New Footy Season 2016/17 ..How's your team doing?

[Marco]

Indeed... Those were the days, until SKY and all the money men came in and fucked it up!

Marco.

[struth]

Indeed... Those were the days, until SKY, and all the money men, fucked it up!

Marco.

You look at the players Scotland had in 60's you have to wonder how we never did well in the world cup... Guess it was our famed international reputation for snatching defeat from victory

[Marco]

Too fond of the bevvy and fags, mate. Look at Jim Baxter... A world class player, but unfortunately also a world class smoker and drinker! A fine figure of a man he was, on 40-a-day, and that's not including the pints of beer!!

Too many talented others were exactly the same....

Marco.

[Stratmangler]

I was less than 2 years old when Celtic won the European cup, so have no recollection of it whatsoever. It still happened, though - and they were also in the final again in 1970

Yes, of course I understand where you're coming from, but equally, I think you know where I'm coming from, too! Celtic have long outgrown the SPL and deserve to be playing *somewhere* else, swimming in a pond with equally big fishes.

Marco.

So you're proposing that Scotland be annexed too?
Give Scottish teams the right to choose which league they play in?
It'll never happen, but that's what it will take.
And to think, I had you down as being pro Scottish Independence; either that or you want to have cake and eat it.

Don't forget that the SFA are not your friend either, with their somewhat colloquial attitudes and steadfast refusal to take a wider picture.
It's the same SFA that resists a Team GB for football in the Olympics, all because they don't want to give FIFA or UEFA any opportunity to diminish their right to have a national team playing for World Cup qualification or European Championship qualification.
The IFA have the same approach too.

[Joe]

Don't forget that the SFA are not your friend either, with their somewhat colloquial attitudes

When you write 'colloquial', do you mean 'parochial', or is there some meaning of 'colloquial' that I've not come across before?

[Stratmangler]

When you write 'colloquial', do you mean 'parochial', or is there some meaning of 'colloquial' that I've not come across before?

Pedant

I mean parochial.
It would have also meant thinking less about how the word is spelt too.

[struth]

Pedant

I mean parochial.
It would have also meant thinking less about how the word is spelt too.

long dangly thing often made of string? ... right

[Marco]

Pedant

Lol - says Captain Pedantic himself!

Anyway, all this celebrating of Wales his tired out my wee napper, so I'm off to bed

Marco.

[Stratmangler]

long dangly thing often made of string? ... right

[Joe]

Pedant

I mean parochial.
It would have also meant thinking less about how the word is spelt too.

'Colloquial' is a weird word when you write it several times. Mind you, so is 'parochial', and 'mind', and 'and'.