tom_widdows

I see hibs are playing tit for tat in terms of away support allocations However disappointing that they cannot even sell out their standard home allocation. Hibs really are shocking. Seem to be more concerned with stopping rangers scoring than making up the 2 goal deficit. Over to you Motherwell

As I recall there were rumours that Leighton preferred Esson to Preece back in the day although my personal preference was for the latter. However Esson is still playing at SPL level while Preece went back down to the lower leagues after he left the club. What you take of that is up to you? Being a great goalkeeper doesn't automatically make you great at scouting others or indeed being able to coach them. Either way I have a soft spot for Leighton and I think it is unfortunate some of the comments I've seen flying around about him on various message boards since the club made the announcement. I've even seen someone labeling him an average goalkeeper who was carried by his defenders throughout his career?! Good luck to him in his future endeavors.

well the tax dodger who helped wipe them out the first time has been declared 'fit & proper' http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32691123 Over to you Mr Ashley

See Caley Thistle players used their semi final win bonus to finance free coach travel and free under 14 tickets for the final. 24 coaches provided of which 18 are now sold out with 5 of the remaining almost sold out. ticket sales currently sitting about 26000 (not including neutrals) - About 15000 Falkirk, 11000 Caley Neutral section also down nearing sell out http://www.scottishfa.talent-sport.co.uk/PagesPublic/ProductBrowse/productHome.aspx?ProductSubType=CUP

1) Somebody new in the final 2) Soft spot for Ukranian teams further enhanced by the whole mess their country is currently in 3) As far as I'm aware Dnipro have never been convicted of MATCH FIXING unlike the two italian clubs who got stuffed tonight.

Heading for a Dnipro vs Sevilla final at the moment

Believe I saw on MAD that the letter gave them 10 days to respond. Letter was sent on 29th April so the 10days expired either on 9th or 13th depending on if it was 'working' days.

Presume the SPFL PR team will be Ian Black, Steven Lawless and Steven Simonsen.

Beginning again? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32717309

Swindon town 5-5 Sheffield United (7-6 aggregate) 6 mins of injury time to go Appears half the blades fans left when they went 3-0 down after 20mins

As I understand it they are potentially on the brink of being kicked down to the Vauxhall conference They did a chelsea/ man city etc to get back to the premiership and lost the best part of 65million in the process and under the new FFP rules they are facing a fine of £58million. If they dont pay it the football league can apparently refuse them entry in the championship, league one & League 2. They have of course now got their lawyers involved (wouldnt be a rangers if they didnt)

At the risk of kicking the whole referendum debate off again (be it 2011, 2014 and seemingly the future 2017 one) 3 of the biggest aspects of human nature are selfishness, fear and ignorance hence why we have a 2 party system, gross inequality throughout. Personally I wish the Yes campaigns for the last 2 referendums would acknowledge that their campaigns were seriously flawed and were pretty much doomed from day 1 because they didn't have enough time to really get their own heads around how the situation would work. Lib Dems and other smaller parties given just over a year to convince the UK Public to change from a system that they had used all their lives. Tuitions fees are the default back bone fuck up for clegg but not demanding minimum 2.5 years (leaving 2.5 years to work out how to change the whole system if it had been approved) is where I will always criticise him. The Scots Nats and other Supporters given less than 2 years to convince an entire country to change from the system they had known all their lives. A system which was flawed and irritating still brought a fairly comfortable life to a large chunk of the country unlike the breakup of Balkans or the USSR had not led to civil war, mass starvation and in some areas genocide. When you have survived those sorts of things it makes it much easier to say 'yes' and unfortunately there is scar tissue concealing large parts of the wounds left by the thatcher-ites For me the 'no' vote were 'selfish' because they 'feared' the uncertainty of an Independent Scotland and if your life isnt that bad, your mortgage is still being paid and your kids arent going hungry you aint gonna risk losing that. The 'Yes' vote on the other hand were 'selfish' and 'ignorant' because too many got the saltire tinted braveheart specs and were aggressive to anyone who they felt didnt think their way instead of trying to debate and convince them. Most importantly they failed to get hold of the formal Yes Campaign and say 'fuck sake will you start producing evidence, economic plans, basic simple answers to the doubter's questions instead of playing this tit for tat bullshit with the No campaign. You are falling into their trap just like the Lid Dems did 2-3 years ago!' Tories, Labour etc knew fine well that agreeing to have an independence referendum or an alternative vote referendum after the 2015 election was political suicide. Essentially a 'Ctrl + Z' option for Scotland and potentially death to their stranglehold on the rest of the UK. By the time all the dick measuring, political swaggering, accusations or intimidation, fear mongering and flat out lying were done very little had changed from their original stances and we got the results that we did. Both occasions stitched up by the UK Government as they knew it was all about 'time'. Cats out of the bag now though and I dont doubt if either of those previous referendums were scheduled for this time next year the results would be reversed. However whether or not they would bring the results the people think they would is another matter altogether. Now lets see how the various campaigns for the EU 'in-out' referendum play their hands. This time it could be classed as 'Tories & UKIP' vs the rest (although not every tory is for leaving) but based on last thursdays results I fear it could be the only referendum in Cameron's legacy that gets a 'Yes'

Sports Direct FC and Begbie's boys will get back to the spl sooner or later. Kille on the other hand may never return and they have been pissing me off since their 1994/95 season. Selfish I know

St Mirren relegated Kilmarnock slowly and surely being dragged into the playoff spot? (Hope so)

Huge set up - yes. A classic example of the british public failing to understand the situation - yes Lib dems not ruthless enough - already ahead of you Similar things could be said about the 2014 referendum Interesting that down south it has taken old Nigel's antics to get public to start bitching about FPTP, Under PR the government might look like this Tory - 239 seats Labour - 197 seats UKIP - 81 Seats Lib Dems - 51 seats SNP - 30 seats Green - 24 seats DUP - 3 Seats Plaid Cymru - 3 Seats Sinn Feinn - 3 Seats UUP - 2 Seats SDLP -2 seats Alliance - 2 seats The Speaker - 1 Seat 12 seats split between the rest Of course this is just indicative as PR ballot papers (as far as I am aware) are massive as they need to include every single party in the election

Out of interest how many voted in the 2011 referendum and if so did you vote yes or no? My blame for this current situation lies firmly with those who voted no back in 2011 plus those in the yes campaign who fucked it up. But of course I've learned to let it go

The 2nd star might mean a bit more if the super cup had been around in 1967. Also European cup still trumps cup winners cup Personally that star thing lost whatever little significance it had the moment they handed it over to Club football. As hebrew said just get it done with

Well the clean sweep is gone - Orkney & Shetland sticking with the Lib Dems. The interesting one will be to see if Kennedy holds onto his seat

Jim Murphy just lost his seat. The devil in me wonders if the SNP can get 58 seats with Alex Salmond being the only one to miss out. Much like the campaign years back for everyone to vote labour except in sedgefield so Blair would lose out

SNP take Kilmarnock and Loudon Lib Dems lose their deposit again

I 'shared' a news story in the off topic section of an aberdeen supporters message board. I can only presume you are quite a sensitive soul who cannot stand any notion that there may have been a couple of blokes outside a polling office who made an ill advised joke which through the wonders of social media, political spin and good old fashioned Chinese whispers was sent down the wire to a Conservative MSP who chose to tweet it into the public domain and therefore into the media. Freedom of speech is a wonderful thing as you have demonstrated already by refering to me as a lying cunt although you still havent used that freedom of speech to point out where I have lied? Lying is stating something is truth/ fact when you know fine well it is neither. Given I dont live in Annan, am not Ruth Davidson or a telegraph journalist I have the option to decide if I think it is true or mere scaremongering until further information is brought to light or i stop caring. By your logic I could suggest you are a liar for posting Jim Murpheys 'barging a protestor' video as evidence he was behind the unpleasant scenes at St Enoch last weekend. But back to the election Labour 3 Conservative 1 645 seats to go Lib dems have lost their deposit in all 4 declared seats so far.

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What exactly do you want an apology for? If you are upset that I took it upon myself to pick and prod and 'atempt' to engage in debate with you regarding your political beliefs then i'm sorry you cant live in a world where everyone follows your point of view. if they did it could either be classed as boring or maybe a dictatorship Its also no secret that I am anti-SNP but i'm pleased you have cottoned on and if you think you can somehow make me more anti SNP I welcome your input. I also welcome your input if you wish to try and bring me to your way of thinking so that come May 2017 I might have some more guidance in my decision Some might call me a bleeding heart lefty but on occasion ive been refered to as a nazi communist. That last one intrigues me still but its always nice to have a bit of a debate and it is intriguing seeing how people react when they can easily label you with one of the current political parties. The exit poll does interest me as we could see the first minority government for 41 years. The tories will need to think carefully how they tread as a majority opposition can call for another general election within the year if they don't like how things are going. Maybe the majority opposition could call for the FPTP system to be scrapped and completely overhaul the system? Maybe the SNP would use the situation to their advantage by keeping the tory minority in power in exchange for more powers for scotland or perhaps even that magical 2nd referendum? who knows it could for once be interesting. Who knows

Announced his retirement tonight