Its League Cup Final Week….oh yes it is….go on, get yourself excited, try your best. No? fair enough, its hardly the most important trophy when it comes down to pre-season Wish-List making after all but you cant win a Treble without it mind.
So, while the League Cup final might not be the most important trophy of the season, it is the most important trophy of THIS WEEK and more importantly THIS WEEKEND!
This Weekend your asking, so what?
Well, the fact its this Weekend is exactly the issue.
What else happens this weekend? ( no not that, you know fine well that only happens on the last weekend of the month!)
Why its Mothers Day of course.
Cue some amongst you saying “Pah, so what”. Cue readers lambasting a cliche ridden event manufactured by necessity of greedy card and gift makers. Cue some amongst you looking heavenwards and thinking “God bless you maw!” and promising to spend that 3 quid you would have spent on a card on a decent alternative, like lager.
BUT also, cue some of you saying “NO!!”
Yip. you didnt see it coming did you?
And do you know why?
Because Neil Doncaster hates your mum!
Its the only reason i can think of that a man would stage a national trophy on the very same day that the Nations sons and daughters should be celebrating with their Mothers.
Some of you may be saying “You can do both at the same time!”.
This is true but also extremely limited. As my very angry wife has just found out, most locations will only cater for one event, the Cup Final, or the other Mothering Sunday. It’s rare to have crowds of beloved Mothers sitting down to a nice loving Sunday Lunch amongst crowds of loud hairy arsed drunk football fans( some men too of course), shouting out at a large projection screen showing the game.
This fact also now makes me consider just how clever is Doncaster as a business man? Should he be negotiating contracts with sponsors if he and his advisers cant see hes halved the potential Hospitality and Event income streams for thousands of businesses in Scotland across this weekend!
Why Neil?
Why?
What did your mother do, for you to take it out on Mothers everywhere?
Did she start you on the buzz cut life of torment?
Did she advise you on the 5 way agreement?
Does she just not like football on a Saturday?
Does anyone know why the League Cup Final isnt being played on a Saturday, even at 5pm if needs be to accommodate 3pm kick offs. Dont we copy everything English football does these days?
In fact if it has to be on a Sunday, then why does it need to be on a Sunday so very very late in the season? The semi-finals were completed on 1st February and when did the Quarter finals end?….the 29th of October 2014!
Now thats piss poor logistics and no mistake, my only conclusion, its intentional because Neil Doncaster hates my mother!
So come Friday when youre talking about the up and coming weekend, when you find yourself laughing with workmates or making meet up plans with friends, dont forget your dear old maw. She deserves that card, those flowers, that gift. She dotes on that visit, a hug, a kiss, a smile from the grandweans.
Thanks to Neil Doncaster, she will just have to make sure shes available between 10 and 10:45am, because youre going to be on a very very tight schedule this Sunday.
At least you didn’t put in a photie of ND. Appreciate that Desi – Take note Ralph!
Looking at http://www.qtsgroup.com/ the sponsors of this event, I’m a wee bit worried at the colour scheme. Looks like they might favour one team over another – just a thought 🙂
If there’s not too many honest mistakes – I am sure we’ll be too strong for those arabs.
Rest assured, Hundee United will resort to the same “cheat to win” tactics in the coming matches. It’s a sign of mental weakness, as they know they’ve not got the quality to win on skill. A serious pumping is in order …
Oh Freud would have a field day with that posting in this topic!
It me a bit to figure that out. Perhaps I should rephrase … 😉
Ta
re ND…I was tempted but managed to resist, cant have us picturing our beloved mothers and that face popping into our heads!
Disnae bare thinking aboot!
I see Sweet Fanny Adams doing their best to ensure justice falls aff the scales.
Expect more honest mistakes coming soon involving my new 2nd favourite teams of Queen of the South, Hibs and Falkirk; but I’m just paranoid.
You’re not paranoid, just canny. The Championship playoffs were initiated in the Championship to guarantee Sevco a place in the top league, one way or another. Imagine finishing fourth out of ten and still getting promoted? Not normal, is it? However, enter Hibs who also want to go up. They’re Fenians like us so watch that space very carefully.Watch the Masons do their thing. It looks like Hibs might even go second so Sevco will have to beat Falkirk or Queen of the South in order to play Hibs in order to finally play Motherwell or St. Mirren. (The Staggies will stay up, bless em!)
I also want to know how Big Ashley is going to react to having his own stooges kicked off the Sevco board? I wonder if the big fella has the power to liquidate our Huns when they can’t pay him back the money he loaned them? Most sensitive people pay their debts. I owed the tax people all of £12 last year but you bet they reminded me I owed it and had to pay it. I guess “Ra Peepil” cherry pick the word loyalty. Better Together until you have to pay your debts, eh?
King/Paul Murray/Sir Walter Waistcoat all still adored and yet all part of the original problem and not the solution. Did Wattie protest at the extravagant salaries and the championships bought with financial doping and his Imperial Master’s general succulent lamb shenanigans—did he hell– and they want Waistcoat back too! Maybe they’ll sign Tore Andre Flo, Laudrup and Gazza again?!!
For ever fiver, we’ll spend….
If Virgil Van Dijk loses his appeal and misses the League cup final, I think that’ll be the final straw for me with the Scottish game.
This week there has been an underlying tone to get Scott Brown banned for the final.
FFS I need Valium!
Totally agree, they will try thier best to ensure if we want the treble, they will do whatever in thier powers to under strength us for each competition, they are all tan loving brogues, I despise corruption and all the honest mistakes!!!!
Agreed – but let’s not get too glum. There is always more comedy gold to keep a smile on our faces: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-31838762
Well, Monti, Celtic put in their advanced objections. It will be interesting how far they take their protest if VVD is banned. This may be Celtic’s El Alemein moment. Let’s hope they are willing to do battle for all our sakes.
H H
Brown and Van Dijk also have to share some of the responsibility for the stramash against United.
Brown went in very heavily on Ciftci and Van Dijk appeared to be a bit careless with his feet.
I felt both were a bit rash at the time and no matter what idiotic decision the Ref and Linesman came to both Brown and Virgil gave them something to think about.
We need our key players to be a bit wiser in these situations and less fuckin hot headed.
The Penalty was very soft but again had Izzy not been trying to emulate Paolo Maldini and simply let the ball go out of play then perhaps Bitton would not have been put in a position where Stokes felt the need to come in and help out?
We can be our own worst enemy at times.
Keep it calm ,play it simple and let the quality shine through.
Leave the desperate breenging shite to others.
CS
Rash decisions are not illegal and that is what is at the centre of the controversies. If football was still a man’s game and not a “don’t touch me” mammy’s-boy sport, none of the tackles would have been questioned. Ciftci, however, is not the challenge of a “hard man” but the cowardly retaliation of a wimp. A stout Scot died last week by the name of Dave McKay. If you want to see what real tackling is about watch some of his handywork.
H H
The thing is it’s no longer “a man’s game” PB.
Players have to tackle in a controlled manner now and without intent to do damage.
Browns tackle was fair but very hard and had he been a split second early or late then he’d have been straight off no danger.
Virgil got involved because of the 2 previous incidents and I think he did so without thinking of the possible consequences.
My point is regardless of how the game is going our bhoys have a responsibility to their team mates to use common sense before crashes into heavy challenges.
We are a better side man for man and really have no need to be running the risks because that game could easily have swung the other way.
Then bang goes the treble.
Poor Doncaster didn’t have a mammy. He makes up for that fact now by fervently sucking from the collective teets of Regan & Ogilvie.
“For every fiver Celtic spend, we’ll tap a tenner”
Hail. hail