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One of the amateur managers I played under would switch the left and right back's shirt numbers to "confuse" the opposition. It never worked.

I think football just followed the way the rest of the West moved over the last thirty years. If anything, they were a little behind. Everything has drifted towards monopoly, as that's the way the world is designed. Fitba is no different to music (ruined by style over substance), films (endless re-makes and easy plots), food (dominos pizzas, Macdonalds and the chain restaurant), buildings (mass produced shite houses, glass boxes), clothes (next, top-shop cheap latino/bangladesh etc workers providing shite quality pish) and so on. Fitba perfectly mirrors the society we live in. Whether it be just looking at Scottish fitba, or European fitba, the glaringly obvious problems are there for all to see, but are ignored. But we're in the cup final, so who gives a fuck?

I thought he was our best player today.

Unlucky from Rooney. Need to get a goal. Not been bad on the whole, just lacking the killer ball. The pitch looks good from a distance, but you can see it regularly cutting up as players are just lightly jogging on it. One further reason why hampden is a fuckin disaster.

Aye, but wis he a hun?

Did it work? I wid have thought reducing the cider with butter or some such wid have made for a stickier, more cidery effect. But I've never tried it like. I burnt my tea the nicht so possibly nae one to gie advice.

Cider infused carrots? How did that occur?

Anyone who uses the term "bad hombres" in a leader's debate gets my vote. I'll be disappointed when it's over and cuntface wins.

The thread is about things you'd like to see return, not things you'd like to see that have never existed.

Designed by sick fucks.

I'm mainly a tea and coffee drinker, but take in very few liquids at all. I realised on Sunday that I hadn't drunk anything other than a cup of tea, a coffee and a glass of wine since the Friday which is probably quite bad. My pish was still clear like, but perhaps that isn't a great barometer for me. I try and drink two glasses a day during the week though, so that's about a pint. The problem at places of work is that they often just have thon pishy plastic glasses that aren't worth the bother even filling up so I have a cup of tea instead. I'm a very healthy eater, but I just dinna back it up with the drinking part - although I never have fiizzy drinks or juices like cause they taste like piss. I'm always going for a hose ina, so that doesn't help. I'll attempt to increase my levels to 2 pints a day.

Aye, it's superfluous ones for me. Freaky cunts of things. Birds and kids clothes are full of them, it makes me sick. Dolls though, that's the one. Horrendous things.

Yer right, although I wouldn't have gone even if it was the huns because of the ridiculous kick off time, but I'm probably in the minority. It's certainly not through lack of interest though, I'm really looking forward to the game and gutted that I'm (through my own choice) not going, but I simply can't give them my money for agreeing to such a fucking ridiculous event. It's the equivalent of holding a Shed Seven gig at the O2 where you'd sell about 2,000 tickets. Could you imagine an events organiser anywhere in the world doing something as ludicrous as what they SPFL are doing this weekend? Yet we accept it because it's fitba and we can't have a serious conversation about it.

I'd say that's the case, yes, but it's entirely anecdotal I don't have any figures. What I do know is that when I grew up in the 80s (so nae that long ago) we had several places to go and play football. They were all free and didn't require any organised event, you just turned up and had a kick about whether there were 2 or 10 of you. My home village/town now has about 500-1000 extra houses. They've all been designed in classic UK housing estate style (except I don't think they call them estates - but they are). Self contained areas where the only way in or out is by car, and the streets - and often the pavements - are lined with parked cars as the driveways are only suitable for 1.5 cars or you can't open your doors. Kids are confined to their back gardens, where their parents get pissed off because they keep kicking the ball into the neighbours' gardens. There is originally a green space where kids can play, but it's then run down deliberately or situated in a ridiculous spot so the developer eventually comes back and build more houses on it. Even in the small village I grew up, the new houses will be a drive away from the park for a lot of kids who's parents won't let them go out on their bikes because of the paedophiles. You then get a couple of evenings of highly organised fitba at the local pitches with a game on a Saturday, with the option to send yer kids to the fully-commoditised fitba schools if you can afford it. What used to be free, readily available fun, now has to be paid for. We've taken our spaces and said: "how can this make someone money", rather than design our new town add-ons with a view to integration, enhancing and adding to the existing infrastructure. The irony is that the chairman of the north east's biggest fitba team is responsible for a portion of it.

Aye, totally. To argue with myself and you though, I suppose he probably did get leeway at the start, but he just didn't give the early performances that would have seen him through. A second leeway wind is what's called for!

You winna be disappointed, Curtis nails it like. Where he gets his clips from I've nae idea, but it works on all levels.

Only because we use retarded measures like GDP (and indeed money itself) to discuss our economy rather than benefit, distribution or velocity. So yes, spending on wars grows the economy by measurement of GDP. But it doesn't "stir it up" as such, no more than housing speculation. We effectively create a bunch of consumables of limited future value. Usually at the expense of something else, although there is no inherent necessity for it to be at the expense of something else just that's the way it is done. Anyway, I welcome our new Russian overlords. ?? ???? as they say.

It's easy, and definitely worth it. You need a roller machine thing like, but I can whack out a good pasta in the same time as dried takes (although it is better if you can leave it for a while before rolling).

Wright's pretty much the same age as Maddison, I doubt he's going to learn much of the built-in talent that Maddison has. Agreed he needs game time though. Stockley and Pawlett on at 3-0 means we're unlikely to ever see Wright in a dons top (he'll be gone before the opportunity arises). Storie could easily have been on for Shinnie (who was having a great game, but had made 3-4 fouls already and he's already halfway to suspension; lucky not to be booked at the weekend). McLean upped his game again at the weekend, and I do believe that Maddison's position is McLean's best too. He's a very capable player that with a bit of confidence could cause a lot of problems for defenders. Maddison is getting a lot of leeway for errors too, which is great as it means he's trying lots of different things. He plays as if the pressure is off him, which it is to an extent (he secured that in his first few games), which must be great for him. When McLean joined, there was a different level of pressure on him. That's not to say that McLean is as good a player just that he has a lot of the attributes to play that role (if he could learn to turn like Maddison does on a six pince that'd be ace) and I hope he's given that opportunity again when Maddison leaves us (hopefully at the end of the season).

New Adam Curtis documentary on iPlayer. Ace as always fae him. Not quite sure why it's nae on the normal telly like. They could easily split it into two or three parts and throw it on BBC4 instead of the repeats they keep showing. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p04b183c/adam-curtis-hypernormalisation

Yer pasta looks affa thick, did you use a pasta roller dealy? Looks fine though.

Anonymous official on youtube is always good for some WW3 chat like, I do love a bit of excitement. It's the Chinese we need to worry about too. The yanks have been riling them in the South China Sea for years now, with any attempt at defence by the Chinaman classed as act of war. Luckily we have someone like Obama in charge, the winner of the nobel peace prize, who has overseen the building more nuclear warheads than any other president in history. Trump's position on Russia is to do business with them and withdraw from Ukraine. Make of that what you will.

Looks like somebodies shite on yer plate, then spewed on the shite afore placing some nicely chopped veg at the side.

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Smith should have gone somewhere better than Dundee Utd. Even their neighbours perhaps. He's a decent player who'll play lower SPL I reckon and may prove to be better than that as he's comfortable on the ball and reasonably quick-footed. I doubt we'll learn anything about him whilst he's playing championship fitba and I can see just letting him go at the end of his contract. Shankland never going to be good enough unfortunately. Possibly a bit later in his career I suppose, when he learns how to use his body a bit better, as he's got a decent touch.