Scarlet Pimple

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.

Has some terrific touches and Doofer's assessment is spot-on. Great loyal servant as well.

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

Charles I was too small to appreciate the true value of the Grundig . But it sure looked good. Dad took it back soon after though--I think he agreed with you, it was too expensive. Maybe my time frame is off, however, but the radio dealers K J MacKintosh on Eastgate may have been in the picture at that time since my Sister, Daphne, married Dennis son of K J Mackintosh the owner. As for the other comment you make about the German radios etc, of course I was joking. The enigma was used by the Allies at Bletchfield Park to decode the Gerry Submarines' plans 'cos, if they had not done this, the Germans would have decimated the supply ships crossing from Amerikky completely and we Brits would now have been starved into our graves or into submission.

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

How many have you had prematch IHE?

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.

Charlie, sounds like this gent is my shadow.....

Charlie Well all I remember was this snazzy radio coming into the house. But my father ignored my pleas to keep it and returned it to the shop from whence it came. Maybe that was K J Mackintosh on Eastgate since my sister subsequently married Dennis , son of K.J.Mackintosh. Enigma did essentially win the war, Chas because, without it the Allies would not have been able to suss out the plans of the U Boats who were attacking and sinking all the Allied shipping carrying food and supplies to us starving Brits. It even alludes to that in the trailer of the Movie I saw recently. However, Charles, my simple advice to you m'lad is to take anything Scarlet says with a large pinch pinch of salt in case he turns round and puts said salt on your tail......now back to my current reading..."The Saucy tales of a Jack Tar Seaman singing a Salty Sea Shanty".

I remember now.... The Rime of the ancient Mariner....Yes.... Cute huh? Then that was followed quickly, don't forget, by the Grime of the Ancient Chimney Sweep. I was just joshing you, Chas. You are the unbeatable, quintessential journalist and erudite to a fault--GRRRRR--jealousy rears it's envious head... The problem now is that I can hardly remember my name, what with the deterioration of the brain cells, the ennui associated with the fact that one has heard it all before and the daunting realisation that "same old, same old" is unlikely to change any time soon.

You are a one, Charlie.Your approval means so much to me. Samuel etc Coleridge? Wasn't he the poet who penned "an ode to something." Like "The Downs are green, the UP-lands are far, far away. the lambs are gambolling but the croupiers won't pay They said I would make moola but now I've lost my honey She's gone, she's gone --- she says she needs the money I'm prostrate with grief but back at the craps table and my eye is on that house bunny. Go on Charlie--finish it off.......

:crazy: Right on , Man. Ha! Ha! The seagull sat upon a weathered post, his Mammy just to see When Mammy walked under his berth he mumbled "You're my mammy. I will never sh-t on thee" But when she ignored him he had a change of heart and his composure went astray So he got up of his duff and on her promptly had a P. She shrieked out loud and cried in pain, "I see, I see, I see" "I say, I say, I say." he mocked her thus but that annoyed her even more now he has a heavy price to pay. She called in the local witch who gave him quite a shock 'cos now he's fluffy and frilly and totally.... "GAY"...

You remind me of the Ingersoll watch, Laurence. Don't worry about these guys they are only jealous of your prowess with the pen. ...... But you can take a licking but keep on ticking....

Well that is one good thing that you and I can agree upon--the 5.1/2 years I spent there were pleasant and profitable . Fond memories--yes. Negative feelings--probably none at all actually.

That's really speshul.

Oh Charles, dearie, didn't you realize that my post was a deliberate play upon words...........? I lived in Germanica for18 months as a young man and so do understand how to spell the name. Hoch! Hoch!. Sigh!---- Sometimes I wonder if you may be a succulent sauerkraut or sumpin.........