"I spoke to Bruno Alves and said to him, 'So this is Scottish football'." SPFL 2017/2018

http://i1.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article10704551.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/DDa9fCGXsAA_ozk.jpg

he's ready

Aw naw, is he back?

he is indeed

Kyle Lafferty Kyle Laffertying the absolute Kyle Lafferty out of this opening day pic.twitter.com/C9kifSrdPw

— Oldfirmfacts (@Oldfirmfacts1) August 5, 2017

Kieran Tierney goal last night was something else

Goodnight sweet laptoap. I will miss your weird present tense phrasing. This time, we do not go again.

and Tierney goal was a fucking peach yeah

God I felt bad about the cathro era. Really didn't want brainless fitba men to be vindicated, a successful cathro could've precipitated some new thinking in Scottish fitba.

Stevie May's back in the spfl with Aberdeen, he's done fuck all/been injured since he left but could see him bring a good signing for the dandy dons.

yeah absolutely. It happened not to go particularly well for him, but that doesn't mean kris boyd isn't an absolute fucking cretin.

May's squad number was a cute touch

Jimmy Calderwood diagnosed with early onset Alzheimers :(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40949594

that's a shiter. good luck to the mahogany man

absolute scenes at celtic park \0/

That was decent. Got to feel for the lad at my work who's shelled out over 600 notes to fly to Astana for a meaningless game next week :)

Like watching an Old Firm game.

Stevie May brace on his debut. He's back.

Celtic 5 points ahead of Rangers after 3 games will never not be enjoyable for me

Can we have some centre hoffs please?

Got to feel for the lad at my work who's shelled out over 600 notes to fly to Astana for a meaningless game next week

I should learn to shut up.

celtic away in europe = always a nightmare.

although 8-3 on aggregate is actual never in doubt territory.

champions league draw on thursday at 5pm iirc

It didn't look never in doubt at 4-1 to Astana :(

I didn't spot this thread had been started! Again, no season ticket for me so not much to say other than it's nice to be three for three, great to see Michael O'Halloran back wjere he belongs and I'll probably be quite sad when Stevie May knocks in a hattrick against us. His Aberdeen shirt would be a nice touch if he hadn't already had May 17 ;)

Delurking to complain about Pedro being too late with the thread title.

"the dogs bark and the caravan keeps going"

Hello! And yes, positively Cantona-esque from Pedro. Not quite in the same league as Mad Vlad, but everyone's got to start somewhere.

Another easy Champions League group for Celtic, I see. And more opportunities to hate on Neymar and Dani Alves. And Arjen Robben.

Delurking to complain about Pedro being too late with the thread title.

"the dogs bark and the caravan keeps going"

― get outta the way! here comes (onimo), Friday, August 25, 2017 7:59 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is an actual proverb weirdly enough. it rung a bell so i gave it a wee google. it's arabic, referenced in the title of a truman capote book (he apparently got it from andre gide), and jose mourinho has previously used it in a press conference a couple years ago, so maybe it's more popular in portugal

but yes it would've been a great title

Did Pedro really complain after the Hearts game that Rangers were suffering due to the respect they were now getting from other sides?

tbf to him iirc elements amongst my club are historically quite well known for offering that shower 'respect'

WTF is this all about?

hopefully drunken daftness and not some attempt at harming himself

he's ready

https://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_700,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.scotsman.com/webimage/1.4544562.1503929479!/image/image.jpg

hahaha!

6 celtic players in the starting lineup. all my fingers and toes crossed for no injuries

Here is tonight's starting line-up for Lithuania v Scotland. Come on Scotland! #LTUSCO pic.twitter.com/gKJEZU653K

— Scotland (@ScottishFA) September 1, 2017

Bizarre to be so comfortable. Assuming Monday's games go the way you'd expect, the game against Slovakia will be unbearable - all or nothing.

absolute scenes.

see what happens when you play the sellick players, wee chesney?

Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale Vs Inverurie Loco Works.

gotta love the names of some of them Scottish non-league clubs.

Civil Service Strollers is one of my favourites.

we're fucked

750-900k supposedly.

that's a classy decision from the SFA

ah, Accies, never mind me

pm me on fb and I'll tell you the rumours not posting them publicly

Saw the Accies story but there’s not much detail. That’s a pretty brutal figure.

oh im sure there's a lot more to it, damn sure.

http://www.daviessolicitors.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/images.jpeg

oh mr wu , what shall i do im feeling kind of limehouse money lau....

though some say https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttgcu01Ffwo

while i feel sorry for accies i'm kind of eager to find out what hare-brained nonsense got the club defrauded for such a high sum

Jambos too?

aye hearts as well

clubs were warned ages ago about it so was this when the scam actually happened and a warning went out or did the fuckwits still get done despite warnings.

Idiots.

lol us too? I am behind on the news

is there a salacious angle to the rumours? I'd assumed it was like one of those emails from lesg✧✧✧@acc✧✧✧.r✧ telling the finance director to transfer cash pronto or whatever?

hah wouldn't have worked on ilxor. les dot gray at accies dot ru was the gag email there.

nobody knows atm. but some accies fans think the worst of some people involved in the club.

but the fact hearts got hit too would say that they are wrong and the clubs been scammed by the wallet inspector despite that warning that went out ages ago when Annan got scammed

but i can only assume that Accies could go bust if the money cant be recovered

that's fucking horrible. scottish football dug deep for us when we were in the hole, hope the same happens for accies

Just when you think Scottish football can sink any lower...

Accies are really hated because we have a small support and "bring nothing to the league". Some of the facebook groups for Scottish football is full of that attitude sadly. You get it in the daily record hotline and of course some years back the st mirren chairmen went on about it

the worst is not knowing what's going to happen. We dont know what did happen or how exactly much as the rumours are it's £900,000.

the worry is someone from the club authorized a payment and then there's no chance of getting it back from the bank. Got to hope its not been that.

You’d have to question where Accies are making £900k payments to for it to be such a monumental one-off cock up by a member of staff.

Well, quite. Any well-run business should have enough checks and balances in place to counteract even the daftest slip from a well-meaning temp or whatever.

Accies are really hated

Do people really *hate* Hamilton? With absolutely no offence meant, do they even register anywhere in the ranks of teams anyone gives a shit about? Does it generally go deeper than"meh, who cares"? In terms of bringing nothing to the league and having a small support, what distinguishes them from, well, about 25 other clubs in the SPFL?

I hate their shitty excuse for a pitch. Does that count?

hahaha at this sudden volte-face from the ilx scotcru

OI PFUNKBOY YOUR TEAM SUXXX NYAH NYAH GOOD LUCK GETTING RELEGATED OR BANKRUPT OR SOMETHING

IF IT WEREN'T FOR CELTIC THERE WOULDN'T EVEN BE SCOTTISH FOOTBALL

His team doesn't suck. They scored this!

https://youtu.be/1d0WwEqmSR0

Their pitch sucks.

Hey, imago, thanks for dropping by to misinterpret stuff. It's been a while.

p difficult to misinterpret 'bringing nothing to the league'

Sorry, my bad, they do bring something to the league. The worst pitch in Scottish football.

They bring as much as nearly every other club, which is pretty much nothing. I have nothing against them but there's nothing really there to get particularly bothered about either. That doesn't even come close to "boo I hope they die Celtic are brilliant yay" or whatever. Also said, no offence meant. There's just genuinely nothing there to hate (except their pitch)

One of the most inoffensive teams in Scottish football I would have thought, even if St Mirren have had a pop at them.

.. the Herts on the other hand.

*waves*

Some goal from Moult today to secure the tie.

https://youtu.be/29AHOcObwNQ

Some awful refereeing in both semi finals.

Yeah Moult’s second was a beauty.

Smashing goal, mostly terrible game (only watched the second half). Yon non-penalty that Hibs got was a joke. Sutton getting right lamped into the standard of refereeing to a bemused Rob McLean was great though.

Why is Rob McLean polluting the BT airwaves anyway? I miss Derek Rae.

I thought last night would have been the end of the unbeaten run. Teirney was sensational and Dembele more than justified replacing Griffiths.

Only worry for me is this insistence on trying to make the keeper pass the ball when he plainly can't do it. Between Gordon and Boyata we gave the ball away in our own half too many times to count. I think that's the main reason we struggle in Europe.

More trouble at Scotland's youngest professional football club: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41762385

gutted

they should go for big sam if they want to frighten celtic fans a bit. Im not sure anyone else mentioned would get any worried

expecting Ailsa to say she wouldn't be in 3, 2, 1..

Neil Lennon obv.

Big Sam's big face frightens me. His managerial record of winning next to fuck all in 20 years, not so much.

That said, his profile is such that he might command a slightly higher salary than the 4th best manager in Qatar so probably not gonna happen.

bet your (big) house on McInnes imo.

they don't have the money for your allardyces

i could see mcinnes turning it down

higher salary, bigger budget, he's a boyhood rangers supporter (i think).

otoh it's a hiding to nothing

yeah all true. just a feeling, and i'm prob underestimating the lure of greyskull to someone brought up in it

I think he more or less threw his hands up and said "We (i.e. I) can't do anything more" after the Aberdeen-Celtic game the other night.

Prepare to resurrect this quote and mock me in a week or so, but I don't think McInnes would touch it. He knocked back Sunderland to stay at Aberdeen, I can't see him leaving them for another Scottish team. Especially the state of affairs at Ibrox atm.

Alex McLeish joint second-favourite with Billy Davies after McInnes with most bookies, with Graeme Murty just behind them. Rot probably not stopping any time soon.

Nae bother.

Rumour spreading on twitter that Liam Miller is in a hospice with days to live. Can't find a reliable source and I don't remember any reports of an illness.

Tam McManus saying it's not quite that bad...

"Awful news about Liam Miller keep the fingers crossed that he somehow pulls through. Was in the USA for treatment this month and flys back tomorrow to start chemo here. He’s still fighting it. Will say a prayer for him tonight. 🙏🏻 #fuckcancer "

Big Eck currentlly odds on fav for Ibrox. Hard to tell how that will go down with the bears.
I'm fairly confident he could make them a solid second within a year - not sure if that's acceptable to People who have somewhat loftier ambitions.

McLeish would be a car-crash imo.

I said it when they sacked him but the Magic Hat, though full of hot air, was probably about as good as they could expect to do in terms of managers.

not to be horribly mean-spirited but whenever I've seen eck mcleish on tv in the last year or so he looks like he enjoys a drink

I enjoy a drink.

i enjoy a drink but you can only see it on my face periodically

Close run thing there.

If that was Derek McInnes' way of showing what he can do with a team at Ibrox, he's welcome to the manager's gig.

Saw approximately ten tedious minutes of the first half of our game due to Celtic TV's complete ineptitude, delighted to get away from there with a point.

Looks like McInnes set up a completely new formation and strategy against the team that lost to Dundee and Hamilton. Anyone paranoid would think he was throwing points to Glasgow before moving there...

Someone remind us to put "concomitant" into the thread title next season:

https://rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/club-statement-83/

(also lolz at the "we didnae want him anyway" insinuations all the way through. That'll be why you've been blatantly tapping him up for weeks, aye?)

a quite preposterous institution

They're the gift that keeps on giving.

Was it just me that found it amusing hearing Angry Kris Boyd on Sportsound tonight acting as if there's no way anyone at Rangers had ever had the chance to even informally outline anything to McInnes at any point?

Boyd making a clown of himself all week (century tbh).

This wee jambo thread made me lol

When you try your best but you don’t succeed... pic.twitter.com/GMdXLeYoBP

— Liam (@HMFCLiam) December 6, 2017

I've somehow ended up in a parallel universe where Adam Rooney is arguing with William Shatner about who has the biggest balls.

🤔Would it be ‘naff to tell @17AdamRooney that my bawbells are bigger than his? #sizematters 😝 https://t.co/LSA954nJYo

— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) December 12, 2017

THREAD TITLE FOR NEXT YEAR KLAXON!

I think i must still be drunk?

wish I was

Genuinely don’t understand what’s happened to either team

Hearts made it a physical battle early on and Celtic shat it.

Our defence has had this in them all season, never imagined Lafferty would be the one to expose it.

There's also some weird thing going on where the pitch is ridiculously slippery but only for Celtic players.

brb passing out briefly

Well, if you're going to go out, go out with a bang.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Scottish_League_Cup_Final

Never seen Kieran Tierney have such a pish half. Still considering sending a search party out for Boyata.

Still a hell of an achievement over the last year and a half, but.

New central defence plz.

Hell of a fall off in two years

2004–2009 Inverness Caledonian Thistle 132 (8)
2009–2012 Heart of Midlothian 87 (4)
2012–2015 Rangers 83 (5)
2015–2017 Shrewsbury Town 49 (4)
2017 Blackpool 10 (0)
2017 Skelmersdale United 1 (0)
2017 Chorley 2 (0)
2018– Tranent Juniors

fucking knew this was going to be an ian black related post ;_;

“The game has been good to me and I want to help Tranent achieve their vision, “I won’t be coming here to take my foot of the gas. I am hungry to be a success at 
Tranent. There’s no hiding place at your home club.”

“Ian is a local lad who has played at the highest level. He will go straight into the squad for our first game of 2018 at home to Dunbar on Saturday.” Tranent play in the McBookie East Premier League.

Currently sitting one place above my local Junior side in the league.

McBookie

They write themselves.

Tierney was brilliant in the wing back role tonight, like "this side is mine. Everyone else better stay the fuck away."

nice to celtic bouncing back after a bit of a lull. i like the look of big cha already.

Byeeee!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42910099

and hello?

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/42878741

HEID

:(

I'm sure the forced early changes don't help but I have no fucking clue what system we're playing here and neither do the players.

Beaten again? Rodgers out!

Sadly Liam Miller has passed away. RIP

;_; RIP Liam.

very, very sad. 36 is no age.

i used to "hate" him.

Dreadful news. RIP.

Alex McLeish? FFS.

(about to get the Scotland gig again, according to reports)

Oh God no. We may as well give up.

... yes, I know, I thought we had...

And confirmed. Fucking hell.

pffft

“I’d saved the first shot and I looked up and saw the ball going to him,” said Bain. “I just thought, ‘aw naw’. Luckily he hit the post and I was able to scramble and catch the ball before it went over the line.

Aw naw indeed.

In hysterics at that miss.

Celtic goals were all really good. Our defence was a shambles at times. Ntcham had his best game in the hoops so far.

Good to see Murty's assertion that they will never have a better chance to beat us. Fingers crossed he's right.

Boyata, say no more, a manager like Mourinho would have subbed him after 15 minutes.

Morelos looking like a baw-faced toddler who'd dropped his lollipop added to the hilarity - mind you, he always looks like that.

Our defence is mince, both of their goals were howlers.

incredibly satisfying and important win though.

Still chuckling at that miss. Boyata gives me the screaming heebie-jeebies. Collum doing the "12th man" tradition proud, along with his comedy Tory sidekick with the flag.

i honestly couldnae believe the linesman, seems like he lost his head there and the mask slipped big time

Aye, think he forgot he wasn't in the stands.

Can't find it just now to link it, but the clips I've seen of the Rangers TV commentary is hilarious.

Fat footballer corner: Mark Yardley gets a street named after him:

https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/29133250_2028255100524565_5744681404516532224_n.jpg?oh=279bcbbd2ebfb41c8719088796846bd2&oe=5B48F52A

found that quite a nice wee story

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-5495889/St-Mirren-heroes-honoured-housing-development.html

Change you can believe in.

https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/news/neil-doncaster-replaces-ian-maxwell-on-scottish-fa-board/?rid=14258

(xp) Abercromby Avenue, nice one. McGarvey Mews would have had a nice ring to it. Of course, I'd have voted for my Uncle Jim if given the chance.

OBFA repealed

I'm not one to share Record stories but holy shit how bad is this?

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/celtic-boss-brendan-rodgers-no-12196511

Away from home, gifted them 2 goals, played with ten men and a third choice keeper and we still score three amazing goals but Rodgers was lucky? This article is all ifs buts and bollocks.

While I'm here: still absolutely love that people call him Barry Fud.

I for one totally respect the managerial expertise of a man who couldn't get Clyde out of the bottom division

celtic's defensive frailty is a worry and rodger's has to be held responsible, but tactically he got everything right in that game. Fair enough the win was a bit spawny, what with the missed sitter. but say the missed sitter goes in. away from home, derby, coming from behind after shipping bad goals, surviving being down to 10 men for a half hour and getting a draw would've also been a good result tbh.

michty me "rodger's" lol

McLeish out.

The Championship Caledonian XI weren't up to much? Quelle surprise.

Here comes the new boss
Worse than the old boss

Began by upholding that fine old Scottish tradition of not picking Celtic players if you can possibly avoid it.

88' Substitution for Morton: Iredale OFF, Strapp ... erm ... ON.

— Greenock Morton (@Morton_FC) March 24, 2018

If Hibs can keep it together then Rangers could well end up in 4th place, yaaaaaassssssssss!

celtic to win the treble
celtic to win the league against rangers
rangers to finish 4th

all of these things could happen

Lads

Fuck Hamilton's shitty pitch forever. Surely the one thing you're supposed to get with artificial turf is that it's at least flat.

Turns out the Rangers really are shite just as the song says. I honestly can't remember a more one sided game against them or their dead predecessors.

Hysterical that they and their fans cheered getting drawn against us.

Dying laughing at them. Utterly fucking gash, apart from that couple of minutes when Craig Gordon actually had stuff to do.

I also weirdly feel sorry for Graeme Murty because he seems a decent and rational sort of a chap who deserves better than being in charge of that shambles, and I prefer when the comedy happens to the likes of insane guys like Caixinho or bitter old bawbags like Walter Smith.

Now I can just hope that this upsets them so much that they go into freefall. Aberdeen can certainly overtake them, and I reckon Hibs might be in with a shout of it as well. Imagine they didn't even qualify for Europe. Still, would stop them getting knocked out by the fourth placed team in the Vatican City pub league or whatevs.

Also, forgot to revive this thread last week to commemorate John Lambie. I'm already considering "tell him he's Pele and get him back on" as the thread title for next season in his honour.

Aberdeen will Hibs it.

Hibs look more resilient under Lennon but I still think they'll Hibs it.

It's a shame Killie wasted a third of a season before getting good or things would be even tighter for Europa places.

They might be mince but Rangers have scored more league goals than Celtic this season - because they routinely roll over Dundee et al 4-0. Their goal difference is pretty good.

the john lambie news hit me hard. a sort of platonic ideal of the scottish fitba man. rip.

i didn't bother getting up in the early hours to watch this because i felt extremely confident we'd do rangers.

also because i was awake until about an hour before kickoff and drunk i suppose

Partick Thistle Football Club is pleased to announce that the North Stand will be officially renamed The John Lambie Stand. https://t.co/QggFaNN3c3 pic.twitter.com/0ldFMaDCmC

— Partick Thistle FC (@ThistleTweet) April 19, 2018

Liverpool's Steven Gerrard on Rangers shortlist for manager

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43907986

http://gph.is/1H5A8VS

https://media.giphy.com/media/5nFShZWwq3fdm/giphy.gif

that would be amazing

on their forums there has been lots of talk of frank de boer. but seems to be based on absolutely fuck all/wishful thinking

Congratulations to Brechin on probably the most unwanted record in football.

East Stirling might not have matched that record in the 00's, by having the odd shock win, but they were very poor for many seasons iirc.

P36 W0 D4 L32 . Goal difference -70.

lol

Mind that time I said “I honestly can't remember a more one sided game against them or their dead predecessors“

Well that again.

Weirdly I got a bit twitchy in advance after Hibs showed everyone how to beat us but it took about 3 minutes before I realised we would coast to an easy win. 8-0 wouldn’t have flattered us.

Murty sacked, the almost indescribable ecstasy of having Gerrard as next Rangers' manager has moved a little closer.

Re: Brechin, compare with Fort William in the Highland League:

P33 W0 D4 L29 Goal difference -153.

Fort William have one more game to turn their season around tbf.

Going to put my timfoil hat on here regarding Gerrard: the Scottish football media, which failed to scrutinize Rangers in the run up to their liquidation, and then has failed to scrutinize Whyte, Green, and King's dodgy regimes, is now braying for Stevie G - a novice manager, admittedly apparently did well at youth level with Liverpool's under 18s - and a war chest to turn Rangers around. Would have thought a proven managerial appointment - say Steve Clarke - coupled with modest spending befitting the impecunious state of Rangers' finances would have been more fitting, and less likely to put Rangers on the road to liquidation again. But what do I know?

You're failing to take into account the delusional character of Rangers' fans and the Scottish football media (samethingamirite?) regarding the club's status.

I understand the entitlement of the true Rangers man, but there's plenty in the press who don't lean that why, but spout the same guff - looking at you Mr Keevins

God, is he still going?

Retired from the Daily Record in 2014, still appears regularly on Clyde 1 Superscoreboard

him and BFDJ are a broadcasting dream-team

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2018/may/02/steven-gerrard-foolish-manager-dysfunctional-rangers

ewan murray doesn't miss here ooft

That's a terrific article, cheers for the link.

More importantly, Fort William *drew their final game of the season 3-3, to finish on 5 points! Huzzah! Read those stats and weep, Brechin:

P34 W0 D5 L29 F31 A184 GD-153 Pts5

*leading until 4 minutes from the end :(

LOL schoolboy error from Sky News attempting to interview Rangers fans live, lulled into a false sense of security by the first (reasonable if delusional) fan, the next drops an f-bomb, the third says he's looking forward to seeing Scott Brown been put on his arse. Back to the studio ASAP.

gerrard as huns' boss is some through the looking glass shit.

the banter years continue.

don't they remember the folly of John Barnes? Daft question, it seems this dysfunctional board can't even remember Ryan Giggs!

It's wonderful, plus I've always hated Stevie Me anyway, overrated twunt.

Pat Nevin claimed on Radio 4 yesterday morning that Barnes' record is not only one of the best at Celtic but one of the best in football *period*. xpost

Coisty on R5 assuring us all that this appointment "put Scottish football back on the map".

(xp) Barnes' Celtic started off hammering sides 5, 6, 7-0, as I remember.

It was an amazing coup for Tranmere to get him then!

Just checking Celtic's results for the 1999/2000 season, I think it's fair to say they had the upper hand in their encounters with Aberdeen in the league:

Aberdeen 0 – 5 Celtic
Celtic 7 – 0 Aberdeen
Aberdeen 0 – 6 Celtic
Celtic 5 – 1 Aberdeen

... last one was post Barnes

Barnes was officially named as manager of Tranmere Rovers on 15 June 2009, with Jason McAteer assisting him.[41] He got off to a disastrous start, with Tranmere only winning three of their first fourteen games. During their time at Tranmere, Barnes and McAteer were allegedly dubbed "Dumb and Dumber" by the Tranmere players.[42] On 9 October 2009, Barnes was sacked by the club six days after a 5–0 defeat at Millwall and a run of just two wins from eleven league games.[43] He has since applied to become the manager of the Rwandan national team with Stephen Garside as his Youth Team Coach.[44]

8 losses at Celtic in one season, best in footbal? Better send some Frank leaflets to Nevin!

I remember reading in WSC about some completely idiotic "this is a good little club to start my career" type comment from Barnes that pissed of lots of Celtic fans from the start.

Aberdeen vs Rangers ends 1-1.

Rangers v Hibs this weekend will be intense

Wayne Rooney to Rangers: Steven Gerrard urged to snap up Everton ace in shock move

the huge-lol-manity!

Rangers vs Hibs now meaningless. Hibs needed at least a point tonight.

Some press reporting that Neil Lennon is considering his position.

he said it in the post-match presser.

celtic should lie doon tae dons at the weekend, cannae let rangers finish 2nd ffs

Sad indictment of the game if they somehow scrape second despite being pure garbage.

On the cards once Aberdeen failed yet again to beat them tbh

Honestly, fuck these useless cunts, they deserve to spend the next 1000 years trailing behind Celtic and Rangers and moaning about the unfairness of it all.

OK, Hibs 3-0 up after 22 minutes, now 4-3 down. Classic Hibees.

Madness. I'm glad I'm not in Leith tonight though.

Lennon sent off. This day couldn't get any better.

OMFG

As Scottish football continues to be the GOAT year on year, it's important to not forget some absolute classic moments from years gone by...

— Russell Abercrombie (@russabercrombie) May 23, 2018

^ good thread

St Mirren allowing a Celtic club shop to be opened in their stand

Good old Saints.

... talking of which, straight back down again?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44238168

... St Mirren, that is, not Sunderland.

The banter years...

Rangers Football Club 2011-present

— Ross McDougall (@RosssMcDougall) May 25, 2018

Sad news that Neale Cooper died - he was only 54 :(

From Tom English on twitter

Neale Cooper in Fergie Rises: “He (Franz Beckenbauer) said I was possibly the closest he had seen to a player like himself at that age. That was quite a compliment. But I always say that it goes to show, even Franz Beckenbauer can talk some amount of shite.”

Lolz. RIP, absolutely no age at all.

Remember when losing to Peru was both surprising and notable?

Not reading too much into the result what with the altitude etc.

Nonetheless hoping for a better performance vs Mexico.

Yes, should be fine against Mexico, they're only playing at a height of 7,280 feet.

och that’s less than two Ben Nevises

Willo Flood lasts a whole week at Dunfermline

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/amp/football/44631491

Willo Flood lasts three days at Bali Utd

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/willo-floods-move-bali-collapses-12881972

We’re one short for fives tonight, looks like we might be in luck. Give’s a shout, Willo!

Willo Flood last one day as Brexit Secretary,

So, do we have a new thread title? Are we ready?

Good performance by Hibs. Useful 2-0 victory for Rangers, with the aid of a late penalty, though it must be admitted that their opponents are no Progres Niederkorn.

i was actually quite proud of last year's title, might have a little read of the tabloids and see if i can glean anything interesting from brendan or Mr Gerrard

Tony Watt: back in the big-time

He certainly is!

Hibs involved in an eventful game in the Faroe Islands, which Efe Ambrose kickstarted, in his own inimitable style, by scoring an own goal after one minute. Final score, 6-4 to the Hibees

Meanwhile Rangers starting their European campaign in fairly inimitable, if slightly baffling, style too...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/scotland/44888334

Scottish football favourite Anthony Stokes signs for Tractor Sazi in Iran.

Hibs' last three competitive matches: 5-5, 6-1, 6-4.

New balls please.

Second best team in Scotland, folks. Depressing stuff.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44890774

it's depressing but part of why it's depressing is the state of english football.

Aye, you want to read all the Neville Vs Holt stuff on conference and non-league forums - lots of accusations of buying promotion being bandied round.

Rooney has doubled his wages going to Salford.

90' We've seen some strange things at Hampden but St Mirren keeper Craig Samson has just been forced to remove what looks like a dead squirrel dropped onto the pitch by a seagull. Entertainment at its best.

— Queen's Park FC (@queensparkfc) July 24, 2018

^ some kind of metaphor for Scottish football, once a child would kick a dead squirrel in the street etc.

Meanwhile, Hibs' European adventure continues, having gone in at half time 2-0 at home to some Greek side, they've fought back to lead 3-2. Aberdeen have almost certainly blown it against Burnley though.

I suppose we should start a new thread.

"A dead squirrel dropped by a seagull" SPFL 2018/2019. Something along those lines. Get onimo to do it, he's funny.

Hibs only leaking 2 goals is progress of a sort. I think I prefer the 5-4s

Thinking of a Cantonaesque 'When the seagulls drop the squirrels..'

I'm not funny. Ask my kids. Not even Dad Joke funny these days.

I like "When the seagulls drop the squirrels"

I still like the William Shatner/Adam Rooney baws argument

🤔Would it be ‘naff to tell @17AdamRooney that my bawbells are bigger than his? #sizematters 😝 https://t.co/LSA954nJYo

— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) December 12, 2017

Though Rooney's fecked off to English non-league so doesn't deserve a thread title :-(

When the seagulls drop the squirrels SPFL 2018/2019