Madbadteacher

Formula 1: It's not the spirit of the sport, it's the letter of the law to the minutest detail.

Fuck me: Lee Miller, now this? The cunts have a signing ban til September 2013 but they can still "unsettle" players by tapping them up? Surely this ain't right

bad results tonight

Woy been on the Christmas spirit already? Or pandering to little-england? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20532014

I remember going to this one too. Would have been living in Moray at the time and drove down with a couple of friends. I remember the mad dash back up the A9 to try to get home whilst there was a bar open somewhere so we could celebrate, amazed I didn't get nicked that day! We were singing like mad in the car, scarves oot the window and all that pish. Never thought at the time it would be our last trophy...........for now

Dry yer eyes.....

Repeats of old episodes of Dragnet from the late 60s/1970. It takes itself so seriously, and the stereotyping of characters is so pronounced, it's absolutely hilarious. Followed every night by Barney Miller, cracking show!

Nonsense!

How can you sell "more" tickets than there are?

OK, why can't I post an avatar now? Tried several urls, but each time I change it when I click change profile it reverts back to the no avatar option.

Cue "Hughes for Scotland" nonsense

OK, Pre-contract is still a signing, so it would have to be some sort of "gentleman's agreement" that he'd sign come September, plenty of room for both sides to pull out before then. Pointless drivel, Miller's agent is looking to get him away from Carlisle and this is a "high profile" "move" which has had the desired effect of getting his client's name in the meeja Or am I being cynical?

Bollocks, they have a signing ban don't they?

It's the usual "mid-season" Aberdeen Striker ".............................." claims "I will score 15/20/30 goals this season" non-story. Would this be from the EE by any chunce?

Because Charlie allan is not a journalist?

So no Rafa for Scotland then? (Like it was ever likely)

In/oot: Oot (as I will be til I next return to Scotia's shores) Prematcher: Making breakfast watching EPL on ESPN Match: Online stream? Failing that redTV commentary and StalkChat Post matcher: Probably veging aboot the hoose, watch some college "football", read Prediction: Hibernian 1-7 Aberdeen

Aren't they?

I think I kinda alluded to that TF

Shite. If that had been any of my employer's in Scotland they'd still be screwed >

It's North AND East of Glasgow

But are we? We won the league once in 55, in an 18 team league, then 3 times in the 80's (icluding the only non-of double) in leagues of 10 or 12. League size hasn't made us more uncompetitive, it's the divide brought about by the McCanns and Murrays of this world, Scottish football "journalism" and the ridiculous amount of money generated by two clubs compared to all the others (whether it be from TV, Sponsorship, merchandising (via-whatever-means), alleged tax avoidance, playing the caflik/proddy/we're-picked-on card)) It's the same all the way down the SPL and SFL structure. We make more than, say, Brechin, so it's unlikely that Brechin will ever have a period of sustained competitiveness with us, and without mad billionaire sugar-daddies it's going to stay that way. League reconstruction may make for more "meaningful" matches, but we know, fucking sticks in my throat (as it were) to type, we know ultimately the 2 big clubs will always dominate no matter what the structure, and the most we can expect is more competitive cup games (with a few different winners) and an occasional "blue moon" league winner (basically as it has been all my life and probably since the 1920s if not before) The best we could hope for would be the complete and utter winding up of both glasgow arsecheeks (which will never happen) the loss of their knuckledragging-lost-in-the-mists-of-religious-fervour-forever-and-keep-spreading-it-through-progeny support (never going to happen either) or some sort of draconian wage/spending cap (another never gonna......) SPL/SFL reconstruction will only really benefit the yo-yo clubs forever floating between the SPL/SFL1; SFL1/2 and SFL2/3, and any current non-league sides with ambitions to join the big leagues. And tbf for a lot of the current top junior/HFL/ESL etc teams, unless there's some sort of regionalisation the travelling expenses and associated logistical nightmares (especially midweek, postponements, replays etc) mens this is probably not a viable solution for many of them. Do I have a solution? I wish

It's as viable as anything suggested by the SFA/SPL/SFL

Split the teams into regional leagues of, say 6. Play each other team in your league home and away 4 times, then a selection of the other teams (based on previous season(s) performance?) 8 home, 8 away to give 36 games. then the winnerrs of each league go into, call it a "playoff" system 1 leg "knockout" games to decide the final positions. (Or, more briefly, copy the NFL/NBA/MSL/NHL/MLB system)

Not listened to that for years, my copy will still be in a packing case in the garage, damn you, now I'll have to go try to find it!