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Alan Rothwell 89 Original Coronation Street cast member, playing the brother of Ken Barlow. Best known to me as Nicholas Black, married to Heather Huntington (Amanda Burton) in Brookside. He was also the presenter of the very strange 1970s kids TV programme picture box, which has an amazing theme tune.

What I find astonishing is that we have sold out our allocation for this game and have in fact been given a bigger allocation!!!

Truly awful on Tuesday night. Sadly if Robinson thinks Olusanya is worth keeping and along with some of the names banded about as potential signingds then we are just going to see the same old failings next season. We have to be aiming for a lot better quality than that.

So the £5 million gifted to Farage, was a 'reward' for the brexit campaign. Farage truly is a man of the people.

Labour voters in the seat have something tangible to vote for in this proposed by-election. Vote Burnham to get rid of Starmer.

Don’t think I’ve commented on this thread since Tuesday night but 2 thoughts: 1) That was minging 2) Fuck Killian Phillips

If it’s anything like Tuesday night, all 22 players will be on the beach. Can’t we just call it a draw and save everyone’s time?

Connor Masson is the other name that’s missing I think.

It’s good that VAR has cleared up the rules and ended all the controversy

Of course he didn't intend it but it's what happened. My point was if you did intend it it would be a foul. That his hand was in that position was not due to a foul so intent is completely irrelevant. It was, and, to my eye anyway, a foul and a penalty. Hell, even my jambo neighbour has accepted (grudgingly) that it was the correct decision.

Yasss, another project. We're crying out for a new batch.

Read that a couple of years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. He certainly enjoyed the company of the fairer sex

David Ajagbe just mentioned as a potential signing on STV News. Canadian striker, 20 years old, not played at any kind of level.

Streeting has made a total fool of himself. He’s a busted flush. On to Burnham and this is the seat he’s hoping to stand in:

He didn't go to head the ball with his hand in between the ball and his head though.

If he did handle it, he didn't gain an advantage from handling it.

It's handball all day long for me. You can't go to head the ball with your hand in between the ball and your head and not expect to concede a foul.

The Proclaimers - Letter from America

That last night is not a penalty, never in a million years. Yes the hands up, but you have to raise your arms to jump, that’s natural, its not fuckin Riverdance. The well boys arm is then knocked by the jumping Tim (its not an elbow either, the Tim jumped with and into him - he actually elbowed the Well lad in the guts too so that could easily have been given as a foul too). That knock to the arm moves his hand towards the trajectory of the ball but its still obviously headed clear. Anyone who’s ever played football knows a ball only flies through the air like that when its been cleanly headed. No ball could or would fly like that off the palm of your hand. Its just impossible. Its a scandalous call, even for Scotland, one that would never have been given at the other end, and one that was given either because of: Blatant cheating to engineer a last day decider, or Bottling officials too scared of the flak they knew they’d get from those unhinged weegie minkers if it wasn’t given. Its how football works up here. Always has been and its why the rest of us are all just wasting our time…

Who's missing from that? Teasdale? I'm sure there's another that featured in some of the Scotland camps.

I'm reading Alex "Hurricane" Higgins's autobiography. He doesn't hold much back, and is brutally honest about his failed marriages and relationships. I haven't yet got to the part where he tells Dennis Taylor that he is going to have him shot.

From the official site: Central defenders Jamie Mercer and Lewis Carrol, midfielders Aaron Cummings and Zak To, and winger Jack Searle will all remain at Cormack Park next season as they continue their football journeys with the Dons.

I think Hearts challenging for the title has been great for Scottish football. I don't think we (as in Aberdeen) need them to win it for it to still be great though. It'll actually be a negative as they'll bank a huge sum of money. Even if they don't make the Champions League group stage, I think they get €4m just for losing in the play-off then €8m for the Europa League group stage. We're both trying to find the next Lewis Ferguson or Claudia Braga - we'd now be competing with the league winners who are in Europe and have deeper pockets. So nah, I don't want them to win it. However, I have a sneaky feeling they will. And if they do they deserve it. And at least the consolation will be Celtic not winning five-in-a-row.

I'm reading Capitalist Must Starve - set in 1930s Japanese occupied Korea.

A very good book. No real dips in the writing quality from beginning to end. Books like that are rarer than hens teeth. Going to the try the TV adaptation of it from a few years back. The one where people claimed you couldn't hear the actors speak.