Caley Mad In Berks

If they do as well as my local club, Reading, with their Irish signings, they'll be a force to be reckonned with.

This isn't a text messaging service, try writing in English if you want people to respond to you.  However, the point you made is a good one.

I don't think I'm just reacting to a bad result, but I'm with the majority who think enough is enough when it comes to Black's antics.  He must have the worst disiplinary record in Scottish football, and yesterday's petulance is just the last straw.  I say get shot of him now, if we can get some dough for him, although I suspect his poor temperament will put many managers off him and have an adverse affect on his potential value.  I'm not with those 'give him another chance, he's only young' softies.  He has been playing SPL football for nearly 3 years now and should have learned how to behave by now.  Get him out!

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My memory of the playing fields, going back to the late 50s is being allowed to go down there in free periods to prepare the cricket pitch for home matches.  The groundsman (somebody Fraser ?) would cut the square with the old gang mower behind the tractor, and then and one or two other team members and I would get the old hand mower and hand roller out and get to work on the actual pitch.  All with David Thom's blessing of course.  Sometimes it worked.  I well remember beating the Abbey (Fort Augustus) and Gordonstoun in one memorable summer.

I'm with those who think he should be talking to Charlie first, not the papers.  Suspect he'll be with another team next season.

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In the late 50s, prices were about 1 shilling front stalls, 1/6 back stalls, 2/3 back balcony and 2/9 front balcony.  Back stalls were the most popular if you went with a girlfriend, but I'm struggling to remember why!!

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At least let's spell it correctly, whiskey with an 'e' is the Irish variety!!

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I was told that the Waitrose (John Lewis) malt whisky was actually a good single malt from a well known distillery too, so there are bargains around.  I'd recommend a book by Iain Banks called 'Raw Spirit' which is a very entertaining account of his travels round all of Scotland's distilleries.  His favourite dram, surprisingly to me, was one of the rarer Glenfiddichs, and not from one of the more exotic distilleries

CB  I've been using that story, or a variation of it, with longer Burns quotations, as an icebreaker at the start of speeches I've done at Burns suppers, for the past 2 or 3 years now.  And very well it goes down too,  making the audiences much more amenable to the slightly more serious stuff which follows.

Inverness has a cathedral without a spire, possibly the only city in the UK like this. (I wait to be corrected if anyone knows of any other).  I didn't introduce Police into the equation, so can't help you there.

OK , I'll take pity on you, the tune is "Highland Cathedral".  I'll never forget David Sole leading the Scots rugby team out to it, in the form of a slow march, before beating England at Murryfield to win the Grand Slam back in 1990.