maverick sheep

jose couceiro "disgusted" to be linked with the hearts job

Alex Thompson saying he'll be getting onto HMRC today for explanation of the delay. "@alextomo: The point is altho FTT is not HMRC, latter has long and close experience of former... "@alextomo: And HMRC clearly felt able to say FTT would decide "shortly after Easter" Why? We shd not be too easily led by HMRC insouciance." Btw I wonder if chick and tom english will be sniggering about thomson being a war correspondant again soon. Those two are a shit stain on the gusset of journalism.

oh the ironing! That's a point though. Whether or not anything actually gets decided before then, the police are going to have one hell of a job keeping order next month.

Can't imagine that improving his international prospects.

Steve Clarkey cat seemingly favourite for the WBA job after leaving pool last night.

Actually did better than I'd expected. Ferrer was always favourite, but I was surprised that Murray actually had the game to beat him. Just didn't have the form. Played the better tennis AND the worse tennis, Ferrer's consistency saw him safe. Surprised also that it's Ferrer's first time in the semis!

Got a feeling folk will be discussing it until we win a trophy or even reach europe again.

Craig Brown saying we could 'hold on' to Fyvie until January. Hold on. Until he's free. Until no one has to pay. Until we get fuck all for a guy who's basically spent a year phoning it in while he waits for a move. Y'know, not, 'we might convince him to extend his contract'. No. We may or may not successfully extend a scrounging fucker's stay for 6 months. 6 months he's already contractually obliged to give us. Aberdeens winzes!!!

that's not a long shot. that's a quick jab from a rusty needle

the club have been atrocious and it's probably a good thing that we've not got our hopes up only to potentially see him sign for someone else. but if he signs for us he'll have my full support, until then he's not our player and when he could have said nothing, he publicly made us all look like cunts (which we are, but that's not the point).

are player regestrations not held by the spl? i was under the impression that was what the withholding of docs was about. it is all ridiculously intertwined and labyrinthine in terms of the paper trail mind you, so i am not sure!

the desperation he's showing to wear the red shirt truly brings a tear to the eye. all the makings of an aberdeen hero. he can fuck off

if our two targets were so mince, but we still couldn't sign them i shudder to think what level of player we're actually in the market for. i seriously doubt we'd be attracting even a top-ish blue sq premier player.

Not sure how the new SFA hearing is going to tie into things but, since the CVA decision is supposed to be on June 13/14 (?), and the SPL's legal team are providing an update to the SPL Board on June 18, I suppose they need to have their new hearing by the end of the first week in June, otherwise the CVA agreement will surely be postponed...would HMRC allow that? I guess the 2012/13 season's make-up could be announced 3-4 weeks from now, depending on whether the SFA expell them from the Scottish cup etc, and what the creditors' dis/agreement/postponement does for HMRC. If there is a CVA then it comes down to the SPL board's decision a week or so later. Water-down the punishment, strip them of trophies, or expel them? HMRC surely won't hang about. If there is a rejection of the CVA and no more outrageous delaying tactics I can't believe they wouldn't be liquidated by early July. So then it comes down to the SPL/SFA treatment of a newco. I wonder how long until someone suggests delaying the start of the season.

Aye but: "The right of appeal is now open to the Scottish FA through the Court of Session. However, by so doing, the very principles on which the Scottish FA - and, for that matter, Uefa and Fifa - are founded, namely football disciplinary matters being dealt with within its own jurisdiction, would be fundamentally compromised. "Therefore, it is our intention to accede to Lord Glennie's request and refer the matter back to the appellate tribunal, which will consider the remaining sanctions open to it." Basically means that they'll just give the appellate tribunal the chance to hand out the alternative punishments that the C of S pointed out they were entitled to, i.e. explusion. Whether they actually take that chance though...

they had the fans' choice lined up. it was destiny

I have no idea what happens if the admins are deemed not fit and proper to be admins charged with cleaning up after a not fit and proper person who took over from a not fit and proper person...presumably nothing http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18268346 "Insolvency expert Roger Isaacs told the programme that the emails amounted to "one of the starkest conflicts of interest I've ever seen"."

Forgive the following diatribe, but it all kind of shows up the current state of management and clubs themselves in imo. My last two cents on the matter. The bulk of managers could roughly be classed in two categories; serious managers who care about building their team and achieving goals (i.e. O'Neil, Moyes, Guardiola, Craig Brown, Mourinho); and fly-by-nights who are happy just to be taking a pay check and establishing themselves as one of the 'boys' in what is generally an industry full of jobs for the boys (i.e. Ranieri, McLeish, Curbishly*, Big Sam*). The way Martinez goes about it, he seems like he belongs in the first category - probably walked out on Swansea early but would've been less likely to if it hadn't been Wigan that were in for him, still left Swansea a superb foundation, and he's paid his dues to Wigan considering the 2 years in EPL I don't think many people expected them to be good enough to survive. Rodgers I could be wrong about but he seems to me more like the second type of character. Whored himself out after a couple of abject failures and then got lucky to land the Swansea job, where his main contribution was replacing the disruptive influence of another fly-by-night in Paulo Sousa. Sensible then for Martinez to choose Villa, who have a decent core, less primma donnas and lower short-term expectations than Liverpool. Somewhere he'd get time to build. And sensible for Rodgers to choose pool, who will look good on his CV, ensuring him he'll keep getting jobs no matter what, and who have no CL football in early season, meaning Rodgers will also get more of a grace period than at most 'big' clubs. Somewhere he'd get more time before being sacked. * At Charlton and Bolton I think these guys were more like the first category, but after that their attitudes seem different about the value of hard work over money.

This is 100% my thinking too. The improvement at reading when McDermott took over was instantaneous. See also Watford. If Steve Clarke stays I'd see him having much more of a chance but I'd be utterly astonished if this doesn't end in disaster. And I heard £5m to get him from Swansea. Crivvens!

Silly liverpool. Silly silly liverpool.

this isn't to do with sheridan being guilty or not. it's fucking excellent news if coulson goes down.

Thought the fine wasn't overturned as they were only dealing with appeal over embargo?

however long this new decision takes, i strongly suspect we'll soon conveniently find ourselves at the point we were a couple of weeks ago. Slap on the wrists reinstated, and assuming any money ever emerges, 20p in the £1 agreed and on we go with the Scottish football circus. If the BBC do have 'nuclear' new information, for maximum impact they'll probably have to come out with at somepoint in the next couple weeks.