Big Fras

Proclaimers "Throw the "r" away". Class.

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AC/DC "High Voltage".

The Stone Roses - Live in Leeds (Bootleg live 95 recording). Ian Brown sounds like someone falling down a flight of stairs. Not good.

Buddy Guy - "Can't Quit The Blues"

For about 20 minutes tonight: Def Leppard - "Pyromania" -basically horseshit that sold by the millions in the mid-80s, predating The Darkness by 20 years. Utter mince though. Now: The Cult - "Love"

Aye, I agree. The Re-mix of Loose Fit was ace, as was 24 Hour Party People. This new CD is varied (to put it mildly), and was CD of the week in Tesco last week (I don't think the conglomerate was checking out the packaging too well though). Worth a punt @ £8.72 ! www.happymondaysonline.com (not for the faint-hearted)

My favourite of theirs was "Bummed" - a mate of mine opened out the gatefold sleeve on a rush hour train in Glasgow in 89.............. (you'll know why I'm still laughing if you saw the inner sleeve, and imagine him reading the track listing whilst the 2 wee office birds sitting opposite got an eyeful of "The Fat Lady Wrestler" New CD is surprisingly good (produced by Howie , and even includes Ry Cooder on a track called "c**try Music". Touch of class.

Happy Mondays "Unkle Dysfunktional" First album for 15 years from the Salford narcotic munchers - ridiculous stuff, but very enjoyable (just don't expect them to be touring with Coldplay).

100% correct with the first paragraph. Ian Ferguson is a classic example: team he supports come in for him, with huge wage increase - what would you do ? The fact that he had just signed a 4 year deal only helped get Saints more £ out of Castle Greyskull (around £900,000 if I remember rightly), so he shouldn't get grief for that. He also scored a last minute Love St. end equaliser against the vermin whilst in the middle of the whole saga. What he did deserve abuse for was (amongst others), blatantly not celebrating the above goal, and a disgusting performance at Ibrox in what might have been his last Saints game. At full-time, he applauded the Copland Road end, and ignored the Saints travelling. Anyone seen the end of the credits on the 87 Cup Final DVD... As for Fullarton, we are all entitled to our opinions. That's a fact.

The main reason that Jamie got up ma hooter was that EVERYONE knew that a) we were in deep financial sh*te, and there was a crop of young kids ripe for sale (Barry, Bakesy, Fullarton - mystifyingly). ultimately, I can understand the motives for moving on, but Fullarton showed zero appreciation for SMFC giving him the opportunity in the first place. Thank feck that Basher & Bakesy had better advisors. I got a wee bit of revenge..... A Bolton Wanderers away game at Watford in 99 saw a burly Buddie, slightly the worse for wear, accosting Fullarton as he warmed up. I cannae remember the excat details, but words like "stitched. saints. up. money. grabbing. shitehawk" escaped from my gub. He did look a wee bit surprised - probably not the venue he expected such bile. Anyway, noone has filled us in yet with what happened post-horror injury at Tannadice. God forbid he is an SFA community coach - great skills to be passed on there.

This is starting to turn into a thread of its own regarding James Callaghan Charnley. He was a Grade "A" fud of a person, but at times (increasingly sporadic as his career wore on) a genius of a player - the trouble was, very few of his colleagues were on the same wavelength, which saw many a raking pass fly straight out of play. Perhaps Shane MacGowan would have been his dream midfield partner. If someone wants to start a Chic thread then go for it. I know many funny tales, but probably just as many very unfunny distasteful stories as well, which will probably shatter a few illusions of the "entertainer" known as Chico.

No perhaps not. Think ourselves lucky that we never played Celluc with Chic on board. Technically that fud had THREE spells at Saints. The first (early 80s) is shrouded in mystery, but I once heard that he was caught buying booze for youth players. The second saw his sacking by Hay (one of the few decisions that d*ck got right - but he paid a fortune for him a few months earlier). He was sent to Bolton Wanderers, whose erstwhile boss Phil "You're f*cking right boss" Neal sent him back to Love Street saying that he "couldn't control him". New supremo, straight outta Zambia, Big Daddy Bone, made him captain. The rest is history.....

At least Chic could (occassionally) pick out a b'n'w shirt. Remember Fullarton's straight red after 10 minutes at Dumabarton in 92 ? Not even his team mates were even complaining. The following midweek at a reserve match, Big Daddy Bone was telling the lower enclosure that Jamie was a "future captain of Sants....and Sciotland". Sweet baby Jesus and the orphans......

No. Shagged my wallet for 3 seasons.

Talking in the pub tonight, the strange topic of Jamie Fullarton came up. I regard this individual as basic pondlife. A total non-footballer, perfect for modern coaching manuals, all "big lungs", fierce tackles (usually badly executed), and hee-haw skill on the ball. There is no point in a "ball winner" if he doesn't know what to do with the thing. He left Saints under a dark cloud: we were skint (what's new) and could've done with the dough from potential buyers Crystal Palace. Jamie and his advisors had "other plans", and exploting mid-90s EU laws, he went to Bastia for £0. Amazingly enough he turned up at Palace 12 months later for £0. He then turned up in Bolton, where an increasingly insane Colin Todd played him as a left winger, with the results that any Saints fan could have predicted. He was "moved on" soon afterwards (as was Todd), only to resurface (like most pondlife) at Tannadice. Last time I saw him was when Doctors had contemplated amputaing his foot after a horror injury for the Arabs. To be honest, I don't think his playing style would have been affected. Anyone know what happened next ? PS Seeing Stuart Taylor made Hamilton Accies Asst. Manager recently made me fell very, very old.