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Morning everyone There's a new series on BBC Scotland at approx 1030 on Friday night talking about classic Scottish Cup Finals, this Friday is ours.

I don’t think it could be described as a classic! Classic semi-finals, on the other hand....

Over the last three decades or so the clubs at the very top of the financial pyramid, almost all now owned or controlled by middle eastern, American, Asian or Russian billionaires with no knowledge of or interest in the history or sporting integrity of the game but entirely driven by a combination of naked greed and egotism, have been increasingly divorced from the rest of the game and the very great majority of fans including those who support their own clubs. However, this latest proposal takes naked greed and self interest to a level only previously demonstrated by David Cameron and the Kardashians. More seriously though, there is probably little that can be done to prevent these selfish b@stards from forming their own clique. However, the rest of the footballing community needs to unite In making sure that these teams can no longer take part in any domestic tournaments in any nation in the World and Fifa and UEFA need to make it abundantly clear that players contracted to any breakaway club will not be eligible to be selected for International football for as long as they are so contracted and ideally for two years thereafter. Further, all decent fans of the 'elite' should consider very carefully whether to give to continue to give their hard earned cash to the oil magnates and oligarchs or whether to support their local lower league club instead. Finally, should the project ultimately fail and any of the participating clubs wish to return to their domestic set ups they should only be permitted to do so at the very foot of the relevant domestic pyramid and on the payment of a substantial financial bond to the domestic association. Let the greedy go if they wish but let's see how they fare without the support of the many layers from grassroots football up who have always, one way or another propped up and supported the top.

Brilliant news. His performances since the new hairstyle have been top drawer.

A word of warning for fans of ICT who naively believe that this will have no effect on our club. If the likes of Real Madrid, Milan and Manchester United suddenly have their income increased by 40% they will then be in a position to contemplate signing players of the calibre of Dave Carson, Daniel McKay and Mark Riders and then where would we be !

I can confirm that ICT are NOT one of the 12 European clubs who have signed up for this. I’m sure many of our fans will appreciate this clarification. 😉

Love the strips this year and the pink away strip seems lucky unlike the black strip wasn’t lucky at all and made them look like eleven refs running around! I know luck has nothing to do with football really but anything helps nowadays.