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A mazy dribble around Glasgow yesterday taking in the football grounds as a way of seeing the city. Hampden > Lesser > Hampden Bowling Club > Cathkin > Shawfield > Velodrome > Left Cheek > Glasgow Green > Barrowlands > Oscar Marzaroli exhibition > City Centre > F&C Canal > Firhill > Kelvinbridge > Kelvingrove > SECC Tennent's Sixes > Waverley > Right Cheek > Bellahouston > Pollok Country Park > Pollok FC > Langside > Ruel St > Hampden. An utterly delightful walk, in glorious autumnal sunshine. Burst 50,000 steps, which took me almost nine hours, including a couple of pit stops. No doubt I've missed out some football heritage sites. For example, I could have easily detoured towards Park Gardens to pay my respects to Jim Farry, or it wouldn't have been much of a stretch to see Benburb FC. A perfectly good way to spend an otherwise idle day off. Would recommend! Highlight was undoubtedly Firhill which just looks magnificent when approached from canal, a route I've never taken before, affording a superb view into the stadium from the towpath.

The results are merely part of the problem albeit a big one. I can honestly say that for the second half yesterday, I noticed myself doing something that I've been doing a lot more when watching these games on the telly. I switched off. Not physically, as the game remained on til the end but I found myself browsing my phone, drifting away onto another subject whilst the hopeless commentator mumbled a lot of stupid platitudes in the background and I realised, I wasn't fucking interested. Anyone who knows me from off of here, understands and knows that when I'm at a match, I'm usually one of those folk that the commentator is apologising on behalf of for the language. I attack every ball mentally, I live on the edge of my seat for the full 90 mins... always has been the case... even way back in mid 90s as a ball boy when I got 'booked' post match in the tunnel for calling the ref a 'fucking joke' under my breath as we trudged past him following a controversial loss. Point being, at the end, if we win, it's a boost mentally but if we lose, when I leave I make sure I never let it affect me personally or my mood outwith the immediate hour or two in the aftermath of the result. But as I sat yesterday, I realised, we're so mind numbing that I had my face in my phone for the full second half, I didn't care to mentally will the team forward or even get frustrated at them for misplaced passes etc, as the team, frankly are fucking boring. Not just shite. We've seen shite in the past, more times than I care to remember, but absoultely devoid of any ability in the opposition half, a basic competence of getting the ball into area where we potentially might score. When we do get into the final third, we seem to have stumbled into it rather than carved out a chance. My main criticism of Goodwin teams is that there is no attacking intent or finesse, it's a horribly panicked mantra of 'get the ball forward 50 times, one or two of those are bound to have a lucky bounce and let us in for a shot' and it's absolutely painful to watch. I'm not in the Goodwin out camp. Not yet anyway, but he's about 3 or 4 weeks away from being untenable. Even if the results do turn, the football served will still be the gash were subject to. I don't mind a team hunkering in and grinding out a result when the pressure is on but we should not be performing that way against teams around us. It's an eyesore and a total turnoff.

The new penalty rules unfairly disadvantage teams full of fucking morons like ours.

Don't come in here often because it's still shite not having the wee man almost 3 months later. Still look for him every night when going to bed, he used to always come and lie on me. Managed to extract some audio of him purring away from a video and it's the most relaxing thing iv ever heard. In short: cats are good c***s.

You're doing a great job of ignoring The Chairman imvho.

He was signed under our new "are you pals with Declan Gallagher" policy.

Absolutely delighted that VAR continues to be incredibly shite and is ruining so many people's enjoyment of games. Because they all totally deserve it. They cried and moaned about decisions for years, with nonsense like referees cost people their jobs with decisions and other way over the top criticisms of the entire official team after multiple angle, slow motion replays. Long may it continue, and let us hope that VAR is never introduced in Scotland.

Following the death of my (unofficial) father-in-law a couple of months back, it would be fair and understandable to say that my other half hasn't been in the mood of late. Most of the time we've been at her mother's, so that's somewhat limiting anyway. Therefore, to finish off a break last week I thought that I could fork out that little bit more for the last couple of nights and go somewhere a bit more upmarket for a more romantic setting. Big room in the turret of a castle, the big fancy mega-kingsize bed, giant bath etc etc. In summary: somewhat pricey. Following a fun day out on a cloudless summers day in the countryside that had successfully suppressed the dad issue (think 'Nice Painter and His Wife' Fast Show type situations where you go to all lengths to avoid a certain subject), we came back to the hotel room with a bottle of red wine for a soak in the big tub prior to dinner. I even wandered into the nearby village and back beforehand just to get some bubble bath for this as there was no way was I mucking this up. Following that and getting dressed up a bit for a 'date night', we went downstairs to the restaurant and had a top-notch candle-lit dinner involving some fancy starters, sirloin steaks and some more Malbec. Things were going very, very well, and so I suggested that we head back upstairs, to which she agreed and called the waiter over so we could settle the bill. Well, imagine my absolute f***ing delight when the waiter said "We have a nice surprise for you! Your mother phoned us up earlier today to say that she's paying the bill for both of you as a big thank you for all you've done to help over the past few weeks, and all the staff here are all really sorry to hear about your dad". (see spoiler for my inner reaction at this point) Cue a wine-supercharged emotional breakdown in the restaurant as the issue was brought straight back to the forefront, and a complete lack of action that weekend. Never before have I been so ungratefully seething about getting a free steak and wine dinner.

Missy still hasn't got the hang of this sunbathing lark. She'll lie on her perch at the window for too long, then realises she is too hot and flops down in a heap on the floor.

WTF I may report this post. Haven't made my mind up yet.

Journalists down south beginning to figure out the fact that schools are a major driving factor. Will any politician admit they got it wrong when they bowed to some pressure groups on the schools issue? I notice that it is fine for 16, 17 and 18 year old kids at school to be in the same class with little distancing but the same ages at colleges and uni must remain locked away separately because their mixing is such a high risk. Staggering.

Rangers were relegated.

Gammon is fantastic patter because it fits perfectly. It is admittedly rare for patter of this type to be good. "Snowflake" being a good example of how shite it can get.

Arbroath vs Forfar Athletic Highlights - Courtesy of FAFCTV Many thanks again to Joshua from FAFCTV for filming today's game.

Aye, you're thick as f**k

New best friend Felipe

You can go and f**k yourself.

Shut up.

However, as I say when Douglas Ross MP is on telly, what an arse.

Still, I'm sure that the snippy parent brigade who were demanding EVIDENCE and FACTS in addition to, erm, the rudimentary logic and reason needed to predict this obvious wave in advance will now completely reverse their stance. What with their argument having been made in good faith and not from the desire to just punt their weans out of the house at any cost.

Title race over by the third set of games, where else but the Barclays.

When we sit in with one up against a team that had only won one of their last 16 away before yesterday , you know he hasn't learned his lesson.

Clearly the only way to stop this spreading unchecked throughout schools is to close pubs at 6pm and limit restaurants to four people per table.

That's very inconvenient. Do you have anything better to back this up other than official government data? Close the pubs at 8pm imo.

Starting to warm to Rob MacLean. McCrorie tho.

Sorry Hibs have been amazing.

Ah balls. Smooth scented balls.

Sometime during the early 80's my father persuaded me to go with him to a function in Glasgow where the legend that was Bill Shankly was the after dinner speaker. He told a few stories that night - this one stuck in my mind from his days as a player....

Thought this would be more appropriate here than the match thread but just wanted to say that, for me, Lamie is firmly in the "Zak Jules" category of shite. An absolute diddy of a player. Thanks for reading.

If we're playing during the day midweek, people who volunteer with things like updates and reports are possibly working. There's also the issue of whether it's absolutely essential that they're in the ground for bounce games. Been critical of the club in the past for communications, but can't fault them over more recent times. It's improved so much. Think we need to be accept that things might not always be as smooth during these times. Same goes for streaming services. If it buffers, cuts out, doesn't work etc. initially, we just need to accept that nobody has been in this position before, everyone is doing their best, and stuff is likely to happen.

Incredible lack demonstration of lack of understanding of the game by the *** keyboard warrior. Experts agreed that at the goal McKenna passed the goa scorer on to Harry Arter (I think that was who it was) as he dropped back to fill the hole, but hey ho don't let the facts get in the way of your conspiracy theory. Reading Nottingham local press and fans forum, the fans seem to be delighted with McKenna's debut together with his central defensive partner and reckon thon boy you had on loan won't get back in the side in a hurry Newco still fixated with the Dons even after McKenna no longer plays for us

Who gave the team talk for this one? MJC?

Willie Clarke. Famously said, “there were only ever two people of good intention who went to Parliament; Willie Gallagher and Guy Fawkes”.

To be fair, Rangers are no longer a football team.

Driver has had a few too many the night before and has successfully bullshited his way out of being sacked IMO.

At the start of the outbreak every Bundesliga side in Germany created a fund to be put aside to ensure no small club went out of business. In Scotland we had clubs take each other to court because they didn't get what they wanted. We're basically fucked if our only way out is all clubs coming together.

The impression I get from this site is that you are usually on the red wine at 0700 in the morning

I would imagine the restrictions are aimed to keep things at that level. Bringing in the additional restrictions once we have 230 ICU patients would seem a little horse/stable door/ bolted.

Turned us down to sign for Talksport where he immediately took leave of his senses:

Don't think Mutch can play defensive mid. Just my opinion of course.

How much longer are Dundee United going to get away with being classed alongside the Edinburgh clubs and Aberdeen rather than the biggest "town" teams because they had a decent manager 35 years ago?

Falkirk must be the biggest myth in Scottish football. They ceased being relevant when we moved to smaller leagues in 1975. Just 11 seasons out of the last 47 in the top division and only once have they stayed up beyond a second season. Their finishes: 10, 10, 9, 11, 5, 10, 10, 7, 7, 10, 12. In fairness, they aren't alone in the irrelevancy stakes but they'll do for now. Dundee are the only team outside of the established 9 sides who are genuinely underachieving (but brought on by years of (almost literal) criminal mismanagement), the rest are just struggling to accept that they are yesterday's men.

Who the f**k, in the year of our lord 2020, is putting Falkirk in this list ?

I think the only fair way to do this is to pick the teams who have spent the most seasons in the league while I've been watching us - I got my first season ticket at Rugby Park in 1997, so in terms of top flight seasons since then we have: Killie (24) Aberdeen (24) Celtic (24) Motherwell (24) Hearts (22) Dundee United (20) Hibernian (20) Rangers (20) St Johnstone (17) Dundee (13) St Mirren (13) Inverness (12) That's what the science tells us, and who am I to argue.