There’s a lot of things that are either changing or about to change these days.
Not only material things, or political earthquakes, but a way in which people think about things. Small changes at first, followed by seismic shifts which could go either way.
For better or worse remains to be seen, as the old, conservative ways are challenged by new ideas. largely brought about by massive technological leaps made necessary by the current health crisis.
These changes are coming from the east, which has overtaken the west in development, simply because it had to.
Whereas our lollygagging leaders have fed the masses with fast food, anti depressants and statins, they have moved into health, hygiene and perhaps most importantly, encouraged innovation.
We just wash our hands for twenty seconds and sing happy birthday.
In the microcosm of Scottish football, the conservative SFA/SPFL cabal have just done enough to get by, with piss poor marketing leading to the bare minimum of revenue, and that revenue is about to run out, which has caused all kinds of kerfuffle among clubs who need it, clubs who want it and clubs who don’t give a toss as long as doesn;t affect them.
Football isn’t going to return any time soon, and even next season remains an uncertain event, never mnd the rest of this one.
There has been no desire for change, and as a result when something comes along that threatens the status quo, they are at a loss to deal with it. but they know they will have to, it’s just a matter of tidying up this season and thinking of something bright and breezy for next.
The realisation that they are tied in to sponsors, tv companies and UEFA means that they have no real control over the game, and clubs are now realising that as well, which has led to all manner of tantrums from all level of clubs with a few notable and honest exceptions.
Actually, most have been honourable and exceptional, and the common denominator between the others is that old scoundrel Ibrox.
From the old club that ignored the rules to the new club that wants to disregard them, that vein runs through the current brouhaha bringing its poison to everything it touches.
Just like the old club really, this time the venomous body just has a different face.
Or faces.
The print media, conservative as well as largely right wing, have shown that they are on the side of the blue pound, a phrase used somewhat inaccurately to describe the spending power of the Ibrox hordes, which in fact didn’t even amount to enough to save their original club, and is not exactly pushing the current one into any kind of security either.
for instance, here’s how the Herald…similar readership to the diary, but with a crossword, which we are introducing soon, by the way, reports one side of the current debate about whether or not the season should be ended for the lower league clubs, so that “rangers ” can borrow a few quid to get some bits and bobs to see them through the week…
Fair enough, just the facts, no comment, however, on the underhandedness of collusion behind closed doors…
The choice of wording is significant.
He didn;t get what he wanted, which happens, but the text uses words that valdiate his grievances, and as is common in the Scottish sports media, what the “rebels “, such as “rangers ” and their acolytes have done, or are supposed to have done, or had done to them, drives the narrative as it is implied to be factual, leaving the SFA/SPFL on the defensive even though they have done exactly what they said they would do and followed the rules that everyone else should have been aware of.
Reminiscent of 2011-12 when the whole world was against them and how they were treated disgracefully when oin fact all that happened was they were dodging their taxes, creditors and had no intention of paying either as long as their friends in high places could cover for them and blame everyone else.
Even when they did go into liquidation and cease to exist as a club, the media took no notice and carried on regardless, such was the fear of losing the blue pound, the single most ineffective unit of currency in the history of economics.
The film , as many of us knew it would, is showing again at a theatre near you, and yet again, the Ibrox entity is whipping it’s support into a frenzy about how everyone hates them and wants them to suffer and so on and so forth.
This time, however, the word on the streets is that enougb is enough.
The Ibrox franchise is up for grabs again, and the rest of Scottish football is not going to put up with their nonsense any longer than it has to.
The SPFL is the voise of the clubs, Neil Doncaster is merely a spokesman, and just as in the big wide world, there is change coming, but it will not be all about one club, as that club isn’t going to be around much longer, and it’s replacement will have to toe the line, and if you want to know why….
Simple really.
It dawned on me when the US medical advisor Joe Fauci said he thought handshakes would be a thing of the past.
Those poor bastards at the SFA won;t even recognise each other any more, and will have to find other work, leaving the way clear for bright new innovative thinking.
A brave new world, freed from bigotry, hatred and corruption may not happen outside of Scottish football, but if we want it enough, it can be done inside it…
Yesterday, we had this…
After being flung aff the bus, granny was to prove determined.
Caption:Peter Lawwell is convinced he made the right choice in cancelling Parks of Hamilton for first team Bus duties.
Must be off the booze, his writing is vastly improved as is his text, bring back the auld Ralph, the one whose writings was full off holes and his jokes were funny, on second thoughts no, please don’t, because I like this new age man, this free thinker, whose text and writings carry and make the most sense. Though there is nothing wrong with “knights on white statins”. I have many fears, I worry about the old, their health, about how they are being treated, about how they are now considered expendable, as triple locked pensions become once again a talking point. These “old people” gave us so much, they endured many a hardship to make our lives better, they are our fathers, mothers, uncles and aunts, our friends, they are us, in a few years, life is short enough. As for the Huns, once before we gave them CPR. next time make it DNR. They are not worth the effort, pain, ignorance, intolerance, hatred, bigotry, there is only so much you can take.
Caption: Mrs. Doyle, no longer able to clean the curtains on Craggy Island, uses the same physical approach in her new job.
Just another Hudgie old girl
Mrs Sevvy knows if she loses her grip cadging a ride on the hoopy bus…..She’s deid !
Caption: On our way to Lisbon we shall not be moved.
Am I the only person that questioned Dundee selling Kamara to Sevco for a stinking 50k when they were fighting relegation. Probably their best player at the time. They did get relegated that year. This had wee fud McCann written all over it. He wasn’t the manager but knew the team outside in. I was glad they got relegated and hope they don’t get back up.
Caption……..
Social distancing measures taken to a new extreme.
Caption: Wayne Rooney’s Tinder gets cold feet.
Caption; You’ve used that photo before. Bear with me, while I trawl through the archives to find the winning answer…
Haw’d on ’till I have a think…sniff.
Caption – It certainly is deja vu as Ralph uses the same photograph for a caption competition again that he used about a year ago !
Caption: Whheeeeeeeeeeeee
caption two minutes efter auld jesse wis telt care homes ur safe
🙂
Caption: John Nelms hand-delivers his club’s vote to Hampden.
Caption : ‘Speed 3 being filmed in Glasgow’.
Please try and watch this, an antidote to all the shite that’s now being floated about “Protecting” the NHS:
“The Dirty War on the NHS” is the new documentary from journalist John Pilger. “This film is a tribute to a unique institution,” says Pilger at the start of Dirty War, which is about threatened democracy. Above all, it is a warning. Pilger investigates the dismantling “by stealth” of the National Health Service, “a last bastion of true public service”.
Tonight, there will be a live Q&A with two of the film’s main contributors — Professor Allyson Pollock and Dr John Lister, hosted by Simran Hans (film critic at the Observer) at 8.30pm (UK time), which will be beamed live to your homes via Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and Curzon Home Cinema.
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Sevco tea lady realises her travel pass is out of date
As for the musings of the anti anyone but Celtic brigade, it only adds to the fire of the Sevco meltdown. No footie till September will mean a few Premiership teams will collapse, as Sevco are playing to their lowest common denominator to keep the hordes on board.
But wait as Newcastle are taken over by a rich Arab, their hopes will rise that a rag and bone man might be on the way to rescue Crumbledome.
So let me try and get this straight.
Sevco are against the proposal because they dont want Celtic crowned champions but want paid out on current placings.
Inverness against the proposal because they have a guy who wants a job at sevco and has been trying his best to lobby for sevco.
Partick against the proposal because they dont want relegated
Hearts against the proposal because they dont want relegated
Dundee to decide but really were sold a squib from the inverness guy and when they found out wanted to change or cancel their vote allegedly.
Is this it, why scottish football is in the state it’s in. So,out of all the clubs in Scotland this is democracy at work and are actually doing it in the so called best interests of the game and their supporters.Ffs.
Justice for the 96
Fuck the Sun
Goodie a crossword. No more than two syllables please. I have an attention span of the proverbial 5 seconds. This happens when you get old. Whether you like it or not. On a more cheerful note. CAPTION. Knees up Mother Brown.
(Same as last year)
Compare and contrast with here, where a government who lied to take power lie on a daily basis about current events. There is not one single thing this government has done correctly, it’s merely made promises. No one who died at home or anywhere outside of hospital is included in what are already cataclysmic figures, and all we hear is we are approaching the plateau, flattening the curve. It’s bollocks and it’s costing people their lives. As for China, have a look at some of the anti-viral technology. I can;t be certain, but I do wonder if their death count is lower because they have a better way of dealing with it.
Charlie it’s not any easier in the UK to get to the truth than in China. Just ask families of the numerous people killed by Loyalists with British Army assistance in the occ 6.
Nowadays the Tory Government have total backing of the Tory press & BBC & ITV , anyone who lifts their head to question the Government lies are made fools of .
We won’t have any Anti -Semitism now that Cobryn is no longer leader .
My free will & poor understanding of languages means I am only able to understand the English Language which means I am limited to a mostly western world interpretation & certainly not the Chinese version, so can I believe what I see.
Of course the figures in China are wrong. As they are everywhere else. But governments have tondeal woth the issues at hamd, and ours isn’t. By deflecting to whonate the first batband claiming inaccuracy eveywhere else, our government is able to hide its own inefficiency.
Absolutely.
The Chinese laboratory theory has been totally debunked and is only believed by the tinfoil hat brigade that burn down 5G masts due to the same ignorance.
Hopefully, as the weather heats up, they’ll get out in the sun and ‘Bile yer heid’.
Subtitles come with this^?
Just a picture of a big hole in the ground and an enormous shovel.
You may well be correct, doubt we’ll ever know.
The Herald is anti Catholic, anti Celtic and sells itself as being better than the Record. They and the Evening Times share piss poor writers and agendas. McKenna thinks he is Hugh McIllvaney which he is compared to numbnuts like Cameron and Jack. Mc Whirter at least is decent. It’s the Sunday Post for west end types. Good diary again, please keep them coming.
It was a paper back in the day – Jack McLean wrote that Ibrox had the ‘facade of a public toilet’ and his maw got her windaes tanned. A West End ‘Browns’ think you are on to something there. “Horace pass the tiramisu.”
spidermans washing wasnt dry so he took the first thing available.
“Between 1839 and 1842, British forces fought a war on behalf of drug traffickers. Their victory opened up the lucrative China trade to British merchants. This was all done with the full blessing of the British government.” From the National Army Museum website! There’s a whole raft of countries out there that haven’t forgotten about British imperialism, even if most of Britain has, so no, remarkably, they don’t give a feck about Range Rover patents.
Was that the Ken Buchanan boxer rebellion? if so ffs don’t tell Charlie, at the mere mention of boxing he goes apoplectic.
Speaking of Dundee, the man from Dundee, he say yes, yyyeeesss. Look forward to league reconstruction, not a bad thought.
Facts don’t matter to the nutters.
If its as clear cut as stated then that’ll be a simple win at the WTO or similar world body.
Bizarrely, the court of conspiracy nutters counts for nothing.
https://youtu.be/9Ne3VOnnUE8
Caption : Ye canny shove yer grannie aff a bus
Naw ye canny shove yer grannie aff a bus
Naw ye canny shove yer grannie
Cause she’s yer mammie’s mammie
Ye canny shove yer grannie aff a bus
Ye can shove yer other grannie aff a bus PUSH PUSH
Ye can shove yer other grannie aff a bus PUSH PUSH
Ye can shove yer other grannie
Cause she’s just yer daddie’s mammie
Shove yer other grannie aff a bus PUSH PUSH
We’ll all go round to see her after school HULLO GRANNIE
We’ll all go round to see her after school HULLO GRANNIE
We’ll all go round to see her,
We’ll all go round to see her
We’ll all go round to see her after school HULLO GRANNIE
She’ll feed us mince and tatties when we go YUM YUM
She’ll feed us mince and tatties when we go YUM YUM
She’ll feed us mince and tatties,
She’ll feed us mince and tatties
She’ll feed us mince and tatties when we go YUM YUM
Ma grannie wears an awfy woollie vest SCRATCH SCRATCH
Ma grannie wears an awfy woollie vest SCRATCH SCRATCH
Ma grannie wears a vest
Ma grannie wears a vest
Ma grannie wears an awfy woollie vest SCRATCH SCRATCH
Ye canny shove yer grannie aff a bus
Ye canny shove yer grannie aff a bus
Ye canny shove yer grannie
Cause she’s yer mammie’s mammie
Ye canny shove yer grannie aff a bus
I’ll be honest I didn’t realise there was that many lyrics. Soz
After 5 years of totally shite comedy , Mrs Brown and her boys are found out and packed off,
Caption: clinging on with the same desperation as a hun and the ‘same club’ myth
And with one bound, John James was free!
I mentioned last week about the emerging care home situation in Scotland..and got shot down by the thumbdooners and snp blind monkeys.
its now apparent its a uk wide thing.
But the same question remains.Our hospitals are not yet close to capacity , yet no care homes have been mass tested , or evacuated for cleaning. It seems there is a policy in play here. Keep the numbers down and let the old and frail die.
Add to this the channel 4 news revelation last night that an NHS directive across the country is to put elderly hospital patients who have tested positive back in to care homes , where they will die in a standard bed , no ventilators etc.
So care homes that are already being savaged are now to take ‘untreatable’ patients from hospital back into care homes.
Hancock will surely have questions to answer , But
Will any journalist in Scotland dare ask Nicola , or her f’ckwit pal freeman, or do they get the same press treatment as Sevco…….
Best wee cuntry aye.
I mentioned last week about the emerging care home situation in Scotland..and got shot down by the thumbdooners and snp blind monkeys.
its now apparent its a uk wide thing.
But the same question remains.Our hospitals are not yet close to capacity , yet no care homes have been mass tested , or evacuated for cleaning. It seems there is a policy in play here. Keep the numbers down and let the old and frail die.
Add to this the channel 4 news revelation last night that an NHS directive across the country is to put elderly hospital patients who have tested positive back in to care homes , where they will die in a standard bed , no ventilators etc.
So care homes that are already being savaged are now to take ‘untreatable’ patients from hospital back into care homes.
Hancock will surely have questions to answer , But
Will any journalist in Scotland dare ask Nicola , or her f’ckwit pal freeman, or do they get the same press treatment as Sevco…….
Best wee c@ntry aye.
So shite you post it twice.
You weren’t shouted down but corrected on your false claims in your loony rant.
In a major study in mainland Europe, which is, at least, a couple of weeks ahead of Britain and Ireland, a horrific 42-57% of COVID-19 deaths were attributed to Care Homes.
Only someone who is full of poison would try and spin that as an SNP issue.
And what’s with the ‘thumbdooners’ comment?
The only other person that’s fixated by that is your fellow tinfoil mad hatter.
You’re not, are you.
It’s awful anyone losing a family member to covid-19, but before it even arrived here, it was said unfortunately that the elderly would be far and away the worst affected, so as sad as it is, it’s not unexpected, that doesn’t make it any easier for the families or in fact the care home employees.
I agree with that and “normal” flu seasons can also decimate such vulnerable people.
However, there are verified reports of Care Home staff not having the proper clothing and equipment and residents not dealt with properly, that makes a very serious situation very worse.
That isn’t a Scotland or England or any other country’s unique problem but depressingly seems to be far too common.
🙂
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Staunch and bitter residents of Larkhall go on the attack after foreign bus driver takes the wrong exit off the M74.
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Cross dressing Peter Parker heads for the Daily Bugle.
As Fr Ted sets off for the mainland to collect his Golden Cleric award, Mrs Doyle realises he’s forgot to pack his Thermos.
Get voting Bhoys and ghirls.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52224708
Excellent piece although the editing and spelling could’ve been better, however that’s semantics. Their day is coming the world is going to have to sit up and take notice of the farce that club has become. They want money to be paid out for finishing in second place but aren’t willing to give Celtic the title as there’s still eight games to play and they’ve got a game in hand, this was a league their support and apologists for their club were conceding at the start of February when Hamilton Accies beat them at Ipox. Their cheek and lack of a red neck knows no bounds and quite frankly they’re an embarrassment to the Scottish game.
If they do go into administration again and are liquidated as is expected, then they can’t be allowed to come back and claim they’re the same entity with the same history and trophies, they must be drove into the ground where they belong and UEFA and FIFA have to ratify that. Only in Scotland could a club be liquidated without paying off their debts then change their name to the The Rangers (no points for originality) and be allowed to claim they’re still the same entity with all that went with that, it just can’t be allowed to happen.
HMRC and every other person who got ripped off will never recover the money they’re owed. They even had the audacity to tell sex abuse victims to go to the oldco for compensation knowing these poor people will have no form of recourse. There in a nutshell sums up that club, they’ve no class or empathy for vulnerable victims, and have selective amnesia when it comes to their club’s involvement in the abuse yet take every chance to have a go at Celtic, trying to claim some points scoring in what was a distressing time in the poor victims lives.
We can’t expect a club who was formed to exclude all religions except Protestant and right away forms a divide in society to care about anyone but themselves. This has been borne out over the years by the fact they were allowed to get away with the biggest ever cheating scandal in world sport EVER. Not one person was jailed or even fined. They talk of sporting integrity they don’t know the meaning of those words. They act like petulant teenagers who have a petted lip because they can’t get their own way. There’s very few journalists or sporting media in this country afraid to tell the truth about this club and the poison they and their support spew in abundance from the boardroom, press office and terraces every day. Their claim to be “simply the best” is played at every home game, in my opinion their best is utterly reprehensible and the sooner they’re liquidated for good the better off the Scottish game and society in general will be.
Caption: How to fix a ladder, in your tights.
“the Herald…similar readership to the diary, but with a crossword, which we are introducing soon”
Surely, there’s many a crossword used in the diary daily.
“Joe Fauci”, is he a cross between Anthony Fauci and Joe Pesci?
I’m sure the caption was used fairly recently but, dammit, I can’t remember Puggy’s entry.
Caption: Anne Budge catches the last taskforce.
“Dundee Utd, Raith & Cove win titles and reconstruction talks start after Dundee vote”
www bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52297066
Great news for the Rainjurs, as they’ll shortly get their hands on the 2nd prize money.
After they have to agree that we are nine in a row no asterisk Champions!
They can asterisk all they like, I’m sure no Tim gives a f***
🙂
there must be an asterisk when season 19/20 is brought to an end, sadly.
sporting integrity demands it.
the asterisk should be next to
Sevco The Rangers
and the footnote to the asterrisk should say
Surrendered and tore up their pitch (13 points behind) before the season was brought to a conclusion.
Here’s to 10. And on to 55.
what version of Sevco The Rangers will be around then……
Asterisk winner, surely not!
Cant wait for statement O’Clock.
The back of the bus they canny
hing, canny hing, canny hing …. wait a minute
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The face painter’s maw, not wishing him to be caught out a second time, decides to secure the team bus ahead of Sevco’s Liquidation.
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Annie Budge, acting either bravely of foolishly, decides to graphically illustrate to Dundee FC what falling off the league ladder will do to Hearts.
Look away now.
Caption: Laugh all you want in there but just wait till my little Granddaughter Rosa comes along then you will see a change is gonnae come.
Aye but Sam or Otis?