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The fact that the bookies have AFC favourite for tonight, with Killie at DOUBLE the return, will have a reason but fucked if I'm seeing it. Recent form is heavily weighted in their favour and we couldn't beat them at home thus this replay. In fact, the day Clarke took over they've amassed a bigger points haul than us (I presume, pretty certain they were more than 10 points behind when he did) so where's the bookie logic here? Bigger club? Current league position? Smarminess of our bearded midget manager? I just don't get it. If AFC do show enough character and quality to get through, it will be a turn up for the books. Just like Celtic at 4/5 was too big to ignore the last game at Pittodrie, 12/5 for Killie tonight is absurdly generous. The bookies think we're better than we are, bizarrely. Even at Partick we were heavy favourites and we couldn't even look like beating that shower of shite.

Getting to semi finals and reminding us of how many is the talk of a man who likes being in employment. Even the once we did win a cup, the lesser cup, we beat fuck all to get there and still weren't good enough to beat ICT over 120 minutes. If you're going to boast about getting to semis Derek, remind us of the great runs that got us there?

I take it back. I did him an injustice simply by not paying any attention to him. This Arena programme got me hooked into it. He was eccentric for sure but I think he was probably a good man and a consummate pro.

Teresa May in the house just now has confirmed what any reasonably functioning sane mind has suspected for a long time. Not only is she mad, Britain is totally barking mad, the support she's getting from the public school suits without a brain between them nor an ounce of integrity. The setting up for war with Putin has been ongoing for a long time. Forget that the Conservative party took €1m of Russian money, that's no shock given their love of money, offshoring and personal gain from the public purse (NHS privatisation by stealth), war is the biggest earner and here we go again....

Carragher on Sky News just now desperately trying to save his job was cringeworthy. Not only the fucking horrible wifie newscaster berating him but the fact he had absolutely nothing to say/to add to the matter. I wouldn't sack him personally but I'm guessing Sky will. He's already apologised to the family and that must have been tough enough. The father goader was a fucking knob who needed a reet good kicking - just for being him - and there is no fucking way any spit hit the 14 year old daughter, not that this is remotely relevant whether it did or not. He allowed himself to get wound up by a total knob. Big fucking deal. The cunt was filming it. Had he not been, it wouldn't have even made the news.

The big downside of Ken kicking the bucquet is that Lauren Laverne has decided to play some "comedy" songs. She started with some Dodd abomination, followed it with the disgraceful ying tong idle I po and Victoria Wood just now is the final straw. Fuck that shit.

Me too. The celebration of British eccentricity is one thing by Jove but taking it to the extreme that he did always suggested that it was a cover to mask his true nature. Total weirdo.

Stewrat Milne and relocation to El Salvador.

Killie 12/5 to win on Tuesday. AFC 6/5. That's fucking mental.

Agree & Debatable. Much as McGeouch was superb, as his team was, John McGinn was awesome.

Despite only one shot on target in 1st half, I'd be surprised if this was goalless. Said to my mate "Hibs are showing a bravery and commitment that I have NEVER seen in a ? McInnes team".

The question of nationality, from a legal point of view is an interesting one. Private International Law, like Roman Law, Jurisprudence and the law of Evidence were amongst the more interesting and memorable of the stuff they gave us at Aberdeen Uni. Not that it was taught in relation to footballers but where you have people in dispute cross border, it's important to establish what the "proper law" of the contract should be, before any resolution can be found. Where we are born was surprisingly not as influential as we might have thought, the nationality of the father/parents and where we are domiciled being bigger considerations. Like most things however, there are grey areas. The boy of Nigerian parents who moved to England aged 4 may end up playing for either Nigeria or the guffies but what about the Nigerian student who came to the UK aged 18? And what if he started at Warwick Uni but did his postgrad in Edinburgh? Or the boy who was 15 when he came to Runcorn with his Nigerian mum, having since divorced his Swiss dad? I say play for whatever country you feel like as long as it's not a contrived or tenuous connection and there is criteria that enables you to play for that country. That's where Fifa come in. If they articulate the eligibility criteria - which I'm sure they will have done - there shouldn't be any dispute. I want my son to play for Lithuania. He's never been there and neither have I but I hear the women are stunning there. Unfortunately he's not good enough to play for Scotland so we need to cast his net further afield. Once we get the eligibility rules, I'm sure we can make up that we lived there once upon a time and let's face it, Lithuania can do with any additional options they can get.

It's a weird one but legally, there is no doubt that the child can assume the nationality of the father, wherever they are domiciled. Probably the nationality of the mother too.. I'm sure that private international law would've caught up with equality rights in the last 35/40 years. There is a concept of natural domicile too in that a person can take the nationality of the place that they normally live in, although each state will have their own rules on this i.e. how long, passport application criteria etc. For example, my wife and I got offered Australian nationality in 1994. We said get fucked. Not literally you understand. We sold up and shipped out. The invite gave us the opportunity to reflect on our future and living amongst those racist thick pigs and having our kids being Australian was never going to happen.

Talking of sad in Amerikuh, did you know that like the mooslims, they marry children in the USA? There are thousands of marriage licences granted to what we would consider non-age persons and not just Alaska but South Carolina and Missouri et al. The youngest was a 10 year old boy (marrying a 27 year old woman) but the vast majority are 13 year old girls marrying an average age of a 24 year old "man". What kind of society allows 12 and 13 year old girls to be fucked, literally as well as life-wise? I knew Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13 year old cousin or something but I hardly imagined it would be legal. Fucking weirdos.

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Good attitude dude. Don't hold yer breath about the UK settling doon any time soon but the choice of woman is bigger than the choice of location so test-driving thoroughly is heartily recommended. And trust yer instincts.

Semi draw: - Celtic v. Rangers Motherwell v. Kilmarnock

When we were in Melbourne for 3 years, we should've taken the opportunity to visit NZ but with babies appearing every 5 minutes, flight holidays weren't our priority. Looks great Manc. Have you fully emigrated there or is it just for a few years i.e. nothing planned long term or set in concrete?

One of the reasons for Owen Coyle's bizarrely-timed resignation he gave as the challenges of living apart from his family. For five months. McInnes hasn't lived with his family for five years. Of course Milne isn't prepared to consider that this may of itself have been an indication of a lack of commitment to the North East. It might even be a suggestion that he's planning to move on to bigger and better things. He certainly thinks he's capable. His failure to relocate his family, unlike Billy McNeil and SAF, might be nothing to do with his career aspirations nor his commitment to Aberdeen and the job and everything to do with aspects of personality. It takes a particular type of animal who values location over education and who puts more stock in places over people. That type of animal doesn't have much faith in human nature, nor does it have much faith in his own children.

It appears that Owen agreed with me. Bizarre timing. If the man wasn't such an absolute fud, it might have been interesting (on a human condition level only) as to why he quit.

If the goal is trying to anticipate the future, it is valuable to consider the qualities of the man rather than just his historic record.

The wife was saying that one of the people stranded on a motorway was complaining that his boss had insisted he go to Aberdeen. Social media nailed him by saying "if your boss asked you to jump off a bridge, would you?" Let's not forget the ego in situations like this. Some/most "bosses" are arseholes, employees themselves and the thrill they get by pretending (to themselves) that they are "important" - so influential in fact that they can affect other people's lives - is a drug they can't get enough of. It was ever thus. Give a cunt "power" and they'll use it and abuse it for their own ends, just in varying degrees and for varying effects of course.

As Jerry Sadowitz said, the opening line of his gig in the Music hall, Britain's gone gay. Snowmageddon is fucking ridiculous. Folk stocking up in the supermarkets and fighting over the last items on a shelf the worst manifestation, fuelled by a sensationalist media who ignore the real issues.

I'm not sure why you would be that curious to know what a fan who doesn't work in football thinks about it. It's very simple though. You hire the best available candidate at the time. At least two managers in the league at smaller clubs than ours have managers miles better than ours in my opinion but as to who was the best available candidate 5 years ago when Milne took McInnes, I've no idea. We pay the club to do that. Our money funds a board of directors to know these things. My distaste for McInnes (and Milne) has been well documented from the start. There are worse managers than him, Coyle and Wright being totally unemployable but as I said, the only thing that matters is if he can do the job and as I also said, definition of what the job is requires clarification first. There's the rub. I repeat, what the fans want and what the chairman wants aren't on the same page.

Forest, Field & Sky: Art out of Nature. Available on BBC 4 iplayer. Dr James Fox. Quite simply the best television I've ever seen.