Harcus

Oot. Weeding.

Oot. Weeping.

Might I suggest you could look for an alternative, perhaps Liverpool themed, forum to satisfy this apparently insatiable desire to talk about the finer points of each Liverpool game Tyrant?

It would be if said by someone connected to Liverpool. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZyVZFJGX5g&feature=related

What players were ineligible for the Huns?

Anyone that had two contracts as I understand it?

Not sure if in/out.

#cupcleaver

Do they not already have form form this? Airdrieonians? I may be wrong but was there not some hunduggery that ultimately led to Airdrieonians going to the wall. I may be wrong.

Rangers Chairman David Murray dealt a decisive blow for Airdrieonians in 2002 when he demanded money owed to him by the club and was unsympathetic towards their cause.

 

Murray was quoted as saying: “I apologise to Airdrie’s supporters but something had to be done about this debt. Business is business and Carnegie Sports also have wages to pay,” bluntly refusing to help the debt-stricken club.

As far as I'm aware, we're stuck in the never-ending misery of the 2010 championship?

Pinched from Kelt.

I don't think this will be much consolation to those not going to USA-Scotland.

Why the fuck did I read that? I didn't get passed the first paragraph mind you.

Ah well, it may not have made sense then. You should have asked to be passed the first paragraph as well.

I was at Harcus' flat drinking beer and then pumped him at darts after the game.

Ah the heady days of Setanta.

Don't really think any of us can get too upset about the outcome.

You're too late. I've just smashed up the office and fired the secretary over Andy not winning this most prestigious of awards.

Football/Pub tonight

Acting as quizmaster tomorrow night, pub quiz.

To be fair, the Carluke Gazette is the only source I trust for my AFC news.

Monkey gets a point for Shriver

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargent_Shriver

Ok murder may not been the correct work, possibly genocide?

It was for Peter Sutcliffe.

Anyway, I'll bow to Tyrant's knowledge on this one, he is a Liverpool fan. 

Grayson gone at Leeds.

If several newspapers ran a story about a fan supporting the same football team as the Fiver being pictured directing what appeared to be monkey chants at a player on the opposition team, we're fairly confident we'd agree that directing what appear to be monkey chants at a black player on a rival team is a disgraceful thing that should not be tolerated in polite society. What we're fairly confident we wouldn't do is wedge a tinfoil hat over our ears, tape Polythene over the windows and take to the internet to bleat about outrageous media bias against our team, because the story in question made no mention of tasteless chants from rival fans, in which they mocked the victims of a horrible tragedy.

 

Drawing attention to the appalling behaviour of rival fans in a bid to deflect it away from the appalling behaviour of your own has long been a staple tactic of football supporters everywhere, but this season such sanctimonious yeah-but-what-about-ery seems to have plateaued into an art form. Where once the "their sectarian songs are more sectarian than our sectarian songs" defence so beloved of certain Queen's Celtic and Pope's O'Rangers fans has long been pathetic in a comical way, the shrill and sanctimonious yeah-but-what-about-ery line being peddled by certain Liverpool fans has become tedious, bordering on depressing.

 

Yes, yes ... we all know certain Manchester United fans sing tasteless songs about Hillsborough, just as we all know certain Liverpool fans sing equally tasteless songs about Munich, but quite what this has to do with a football fan directing what appear to be monkey chants at a black football player continues to baffle your admittedly simple Fiver. Hopefully it'll turn out to have been a big misunderstanding and the bloke in question just had really itchy armpits.

It is hard to imagine that the expected vitriol raining down on the 30-year-old from the stands at Anfield on Saturday will prove remotely as painful. Indeed, those Liverpool fans who cannot forgive the defender for accusing Luis Suárez of racial abuse and maintain, disingenuously, that the case represents a cynical playing of "the race card" are possibly also unaware that, on two previous occasions, Evra declined to support allegations he had been racially abused.

 

During another game against Liverpool, in 2006, two deaf fans, both lip-readers, complained to the police that Evra had been racially insulted by Steve Finnan, Liverpool's right-back. With Evra declining to become involved in the matter and Finnan vehemently denying such suggestions, video evidence eventually cleared the Republic of Ireland international.

 

Then, in April 2008, the so-called Battle of the Bridge erupted. This time Evra came to blows with Sam Bethell, Chelsea's head groundsman, as he warmed down after a match at Stamford Bridge. Two members of United's coaching staff, Mike Phelan and Richard Hartis, alleged that the player had been racially abused, but Bethell successfully rebutted their claims. Once again distancing himself from the furore, Evra declined to cite racist provocation as his defence and ended up being banned for four games and fined £15,000.

Couple of things from the Guardian I found interesting recently.

I was, he's our midfield iron man.

I was always thought he would sign, it was a case of never say die.

Maybe his ambitions dwarf the clubs'.

FFS, apparently not.

A former Conservative minister has said Orkney and Shetland should have the right to remain part of the UK if Scotland votes for independence.

 

The Earl of Caithness has tabled amendments to the Scotland Bill, which gives further powers to Holyrood.

 

He said a referendum vote favouring independence should not be binding on the Northern Isles, unless the majority of islanders voted "yes".

 

The Scotland Bill is due to be discussed in the Lords later this week.

 

The Tory peer's proposed changes to the bill are among a number of newly-published amendments.

 

The earl said a "yes" vote in a Scottish referendum should be followed by a referendum held throughout the UK, a proposal he sets out in an insert to the bill that the peer has labelled subsection (2B).

 

In his amendment, he said: "A vote in a referendum held under subsection (2B) of this section which results in Scotland leaving the United Kingdom shall not be binding on the residents of the Orkney Islands or the Shetland Islands unless a majority of the residents of the Orkney Islands and the Shetland Islands who voted in such a referendum voted that Scotland should leave the United Kingdom."

 

On Wednesday, First Minister Alex Salmond will announce his consultation into the Scottish referendum which he said should be held in autumn 2014.

 

The Westminster government has already announced its consultation into the historical vote.

I see the Earl of Caithness is trying to remove Orkney and Shetland from being part of Scotland in the house of lords............

Independence for Orkney!