Dirty Sanchez

Watching Raith TV from within the UK is also dubious, but they'll still take your fiver and won't make any tannoy announcements about it.

Turns out it's not true. Scott McDonald has just confirmed.

Looks like this is from the later stages, possibly extra-time, of the 1983 cup semi final replay at Hampden. Oh, how we laughed.

There was the Craig Levein vs Graeme Hogg precedent. Both sent off. http://twohundredpercent.net/craig-levein-and-graeme-hogg-a-classic-punch-up/

I was at Peter Powers at the Pavilion tonight. He hypnotised people so that both of their arms were stuck up in the air. He asked one guy how he felt. "I feel like the St.Murn captain when he beats Cellic the morra". This guy also ended up prancing around the stage in his pants, even although Peter Powers never actually asked him to take his clothes off. Own up. Who was it?

Interesting to see what happened and what comes out of it. I wonder if it will be another, 'If that was Jim Goodwin.......'

I never realised that they'd only lost one game since we won at Easter Road. Or, in other words, two of their last three defeats have been against us. It's about time they shipped some points to us. They've been handing out gifts to all the other dross in the bottom half.

Ambrose enjoyed John Sutton's performance so much that he was repeatedly trying to hug him. I think that's what was happening.

Only one goal lost from open play during this run too, which helps. Makes a change from the football bloopers video stuff from earlier in the season. Not often Real Madrid f*ck your coupon, but your ambitious side bet on Saints comes in.

I'm glad no one resorted to the 'We are staying up song'. Just remember Dunfermline at Love Street, with players literally cartwheeling in front their fans as they sang it...two weeks before their relegation. I prefer getting the last laugh.

Memories of John Hewitt's last minute winner v Stirling Albion at Ochilview back in the day, for anyone who remembers those scenes.

Also. A hip injury picked up prior to joining the Buddies from Rangers would come back to plague his career come the end of the title winning campaign, with the striker breaking down in a pre-season friendly against Aberdeen prior to the Paisley side’s sole SPL season under Hendrie. Pre-season friendly, my arse. He broke down in the last minute of the first away league game at Pittodrie, causing him to concede a free-kick which Aberdeen scored an injury time winner from.

Equidistant and decent capacity would put the final in Edinburgh. As much as Falkirk might be too small, it's hard to imagine such a game filling Easter Road or Tynecastle. If they were looking to rip the pish out of either club, travel wise, Perth, Motherwell and Airdrie would do so. And I know. If.

I see that Motherwell are 25/1 to win at Parkhead on Saturday. You wonder what odds they'll give us. It might be a club record.

I believe their playing squad have a forum where they discuss the merits of the fans.

Their average attendance of 263 might explain the lack of a forum. At all their matches about 10% of the people in the stadium are actually playing.

Is there any reason why we don't just send someone over to Holland to find out how the f*ck they've been managing to produce top drawer talent, consistently, over the past 50 years? They must be doing something right.

Again.

There's been cold games, wet games and windy games, but that was a impressive combination of cold, wet and windy at the same time. Watching the big waves crashing high off the esplanade wall was the perfect backdrop for it. It was debatable what direction the wind was blowing in, at times. The litter on the pitch was blowing round in circles. The coldest I've been at a game in many a year. Getting knocked out would have been the icing on the cake.

Carmarthen Town 1-0 The New Saints Scene stealing bastards. Ending the season long unbeaten run was our job.

I wonder how many of the 1510 were still there at the final whistle. The East Fife fans legged it in spectacular numbers at the third goal. It was like Ibrox.

In these tough times it saves the ignominy of walking through the opposition fans with a Saints hat on. Incognito.

Absolutely. Played to his strengths, with plenty of nice lay offs to the wings.

When you're actually at a game, you've got no notion of whether there's a commercial break happening, or not. There's certainly no one 'waiting', gnashing their teeth, pining for the game to restart. Because commercial breaks invariably start and end when there's f*ck all happening anyway, e.g. at a change of possession, a serious injury, a timeout, an official review etc. Not sure why you've focused on my use of the word 'gimp'. Big f*cking wow. It's not even directed at you, unless you regard yourself as being hostile to football. Americans don't give commercial breaks a second thought. It just comes down to what you're accustomed to watching.

Yes, despite it having been created some 50+ years before American TV was invented. So, you can imagine what football looks like to people who didn't grow up with it. e.g. take pretty much any game from the last Euro finals. 45 minutes of continuous play, then the half time whistle blows with there barely having been a meaningful effort on goal by either side. Riveting, but at least it was 45 minutes of continuous play. Well, apart from all the stoppages. The physio coming on to treat someone who is only pretending to be injured. The excitement building as the underdogs try to shitfest a draw by parking the bus, and taking as long as possible to get the ball back in play every time they get a free kick or a thrown in, complete with B movie style acting. For how much of that 45 minutes was the ball actually in play, and what exciting action were we watching the rest of the time? The referee giving players a row and writing in his notebook, for one. Riveting. I could go on. See The Simpsons parody of football, particularly 1:30-2:30. That's what we look like to them. They piss themselves laughing at some of the stuff that goes on in football. Not actually true. Many games are under 3 hours, not over 4 hours. This season's average was 3 hours 6 minutes. It only lasts that long because it gets timed properly, unlike football, where the timing is random to say the least. See point above about how much football actually occurs during 45 minutes of 'play.' Incidentally, timing football properly would also instantly eliminate time wasting from the sport. But who wants that? Time wasting is much more riveting to watch. It also also lasts a long time because they make an effort to get game changing refereeing decisions correct. Unlike football, where the referee is expected to see everything, and is effectively left to guess the big calls when the outcomes of games are on the line. I've been watching the NFL nearly as long as I've been watching football, and I love both sports, but football is archaic by comparison. Put simply, if you actually understand what you are watching, there are far more games that are the football equivalent of a seven goal thriller than you actually ever get in football. You couldn't make up some of the plot twist in games, and it happens all the time. If I hadn't been brought up with football and been versed in it, and I had to choose between these two sports, it would absolutely no contest from an entertainment perspective, and that's coming from someone who loves football and has travelled the world to watch it, not one of these gimps who's hostile to it.