Dirty Sanchez

Sometimes something happens in a game that makes you think the football gods have spoken, and it's not going to be your day, no matter what you do. The season St Johnstone are having has already got a lot of the hallmarks of a relegation season, as though the football gods have decided that it's happening, no matter what they do. Never was I more convinced of this than when their two players accidentally tackled each other, and the physio had to come on to treat them.

My favourite one of these from the past was when Motherwell cited panto villain Jim Goodwin. Their tears were blinding them to their own guy's role in the incident. SFA: Two game ban for the Motherwell player as well.

I read an interview with Steven Gerrard where he was saying tht all the empty seats on TV makes the image of Scottish football look pish. He suggested using better camera angles to hide the empty seats. Looks like Ross County are going out of their way to make the place look empty with their placement of the away fans.

I was just going to say that, actually.

Been avoiding the footbal all day with a view to watching it as live on Alba. Tuned in four minutes before start time to find them giving out the f**king result on the preceeding show. Good effort.

They've got a live BT Sport game v Chesterfield scheduled for that weekend. Should make it a double header and play both games the same day.

From the Sunday Mail, 2nd May 1982. I remember being round the back of the Main Stand after this game, where you could hear every word of Jim McLean having a f*cking epic meltdown at his players.

Jack Baird to Morton (loan).

Will be remembered for not downing tools after he signed the PCA with Rangers. Was a key player in the run in that season. And also standing on the ball after the late winner against St Johnstone.

I'd looked him up and discovered his inexperience, which I wished to highlight. The rest was mainly just filler to compensate for my team getting beat, but if you need a lightbulb changing, give us a shout and I'll get it for you. 💡

What's this, another Krankie protesting too much?

I wasn't astounded to learn that was only the referee's second ever game in the Premiership. Has there ever been a ref with that Jimmy Krankie-like physique who could command 22 adults effectively?

And the scarf falls foul of all three.

Has Lord Lyon still got his knickers in a twist about using castellations? https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/call-to-arms-over-threat-to-scottish-club-badges-1-3746851

Game stopped to let the smoke from banned flares clear. It was from the Polish fans, but some of the smoke touched the Rangers support, so they are clearly complicit.

One fan responds: https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/4656121/rangers-fan-billy-boys-tattoo-uefa/

Beware of scam parking operators around that town centre, where so called free parking comes with a time limit and lousy signage.

Loch Lomond Shores and Balloch for shortest. Another decent option to make a day of it is head to Luss and take a return boat trip to Balmaha on the other side of the loch. There's a couple of different boats that run about five times a day each way, and lets you see Balmaha without having to drive around the other side of the loch.

Haven't seen a coupon like that since Maradona at the '94 World Cup.

I noticed in a chorus of Follow Follow, the line about the Pope and the Vatican was genuinely quieter than the rest of it. I couldn't make out if they were singing something different (unlikely), or if some of them had just checked out of singing that bit.

Makes you pine for the days of Willie Waddell, who looks like an actor doing a parody of an intolerant bigot, but was actually a real person. Here we see him suggesting that Rangers fans go home and beat up their wives after a bad result (08:31), and admire the Zen-like calm he displays when his phone unexpectedly rings during the interview (at 38:00).

A82 runs the length of its Northbank (see what I've done?). Fort Augustus is a quaint town at the West end of the loch from where you can take Loch Cruises. Urquhart Castle is halfway (15 miles) along the A82 between there and Inverness.

Urquhart Castle following a stop in Fort Augustus is a no brainer if on the A82 to Loch Ness. All a bit of a trek from Newton Stewart, though.

Yes, I was reinforcing your view. Adding detail to back it up.

It's the ability to navigate around the outside of the circle within the plane that allows it to be identified. It has no angles, and appears the same from wherever it is viewed, unlike any other shape. A sphere moving in and out of the plane would appear as a line of varying length when viewed from one frame of reference. If you then moved around to other locations within the plane and observed the same scene from different viewpoints it would become apparent that you were looking at a circle that was somehow varying its own circumference (as the sphere moves in and out of the plane).