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Some goal. Coventry 1-0. Nice value @ 13/10 Edit: make that 2-0. 94% cash out option getting ignored. Edit: Another stunning Coventry goal. 3-0. Very similar curled finish from similar distance as the first goal but from the other side.

Yeah that's right. Some are being wankers so we'll be wankers too.

It doesn't confirm the existence of anything. An unidentified or unknown phenomena is not the same as data and facts. There are those who want to believe stuff without evidence, empirical or otherwise. Religions made an industry out of it.

Fantastic footballer... and that's it really. He never planned for life beyond football and it was an inability to see beyond tomorrow that cost him dear. His wife left him whilst he was in his late 30's because he couldn't curb his partying lifestyle. He never held on to his management positions despite doing well at Hartlepool. Tragic story. The poor guy suffered a heart attack a year ago. Slippery slope that can only be arrested by clarity of purpose and self discipline.

It's sad that we have Liverpool, or indeed any EPL "fans" in the NE of Scotland. Ok the odd few who have a genuine connection with an English club but most have been brainwashed by the Sky hype and/or lacking in their own lives that they seek vicarious glory. It was indeed amusing how it all went tits up for them, although tinged with some regret that that cunt Ramos won again.

Sergio Ramos is a cynical cheating cunt, one who got lucky in Salah having to go off. That need not have changed the game. Liverpool were clearly the most attacking threat until that point and this was despite Salah having done next to nothing thus far. Mane was really sharp as was the passing between the whole team. When he did have to go off, Klopp described it as a turning point and that his players were "shocked". That's tantamount to saying that I'm shite at my job. Last time I looked, football was a team game and if the rest of them were so mentally weak to stop playing and to "go too deep" (as Klopp described) after Mo's exit, then they're not properly prepared to begin with and they lack the self belief required to go all the way. Klopp is zero from six now in major finals. It's him who is lacking. He's a bullshitter but that final will always be remembered as the worst keeper performance ever, astonishing in its severity.

Lennon wouldn't want to come to Aberdeen. Why would he? AFC has become a poisoned chalice. Our karma stinks real bad. We once had an inspirational chairman who's enthusiasm managed to attract McLeod, McNeill and Ferguson, the latter being desperate and almost untouchable at the time given his integrity history. But that was the 1970's. We've never done anything since then in terms of putting the right people in the right places. Our chairman is a little shit.

I've not read that one but will be doing so. His death has reminded me that I've not read everything he's written. American Pastoral was on my bookshelves for many years but a cursory glance and I don't see it. Someone must have "borrowed" it. Aye, it is a good read. Some of Roth's books, probably more than half in my opinion aren't brilliant but some are definitely. The one thing I never found after reading him was well that was a waste of time. I Married a Communist is the only Roth I came across on my shelves just now but I know I have others somewhere, or at least I did have. Gore Vidal and John Updike were other Americans I never liked EVERYTHING they wrote, totally different genres of course but I preferred the humour you get with Roth. I guess we have to plough through much shit to find the flowers and whilst I don't consider any of Roth's writings as "shit", he was never a 100% hit rate for me. Neither was Hemingway too I guess and like those three, did produce some outstanding literature.

No idea if he's any good as a manager or not but I did see St Mirren in action last month, a game they were heavily odds on to win (at Brechin), where they had a chance of winning the league (if Livi hadn't won that day) and where they took over 2,000 of a travelling support. They were fucking shite.

RIP Philip Roth, died today aged 85. When I first went to Aberdeen Central Library, I would take books at random off the shelves. I picked one by Roth and thereafter devoured everything they had of his, as I did with other writers I enjoyed. I was too young to get all his nuances and meanings at first but he stayed with me in life as a favourite writer. Most on here will never have read him of course and most teenagers have a literary breadth narrower than a ba hair but they don't make many like that any more. Great man.

I live here. I'm not even reading that. I don't need to. The weather was not "unprecedentedly" cold.

Excellent documentary on Mohammed Salah on Channel 4 just now. John Bishop said one of the reasons the fans love him is that you want to watch players that care as much as you do. At Aberdeen, we have a manager who cares only about himself.

But "pretty decent" is hardly a worthwhile use of our time, sitting on our arse, not engaging the brain, allowing TV to wash all over our bodies, minds and souls. Safe was one of those well-produced, well-acted "entertainment" productions that fell into the same basket as so many others. Preposterous plots, parts of which are too incredible to be credible. The use of suspense rather than substance to keep us there and a massive feeling of let-down and "well that was a fucking waste of my life that I won't get back" when it finally, laboriously, reached a "conclusion". TV for mugs.

Football was, is and should be played on grass. Having been at Montrose and Forfar last month, these modern plastic type pitches aren't good for the game. Arguably not good for the players too. We had possibly the longest delay of any match, more than one hour as the poor Berwick guy suffered a bad break, couldn't be moved on the pitch and the ambulance coming from Ninewells took ages to get there. I'm starting to get conscious that I'm sounding like a resister of change, normally reserved for fixed mindsets and old mannies but on this occasion, I see zero pros and only cons for non-grass.

Which top players are these?

A professionally-run organisation has talent-identification as an ongoing process. An intelligent organisation seeks to utilise pre-contract deals to tie up the best prospects. If it's true that we are in for a guy who's been under our noses and in our faces, why are we only acting now?

Sicily was magic. Catania > Cefalu (bypassed Palermo) > Sciacca > middle of naewye 10 minutes from Marina de Raguso (the town was awesome) > middle of naewye just south of Catania, with orange groves and 5 mins from the beach. Accommodations were first class and the Sicilian breakfasts are the best on the planet. Dined at FUD the first night. Had to take photos and bought a bottle opener with said Restaurant name on it. Our first time there. Won't be the last. Will fly to Palermo next time to do the west coast before retracing our steps back thru Sciacca and Marina de Ragusa. The latter in the evenings, the main square full of kids playing fitba, grandparents with theirs, couples and a chilled family atmosphere, all surrounded by a tremendous choice of bars and restaurants. By then we just wanted something simple to eat, having dined so well all week including two starters for lunch (with wine) being scallops and crayfish cocktail at a beachside place. Went to Art Burger in the square. Chose Angus meat rather than horse or donkey and it was one of the best ever had. If you're going, there's a place you have to stay if anywhere near Marina de Raguso.

Now then you young fucks, a word of caution. See them pints of lager you're so fond of? Bad poison. I had six pints yesterday between 4.15 and 7 pm. I was in bed by 9. Slept great for 8.5 hours but to get knocked out like that, fully three hours before my normal retiring time is an indictment of the product. Scottish pub pints are innocuous at the time but do them every week in quantities that exceeds gallons and it's going to kill you. Having been in Sicily last week where a pint maximum was the amount of beer per day consumed - before some wine and maybe a cocktail first - I was looking forward to a sesh with my mates. And it was a reet good laff, inhibitions getting thrown oot the windie, political correctness getting increasingly abandoned with each pint and the royal wedding and the two huns in our local getting a major slagging. I can't offer an alternative here. Pints are the staple of our Scottish pubs. But they're not good for you. Feel fine this morning but getting knocked out so quick like that suggests the drink is stronger than it appears. Or maybe I'm just becoming a woose. Be warned ye cunts.

I noticed Sevilla beat Sociedad, and then beat Real Madrid shortly after As you know, you have to make your own decisions on punting. It's the silly season now though as we always see some crazy results now that the bigger pictures have been decided e.g. Aberdeen winning at Celtic, Man C and PSG failing at heavily odds-on etc. The last great value bet of the season for me was Atletico beating Marseille, including 10/3 HT FT in-play. I've already paid out the guys in our doubles syndicates including BB from here. The amount I paid the three of them was directly proportional to how long we've been doing it for as after all, my picks were the same in each. I don't trust the World Cup for betting. Too many unexpected draws. Having said that, I do have some match bets on already (thought Russia at 1/3 was good value) and three of us are starting with a wee pot for the tournament just to see how we go.

Saw Fargo last night for the first time, the 1996 version with Steve Buscemi and Frances McDormand. What a heavy mindfuck in parts but thoroughly enjoyable.

Correct. It takes a real kind of spesh to use these machines and they need to be protected from themselves.

Some denial, some happy clapping and some short memories in evidence in this thread. Blinded by the euphoria of lifting the big gleaming silver polished coming 2nd trophy.

Spot on. And yet our c of a chairman decides to keep on the GWT? The expenses and the rest we're paying him is could fund a couple of decent youngsters.

Aye that's a hilarious een. Took them to 8th and gets the dunt. The fans never liked him nor his style of grinding play. Fat "corroupt" Sam. Cha's the cud lick a coo. Chuddie Sam. Wankstain of a human.

It was a brilliant and deliberate hit on his standing leg. And it hurt him. He was able to shrug off Cosgrove's assault at Pittodrie but he was writhing in agony on the deck after this one. That's exactly what we have lacked as a team, bottle. We've never been strong enough to stand up for ourselves. Great to see.