VincentGuerin

It might be lost on you, but it's not lost on the wider population. I love Scottish football. I watch a lot of it. But I also understand that it's a niche interest. In the UK, hardly any c**t fucking cares about Scottish football. Expecting it to be front and centre in UK-wide news broadcasts is wild.

Do you expect coverage of national English fitba to be on regional channels? Fair play to you.

Are you saying the quality in England is not much better? Do you want a minute to think about that?

That kind of thing is just an issue with default channels and opt-ins and opt-outs for regions. It's not a grand conspiracy. Say what you like, but a lot of viewers in Scotland like having access to the FA Cup. No c**t in England is arsed about seeing Falkirk v Queen of the South, but plenty of viewers in Scotland will watch Stockport v Tranmere if they put it on as an FA Cup first round game. That's just the way it is. We're not a consideration for them. We're the same as Welsh football.

That's the thing, though. It's not really a national channel. BBC Scotland is for our stuff. I'm amazed a lot of people still don't get this. They don't report Welsh Cup results either. The general population make no distinction.

He didn't join in. Just like the rest of them.

"Well, actually"

This is definitely the case. Our 2012 semi against Celtic was one nobody thought we'd win. We took 12,000, and there were folk trying to give away tickets in the run up etc. A fucking amazing day at the fitba, and I think it was better for just having that smaller support there. Hard to think of a more intense goal celebration than that day. Almost up there with routing the tramps in the final with a full house as an experience.

Aye, but teams that get reported on on Five Live or BBC Breakfast aren't playing in regional competitions. They're playing in English national competitions, so it makes English news. BBC Scotland reports on the Scottish stuff. It's of absolutely no interest to the vast majority of Five Live's audience. Scottish people living in England have access to BBC Scotland. It cannot be expressed enough that Scottish football is not of interest to a general UK audience.

That Coventry decision is a genuine travesty. Nobody who loves football can want that.

Soldier, Spy.

Important to remember that it's a small minority and that loads of Rangers fans are decent folk who would never join in with that stuff and hope to see it stamped out. They really do. . Definitely.

Don't feel too bad about that one, to be honest. In the League Cup semi we lacked any kind of plan and were just pushed aside. That was different today. Rangers didn't really bother us a lot more than we bothered them, and Ifelt there was a clear plan for how Hearts were going to explot them in the wide areas. But when we got into good positions there was a lot of poor decision-making in terms of final pass, and basic errors like poor first touch. To win games like that you need to execute your opportunities, and Hearts failed to do that. But I think we were in the game until the second goal and it was a decent enough punt at it. You're always second favouritesagainst the OF, and you need things to go right. Ultimately, we lost two unbelievably cheap goals in a game where we were rarely troubled apart from that. But you need to do more when you get into good positions, and that's what cost us. Could have been worse. It's been a good season and we just need to go and see out third now.

Not getting dragged into ref chat, and I'm just going out. But, even in games with no VAR, it's not unusual to see a ref let a foul go to see how play develops then stop the game when it becomes obvious the fouled-against team are at a disadvantage. Anyone who watches football has seen this. Anyway. f**k the ****, I'm off.

Not sure why you think anyone would or should be interested. We've got BBC Scotland for our stuff. Nobody down south gives a f**k about the Scottish Cup, and very few people could even tell you who is playing in the semis. No point pretending it's news.

No. We've never beaten them at Hampden. We beat them in the Scottish Cup final in 1998, but that was at Parkhead. A very poor record. Got to change sometime.

Celtic: The USSR of football. Can't think of anyone winning a cup beating them both at Hampden. Somebody on here will know if it's happened.

Yeah, off out in an hour or so. No idea whether I should be feeling confident or now. It'll be a good day out regardless.

Had that on DVD when I was younger. nightmare when my parents found it.

I've used buses and trains to get around the UK. On a coach I can take a bigger bag than Ryanair, and it's generally included in the price. On a train I can take any size of bag I fancy for absolutely f**k all. I'll generally be treated with respect by the staff in both of those scenarios too. Ryanair are miles worse than either of those options in the UK. If it's a choice between Ryanair or the train between the south of England and Scotland, it's an absolute no-brainer. Train every time. Bus takes too long, obviously.

Massive hurdle in the way to get there, but their defence yesterday is one I'd fancy playing in a cup final. Looked so vulnerable to the cross ball, and were awfully square quite often when Aberdeen were in possession in the middle of the park. Hoilett's cameo looked like it might go down in Scottish fitba folklore. Was only half-joking when I posted on here that I expected Aberdeen to win and Hearts to get scudded. It had the feel of a Big Cup Story about it.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/20/landlord-of-child-free-pub-defends-exclusion-policy

3-3, two last-minute equalisers, a penalty shoot-out, a keeper missing the penalty to win it before saving one to win it. And we've got 100 pages on a penalty decision that didn't impact the outcome of the game. f**k me. Anyway, time to crack the first can of the day. Hope Hearts make as much of a game of it today.

Bottom Six and Out the Cup Thread for this pish.

Aberdeen have been a good big game team all season, so not shocked they made a good fist of it today. I actually wouldn't have bet against them in the final against anyone left.