Scarlet Pimple

Maple Ridge British Columbia in name and spirit only I am afraid. Unless some generous soul tells me where I can find a video streamer online.......???????? I am a stay at home Grandpa while the wife is gallivanting in London, Englandshire. Her first holiday in donkey's years, so I gracefully submitted. I know one thing, she is deffo going to come back completely broke and maybe even overspent as well., bejabbers. Still I understand the museums are free. My granddaughter went with a pal for three weeks to London and Europe and had to terminate the holiday because she ran out of cash. The airline charged her extra for the cafuffle and she is only a young woman with hardly a dime to her name. She reported that any meal costs on average 15 pounds, or about $26 Canadian currency, in London?

Brewster probably quite an honest guy who probably just lacked management flair. Not an ebullient, very self-confident, inspirational manager I would suggest and limited ability to react to pending disaster with speed, intense insights and perhaps not so good man management capabilities. More dour-ish than the opposite. Butcher -- Thinks he had it all when all he had was exotic flair, a bad temper set alight by behaviour by others that he felt reduced his chances of being the King of Soccer on Earth , Mars and Saturn. Liked the limelight until the lime burnt out of the flame -- and then apparently set himself loyalty and morality and the interest of anything and anybody else to secure his own salvation.. Ended by betraying the best thing since sliced bread that had happened to him since his early playing days when he got his first start in footie.---ICT. Proved to be a &#$#$****%&ing dingbat, nest-feathering SOB-(Singularly Offal Bloke) who even yet makes me shudder in horror at how easily we were taken in by the pseudo success of a person who was as true a con-man if we ever saw one. Apart from that, Scarlet disliked him. When asked pointedly by Daddy Pimpernell why, he replied ..."Daddy, let's just leave sleeping dogs lie. Just look up "offal" in the Oxford English Dictionary."

Not to add fuel to the fire but this page of the newspaper has some very interesting ,apparently neutral, comments on the affair. Unless the SFA officials /management have skins as thick as large Valencia oranges this should shake them to their foundations. Take your pick of these articles. especially the main one on the left side. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/opinion/sport/sports-hotline-meekingsgate--fans-left-5576069

So he can carry the triumphal ICT banner into the stadium like a gladiator of old in Ancient Rome. Now that WOULD cause a stir.

Maybe he has had enough of the limelight at this point anyway and a change is as good as a rest. Need him to be both physically and mentally fit for the Final.

Egalitarian to a fault IHE . I commendeth thee on thy noble outlook.

Yes! Yes! but Ronny Deila showed his class afterwards and swallowed his gall with aplomb.

Roll on Hampden on the 30 May. ..AND the huge cheer as Josh Meekings runs out onto the park...............

It's just another reason why goal line cameras are a much needed adjunct to the way in which questionable incidents are handled to allow football to measure up to the excellent, stringent standards applicable in the very fast National Hockey League in North America. They use a camera above and to the sides of the goal line so dubiety is rarely if ever an issue. The refs are also in direct contact with the NHL supervisors in Toronto by direct telephone line for a decision on what the outcome is on any contested goal. That takes the onus off the refs on the ice, everybody is satisfied and, once the decision is rendered, the matter is done and dusted within a minute or so. No further appeals are needed or made and that's the end of it. On with the game. Fantastic system and everybody in the kingdom can see the camera angles and so forth immediately. That's the electronic age for you and isn't it time that Scottish football introduced cameras?

Cool, calm and collected --that's ....OOR Buckett.

Sneckboy --You must be "OOR WULLIE" from the Sunday Post==You have just sat on a buckett.

Er...what's Twitter.?

I am now feeling that if this is proceeded with and Josh is suspended then the floodgates of complaint are about to open to the great detriment of Celtic F C and the SFA. The can of worms is now pried wide open and, believe me,the genie is now well and truly out of the box. To put it succinctly. the party is about to start and you "aint seen nuffink yet" If they actually now believe, in view of the rising controversy, that this is suddenly going to end with Josh missing the Final then they are delusional. Consider the following: 1.First off there is no evidence whatsoever that any allegation to commit the alleged foul was intentional. At least one crystal clear photo shows Josh in the traditional, NATURAL, mode of attempting to HEAD the ball which, in itself necessitates one or both arms to be extended in order to accomplish the task. If his hand was still attached to his arm isn't it a normal physical thing that if the arm is in the position to allow him to thrust his head forward then the hand had to also be in that position too .Unless of course ,. it could naturally be also argued that the arm was on the way back , not forward, IF he was attempting to head the ball....because it sure looks like that to the unbiased me. 2.Not one of three refs said this was intentional. 3. If his intention was to swat the ball to prevent it going into the net then why would his head be bent in such a demonstrative forward position. By swatting the ball the opposite physical backward reaction is generated and his arm should then come back. No ref said it didn't. So........VOILA! 4. It is just as easy for the neutral observer to suggest that it was pure happenstance that his hand touched the ball since at no time has this honest English injun admitted to making a deliberate attempt to thwart the mighty, untouchable Celtic F.C. which would have been a much worse crime worthy of a death sentence, don't you know, and condemned him to eternal damnation.

Celtic's actions are extremely biased because they think that who they are entitles them not only to special treatment but the sentiment that this treatment will be given to them and that, in their opinion, this is only natural justice and therefore an extreme likelihood. Favorable terms is therefore an expected foregone conclusion in their minds. If it does then there is undoubtedly a cancer in Scottish Football that needs drastic action to have it excised once and for all. Have you heard a single word out tof Celtic's Management to the effect that ICT worked very hard and justly deserved their win? So they lower themselves into the gutter to gain a small advantage that only serves to undermine the fact that the difference in size and wealth between them and us is so great as to suggest that kicking them completely out of the league would be a just reaction and of benefit to all other teams in Scotland. If all the other teams refused to play them it would rock Scottish Football to it's foundations and certainly put these two teams into bankruptcy and oblivion. Success has gone to their heads and now represents a pain in the Irish, little else. They owe all their wealth and power to all the fans in Scotland who have come to matches involving them and they are coming very close to losing all sympathy they have around the league by this stupid and precipitate decision. They would then have to crawl to the English FA and would end up in a lowly League and have to fight their way back into the limelight if they lost total support. I am extremely angry at the pettiness and lack of wisdom in this action. All it serves to do is alienate other fans and clubs and show them up to be very sore losers --the only team in the world who ever had unfair treatment , good, bad or indifferent meted out to them. WOW--what big news, eh? Instead of sucking it up and getting on with it they act ungraciously and in a self-serving manner. Only Ronnie Deila has had the grace and class to speak a good word about ICT as far as I can determine. When you think of the colossal energy output made by ICT to allow them to get to this incredible position and set that against all the wealth and power that Celtic mustered and yet they FAILED miserably when the chips were down, one can only be embarrassed for them . It would do Scottish Football Premier League a lot of good if we terminated both their membership and that of Rangers F.C who undoubtedly shared their views when they were in the same league. Both teams are over privileged and over dominant and both have a sense of lofty, unearned entitlement that belies their usefulness and their ranking in the hearts of the true Scottish football fan. They need to be taken down a peg and I fondly hope that Caley Thistle shows in the FINAL that THEY, and they alone, deserve to win the cup by more fantastic play, skill, effort and heart.

Hope for a major prevailing wind to blow them all over the town and the country. Then no one will forget who the winners of the match are.

I repeat what I predicted months ago. I.C.T. is going to win the cup.

Even if the Celtic players were dead beat at the end, the way Shinnie walzed round these backs and left them standing in his dust before getting that hard pass over to Dave, was........ MAGIC.

With the way the team is playing (or should I say THE team) this should be a major attraction on the day.

R.Gauld!? Looks like Ryan CHRISTIE will be joining him soon. At a very high fee of course.

Ditto Scotty. I was having a slight challenge with the Inverness accents and sometime perhaps keeping the voices a bit closer to the microphones would have helped with this but otherwise that's very good . Cheers Scarlet

Can someone, anyone, please supply a video link to the game that will work in Canada? Reward for the right, working link. S.P.

If the choice is from the present team we could do a lot worse than Josh. He is indeed a classy guy and stable too or so it seems from over 5,000 miles away.

Dean..Minimum.

I admire the undying loyalty of Ronaldo.

Encouraging crowd today. Maybe the population of Inverness and district is beginning to wake up to the ICT feats . Reviewing the text of the BBC commentary of the game, the stats at the end show ICT well ahead in the dominance department. ?