Jaggernaut

Correct. If it comes down to SPL sides playing in front of totally empty stadia, rather than 75% empty stadia as in most cases now, then they'll do it as long as the tv money is the be all and end all.

Worst match report I've ever read.

At last, the Voice of Reason.

Did he really make the factual errors that got into the article? If so, it goes to show that players themselves are as prone to false memories as the rest of us!

Kawashima is pretty good, but not sure if he's better than Scott Fox.

I think that probably the journalist wrote what he wanted to hear, and what he thought would make a good story, rather than what JH actually said. But who knows? I'm sure that the whole Far East tour, with recollections of the players, whatever newspaper cuttings there might be etc., would be a great book!

Irn Bru is the only safe, drinkable substance to be found around there.

Yellow, with blue or green highlights.

Correct, thanks.

I agree. Davie McParland still maintains that they had great (if youthful) belief in themselves that day.

There are already quite a lot of guys who wear that strip to matches, either bought from Toffs or Greaves. So a re-run of them might not sell as many as a newer design. Something would need to be tweaked (well, the badge would be different, I guess). Presumably a "new" version wouldn't be cotton, for a start.

This has probably been posted before, but still enjoyable. I didn't know that we played Olympiakos on the way back from the Far East.... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2348822/The-day-Hansen-and-Thistle-were-a-thorn-in-Celtics-side.html

Good to see that again; I'd forgotten the goal. If Nicky Walker had stood still he'd have stopped it! Thistle knocked it about well enough, but nothing up front. Ring any bells? Shame that the camera never focused on the great Jags support.

I wonder if the 15 other children that they fostered, apparently successfully, have been damaged in some way?

Hmm, whose views do you think would have prevailed, theirs, or the social work department's?

That view sounds much more extreme than anything the interviewed couple were saying this morning.

That's pretty much what I got from it too. The people didn't come across as raging homophobics in any sense, but they made it clear that they did not actively support homosexuality.

Best wishes for him as he undergoes treatment.

Yes, the defence has been pretty much rock solid of late. That at least bodes well for the future, along with the continued promise of some of the youngsters.

Same here.

Jaggernautess made the "bonkers" comment this morning when watching an interview with a nice couple who are foster parents and devout Christians, who have refused to make a positive statement somewhere (not sure where) in support of gay people. Result?: They are now barred from fostering children. Gay couples, on the other hand, who presumably would be positive towards homosexuality in discussions with children, may foster and even adopt children. Does Jaggernautess have a point?

That technicality should get him off the hook. I never watch the programme, but caught the "reprise" last night for some reason. What a sick society we live in!

In fact the finger should be getting pointed towards the manager. He's the one who signs the players and then keeps playing them in spite of our inability to mount any serious challenge for promotion season after season, or to win more than the occasional (very occasional) away game season after season.

I concede!

For anybody interested in the academic side of this kind of thing, check this out: http://www.dur.ac.uk/r.a.hill/Attrill_et_al_2008.pdf Interestingly, the advantage to wearing predominantly red seems only to work for home matches. And clearly there are exceptions to the overall pattern. For example the Red Lichties aren't exactly unbeatable at the Stadium of Licht. I'm not aware of any research showing that red-clad goalkeepers have a higher success rate of stopping penalties (or of penalty-takers missing against them).