak pie, of course, should be bought from a reputable butcher.

Although things got into a grim place members-wise, bottoming-out at 11 last season, there was still an inherent strength left in 1) having access to LL and licensing; plus 2) being well-run and supportive of clubs, including through a number of new schemes and initiatives EOSL introduced after LL started. Going by the "prospectus" that appeared on the EOSL website this time last year the membership benefits include: the league paying for coaching, goalkeeping and firstaid courses; providing all clubs with defibrillators, firstaid bags and equipment; buying clubs' match balls and training balls; paying clubs' insurance; and reimbursing travel costs when an away game is postponed. It is less often mentioned but the Friday night Under 20 league run in conjunction with LL must be a big positive: players are all on senior form making it easy to sit on the bench etc. for the first-team the next day, and all clubs (SFA members or not) play in the Scottish Youth Cup. According to my local paper there is also prizemoney for the top 4 places - the top pot being worth £1,500 - plus from this season each club can apply for £3,000 to spend on ground upgrades. There are also 2 ways into the Scottish Cup - by winning the EOSL or by winning the Alex Jack Cup and new Cup-Winners' Shield. This latter route has seen Tynecastle qualify for the Scottish Cup for the first time and others like LTHV, Leith and Stirling Uni have qualified in previous seasons. Clubs ready for licensing have to join. Clubs working towards licensing have good reason to join: they will have to do it eventually and coaching badges, medical provision and insurance cover are part of the criteria and any help with ground upgrades must be welcome. Even if a club isn't on that trajectory there will be benefits from good organisation, financial help and a shot at the Scottish Cup slots. I don't think many similar benefits are provided in the Juniors. Indeed games still aren't played by artificial light and there isn't even a fixturelist. EOSL clubs have their games to the middle of April; East Junior clubs have theirs only to a week on Saturday. So while there were obviously reasons for leaving - which Craigroyston and Easthouses did - there were also reasons for staying, and joining - which Kelty did and now maybe others. Also worth recalling that more clubs could be relegated from LL than promoted from EOSL, btw.

Does anyone know is this the only garment that this particular kid was pictured in or is it just one of a whole range of clothes he's wearing ? I have 2 wee boys and they have tons of clothes with either the word monkey or a picture of a monkey on them. Surely the racist attitude would be to exclude a kid from wearing one particular item due to the colour of his skin. However ..... Marketing folk at a big company should know that 99% of the population are utter twats that need protecting from their own thoughts and will twist anything and everything into some kind of outrage.

Signed Gilzean pic. Thank you.

^^ offers white kids healthy snacks but won't give to other races^^