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12 hours ago, 54_and_counting said:
Nope i believe the 4 against my team weren't clear and obvious errors, and that we have been shafted in OF games this season (isnt that the answer im supposed to give)
Its hard to describe, everyone has a different opinion on C&OE but there's an argument that if a team concedes a goal or is denied a goal/penalty because the ref misses a foul then while its not 100% clear and obvious (all 3 decisions today for example) they are still reasons enough for VAR to get involved
If VAR wasn't used today and celtic never won and the goldson handball was spotted post match, would you sit back and say "ach well its a tough one to spot"
The real issue which sums up the corrupt ways of Scottish football is that we all know with certainty that had Rangers been playing at home against any Scottish team other than their sectarian Siamese twin they would not have had a penalty awarded against them or had a goal disallowed as happened yesterday. And of course the same applies to Celtic at Parkhead. Kick them both out of Scottish football and do it now , please.
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22 hours ago, Jacky1990 said:
What you on about?
Where have i said anywhere about battering opposition fans, or doing anything moronic for that matter?
I just think football loses a key part of the fan experience if you have mixed seating.
What part would you miss most ? ? The foul abuse ? The undertow of tribal hatred ? The whole idea that you can't watch and enjoy a game of football if you're seated in the vicinity of someone who may want another team to win is the very definition of 'moronic' in my opinion.
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10 hours ago, Stevie Kirk said:
I know this is off topic but does anyone know why the home town of the match officials is publicised? I don’t mean just on this programme I mean in general.
Made it easier for Old Firm fans to smash their windows ?
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18 hours ago, Jacky1990 said:
Cant think of anything worse than going to the football and being stuck amongst a bunch of opposition fans.
Leave that "just here for a good day out" shite to the rugby bores IMO.
Oh God aye, we don't want any of that poncy behaving like civilised human beings while sitting watching sport when we could be battering shite out of each other because his scarf's a different colour than mine..........And then we have people on these forums wondering in all seriousness why you can have a drink at the rugby but not the football ?
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1 hour ago, Girth said:
Lets hope the game of football is the real winner.
All fans holding hands and hugging etc.
Sadly the game of football in Scotland will only win when these two vile clubs cease to exist
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30 minutes ago, VincentGuerin said:
What you're proposing is worse.
You want me to give up two derbies a season, two games against Aberdeen a season, and games against the OF, to replace them with pretty much forever fixtures against Thistle, Raith etc.
Can you not see why I wouldn't want to do that?
This way we get big games, we get a competitive league (in its own way), we get a bit of a churn in teams, and we rarely get a team that's laughably bad.
Your idea is worse.
The Scottish top flight is not competitive..... indeed it scarcely qualifies as 'a competition' considering only one entity can ever win it. The idea that something/anything can 'be worse' than the tedious, predictable, repetitive, low quality product we have at the moment is a strange one.
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Would be far more interesting if the league split after five games instead of with five games remaining. Otherwise it's a nonsense that says we're happy with crumbs from the Old Firm table and the fact that two clubs are vastly richer than the rest combined. Kick out the Old Firm, scrap the split and have two divisions playing each other twice.
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On 31/03/2024 at 17:05, welshbairn said:
He's been a property developer in San Diego for most of the last 25 years.
I was quite impressed with San Diego when I went there, rather less so on hearing that.
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Andy Murray obviously. Why is it even a question. ?
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4 hours ago, PSJ.84 said:
What a bizarre thing to say. Did you watch the 1928 team to be able to compare them?
You clearly don't know the meaning of the word 'bizarre'. I didn't watch the Hungary 1953 team of Puskas etc but I'll bet my house on that team being better than the current Hungary . Do you also find that assertion 'bizarre'. ? I also didn't see the Airdrie team that won the Scottish Cup in 1924 but will state, like the bizarre fool I am, that they were a better team than the Airdrie of today.
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7 minutes ago, craigkillie said:
It would make them miles better than teams whose achievement was winning a single game at Wembley.It may make this team statistically more successful but it would not make them player for player a better team. No one would seriously make that claim, certainly compared to the 1928 team. Shankland, Dykes, Adams or Hughie Gallacher ? McTominey or Alex James ? Ryan Christie or Alan Morton ? Aye, right !!!
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10 hours ago, VictorOnopko said:
I think we'll do well this summer and I'm not panicking like a lot of folk on here are. We qualified in style and need things to click again at the right time. My point is, we're at the finals. We waited 20 years to qualify for anything and Clarke has got us to two Euros in a row. If we get out of the group that'll make this the best Scotland team ever, and I still think we can do it. Not a loser or defeatist attitude, quite the opposite.
Indeed...insanely optimistic, cheerfully deluded, and if you think that wriggling out of the group (which we won't do anyway) would make this Scotland team better than the 1928 Wembley Wizards or the 67 or 77 Scotland teams then that's an opinion alright..
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10 hours ago, Highlandmagar said:
Even if we weren'ton this bad run, expecting to get out of the group we are in is a big ask. We,are the weakest in the group.
On the basis of the last few performances we are the weakest in the tournament, by a distance.
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5 minutes ago, VictorOnopko said:
Clarke is a great manager but he has a stubborn streak.
Or a stubborn manager who has a great streak which has sadly now come to an end ?
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2 hours ago, Burattino Di Calzini said:
It's only a friendly, and while it feels like the ideal opportunity to try something different, given our recent form we really need to win I think.
The time to try something different is not three games and three months away from the biggest occasion in Scottish international history since the '98 World Cup.
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17 hours ago, Flybhoy said:
Another testimonial, from 1980 and no introduction needed for these three legends before Danny's match against Liverpool.
Brian McGinley, three boyhood Rangers fans and a stout yeoman of a linesman ?
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Stop employing thick, semi-literate ex-professional footballers to do the work of journalists.
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22 hours ago, velo army said:
I don't agree. Celtic are disagreeable for their victim mentality, mawkish and vomit-inducing sentimentality and their sheer hypocrisy. I don't buy that Celtic fans are bigots. They love their Irish roots and can, at times (imo) over identify with those (see the aforementioned victim addiction). They don't tend towards anything recognisable as bigotry though.
Rangers are the classic panto villain with little to no redeeming features. A raison d'etre which depends on hatred of catholics and an ardent British nationalism combined with all the things that make me dislike Celtic (the victim mentality, but whose mawkish sentimentality always felt to have more bellicose undertones).
Perhaps I'm biased as the entirety of my mum's side are Irish catholic and all my school pals growing up were Celtic supporters, but I just think it's too simple to say that they're as bad as each other.
Founding, establishing and supporting a football club which is based on propagating and promoting the tribal division between 'religious creeds' in the name of tradition is a vile thing. They ARE both as bad as each other.
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3 minutes ago, scottsdad said:
Every day is a school day here.
Tell us more about how Islamism is/isn't a religion and ethnicity.
In the same way Christianity is a religion and not an ethnicity parhaps ?
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12 minutes ago, Jives Miguel said:
Neil Lennon done a pretty good job at Hibs, and was mostly good at Celtic barring the last season or so. I don't think he's anywhere near as bad a manager as the derision he gets on here/social media suggests.
The problem with Lennon as a manager in Scotland is that he's too associated with the Celtic/Green Brigade/Kerrydale St lunatic fringe. He seriously believes there is a conspiracy against Celtic and insists their fans are the 'best in the world'. Aberdeen would be better off picking the team by selection committee and letting the team coach itself than going anywhere near Neil Lennon. That said it would be a preferable appointment than John Hughes.
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44 minutes ago, Bogbrush1903 said:
All you are saying, is give him a chance
Help ! They need somebody. Help ! Could be anybody. Help !!!
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19 hours ago, HibeeJibee said:
It was taken down in 1985 when front was covered. So it only lasted 35yrs.
On paper it wasn't a wise investment: after 65,840 for the New Year derby in 1950 there were just 13 more occasions competitive Hibs attendances exceeded 45k... 7 versus Hearts, OF, Aberdeen and East Fife (league decider) from 1951 to 1954; the New Year derbies in 1956, 1958 and 1960; Scottish Cup QFs v Rangers in 1965 and 1973; plus a league game v Celtic in 1974... and 7 of those 13 were only in higher 40s. Even the European Cup SF didn't surpass it nor the Fairs Cup QF v Barcelona.
Hopes of staging regular high profile cup-ties and internationals never materialised. During the 35yrs in question ER had 1x Scotland B v England B (16k); 1x Scotland v Scotland B (7k); 1x Scotland v Scottish League (45k); 1x U23 international (32k v Netherlands) and 4x U21 (all modest); 4x Scottish Cup SFs/replays (23k, 33k, 27k, 58k for Hearts v Raith in 1956); probably also a few League Cup SFs/replays.
However as capacities began to be restricted - especially after the Ibrox disaster and Safety at Sport Grounds Act - it did allow capacity to stay higher than otherwise. Although that was hardly needed from mid-1970s as general crowds further contracted, the club failed to qualify for Europe and slipped down the league (briefly into the First Division!).
Still... a monument to optimism.
Think the keeper in the first of those pics is Ronnie Simpson in his Newcastle Utd days.
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Just now, Greenlantern said:
If you’re seeking proof of an inferiority complex, look no further than a Rangers club statement.
Indeed.....! Exactly like Celtic. They didn't acquire the 'Old Firm' tag by accident. Without each other they would die.
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1 hour ago, tamba_trio said:
I think I'm still mentally scarred by Italia 90.
It was my first World Cup.
We should've beaten Costa Rica, despite the line up. Mo Johnston missed a bit of a sitter (having been excellent in qualifying, he developed a new technique of Smash-the-ball-straight-at-the-goalie). Big Rambo missed a pretty easy header and there was a blatant hand ball right in front of me that I'm still bitter about.
Then we had Leighton's fumblitist against Brazil and Johnston perfecting his Smash-the-ball-straight-at-the-goalie routine with the last kick of the ball.
With regards to the results going against us: Ireland's equaliser might have been the worst goal of all time. I mean, we're missing utter sitters v Brazil whilst Ireland are getting goals like this crap:
You forget just how dull that Ireland team under 'Big Jack' was..
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A Photographic History Of Scottish Football
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
Posted · Edited by kennie makevin
The term 'Old Firm' will die when we no longer have two secterian football clubs in Glasgow whose business model is predicated on carving up Scottish football for their own financial benefit. Sadly that's not happening anytime soon.