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1 hour ago, StewGer said:
Aye I just got Brighton as well
Just got Madrid as well
Had to go Club Deck 7. Nothing else was working.
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12 minutes ago, scottyscott1963 said:
Saturday morning around 1960 and we're playing st catherines,our keeper doesn't turn up and i pick the short straw.
Got beat 5 nil and my goalie career was over,and looks like i was better than him.
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4 hours ago, Hadron Collider said:Barkas man, wae they wee arms who ties his boot laces?
He is like the guy at 5's that doesn't want to take a turn in goals.
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Should have said this in the first place.
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42 minutes ago, simplythebest said:
Do we think getting one of the friendlies might affect the ballot for flag day or will that get treated separately since it’s a season ticket game?
Straight draw for Livi. So a better than 1 in 3 chance of getting a ticket.
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14 minutes ago, The Dude said:
9000 for celtic v Midtjylland
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5 minutes ago, Ladytonbear said:
Think you might be doing it wrong if that is where you get the pain….
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25 minutes ago, j1mgg said:
This is the bit i didn't understand, it is relying on a lot of honesty.
Aye I'm not sure how well it will work to be honest, especially with larger crowds. I'll pick one up at Boots after work today and gie it a shot
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8 hours ago, bluenoz said:
He has completely lost the plot.
https://www.thenational.scot/politics/19446560.james-dornan-time-finally-deal-bigotry-scotland/
When you get your photo taken with IRA flags behind you on a regular basis I'm afraid your opinion on this subject means nothing to me Mr Dornan.
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Got a ticket, happy days. Lateral flow test is a bit of a pain in the arse, but I'll be delighted to be back.
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10 hours ago, Inigo said:Right on the money, this. From an unexpected source.
Brian Wilson, celtic director....
IT may be unfashionable to point out but football can create really joyous occasions. Take last Saturday’s FA Cup Final at Wembley with 21,500 people in the stadium, an intimation that normality is again conceivable.
There was an emotional quality to the singing of Abide With Me, dedicated to victims of the pandemic. “When other helpers fail and comforts flee; Help of the helpless, oh, abide with me”. Old words with special meaning as people came together after so long, in this way.
Then there was the game itself, turning on two acts of beauty – the goal from Youri Tielemans which won it and the save from Kasper Schmeichel that thwarted Chelsea. So Leicester, one of our cities hardest hit by the pandemic, had its morale lifted to the heavens.
The occasion was possible through a balanced approach to risk. Putting 21,500 people into Wembley’s open air must carry a scintilla of risk. But keeping them out and playing this special game behind closed doors would surely have done far more harm than good.
In Scotland, such thinking is taboo. Even before the latest Glasgow shutdown, there were to be just 600 supporters inside Hampden for the Scottish Cup Final. Now the vast terraces will be empty. To what good effect or elimination of risk, I wonder?
Last Friday I was in Glasgow Airport, a place of eerie silence these days but suddenly raucous sound announced the arrival of a flight from Belfast which disgorged a platoon of Rangers tops, clearly here for a party. I should make clear the colour of tops is irrelevant to the thrust of my argument.
If anyone had doubts, this confirmed that the following day’s celebrations were going to be a big event attracting supporters from far and near. Given that entry to Ibrox stadium was precluded, the logic pointed to a big event somewhere else – ie the streets, bridges and squares of Glasgow. Who had decided that this was a good – or at least, less bad – idea?
It seemed basic common sense – which would have applied equally regardless of which club had something to celebrate – that the thousands congregating in Glasgow should be allowed to do so in their preferred environment, their own stadium. The choice was not between whether or not people would congregate; only where.
I have still to hear any rational explanation of why it was thought preferable for this to happen in the aforementioned streets, bridges and squares where, as soon transpired, absolutely no rules would apply, than within the confines of a stadium where they all wanted to be and within which some degree of regulation would have been possible.
Then, while I was waiting for my flight, a friend in the hospitality industry phoned in despair to tell me about the latest disaster – the decision not to move Glasgow down to level 2. At this point, the contrast between what everyone knew was going to happen the following day and the latest extension of Glasgow’s lockdown moved from being merely irrational to grotesque.
I have never quite understood why it is forbidden to have a glass of wine with a meal within permitted hours. However, the idea this would continue to be banned in Glasgow on public health grounds while the same politicians and experts had put exclusion from a football stadium before all the blatantly obvious risks inherent in the alternative now appeared incomprehensible and irresponsible.
Yet who does one turn to for an explanation? Who can the beleaguered hospitality industry ask for the right of appeal, based on reason? In what respect is the public health advice in England different to that in Scotland? There are so many questions and after more than a year of this, so few detailed, satisfactory answers.
The decision makers hide behind the mantra that anyone who challenges their edicts is less interested than themselves in public health or protecting the community. That has never been true and should have been called out long before now. The longer this goes on, the more urgent the need for scrutiny.
Keeping Glasgow closed is a blunt instrument which fails to recognise vast differences within its boundaries. Concentrating on postcode areas seems more sensible than relying on boundaries which were drawn in the 1990s for entirely different reasons – primarily to keep more prosperous areas out of Glasgow.
The idea that people are not going to travel from Glasgow for a meal in Bearsden or Kilmacolm does not accord with reality. So the major impact of this blanket ban within the confines of the city is not to limit the spread of the virus but to put another nail in the coffins of good, responsible businesses that are struggling to survive.
If the politicians believe their own rhetoric, why did they not act last Friday to limit the public health damage from the Rangers party? Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf could have made a recording of his pious strictures to be released around 6pm. and then taken the rest of Saturday off. What did he expect in George Square? Community singing of Abide with Me?
Ditto the First Minister who should surely have seen the need for containment within her own constituency? The lesson is that while it is easy to ban things it is within your authority to ban, a greater talent is required for seeing a bigger picture – and that is what they made a complete mess of last weekend.An articulate man of clear intelligence. Something sadly lacking in most Governments.
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4 minutes ago, KingKirk said:
Like the fact u asked the wife wtf was happening mate 😂😂😂😂
To be fair, outside went on fire and I'm pretty drunk
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1 minute ago, Lilac 3rd Kit said:
Pans? That’s disgusting.
People?
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Outside my flat. A big red flash, I shat myself and then realised what was happening
Absolutely brilliant.
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A tidy finish and a nice weight of pass for the assist.
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11 hours ago, G13 said:Lights out for Rod Stewart, Graham Spiers, Angela Haggerty, Michael Stewart, Golum and that wee fanny on sportscene that screams 'champions' when the scum are playing, just for starters.
I'm looking forward to him calling us Champions 27 times in a 6 minute highlight reel every week. I'm sure he will.
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3 hours ago, STEPPS BOY said:
Sounds like she wasn’t too happy at you renewing pal.
Her face when I asked how she was paying for it was fun.
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Renewed mine, then promptly go a 900 quid bill for some work the wife is having done around the home
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3 minutes ago, mitre_mouldmaster said:
Main thing for me is transfers and tactics. Touch has exactly the right balance without bogging you down.
I even like the simulate match feature where you can basically just click a button and it will auto complete the match in a couple of seconds. Great for the end of the season when you have won the league with a few weeks to spare.
Aye I like that they have different versions to suit everyone. I might give Touch a try this year and see how it goes.
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11 hours ago, mitre_mouldmaster said:
Who plays full fat FM?
I bought it this year, but ditched it as soon as FM Touch came out. Touch is far more like the classic champ manager with most of the annoying press conference shite cut out.
By the way, get Thiago Almada I think his name is. Plays for Velez.
I've always played the full fat version. I like to have control of all the little things, press conferences are a pain in the arse though so I delegate them to Gary Mac and he does a fine enough job.
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On 18/12/2020 at 18:26, aird said:
Won the double with Rangers. League and League Cup.
League was an absolute breeze. Drew with Aberdeen on the last day and failed to make 101 points. At least I scored a few goals
Shame half my team is wanted now. PSG are interested in Goldson
Same 1st eleven and shape as me. I only drew 3 league games and lost 1 though
Same issues with all the massive clubs wanting to buy the whole team but
Had to go Club Deck 7. Nothing else was working.
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A lot of time and investment for something hardly anyone will play.