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Daniel I know someone. His name is Nicky Ross. And there may still be a chance that his name is Andrew Shinnie (haven't read BBC yet today)

Beastie, your're wrong. My team in England has been Everton since 1984. DD, well written, but meanwhile many former refs and bosses of referee organizations (e.g. Switzerland) have deemed the decision wrong and unbelievable. It doesn't change your points, however, except that I'm not sure whether the behaviour of FIFA and UEFA (or SFA and DFB) officials bring the game into even more disrepute. Freedom of speech is a basic human right and includes criticism, and football is not the Third Reich as most of those officials seem to believe.

Technically it's a one year extension for Billy, as he was already signed up until 2014 anyway. But to the board and Tel.

Sorry Mark, but the red card for Nani was nothing but ridiculous. You can debate a yellow, but nothing more. Even the German commentators who always demand cards for every wee contact agreed with it.

On the long term this is good news for Hearts - and Scottish football. Even if it means administration and possibly relegation right now.

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From the highlights I can't tell whether there was contact, but from the reactions of the players I would probably have given the penalty.

Second clean sheet in a row . Unfortunately on both sides

Has anyone read at BBC that the Swiss FA has strongly recommended NOT to establish that system? BTW, in Germany we have 80 million people and 56 professional teams (18-18-20). The third tier is full of financial problems despite TV money and average crowds around 4500. Below there's a semi-professional 4th tier with 100 teams or so in 5 regional groups with even more problems, at least 2 of the club in administration (plus Aachen in the 3rd). In the Bavarian group only the U 23 teams of Bayern and 1860 Munich, Nuremberg and Greuther Furth have applied for a licence for the 3rd, currently ranked 4th, 5th, 6th and 11th. So what do we learn about this?

Looks like, TBB. Except HE is the second one to be announced to have re-signed instead of Shinniesta.

Wonderful!

I'm not sure whether my friends across the border will be happy about that term

Apart from the 9 points lost losing these games How many more points would we have if we always lost 0-1?

Sounds great, and would be even greater if it was 2-year deals!

Is Northern Constabulary more trustworthy in respect of honesty than German police?

Making it into the Europa League: Why not. Getting drawn against one another: zero. It isn't possible before and in the group stage, after that only if one wins the group and the other finishes second. And, with all respect, this is an absolute impossibility for OTB

Just a wee side point, but can you tell me how Celtic are able to get 16 points out of 5 matches?

Well, in the handball Champions League match at Hamburg on Saturday night the Montpellier keeper got himself red-carded after 33 seconds, and a week ago that Fenerbahce midfielder didn't last much longer in the Europa League match at Borissow. But of course none of the involved referees was Scottish (though I think the guy at Borissow was Mr Kelly from Ireland)

Had Shane gone 2 steps on, he would have won another penalty plus a for the Hearts defender...but hey, we won!!!

:clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :ictscarf: Let's reverse the last week of January with 3 wins in 8 days now!

Not much good if we're targeting Polish though. True, but our neighbours came over from Poland and still speak Polish at home, so I can do the first step and let them continue

You're so charming Scarlet But I'm about 500 miles away from Hamburg and will be even farther 4 weeks on as I'll move to Southern Switzerland. But then I'll be only 90 miles from Milan

Is he able to play at all after picking up an injury on Monday?

If you need some merchandising stuff in German, I'm happy to translate as it's my native tongue.

Fallout? Where? And hopefully not nuclear or Inverness is doomed... My team: Reguero Raven - Meekings - Warren - Taylor OTJ - Draper Doran - Ross - G Shinnie Foran (if available, else Pepper) Mckay and A Shinnie to be rested on the bench and brought on after an hour...