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Also... If the Qataris are anything like knowledgeable,with regard tae Oor fitba, then they'd already be aware that there's a sleeping giant just up the M8. With 500million fans. And it would only cost threepence. But they could haggle... ETA ...if anyone. Actually knew who owned it or whose funny money is keeping it limping along....

True. Ask any Hun how good it is to be owned by... Well.... Who the f**k knows...?

I guess I should defer to your expertise on "recklessly stupid".

Even weirder than a weird (and frankly stupid) concept, the only people with the potential to sit comfortably in a cold rigid plastic seat in midwinter in the pishing cold Scottish rain would be, for example, a fat pipefitter who is unable to function normally as a normal fitba supporter might do. Normal would be standing, moving about, shuffling, stamping your feet, shifting away from, for example, a fat pipefitter. Why is it that people who have neglected their carcasses to the extent they are unable to stand for 90 minutes, feel the need to impose THEIR incapacity on the rest of the spectating public. Shut the f**k up. Please.

I'm with Buddiein EK and LosingMy religion on this. As an MP, she doubtless had a thriving Twitter account. Her husband rightly resorted to getting a message out by this medium - in a sweet but short (140 characters or less) message. No worse nor better than the death notices in the PDE. I am almost sure that the gurners on here were not his target audience.

As one of the mugs that chipped in my dosh, why should I be excluded from the group hug?Yours etc A 69 year old. Ps I endorse the Drew. Massive aknowledgement of the smisa effort. TrueBuddies.

You should not look at this from a uk perspective. Over here in rather sunny Monument Valley, one can absolutely see the US perspective. Possessing guns and the right to "defend yourself" is the only way it can possibly work in this vast country. The fact that Canada is not so f**ked up, not killing as many of their nation, their own people, does not possess a fraction of the weapons held in the US... ...is completely incomprehensible to the majority of the population here. Sigh.

London would be the perfect venue.

So... Who have Saints drawn? Or... Who is Saints likely to be drawn with?

FFS That is all.

Missed this news. An excellent signing.

This genuinely surprised me. And pleased me. On the other hand, the "Guard of Honour" was a f**kin embarrassment.

It's a clumpany financed by dodgy money, chaired by a guy with criminal convictions, given endless favours and blind eyes turned by a corrupt SFA. What honour should be offered to such an organisation, with a squad of full-time overpaid players who crawled slowly through the lower leagues, (even though they were a completely new organisation and should never have been admitted in front of other genuine and worthy clubs), and still couldn't do it as quickly as Gretna did AND were gubbed by Hearts (a club whose fans bought it OUT of potential liquidation) last year? Where's the honourable achievement in that? And do I even need to mention the bigots that support that shite? Why are Buddies even using the word "honour" in the same sentence as sevco? Fuxake!

"too thick, narrow-minded, mendacious, greedy or self-serving to understand the bigger picture. (See any of Dixon's posts as example.)" Apparently so. You still don't get it. It's always all about you. If only there was some form of governance that could curtail your self abuse...

Why do we have government, politicians, polis...? Because in current society, the majority of people are too thick, narrow-minded, mendacious, greedy or self-serving to understand the bigger picture. (See any of Dixon's posts as example.) In the case of Liverpudlians happily going to see their football team that afternoon, how could they possibly have foreseen the horrors. They were naturally exuberant, celebratory, ordinary... They expected to travel home later - victorious or vanquished - but safely in a civilised society, for which they paid their taxes and invested their lives. Fair enough. In a complex and ever-changing world, we invest power in govt and cops to ensure that events such as Hillsborough do not come to pass. In much the same way we trust 'our betters' to keep the roads and railways safe, our borders secure, and our futures reasonably happy. Those people afforded those powers of control and governance, by and large, are better rewarded than those of us that they oversee. When they f**k-up, as fate asserts they regularly do, their failures should/must be called to account. The polis and govt, in this case as in others, connived to avoid responsibility. Though I might not like the idea of individuals shouldering all the blame, they can't be absolved. Misusing power and responsibility should be a blame shared by individual cops and politicians as well as those further up the food chain. Unlawful killing was the right result. Fuck 'em. And the likes of Dixon who minimise the system's failures and, as in this case, diminish the deaths of those unfortunates that the state failed on that day.