davie

Oi! who's this maryhill laddie anyway? The "smart" money (well, paul chalk but you can't have everything) says a 1-1. So does a gambling genius relative, but you know I can't see past Foran AND Rooney scoring, so it's a 2-1 for me. as for match previews, the SPL only postponed the United game because they saw how "inspirational" my preview was. Possibly.

Many happy returns big man. Pint Saturday?

You must be either related or attend the same lodge dougal Dougal, we don't need embroiled in any refernces to "lodges" or any other central belt sectarian references, given recent events. Have a red dot, you deserve one.

Droll, droll. Have a green dot for that reply. I love the Alex Ferguson comparison - he's the very reason that everyone that follows him is fecked before they start at that miserable, useless excuse of a club. I hope they appoint someone more useless than Muttley, who can preside over their inevitable plummet into Div. 1 and we can watch Milne implode. I'll go to their game at C*unty, gladly pay my money and laugh like a drain for the whole 90 minutes. Now that would be entertainment.

Can someone explain to me why Butcher would want to go to a club with crap players, crap board, crap support, no money and an overinflated ego that lives on the "glory" of one cup in the eighties? No? I'll take it that he's staying then. BTW, if there would be anyone less popular than an ex-h*n captain at pitoddrie, it would be an ex-arab captain. Case feckin rested.

I'll be there, as long as nobody tries to throw me out...............

I resisted the temptation to ask if you had sent them. Honestly, it was pathetic. I'd been really angry since they chucked the boy out, I was worried about where he was etc., so I didn't really enjoy any of the game.They were the final straw. Met Rosscoe in the London Road after the game, he was "mildly" chuffed by pulling it back, and a whole road of support was shouted out of yon hun bar down the road. Hearts will be better, thanks for aw yer support n' sympathy. Grow up Johndo? I'll give that a miss, it sounds boring.

Not long back, and I can now post what was an opinion of most of the match. You can read anywhere what happened on the field and good it was, but the treatment of our fans by the stewards reached new lows today. At the age of 52, I was thrown out of a ground for the first time for questioning a steward. My son was ejected in the first half, for "standing on the seats" or "being abusive" or "refusing to sit down" depending on what steward I spoke to. I think he was the 5th. Being unable to get a coherent answer, I asked 6 times to speak to a supervisor, who answered every question that i had with " are you calling me a liar?" I lasted until just after McCourt's goal, when I went to the loo. I was followed there by stewards, who told me "we were waiting for you, you teuchter *******" and ejected me. I missed our goals. After spending in excess of ?100 on a day out, these people ruined it for no good reason. Celtic, you really are shameful. I've gone to footie i this country since 1965, and I've never felt so down about it. And yes, I'll be compaining.

What's about "stutter"

Your next challenge, Alternative Maryhill, is to do a Dundee Utd preview in the style of McGonagall. "Twas in the year of nineteen hundred and ninety-four When a team from the north knocked on the SFL's door" Yngwie, that's my job! I was actually brought up in a tenement flat in Dundee that William Topaz McGonagall lived in. No kidding. My Dad always reckoned that I talked a load of sh*te because I'd been infected by the place. Poetry, it'll be the death of me.

for the same reason that it's difficult to say "inarticulate"

In answer to the OP, non stick refers to the properties of the coating, not the coating it's self. Most non stick coatings are derived from or contain polytetrafluoethylene (PTFE) Sometimes called the membrane in goretex, it's seriously slippy stuff. There you go.

Anyone else noticed how quiet Cellic have got over all of this? Cause all this sh**e and then walk away? They'll be telling us it wasnae their fault next. Bawbags.

If people no longer trust the referee and want technology, the whole of the game suffers from Albania to Zambia. The referee is, in the eyes of the game "the sole arbiter of fact" because someone has to take a definitive stance on a matter of perception. Lennon has a perception about the tannadice penalty, so has Peter Houston. The referees statement should be the final and incontrovertable fact. It's the same at the bught park, with the important factor of no cameras, inflated egos, audience ratings, advertising or vast wages at stake. And yet the referee will still get the same amount of stick for doing what the laws of the game require him to do. The reason is that the agenda in this case has nothing to do with football. It is about a club that feels it is bigger than the scottish game attempting to drive an agenda based on innuendo and whispers because it is driven by the same imperatives as above. A protestant conspiracy? Please. Dougie MacDonald still has to go, even if his "lie" is as trivial as mine is every night when I'm asked if I did the dishes yet. But not now, as the purveyors of the major untruths in this will scent blood and feel that they are above the laws of the game. Scottish football deserves better.

I'm not surprised by the silence so far from SPL/SFA, the last thing that's needed is a knee jerk reaction into an already volatile situation. It needs statesmanship and there seems to be a complete lack of that right now. What angers me most is that "Celtic would welcome the strike" I'm sure that they would, not least because a potentially tricky fixture on Saturday gets put on the back boiler and gives Lennon another couple of weeks on the training ground to sort out his underachieving employees. And all because they have engineered this situation with a snide campaign of backhanded inuendo. Shame on them. Lennon and Reid should not be allowed to get away with this, and it is to them that any compensation claims from fans should be directed. Sorry, forgot - since when did they give a monkeys about fans of scottish football. The sooner they get relocated to the EPL (wherre they want to be and everything is rosy) the better .:annoyed:

two votes for walking dead. But I've just finished watching "I'm a celebrity etc". WTF? I've just witnessed one of the most inadequate disordered personalities I've ever seen make an utter arse of herself in front of millions. Please ITV, take her away, for her own good. Give her to IHE - he could either cure her or use her as a draught excluder. Christ.

As an occasional, unpaid and admittedly shoite referee I'm fully with the guys in the middle. I don't know what makes otherwise responsible people act like utter lunatics on a football field. I don't know what makes them think they can speak to me the way that some do. I don't know why I volunteer for the job! Anyway it would be ironic if the game at the home of the team acting most reprehensibly in this whole thing was called off, because I think all the advantage would be theirs. We are on a roll, they are not. We are the more motivated team for this game and we should have the biggest travelling support for a while behind the team. Lennon will be chuffed to bits. They should simply call him in and ban him for as many games as are required and make sure that he and Dougie MacDonald don't cross paths again this season. Dougie can then be quietly demoted in the close season; you just can't lie in his position. John Reid merits no response really, can you imagine our chairman behaving like that? Far from being the oppressed that the arrogant weegies portray themselves as, they are trying to drive the agenda again. I hope we don't let them.

Mahonio - agreed. As I've said elsewhere, I genuinely believe this side to be on the cusp of something special in terms of achievements, style and ability. We'll not win the league, but anything else is possible as long as we don't sell the family silver. It is a "pele-esque" style that has matured since we were relegated and shows no signs of stopping. It reminds me of an 80's "corner shop" team managed by a guy with similar charisma to TB who was able to find stellar local talent, rescue underachievers from elsewhere and mould them into smething great. Who did Mo play for again?

Ayr, I'd love to go back there.

Adams left that videotape where?????

Got an ICT season ticket, was brought up an arab until I moved up here in '82 (jeez I'm old) then got into watching ICT. Got other "pet" teams (Odd Grenland in Norway and Valencia) that I'll go to see as the opportunity arises. But now, confimed Caley Thistle fan.

I actually thought that billy dodds looked a bit like hitler without the moustache. Wrong on every level.

Great minds Mary, I cannae think of anything except a portugese Jedward when that two appear.

We really do need to have a party at Parkhead, and the roll call needs to reflect that - It's an absolutely unbelievable achievement that I doubt we will see again in a long long time, and something you never see outside the OF. I'll be there.

Annoyed I didnae go now. Great to see us finally get one over these timewasting, cheating, skill deprived, buckfast addled halfwits. Cheerio Imrie!