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Stayed at the Premier Inn near the Buchanan Galleries.  After going out on Saturday night for a drink and a meal we headed to the hotel bar for a nightcap.  I thought a nice Highland Malt would be a good way to round off such a great day, but not only did they not have any Highland Malts, they did not have any Scottish malt whisky!    I had to settle for a Jamiesons diluted with a splash of tears.

At least you got a Punk IPA!

Couldn't believe how fantastic the ICT support was, I'm sure that helped. Yeah, we were lucky but IMHO we play a better, classier style of football.

Was there with my auntie who is in her 70s and had a heart attack last year. I was just praying she wouldn't have another one in the second half! (she didn't. We went for a coffee with our ICT scarves and big silly grins on our faces for everyone to see in Central Station, then we went home wishing we still lived in Inverness).

Well done ICT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Inverness is some city, so proud.

 

As well as the support in the stands, Peter Paul's due some Brownie points for giving encouragement to get the noise up after Falkirk's equaliser - camera in one hand, conducting with the other!

I lost one of these on Saturday - blue band - white insert - metal button - "SONY" on insert and button.  I still had it when we arrived outside the North stand turnstiles, and didn't notice it was gone until we were back down at Battlefield Road to join the train queue.  I'd be delighted if anyone's found it.

 

Not sure if anyone else has mentioned it, but despite all our pre-match concerns about card-happy Willie Column, I thought he had a really good game.  

 

Only issued 2 cards, both correctly, and got the other big decisions right (eg claim for handball v Draper).  The fact that nobody's talking about the ref is always a good sign.

 

I was talking about him, loudly and using bad boy's words, when he stopped even looking at his wrist after 5 minutes of added time.  Apart from that, best I've seen from him in a long time.

In a parallel universe somewhere, we're still being managed by Pele and about to enter our 10th season in the Champions League.

 

...and in another, player-manager Lionel Djebi-Zadi has just led us to a third victory in the Quidditch World Cup.

Heard a really interesting comment today from a reliable source that in comparison to us - Falkirk haven't even started to promote the final - our scarves, buses, flags in the high street and general buzz was really positiv.....

your 'reliable source' ain't very reliable, Falkirk have been promoting the final all day everyday on social media for the last few weeks. we have flags up in the high street, billboards all over Falkirk district, scarf round the steeple, all the buses sporting messages, grass outside the stadium with 'COYB' cut into it, much bigger buzz  round town for this final than the 2009 one. There is also 100+ buses going from Falkirk, 18000 tickets sold and counting. Anyway, good luck and may the best team win, #COYB

And, in contrast to us, Falkirk are generating extra interest and excitement by releasing details of tickets sold on a regular basis which, without doubt, will have added to their total.

Falkirk releasing details of tickets sold has been a real positive, its got everyone commenting on it

That's good and I suspect we will have learned the lesson and do the same for both our finals next season

 

UEFA CL and...?

Steady on.We are in the UEFA EL The CL will have to wait for the season after.

Yes, sorry, I'm a season ahead.

 

 

 

 

Heard a really interesting comment today from a reliable source that in comparison to us - Falkirk haven't even started to promote the final - our scarves, buses, flags in the high street and general buzz was really positiv.....

your 'reliable source' ain't very reliable, Falkirk have been promoting the final all day everyday on social media for the last few weeks. we have flags up in the high street, billboards all over Falkirk district, scarf round the steeple, all the buses sporting messages, grass outside the stadium with 'COYB' cut into it, much bigger buzz  round town for this final than the 2009 one. There is also 100+ buses going from Falkirk, 18000 tickets sold and counting. Anyway, good luck and may the best team win, #COYB

 

And, in contrast to us, Falkirk are generating extra interest and excitement by releasing details of tickets sold on a regular basis which, without doubt, will have added to their total.

 

Falkirk releasing details of tickets sold has been a real positive, its got everyone commenting on it

 

That's good and I suspect we will have learned the lesson and do the same for both our finals next season

 

 

UEFA CL and...?

How about this one then - this was a great day out as we battled Meadowbank in the Commonwealth Games Stadium and Hearts in the streets of Edinburgh afterwards !!

 

How did you get home afterwards?  An awful lot of snow fell that weekend.

For me, only two embarrassing performances today, both from posters on here.

 

Apparently it was circa 1880 and awarded for excellence in English. Up for auction at £475.

That's interesting since I've checked Robert Preece's official history of the school just to confirm that the coat of arms, which is shown in the centre of the medal, was created for the school's centenary in 1892. On the other hand there's not a huge gulf between "circa 1880" and 1892 and this may even be a later version of the medal.

I can find no trace of the award in the index of Robert Preece's book but I would be interested to find out more about this medal.

Googling it reveals similar information to IHE's plus the name of the winner, a "Lissie Wedderspoon" or on another site "Lizzie Wetherspoon".

I am sufficiently interested to do some checks over the next week or two since I still have access to the school archive which includes enrolment lists.

 

 

They're both half right, since the back is engraved as "Lizzie Wedderspoon" - assuming, of course, that the English department got it right.

 

I'm driving down, any advice on car parking near Hampden?.

Park at the big Asda right next to the stadium. Free and easy to get to and from.If you are lucky and don't get a ticket from the private parking company that works for AsdaIs it not the case that those tickets are not legally enforceable in Scotland?

Urban myth. With new powers they can ask DVLA for keeper details and can take the person through the justice system just like any other debt. Private land (if notices are visable) can charge for parking by law.

They claim to have a case against the driver. The keeper's details are of no use to them.

The reg plate corresponds to approx early/mid 1970. My first moped in Sep 69 was LST 98H so this won't be too long after it. Only IBM among us could date the car!

 

First registered 10th March 1970.

I ended up sponsoring him for the second half of this season, so I will ask him what he's been up to whilst at the Player Sponsors' night on Tuesday!

He was teaching the bairn how to queue for a pie at Dens last week.

Apart from Collum, I find the two AARs of interest.

One was the ref from Dens last Saturday (a performance that could be debated all week - I didn't think he was as bad as all the women around me did). The other was the ref at Perth the week before - he was booed by both team's fans!

PS - I'm rehearsing for Europe by posting this from Paris.

 

 

I think myself in any rerun of the election if it comes to that, people with have to decide if they are red or blue and stop pissing about with minor parties.

 

Actually Larry, people in Inverness and the rest of the Highlands aren't not voting for the two big parties just for a laugh.  This traditionally always been a Liberal/LibDem stronghold and has been for decades.  We've only elected one MP from what is now part of the two main parties since 1959.

 

Correct. Up until 1959 the North (in common with much of the rest of Scotland) was fairly Tory but 1964 saw a big Liberal breakthrough with Russell Johnston in Inverness, George Mackie in Caithness and Sutherland and I think a guy called Alastair MacKenzie in Ross shire. Since then the area has been pretty solidly Lib(Dem), with once conspicuous exception being David Stewart for Labour in Inverness from 1997-2005.

The big anomaly was that, long before the SNP's recent breakthrough, the only politician in Britain with less charisma than Ed Miliband - Feckless Fergus Ewing - won Inverness for the SNP in the Holyrood elections a while ago. It was a wee bit like Eddie The Eagle landing Olympic gold.

But in 24 hours time, it's pretty clear that there will, in common with the rest of Scotland, be a big swathe of SNP territory up here.

 

 

Not quite.  George Mackie only held the Caithness and Sutherland seat for two years, and lost it to the Labour candidate Robert Maclennan in 1966.

 

In a total of 5 elections: 1966, 1970, Feb 1974, Oct 1974, and 1979, Maclennan won the seat for Labour.  It only went Social Democrat when Maclennan held the seat in 1983, having defected.

...and I thought the Charleston Academy was on the other side of the town.

 

... What a miss by Ofere at the beginning of the 2nd half! Glad we didn't live to regret that!

 

 

I did.. I had money on us winning 3-1.

Sportsound saying Yogi's comments on the radio last night may have condemned Joss to be banned. Yogi said it was a hand ball and Josh should have been sent off.

 

John Hughes has no more part in the decision-making process than Ronny Deila has.

No complaint to FIFA, but it could certainly move to Scottish courts if upheld.  The lack of any mention of Forrest, Izaguirre, Brown, or Zaluska prove that justice or impartiality are not being sought by the SFA.

 

As others have said, we need Ciftci's/DU's lawyer.

My biggest disappointment in all of this is that it doesn't affect ICTFC and we're not being forced to revise our badge

I don't dislike our badge, it's just that the asymmetry of it makes it a feckin nightmare to work with.

Far more left wing than the Labour Party.

The sheep thing doesn't faze me in the slightest. After all its normally referred bythose of lowland persuasion who are embarassed to have ancestors responsible for shipping out good highland people to make way for woolly animals.

...and "Pride of the Highlands" flag sticker.

 

Prices in place:

 

I read that Billy's been handed Shaun Mahoney's no. 10 shirt.  Should be a good fit!

 

Fixed it.

I've been very slow starting (actually getting to a game or two) this season, but my first game in the flesh (against Accies) saw:

        Mckay's first goal since a wee while.

        Our first real comeback (at home) (conceding first, then winning) since fireworks night many moons ago.

 

I've since seen, in the flesh:

        Mckay scoring again (and again).

        Our first real comeback (away, at Dens) (conceding first, then winning) since the aforementioned Accies game.

 

If anyone wants to sponsor me to go to more games this season, please DM me for my sort code and account number (ticket, pie, Bovril, petrol/fare when necessary, I'm not greedy).