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Went in to buy another shirt today (my wife has claimed the first one) and a guy dressed head to foot in Celtic gear came in the shop. I thought to my self " They better not be selling him tickets for the Celtic game". Imagine my shock when he bought a new shirt for his ICT supporting son. Fair cheered me up.

It's odd, I was speaking to someone at the club yesterday and strangely the most recent and other non striped strips sell far better than the striped ones. Last home strip was the best selling ever bar the 'named' one. Going by people's view on here stripes are the massive prefrence. I can only assume that either many of the stripe fans don't bother to buy the strips or or the majority of srtips sold are to a demographic not on CTO. I don't know the breakdown but I'd imagine that there's far more kids and jnr strips sold than adults. Obviously it seems the kids like the different designs and if that's your biggest market I suppose it makes sense to keep it happy..

Like Gow, he's one of Yogi's former players. Fully enough as soon as we appointed Hughes, I fully expected our transfer activity to be centred around his old boys, and I'm sure I wasn't the only one to be a bit underwhelmed at that prospect. But if these guys prove themselves good enough, that's fine by me. Interestingly back in April, Horner retweeted "Yogi had Hibs playing the best football by a mile."

I'm not a fan of opening ceremonies for things like this anyway, but this one could have been worse. And at least the fecal brown socks and kilts and the 1970s holiday shirts didn't look quite so bad under that lighting. Then there was the baton which had been travelling for light years round the known universe apparently since the days of Jurassic Park and when it eventually got to the end of the road they couldn't get the bloody lid off I was also wondering what the Green Brigade were thinking about 40,000 people loyally singing God Save The Queen to the wifie herself inside Celtic Park. And is Rod Stewart incapable of singing in anything other than an American accent? (Or is it just that Rod Stewart is incapable of singing?) Inevitably, of course, we were never going to get away without a few episodes of the Caledonian Cringe - that limitless capacity the Scots seem to have of making merciless caricatures of themselves - the Nessie, the caber, the giant kilt and sporran and... horror of horrors... Andy Bloody Stewart!! I am told that the guy in the purple tartan suit was born in Glasgow but lives in the USA. The welcome the Scottish team got was wonderful and it was good to see the predicted booing of the English team failed to materialise.

Just back. The no.8 looked like Gow but played central midfield. Sounds like a broken record but we passed and kept the ball well but have little cutting edge. Not a lot more to be said really apart from Josh went off very early, Christie looked bright and Billy scored.

They were apparently unlucky to lose 2-1 it was Ferguson again who got the goal.