Dirty Sanchez

The Duck is like Isma with a few cans in him.

Following on from the tank, there was a guy who used to park a hovercraft in Erskine in the early 80s. It was about as big as a good sized van, and he just parked it alongside the cars in a normal bay. I'd love to think he was commuting up the Clyde in it, but I don't know.

At 1-0 I was actually thinking that it might be better just to lose 1-0, rather than have the additional disappointment of losing 2-1 after the false hope of an equaliser.

He's the 4th official for Hamilton v St Johnstone tomorrow and Aberdeen v QoS on Sunday.

The 20 yard box.

I just read that whole article into myself in a scouse accent.

I was having a look at the Celtic view on this on their Kerrydale Street site. Amongst a full analysis of all the penalties, one guy has posted the following regarding the handball one:

The game was totally different before and after the third penalty . Even those two fannies on Rangers TV gave us, quote, "a puncher's chance" at 1-0. It was only shooty-in after the third penalty. Before that we were containing them fairly well. The Rangers TV guys eventually got carried away, asking "What would the score be without this goalkeeper?" Probably about 7-0, but with a proper referee in charge it would most likely still have been 1-0.

One of my favourite Ibrox penalty incidents from the past. From 9:10 in the video. For younger viewers, this is with Saints already leading 3-2 on aggregate in the 2nd half of the League Cup Semi Final 2nd Leg. Of course, the penalty later awarded to Rangers was a stone waller on John McDonald ( who was known as Polaris, named after the nuclear submarines of the time due to his prolific diving).

It's actually a possible get out option for the SFA, to cite two **** for diving and take the heat off their referee. Of course, this is unlikely to happen because the **** are more powerful than the SFA, who will be too scared to rattle their cage.

Fair play to Sportscene for not shirking it. Thommo and Stewart gave Hugh's boy a real custard pieing. They fingered Candeias and to a lesser extent Defoe for simulation, Here's the thing. When Isma dived for a penalty against Celtic, he was cited and given a two game ban, specifically for causing the referee to make a wrong decision through simulation. Where's the two game ban for Candeias? It's clear as day that's exactly what he did. Have the rules changed?

Before the third penalty how many meaningful saves had Hladky made?

Judging by the coverage on Radio Scotland (i.e. none) I predict we won't hear much more about this unless Kearney has a Craig Levein style meltdown in an interview, or if Celtic pick up on it.

There will be plenty of teams who have won a penalty shoot out whilst taking fewer penalties than Rangers today.

Yes, people who are against VAR will be delighted they've got a chance to have a good chinwag about this in the pub. It's football tradition after all.

I'd like to say it's the first time I've seen three penalties given against us in a game at Ibrox, but it's not. The last time we played the old Rangers it happened as well.

I've got a yellow one as well, from when I did a Supermarket Sweep in Provan's with a £100 voucher I won on the Gold Bond. If this guy is as good as he looks they'll shift more or these than the ill fated Djemba Djemba bunnets.

And only eight quid too. http://www.stmirrendirect.co.uk/products/st-mirren-duck.html

Was just thinking that. It think someone said the nitwits on Celtic TV were demanding protection for their players from the ref.

Is that one sub missing but no Cooke or Kellerman? Edit: Although both went of injured at Parkhead.

Woman next to David Curry on Sportscene currently "deffin-ette-ly" -ing her way through the show.

Can I just offend half the population by saying that "deffin-ette-ly" definitely gets on my tits?

Fake news! Also, who the f*ck was the guy walking along the track waving a bit of paper at us at half time? Did he win something? The pavements around Parkhead were treacherous with ice last night. A joke to think that we once had a game postponed for this when the pitch was fine. The Celtic drummer has got all the rhythm of the likes of Cozy Powell, Keith Moon and John Bonham. But, in fairness to them, they've all been dead for years.

No point in pillorying the ref at this point. It's better that there's a culture of overturning shit decisions rather than having them shut up shop to protect their refs from flak. You would hope that part of the process will involve the ref getting some advice internally (from within the SFA, that is; not up the arse).

Fair play to them. We've seen them shut up shop with these in the past, so faith restored. I hope the slate is clean now, and we don't see nitwits out looking for him like Arquin.