The Mantis

Must admit I've never been patronised by a font. I was once humiliated by a semi-colon though. Sarcastic little barstewards they can be

Rather bizarre but also quite appropriate.....

Font Nazis! I love it

What an intelligent, impartial and thoughtful article. Sometimes I wish I was a teacher. I suppose that should be 'wish I were a teacher'.

The BBC commentary kept saying it was a decent game to watch and we were just beaten by a better side. Also that Tokes kept making great recovery tackles and was MoM. Kind of glad I didn't travel all the same

Back in the 70s he faced great Scottish players like Hugh Jarse aka John Greig.

From what I've seen of McCann, it's his defending that's the problem, not his attacking play. Most of the guys who sit with me at games would agree.

You don't have to go back very far. What about the first day of this season. Hayes looks like running amok first 20 mins so Ledley(?) halves him in the middle of the park and doesn't even get a card. Obviously wee Jonny is knackered and doesn't contribute much to the game after that. Also Samaras- 3 blatant handballs from the big girl's blouse, fouls awarded, but no cards. Fast forward to the League Cup tie at Celtic Park. Wilson (or Ki?) assaults and severely injures Lee Cox and gets a yellow. Imagine if big Rossco had done it instead. As for the other lot of the ugly sisters, it was only about 2 years ago that it was shown that Celtic had had about 5 decisions in their favour and the season was only a few weeks old. For example, the wee cheat Nakamura 'won' a free kick which produced the only goal of the game at Love Street. Meanwhile Rangers had suffered a few wrong decisions such as a disallowed goal at Pittodrie. If I was of the hun persuasion (which I'm not) no doubt I would be able to remember more details, but that would spoil a fine story wouldn't it. A plague on both your houses.

Totally agree, not often you see someone lob the keeper from 90 yards out. Nonsense, it was about 130, he was in the stand with us when he hit it.

This is a thread about ICT v Rangers. If you want to discuss paranoia/masonic refs, do it in 'other football'.

Pedantic note: I believe the acronym used by the green half of the ugly sisters is, in fact, 'orc' but obviously dougal, with his knowledge of union flags, highland history and culture etc, will inform us what 'orks' are. Natives of Kirkwall perchance......

So were Elgin depending on who you ask. Mainly because both clubs dominated the trophies. Obviously with your deep knowledge of North football and culture you knew that already. However in 17 years I have yet to hear ICT described as the Rangers of the North.

Ditto the Diggers but if you squeeze in we usually get the room at the back.

Just thinking about getting the train up for this game. Is it definitely on Sunday then? I mean isn't Boxing Day on Monday?

Would you recommend anybody else to get their car done by Caley 100?

Is this the first job he's left without being sacked

Totally agree Chris. Despite all the politics, FIFA's raison d'etre is to expand the game to all the corners of the world. Regarding the accusations of corruption, one thing struck me last night on the news: they showed the outside of a hotel and said that Cameron, Becks and Wills spent 3 days inside it 'doing deals'. Whatever does that mean? p.s. Yes, I know the world has no corners......

'Shat in the nest' is the phrase that comes to mind

I bet when DS is interviewed, he says he's off to join the Edinburgh FF for more money.

Nah, it's just a daft rule the SPL made up along with the 10000 seats to make themselves sound important. Obviously the EPL have mair sense.

No but you're in the right county, and same vintage of house, 1968. I was growing up when they built Mayburn, getting chased by the night watchie and so on

Since Alex is showing his holiday photos:

Just as ICT made history with getting the 10000 seats rule changed, I think ICT should get the USH rule changed. USH could be optional rather than compulsory. If a club loses a game to the weather, they could accept a fine instead. USH has ruined our pitch.

With blue shorts IIRC, worn at Dens Park on 17/8/94. Not sure if/when it was worn again. Sorry Scotty, had a look but I can't help either! Gordon Gillespie or Ian Broadfoot are about the only hope.