Dirty Sanchez

Further to that, their No.2 got booked for pulling Cooper back with both arms after Cooper had skinned him. At that point my feeling was that we should be sending Cooper straight at the No.2 as often as possible for the rest of the game, knowing that the guy couldn't touch him.

They've got quite a few wee niggly fannies in their team, notably 16, 17 and 23.

Also unbelievable miss from under the crossbar after the Langfield save.

Gus himself once quoted a figure of 5000 that he'd been promised.

A posse of Saints players caught up with him and let him know what they thought about it.

Even the ref knew that wasn't a free kick. He was using it to even things up after guessing wrongly about a corner he'd failed to award us a couple of minutes earlier.

Their No11 is a wee neddy prick, btw. He's just shouted. 'He f**kin stamped oan um' right in the linesman's face attempting to get Gallacher sent off. Then he booted Stevie Mallan up in the air in the next passage of play. Fanny.

I listen to ESPN Chicago radio just about every day, so have to listen to both sides of this argument. Just yesterday, I listened to a rant from radio guy David Kaplan, similar to the above, about how he's perplexed as to why anyone could sit through anything as tedious as a soccer match. I'm all for both sports, but if you weren't brought up with one or the other, so are not invested in, or fully understand what you're watching, I can totally get why you would find the other tediously boring. The way the NFL is run, however, is absolutely light years ahead of football, which is embarrassingly archaic in comparison, and is all the worse for it.

Bizarrely, I was just looking for highlights of Oriental v Benfica, and I wasn't happy about having been trolled with some video game pish, and then, suddenly, there's Stevie Mallan looking back at me.

Not sure why this video, that's supposed to show the highlights of Oriental v Benfica in the Portuguese League Cup, suddenly switches to a picture of Stevie Mallan after 29 seconds and stays on the still picture for the rest of the video.?! Mallan to Benfica. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYBKTP_FMmM

I was on the train that day, and had heard nothing. It wasn't a good sign when we pulled into Waverley Station to the sight of a bunch of Saints fans standing on the platform waiting to catch the same train back to Glasgow.

I was trying to think of the number of times this has happened to us. Kirkcaldy, Dingwall and Airdrie have all been late call offs involving us, as well as an abandoned game at Stranraer. There was late call of v the old Rangers at Love Street, and abandoned games v Ayr in 94 and Dundee in the 83. The Dundee one was in May, when you'd hope that you could guarantee 90 minutes worth of football weather.

I don't know if it was on or not, but it would just sum up Scottish football perfectly, and the ridiculous SPL era in particular, if we're now in a position where we we've forced clubs to install undersoil heating that they can't afford to use!

Also, it was the dive of a cheating prick that got him the red card that cost him his place. If you've any doubt about whether that was a dive, watch the video of the game, and you'll see him trying the exact same thing again during second half stoppage time, but this time making it too obvious, and failing to con the ref.

Also scored a screamer against us at Love Street, whilst on loan to St Johnstone, during a Scottish Cup replay shitfest in the Gus era.

We should really capitalise on this fixture by charging a ridiculous admission fee of, say £25. Oops, we already do.

Indeed. I'm not arguing, I'm just asserting the point that Partick Thistle always travel in numbers to us, irrespective of the fixture. Although, I'd further suggest that they perhaps wouldn't be coming in tonight's numbers for a league fixture. As I said, some of the biggest Saints travelling supports I've been part of have been in cup fixtures just like this one. I'm thinking of games at Kilbowie, Ayr, Kirkcaldy etc. I can also think of the likes of Thistle, Motherwell and Morton, e.g., bringing their largest ever travelling supports to us, since I've been a fan, again in cup games just like this one. If they've indeed got cup fever and we haven't, it may be because we know our limitations now, and they might fancy a run at it. As we know, if you're a half decent Premier team and you get the breaks, you've got a chance to win cups. Let's hope they haven't got cup fever tomorrow.

They always do. I can't think of anything other than a large Partick Thistle travelling support.at our place(s) for a very long time, no matter the fixture. Added to that, they've been on a nice unbeaten run, and now have a very winnable, nearby cup tie against opposition who've been mainly rancid all season at a lower level. It's the sort of tie I grew up watching Saints take huge travelling supports to when the boot was on the other foot.

Thistle would have shifted a ton of tickets for this game no matter when it was played.

Although there was an article in the paper at the time suggesting that Stickroth had been involved in a bit of a dust up whilst on a night out before he joined us. I think him and his mates had brought fists along to a knife fight. The money was weighted to transfer fees rather than wages in those days. Still a lot of money, though. When he was out injured you used to see him with his entourage, including stunning burd, catching the train to Glasgow after the games.

There was a thread on here years ago asking people to list their top 5, or whatever, games of all time. I think only one person mentioned the above 5-1 win over Morton. I doubt an equivalent thread on the Morton forum would feature very few mentions of their 5-1 win over us. Both 5-1 games were low key, fairly meaningless and relatively poorly attended games.

Left foot missile into the opposite top corner. Wasted on a low key game like that, with no cameras. Guni Torfason also picked up a serious injury in the same match and missed the next 7 games, which didn't help us any.

Yes, they did. That's what I said, they won 3 in a row during 1997 and 1998.

Another way to look at it is, they won 3 in a row against us from early '97 to early '98. Other than that they haven't beat us at Cappielow in 33 years, whilst we've won there 20 (twenty) times.