Hampden Diehard

You're in the bottom league now. You are now officially a diddy outfit too.

Channels that have their logo on the screen. Why?? I heard some tosser explain that people want to know what channel they're watching. And again, why?

Worst ever QP season is over. Looking forward to Saturdays now.

Can of Diebels Altbier........Germany's finest. It tastes like what I think McEwan's Export used to taste like when I was wee. Plus, for some reason, dark chocolate Tunnock's Caramel wafers go brilliantly with dark beer. Sad for a Friday night, but there you go.

This Sunday at the Ferry in Glasgow....ska frenzy with the Skarsoles (dodgy name, but good band), Esperanza and Bombskare. Best £9 you'll ever spend. Great venue too.

At the checkout .......... "that's twenty pounds 30 pence, please", and the woman looks startled and only then proceeds to look for her purse, which is at the bottom of her bag. Did she think the stuff is free?

Boring compared to some of the crackers here, but QP's sub goalie on Saturday, Blair Lochhead, was on the teamsheets as Blair Blockhead.

Someone else for Scotland to struggle to beat. Sigh!

Feck me....guys getting stick for supporting a team. Glory hunters or not (and we're talking about Brora here, not Barca), when you're getting hee-haw fans in the door, you should be welcoming ANYONE extra who's willing to pay their admittance money. Speaking as someone whose team couldn't get more than about 800 fans, even in a huge catchment area like Glasgow, when we were doing really well, I'd love some glory hunters to come along.

Aye, Murray was quite embarrassing as was your number 4 who was at the same nonsense. Then again, if I had been given a hard time by a guy just out the amateur leagues, I'd have had a short fuse too! I'm assuming that this was a relatively strong Sons team. If it was, I'd be worried if I were a Sons fan. Half of the guys we had out last night have started about ten senior game between them.

Get the "Special Moves" CD that has the "Burning" DVD as well of them in concert in New York. "I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead" is out of this world when you can see it too. I saw the DVD "film" in the cinema; it does the rounds every so often. Blasted ma heid and well worth keeping your eyes peeled for it at places like the GFT in Glasgow.

The superbly-named Wale Quik-Ajet (who was indeed very quick) played a couple of games for Queen's Park and dotted around a few other sides, including the Accies....but he really wasn't that good other than his speed. I think that his folks were Nigerian and he spent some of his childhood there although he was born here.

The Troll Hunter Norwegian take on The Blair Witch Project, with mythical yeti-like beasts giving the film its name. I watched it in Norwegian and subtitles rather than the dubbed version. A college film crew follows round this rough n ready park ranger who hunts down the big beasties that move off isolated troll reserves. The effects are pretty good for what will be a low budget film. A wee bit tongue in cheek, but that only added to my enjoyment. Well worth tracking it down on dvd, and I'd give it 7/10.

One of the best films ever made. Futility of war, destruction of a generation etc etc. Watch it again. Plus "Charlie don't surf!" - classic!

Saw the French film "Polisse" last week, a fairly gritty look at the Paris cops who deal with abuse of kids. Having seen a few decent French cop films recently, I was struck at how physical they get with the bad guys. This film is no different. A wee bit uncomfortable at times, but definitely worth making the effort to see it. 7 out of 10. Watched "Chopper" tonight, the bio of the Oz maddie, Mark "Chopper" Read. Just as good as the first time I saw it. Played with an eye for a laugh, which broke up how effin crazy the guy was. 7 out of 10. Watch this, then team it up with the hilarious spoofs of him on YouTube. Chopper's weather report is hilarious.

The Traynor article is boak-inducing. Another anti-football authority rant that reminds us all of the days when Jim Farry was pilloried on a monthly basis by the same cut 'n' paste Traynor pile of pish. Basically he says that the fitba authorities should wave some magic wand and sort all this out, giving Rangers their rightful place back at the top of the pile. It's almost as if he's ignoring the legal process that's speeding faster than a locomotive. That's what will do for Rangers. It's all out of the hands of the SFA / SPL / SFL; no wonder no one at the top wants to comment. This thing is moving at an incredible pace, so what exactly can any high heidyin possible say that will hold any water?

What some Rangers fans have failed to see is that HMRC are taking this action because their club took a conscious deceision not to pay the tax and NI since Whyte took over. The RFC accountant chappie openly admitted that they didn't pay up, on Whyte's instruction. That's the problem. It's nothing to do with the BIG tax case which might, indeed, go either way. By the way, if RFC will be defending the big case on the basis of the EBT payments being "loans" (arf, arf!) and thus not (possibly) being subject to NI and / or tax, have Duff and Duffer listed all the lucky recipients as debtors to the club. And, if so, have they being taking steps to get the loans repaid? If not, just where is Rangers' defence? Wonder if Campbell Ogilvie reckons he'll have to repay his bung?

I'm astounded that, given the number of people who support Rangers, there isn't one of them willing to make a bid where they aren't (a) a loony tune, (b) someone with a legal impediment to him taking over the club, or (c ) trying to rip the guts out of it and line his pockets. Wee Fergus may have rode off into the sunset with his pockets bulging at the expense of the mug punters who bought shares, but at least he got rid of the mob who were killing Celtic and holding them back AND he laid the base for a relatively modern club.

Wonder if they had ice cream and jelly for afters?

I've never quite understood why anyone in the public eye sets themselves up for a public kicking on this Twitter p@sh. The whole idea of it, that you can abuse personalities at the end of an internet link, would tell me not to touch the thing with a barge pole if I was a celeb. I would take a wild stab at him having had some stick from Celtic fans due to him baling out on them (the cheek of him!), and he's stupidly dishing it back. He's 16 and all 16 year olds are fairly daft wee boys, in my experience. Someone should tell him to desist. Look how much trouble it's getting Neil Lennon into.

For a zillion different reasons, Rangers need to be in the SPL, both for themselves and for the rest of the SPL clubs. Hopefully the non-OF clubs manage to chisel out a deal that goes a wee bit more in their favour that the current one does (but which they were party to originally!). Remember that the SPL was set up to allow it to do its own thing, so if the other clubs want Rangers in, that's what'll happen and the rules (such as they may be) will be changed in order to make that happen. Don't expect any admirably moral decisions by the new owners; they (and the administrators) are looking to get the best possible financial deal. Morals don't come into it. If that means creditors getting screwed, that's what will happen. Rangers could come back as, (for example) Rangers 2012 or AFC Rangers and no one would ever refer to them as that. In a year or two, it'll all be forgotten and it'll be business as usual. It happened with Fiorentina and it's happened in plenty of cases down south.

Saw the Peatbog Faeries as part of the Celtic Connections festival. Good crowd at the ABC in Glasgow and an excellent night. Sorta traditional-Scottish-meets-funk and worth a listen if you've never heard them before.

Not half! Actually Primark's Italian silk is not what it was.

On the buses...............I don't want to hear yer bloody music, or your mobile phone calls, or your "dead funny" ring tones, or the wee bleeping noise every time you hit a letter as you text, get yer feet off the seats as I might have to sit there and my Italian silk suits stain easily, and i don't want to smell that kebab which is RANK and will give you the skitters. On the other hand......I get a perverse kick out of tossers who get caught with out-of-date season tickets. If I have to pay, so do you. Nurse, the screens please.