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I'm just going overboard on sentiment after an enjoyable weekend football wise, hospitality at my local team Stirling Albion yesterday with cracking food and drink to go with a 4-0 win, Celtic win in stoppage time albeit after a ropey performance especially in the first half then home to see Liverpool, my favourite English team win the League cup with a 120th minute winner, also got a £300 coupon up yesterday so, now to finish the weekend in style with a Steak Pie supper

Doubt it seeing as he died about 30 years ago.

If you are a goal up in the closing minutes of a match, regardless of the opposition clubs at all levels of football will tend to hold on to possession and try and win corners/free kicks to run down the dying seconds of a match, doesn't matter about 'levels' or 'budgets' or gaps between the sides, if there is one goal between the teams you aren't going to go all out attack and risk the opponents turning over possession and possibly creating a chance, I've seen the likes of Real Madrid, Man City, Liverpool and other clubs do it on television, I've seen Celtic do it and have clubs do it when leading us, I've seen it happen at games I've attended watching Stirling Albion so, it's a bit of a petty barb as I'm sure your own side have done it countless times against sides you would expect to beat comfortably but are only one goal ahead going into stoppage time.

I said I'll not be paying for headphones.

Rush and Dalglish at Liverpool Gray and Sharp at Everton Sutton and Larsson at Celtic McCoist and Hateley at the **** Cole and Yorke at Man Utd Alan Brazil and Paul Mariner at Ipswich McAvennie and Cottee at West Ham Sutton and Shearer at Blackburn Kevin Phillips and Niall Quinn at Sunderland Davie dodds and Paul Sturrock at Dundee United Eric Black and Frank McDougall/Mark McGhee at Aberdeen Gary Shaw and Peter Withe at Aston Villa Gary Lineker and Peter Beardsley at England Charlie Nicholas and George McCluskey/Frank McGarvèy at Celtic Some of the great old school strike partnerships I remember growing up.

From a Celtic perspective, probably the biggest 'cult hero' in my 47 years on the planet was, in all honesty a guy who never even played for the club, I'd imagine he is equally as revered by Hibernian supporters of a similar age.

I remember Ian Cashmore playing for Stirling Albion, probably something like 15 years ago and he was woefully inadequate at that level trust me.

Cool story bro.

People who put ketchup on baked beans should be executed.

WHY DONT YOU.... WHY DON'T YOU.... Only posters of my age and above will get this joke in fairness.

American Football is an even shitter version of Rugby which, itself is absolutely shit so bizarre and depressing in equal measure the amount of gimps on my timeline posting about staying up till 5am to watch that absolute pish. Twenty meat headed roid filled dolts in shoulder pads and crash helmets all clatter into one another while some guy throws a rugby ball for another guy to catch, ten seconds of play followed by a twenty minute stoppage till the restart so morbidly obese red necks in the stand called Randy and Dwayne can stuff another four hot dogs and supersize Dr Pepper down their throat and on television we have several minutes of adverts from our partners, Microsoft, Pepsi, Disney land and Chucks Gun Store in Oklohoma. Like all sports that American folk love it has umpteen stoppages in play for adverts and buying merchandise making it completely unwatchable, folk from this island who, by rights should shun this utter freakshow suddenly taking an interest in it for one night only for social media kudos should frankly be choked to death by being force fed cheeseburgers till their windpipe is solidly compacted. c***s from Tullibody, Stonehaven, Erskine and Falkirk getting a case of Budweiser and a tub of Pretzels in to stay up to watch the Detroit Motherfuckers against the New Orleans High School Gun Spree Killers

Most dealers tend to have a tidy ho in the passenger seat of their ride.

It's not necessary by law, in fact by law you don't have to get it serviced at all but, if you have boiler cover or a manufacturer warranty they won't carry out any repairs without evidence of a yearly service, whether it be in the form of a paper/digital service record or, the small service log record with the boiler manual. Off the record but boiler manufacturers in particular will look for any reason to invalidate a warranty and get out of a repair, the favourite of most them is if it hasn't been serviced yearly or, a lack of proof of a service, I'd also point out things like the cleaning of a condensate trap, flue gas analysis, gas rating of the boiler, gas tightness test and cleaning of the magnetic filter should be done yearly so if you don't have these things done you risk issues with the boiler down the line. The one exception to this is rental properties, whether local authorities, housing associations or private landlords, they must, by law have a yearly gas safety inspection and certification.

St Mirren may have lost the game, he has lost the plot but remember Celtic only got the one stand today so he and his team are the real winners here

Absolute fucking state of this. Nailed on this Absolute nutcase has booted his cat down the hall tonight and booted a door off its hinges.

I was at that game, a microcosm of a two week spell encapsulating how bizarre and unpredictable football can be, we pummelled St Mirren 7-0 at Celtic Park the week before this game, a double figures scoreline would not have been unfair given how equally good Celtic were to how bad St Mirren were. Cue seven days later and the same two sides met in what I think was only the buddies second game at the new ground and an absolutely abject performance by Celtic saw St Mirren deservedly go through 1-0, a blow we recovered from a week later to beat Rangers 2-0 in league cup final at Hampden

Great result that for Morton, thoroughly deserved, proper old style cup tie under the lights as a team from the league below gives the top flight side a bloody nose. Only slightly tempered for them by their ned of a manager, Dougie Imrie acting like the snarling faced ned he is.Full time after a real blood and guts cup upset live on the telly, you've knocked out a Premiership side and your manager, yes your manager's first reaction is to run to the away fans and give them the GIRFUY gestures, what a fucking fanny of a guy.

Paul McStay in said strip on this day in 1989, the 3-2 win in Cyprus where Richard Gough scored a winner in something like the 8th minute of added time in an era when a couple of minutes maximum was the norm.

Think that was the same match as when Christie had his eye socket broken, pretty sure Aberdeen finished that game with nine men.

Three away wins in the Derby this season, hoping the trend continues on Saturday. Do Alloa still have an issue with the wee fannies behind the Clackmannan Road end goal who rush out the exit gates early to confront away fans exiting past KFC ? Recall this being an issue at both games at The Recs in August and Recall hearing something unsavoury happened with these wee Danny Dyer wannabees at a game against Edinburgh recently?

First one is an horrendous challenge, could have been an extremely serious injury for Alistair Johnston, the Hibs booing him being carried off on a stretcher not knowing what day it is really is beyond stupid, reminds me of a similar challenge on Ryan Christie at a semi against Aberdeen about five years ago by, if memory serves me correctly Lewis Ferguson? No penalty as it was in the middle of the pitch but a red card and Christie genuinely looked like he'd done ten rounds in a UFC octagon. The second one, I was about four rows from the front slightly to the right of David Marshall's goal as I watched the play so Kyogo was right in my line of vision and seen him being cleared out by the Hibs player as soon as he got his shot away, I must have been one of the few people who shouted for a PK straight away, it's fractionally inside the box so the right call by VAR, a scenario like this is what it is for. Hibs fans and others losing their shit here as they just see Celtic getting two penalties including one in stoppage time without acknowledgement that, they are actually both penalties. The same outrage would be shared had it been Rangers and SFA/Old Firm bias reeled out, they are both pretty clear penalties end of the day and Hibs would be screaming for them themselves. I've only really seen the goal highlights on my phone briefly so genuinely haven't seen the Boyle incident other than from low down in the away stand at the other end of the pitch, I took it that having reviewed it on VAR and stuck with the original decision that it wasn't a penalty but, genuinely haven't seen it on TV yet so will hang fire till I see it back.

My hungover Sunday viewing of choice on Netflix the other day was 'Bull', a UK gangster flick with the guy who played Rod in the football factory coming back and wiping out the c***s who wronged him years earlier one by one, similar ethos to Dead Man's Shoes, ultra violence but a weak plot. The 'twist' at the end though I saw coming a mile off, worked out that was coming after about five minutes. Decent watch but not one I'd revisit time and again like the aforementioned classic DMS, the film this clearly wants to be. 6/10

Scotland home and away kit launch in 1987.

Sir Fergie of Govan rallying his side before extra time against Real Madrid in Gothenburg in 1983.

It was leaked around April time, I think during a Scotland squad for a friendly or something so,rather than have it splashed all over the tabloids Rangers announced it there and then, rather than hang around till the end of the season Jock Wallace walked immediately and I'm sure Alex Totten took charge for the remainder of the season.