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You might be joking but I would genuinely put some effort into trying this. Sportsound is an absolute rabble and if a few enthusiastic Scottish football fans got together I am quite confident that they could come up with a show similar to Open All Mics that was more professional and even handed than anything we’ve been subjected to over the past 5 years or so. Back in the 90s you could tune into pirate radio stations from some guys bedroom, so surely it can’t be too much trouble to broadcast in this digital age. Im usually at a game on a Saturday so only listen before and after, but the times where I’ve happened to be in the car at 3pm hoping to hear updates from across the leagues, I’m left listening to guys shouting ‘Gooooaaaalllll’, then describing the action for the next minute without actually saying who has scored. I know that’s a common complaint but It really is basic stuff. Then you get the constant bickering between the pundits, usually on the topic of some inane incident that happened 3 weeks ago, or you get Miller droning on refusing to give accurate updates if Aberdeen aren’t playing well, or Stewart taking a stance that everyone else disagrees with then having to listen to him beatIng that opinion to death over the course of the show. It’s like the sort of thing high school students would put together in 5th year, only it’s our national broadcaster and we are literally paying for it.

Well myself and the other guy shared a laugh about so that will do me.

Username is 16 years old, I frequented Parkhead as a child hence the name but started going to St Mirren games with a couple of work colleagues and enjoyed the experience much more, and have followed them home and away for over 10 years. If I could change the name I would.

‘No offence Lynn’ ‘Oh none taken’ ‘You don’t know what I’m going to say. Wait until I’ve said what I’m going to say before you decide not to take offence… No offence Lynn, but your life is technically not worth insuring’.

Walking out the stadium moments after Watson had scored Killies 5th a guy infront of me said to his pal ’I’ve had some shite days supporting St Mirren but that’s got to be the shitiest’, I said ‘We’re you not at Hampden to watch us get beat off 9 man Rangers?’, and he started laughing and said ‘Second shitiest day then’. Always good to have a sense of perspective.

The appraisal scene is one of the best bits of UK comedy television ever, could watch it every day and not get tired of it. Sad to hear of his passing at such a relatively young age.

Always the same.

Been rewatching Peep Show after giving myself a couple of years break and it’s still extremely high level comedy. When Jez and Hans are gifted the pub and Jez turns and says ‘I'm just really not happy with the name "Free the Paedos". Will never not be funny.

That was the sort of goal you usually see during an under 16s game on a Saturday morning.

Yeah you’re right, for some reason I was certain South Africa had won their opening game, but I’ve just went and looked and they drew 1-1 with Mexico.

Playing in the opening game will be class, there’s been some brilliant opening games between World Cups and Euros over the years, and a few shock results too. Senegal beating France in the opening game of the 2002 World Cup I think, and did South Africa cause an upset the year they hosted it? Can still remember running home from school in 1998 when Scotland v Brazil was the opening game, think I was in Primary 4 at the time, and being naive enough to think we had a chance at winning. That Brazil team was iconic; Taffarel, Roberto Carlos, Cafu, Rivaldo, Dunga and R9, up against Tom Boyd and Colin Calderwood Mental that was 25 years ago.

I started a new job a few weeks ago and the first couple of days were spent doing an online induction on Microsoft Teams. It was pretty standard stuff, but at one point the guy taking the course said ‘if you receive good customer service, you’ll tell 3 people… but if you receive bad customer service, you’ll tell 9’ and I went…

Wasn’t getting at the St Johnstone fans who turned up, fair play to every one of them that made the trip to Paisley after the start they’ve had this season. Good to see that St Mirren now have a core support of around 5000 fans that are going to turn up week in week out though. I remember going to some of the games in the Championship under Ian Murray and you were lucky if there was 3000 there for a 3pm kick off on a Saturday.

Mad that we are over a year into the VAR era and you've still got pundits perplexed ‘because VAR didn’t check it’. From everything we have been shown of the inner workings of VAR, everything is checked by the VAR team, and only when the guys at Clydesdale House decide that an incident requires either more time to analyse it, or for the referee to review it at the pitch side monitor, will the fans in the stadium become aware that a check is in progress. To be fair it’s not just Scottish pundits that can’t get their head round this, I’ve heard pundits on Sky say stuff like ‘why is that not going to VAR?’ etc. If a decision isn’t clear cut then I don’t even mind that the game moves on quickly, it’s one of the annoyances I have with the Scottish VAR system that you will be sitting at a game watching Nick Walsh put his hand to his ear for a minute or so, only to wave the game on as the fans in the stadium are oblivious to what they were checking. It feels like the officials in Scotland have strayed too far from the ‘clear and obvious’ criteria which is supposed to be used in order to overturn an onfield decision, instead we have referees on the pitch who are happy not to award penalties/red cards knowing that VAR will step in if they have made an arse of it.

Was unfortunate enough to endure Peter Grant’s co-commentary on the Celtic St Mirren game during the week, and he made Pat Bonner sound like Derek Rae. He genuinely burst into a tirade which began ‘did Rangers not get a penalty for that exact thing at the weekend?’ As if every decision between the OF needs balanced out, because it’s not like the other 10 teams in the league don’t see horrific decisions going against them on an almost weekly basis. Is every single person associated with Celtic programmed to find any angle that can paint them as the victim? Hartson, Sutton, Boyd, Bonner et al all do the same, a team that has literally won 12 domestic trophies in a row in recent history, genuinely believe there is a refereeing conspiracy against them. I thought Tom Boyd was the biggest simpleton that Celtic TV could muster up, but unbelievably Grant was nearly as bad. The fact he’s still making a living from football is worrying, although after his recent stint at Dunfermline I think Celtic TV is as good as it gets for him.