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When you wear maroon And your team's sent doon Who ya gonna call? Hearts-busters! When the league's called 'done' But you still need fun Who ya gonna call? Hearts-busters! I aint 'fraid of Ann Budge I aint 'fraid of Ann Budge When Tam cries "no fair" "Expulsion's" sair Who ya gonna call? Hearts-busters! For a petted lip In the Champioship Who ya gonna call? Hearts-busters!

Absolutely dripping with seeth and jealousy type post IMO.

Mind when Hearts were given a suspiciously small two-point deduction by the SPFL after fielding an ineligible player in the League Cup group stage a couple of seasons ago, and went on to reach the hugely profitable semi-final stage as a result? I'm sure Austin was absolutely fuming at that.

Paisley is basically joined onto Glasgow so Old Firm fans from there I can sort of give the benefit of the doubt to. The cunts are the ones from Ayr, Kilmarmock, Dumfries, Edinburgh,Fife, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness, Dingwall. People that have zero affiliation with either club other than they win 9 times out of 10 and it makes them feel good.

A club who tried to take advantage of a plague to avoid being relegated for being really shit.

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If Hemmings goes, we're back to not scoring ever next season. Cool.

Same here - my asthma does not come in to it when wearing a mask. I'd put the non-mask wearers into 4 categories: 1) Those not in an at risk group who are just selfish b*****ds 2) Those who are not wearing one because they are "Krankie says we need to wear one, she doesn't speak for me" Britnats 3) Those who have a genuine medical reason who genuinely struggle to cope with wearing a mask. 4) Drama Queens with a mild medical condition who exaggerate the effects that wearing a mask has on them.

This is George who salutes Irish self determination, salutes British nationalism but hates the idea of Scotland becoming an equal in the world.. c**t

Fans who come away with that pish are invariably the same self-loathing roasters who spend games shouting abuse at their own players from start to finish. They are too ignorant to understand that whilst most fans would happily play for Dundee for nothing, the players themselves are not fans. They are employees, who shouldn't be having their terms and conditions trampled on and certainly shouldn't be told to "GTF" for standing up for themselves by mouth-breathing dafties.

^^^ worships a 90 year old pensioner because she has 'magic blood'

Do you reckon we should continue to employ people that simply won’t be doing any work for about 6 months (maybe longer)? It’s fucking shite being made redundant and it’s not nice for the people involved but Hibs have clearly said all funds are going to the first team. Companies across the country will be getting rid of people and “restructuring” over the coming months. I’m sure they’ll continue investing their funds in the key areas of their business at the same time.

I'll just leave this here...

I'd rather we saved the fiver. Or burned it. Or gave it to charity. Or fold it into a paper plane and threw it off the Tay Bridge and watch it fly away into the sunset. You know, do something of more value than fritter it away on something absolutely worthless.

That's it Leigh, make them think you're not up to it. It's all coming to plan...

i have no doubt you are correct regarding other teams training but they havent been caught out yet and would think that they would be stupid in the extreme to continue after seeing Darvel being outed. Darvel have courted the media to advance themselves and have been shafted by the very attention they sought and craved. The moral aspect of breaking the rules aside and looking at the football alone i would think this has huge implications for Darvels season ahead. A big fine they could probably handle quite easily judging by the money they have been spending. However a probable points deduction would also be the minimum they can expect to receive. So instead of challenging at the top end of the table they will have an expensively assembled mercenary team possibly having to fight off relegation depending on how the league is initially structured. At the very best they will be a mid table team with nothing to play for until next season. Will the new fans, players and management hang about? So if i was a Darvel fan i would be giving a f**k.

“Nails” Murdoch will probably show him the error of his ways in our first match against them!!!

"An odious little team team who shat the bed when it really mattered"

There's a general principle of contract law that if any provision proves to be invalid the whole contract falls. The idea being that you need to have the whole agreement to reflect the true mindset of the contracting parties. Now this isn't a contract per se, but the principle absolutely applies: the parties (the member clubs) agreed to a complete whole: call the league, money based on position at that point; promotion/relegation based on positions at that point. Either that complete whole applies or none of it applies. You can't simply pick and choose the bits that you like and don't like. Hearts presumably think that the scale of the unfairness which has affected them is such that a court (tribunal) will bend the rules to reflect that unfairness without considering the greater unfairness which would befall the promoted teams. It is absolute nonsense.

Just looking forward to going to games again . Moving the tape they put on seats . Nodding to people you know as fans but not their names. Keeping a safe distance. Getting excited about the actual team announcement that day . Talking about the game on the way home. Reading pie and Bovril at night and watching the highlights when they are ready . That’s what I miss most...can’t wait till October. Yes we are professional now and thank goodness . could never imagine stopping going to games .

Philpy being a massive grass v philpy being an absolute fantasist so none of this happened.

Coloured customers

Go to the dancing on your own?

Now if only philpy had previous for making up utter shite.

Week 27 update Two deaths this week. Up first, the film composer Ennio Morricone: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/06/ennio-morricone-obituary It would be remiss of me to not include his work, which you've ever heard in their original setting or sampled elsewhere constantly: Morricone died at 91 for 34 Base Points. He was a Solo Shot for @paulathame, adding an extra 50 points for a total of 84. ====================== Up next this week was Johnny Beattie: https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/18573366.obituary-johnny-beattie-comedian-actor-scottish-variety-star/ 60 years of being one of the most prominent, well-known and popular figures in Scottish culture is some going. Beattie died at 93, so he's worth 32 Base Points. He was a hit for @Flybhoy, @lolls and @speckled tangerine. ====================== Final death this week was former Leeds United player Jack Charlton: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/11/jack-charlton-a-footballing-giant-who-was-forever-a-man-of-the-people Maybe it's the romantic in me, but I always enjoy... well, not enjoy, I appreciate writing about sportspeople here. Being able to go back to a time when football and sport in general was simpler and more honest. Here is the record appearance holder for Leeds United, their captain during the most successful time in their history. Leeds' website has lots of pieces and comments about him. He was Ireland manager too, which is oddly what I remember him for: Charlton himself had an unremarkable international career. He died at 85, so he's worth 40 Base Points. He was a pick for @101, @dee_62, @expatowner, @microdave and @pawpar. ====================== As a result of all of those, the standings now look like this: 1. Bishop Briggs 306 2. pub car king 205 3. Musketeer Gripweed 198 4. Melanius Mullarkey 193 5. Ned Nederlander 190 6. paulathame 188 7. psv_killie 185 8. chomp my root 183 9. ToBeSomeone 174 10. JustOneCornetto 173 11. sureiknow 163 12. thistledo 158 13. weejack 140 14. dee_62 139 15. ICTJohnboy 129 16. alta-pete, sparky88 124 18. statts1976uk 123 19. lichtgilphead 119 20. Ben Twilly, Arch Stanton, Mark Connolly 107 23. Aim Here 106 24. 101 103 25. sleazy 99 26. Hamish's Passenger 94 27. cdisaaccie 86 28. microdave 84 29. Fuctifano, The_Craig 83 31. weirdcal 82 32. Speckled Tangerine 80 33. peasy23 77 34. choirbairn 73 35. lolls 67 36. CountyFan 66 37. Arabdownunder, The Naitch 64 39. Savage Henry, Bobby Skidmarks 63 41. 19QOS19, dundeefc1783 58 43. Ludo*1, mathematics 48 45. doulikefish, 50/50 Winner, cambozpar, LondonHMFC, microdave, Sergeant Wilson 44 51. Indale WInton, Lofarl, The DA 42 54. expatowner, pawpar 40 56. Bold Rover, D.V.T. 34 58. Cardinal Richelieu 33 59. Flybhoy 32 60. Blootoon87, HI HAT, LoonsYouthTeam, Meden89, Scotty Tunbridge, shuggz, Perkin Flump, The Master 22 68. Everyone else 0 The spreadsheet has also been updated with these scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V64rLXKhrmZf-6K4D3RyN3cR5Z_i2rh-ztODUB_dQyI/edit?usp=sharing

Why grass up a neighbour not adhering to Covid-19 guidelines but not an overtly racist thief? Wild.

Expect mask wearing to be mandated by the weekend then.

Surely all wives natter.

The hypocrisy of football fans never ceases to amaze me. Seen a few so-called fans saying to the two (and then the one) to GTF. If the roles were reversed these wankers would be the first to complain. We are not talking about players on EPL or English Championship wages - many of them will be on a wage that is not much more than someone in a trade in Dundee - for a job that has a much shorrter life span. It is dead easy to say they should accept a pay cut when you are not the person having to face that pay cut.

COVID is deadly, but corvids have their moments too I had quite the urban wildlife encounter with a sparrowhawk last autumn. I was walking down Queen Margaret Drive after picking up the programmes for my club's game that weekend from the printer when I saw two birds in close aerial combat at the edge of the Botanics...a feral pigeon being chased by a sparrowhawk. The pigeon suddenly turned 90 degress low across the road to escape, followed by the hawk. The inevitable happened - big cloud of feathers up in the air as a car hit both of them. I looked out between the parked cars, expecting carnage. I was only half right - the pigeon was KIA and splattered across the road, but the hawk was still alive although it was sitting stunned in the road with its wings spread. Part of me was thinking I was nuts to consider picking up a wild bird of prey with bare hands, but it clearly wasn't going to recover in time before another car did a number on it so I nipped out onto the road and did just that, internally going "f**k...f**k...f**k..." . There was nothing immediately wrong with it I could see apart from shock and the fact it had managed to lose most of its tail feathers, so i just sat on a wall with it in my hands until it perked up and began to make a bit of a fuss, upon which I let it sit on my palm before it flew vertically up into a nearby tree. The weirdest thing was I ended up completely unscathed - no bites or clawings at all - I was expecting to lose at least one chunk of flesh. As this was in the seen-it-all west end, folk were passing by the whole time and not batting an eyelid at the spectacle of the Game of Thrones-looking motherfucker sitting there with what must have looked like his pet hawk...only person who commented was an African guy who told me that that was a nice bird I had there! I ended up picking up a couple of these as a memento as it wasn't going to be using them anymore!

Aye there is.

as an aberdonian who lives in glasgow, i would like nothing more than for nobody to speak to me at all in the office. leave me alone instead of spraffing your drivel my way.

Getting Griffiths on loan would cause an astonishing level of cranial detachment within the ranks of diets [emoji23]

Presumably you've got discretionary trade discount so it would be hard to prove it's been done maliciously. Maybe let a local paper, trading standards or a relevant charity know and suggest they send a white and a BAME shopper round to compare what they're charged. Or find a way of letting the screwed customers know.

A lot of people have been affected by this thing and I doubt Nicola Sturgeon would want a clap for her birthday but at least she's not organising it under her own steam. She's not out there having thumbs up photos taken as the PM has been. Nor has she been out pretending to be a waiter as the chancellor did for a photo opportunity. That's the sort of self serving pish people should be angry about. It's pretty well accepted that the way she's handled herself through this has been largely appreciated. That's not to say everyone has agreed or continues to agree with the totality of the approach taken in Scotland - there will be plenty of things identified that should have been done better but the effort she's put into this is undeniable and sets her apart from the likes of Cummings.

Cos they’re amazing

This is honestly mental.

I couldn't really complain during the lockdown as I've got quite a few decent walks (including a couple of southern uplands 2000ft hills) that I can do walking from the house and so I've still been getting walks in (but no camps) while following the rules - but it was great yesterday to finally get back to some highlands mountains. I guessed that there would be a lot of pent-up hillwalking demand, so I decided to avoid any vaguely well known hills and decided instead to for 3 Corbetts (Beinn Odhar, Beinn Chaorach and Cam Chreag) from Tyndrum as it was easy to get to and doing 3 in a day is a decent challenge when you take the drops into account. Beinn Odhar is the only one of the three that I knew as it is the hill staring you in the face when you leave Tyndrum on the WHW - a mini version of the more spectacular Beinn Dorian further down the glen. I followed the old mine path and it was a pretty easy climb onto the summit. Views were good but the low cloud was dotted around and it was clear it was going to be a changeable day. The main challenge of the whole thing was a direct steep drop off of Odhar and an even more brutal 400m slog up the other side - I would only recommend this route to people with a high pain threshold and a sense of humour The other 2 summits were fairly non-descript but it was a decent high-level walk from this point and the there were no clouds on either summit. The walk out was pretty long and involved me walking along a few km's of the west highland way which was a decent nostalgia trip. I managed the 21km and 1400m ascent in just under 6 hours, which gives me a bit of confidence to tackle some big days for the rest of the summer and didn't see anyone at all until I dropped down to Strathfillian, so a pretty good day out... Wild camping is the thing I've missed most - so next weekends trip will be doing that...

Hearts used Clause 12 to threaten players with legal action if they didn't accept wage cuts, and then spent 6 figures on a manager, and gave Craig Gordon a massive wage and signing on fee

They hope... Wouldn’t it be just terrible now they’ve went down, with all of that investment and the parachute payment, and played the way they did this season...properly align themselves with Partick Thistle and end up playing in the Seaside leagues in a few seasons! That would be the new textbook definition of natural justice...

Did they get dressed in the dark?

Hearts Hearts Glorious Hearts Its down at the likes of Gayfield that they now abide.

Nice try traffordab. [emoji23]

FTFY