ross magoo

Probably gonna be shot down in a volley of "Scottish footballs shite" venom.  Fair enough.  Hear me out then call me a cunt etc.

Kilmarnock signed the boy on loan from Metalist Karkhiv.  He tends to play off the main striker but when he drops into midfield his passing is something else, through ball especially.  I appreciate a through ball isn't so easy to come by in the EPL where defences tend to keep a bit narrower but a good passer is a good passer.  Takes a fucking demon free-kick aswell.  Just won SPL player of the month although i was singing his praises long before that.

He'll either go back to Karkhiv or somebody will sign him.  He'll no stay in the SPL because he's too good for our league.

Maybe worth a look.

 

 

All aboard the offended bus.  This would only ever be an issue in Scotland.  By f*** i hate this country sometimes.

 

More proof the officials are against Celtic etc.

Aye well, their foreign ref didna help them the day.  Maybe they just dinna win titles because they're s**** after all.  I'm no going to the Utd v Rangers game the morn - gave my season ticket to a mate.  I dinna want their scabby strike-breaking football.  The worst thing about it is that this Luxembourg referee is actually on strike in his own country but he's over here breaking our referees strike.  It's one of the most unprincipled stances i've ever come across in my life.

 

Head of referee development Hugh Dallas has parted company with the Scottish Football Association after being accused of sending a tasteless email.

 

The former World Cup referee was the subject of an internal disciplinary hearing on Thursday evening.

 

SFA chief executive Stewart Regan investigated reports of an email sent from Dallas's SFA account when the Pope visited Scotland on 16 September.

 

And, on Wednesday, a Catholic Church spokesman called on the SFA to act.

 

BBC Radio 5 live is reporting that three other SFA staff members have been dismissed, with formal warnings issued to three more.

 

The Catholic Church urged Scottish football's governing body to sack Dallas if it was proved he had passed on a "tasteless message" relating to the Pope's visit to Scotland.

 

Following Regan's investigation, the former referee was said to be taking a few days out to consider his future and the SFA added that it would not comment until that process was completed.

 

BBC Scotland had seen the email in question.

 

Some people have phoned me and told me that five have left, but I don't know how many have gone and who they might be

 

SFA president George Peat

 

It was sent from the SFA account belonging to 53-year-old Dallas, contained no text but included an image attachment of a school crossing sign with a silhouette of an adult holding a child's hand and the word "caution".

 

Beneath the road sign were words making reference to the Pope's arrival in Scotland.

 

While Regan was said to have returned to his Yorkshire home, SFA president George Peat said he could not comment on Dallas's departure.

 

"Stewart Regan has interviewed a number of people at Hampden," he told BBC Scotland.

 

"I have not been in there today. I stayed away from there because, if he has dismissed anyone, any appeal from people who have been dismissed would come to me.

 

"I don't know if people have gone or not - that is possible.

 

"Some people have phoned me and told me that five have left, but I don't know how many have gone and who they might be. I don't want to get involved."

 

Dallas, who had been the SFA's head of referee development since June 2009, had also been under pressure in recent weeks following criticism from factions within Scottish football directed at match officials.

 

Celtic, in particular, had been angered by referee Dougie McDonald's decision to overturn his own award of a penalty against Dundee United on 17 October.

Hugh Dallas crouches after being struck by a coin

Dallas was famously struck by a coin during an Old Firm match

 

The SFA launched an investigation after assistant Steven Craven resigned as a result of the furore and McDonald was warned for giving a false explanation for his decision.

 

Craven accused Dallas of "bullying and harrassment" over the incident, although that was strenuously denied by both the referees' chief and McDonald.

 

Although Regan promised an overhaul of referee discipline, Celtic continued to call for tougher action taken against McDonald, with chairman John Reid calling on the referee to resign or be sacked.

 

Reid alluded to what he claimed was a history of bias against Celtic and supported MP Pete Wishart's suggestion that referees should reveal which football teams they support.

 

Celtic had also recently written to the SFA asking for clarification over a penalty awarded against them by Willie Collum during the Old Firm derby against Rangers.

 

Following that incident, striker Gary Hooper suggested that referees wanted to give decisions against his club.

 

Then, this week, Scotland's referees withdrew their labour ahead of this weekend's fixtures, complaining of undue pressure, abuse and that their integrity was being questioned.

 

Both Dallas and the SFA were unavailable for comment tonight. The SFA have made no official comment all day despite both Polish and Portuguese officials withdrawing their offers to cover for striking refs.

 

One of the striking category one referees, John McKendrick, described the departure of Dallas as a "very dark day for referees in Scotland".

 

"We have to remember that Hugh Dallas was a world-class operator," he said.

 

Pictures of Dallas, crouched on one knee with blood streaming from a head wound, are one of the most stark images in Scottish football.

 

In 1999, during a title decider in which three players were sent off and a penalty was awarded to Rangers, Dallas was struck on the head by a coin thrown from the Celtic section of support.

 

Celtic subsequently hired a behavioural psychologist to investigate Dallas's behaviour in the match.

 

Dallas was awarded an MBE for services to football a few months after being chosen to be the fourth official at the 2002 World Cup final.

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/9230531.stm

 

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All aboard the offended bus.  This would only ever be an issue in Scotland.  By fuck i hate this country sometimes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWxRW4j_H6o

So Celtic still sticking to the "he lied" argument then.  Despite the fact that the lie was completely inconsequential.  It wasn't a penalty.  The officials got it right.  The (correct) decision didn't unjustly alter the result of the game.  So what's the fucking problem?

Here's the fucking problem.

Celtic wanted a penalty which wasn't a penalty.  Celtic threw the dolly out of the fucking pram about it boo hoo.  The referee told a porky in his explanation of why a penalty was (correctly) not given.  Celtic are now trying to turn deflect the issue away from the fact that an official made a correct decision in an attempt to make the issue that the official told a porky therefore the SFA are against Celtic and that's why they won't win the league this season despite spending more money than Rangers.

Fucking go away.  We've been listening to the same paranoid straw-man arguments since the year fucking dot.  Here's the news; every team gets decisions against them from time to time (although you're complaining about a correct decision).  We all tell lies and sometimes they disadvantage people except in this case it didn't disadvantage you.  It doesn't make it a fucking conspiracy it just makes you a bunch of paranoid fucking morons.

I could go all night with this lot but i'll leave it there for now.

That's because of that moaning prick Neil Lennon.

 

Canny funny that they are moaning about their integrity being questioned when one of them is in bother for lying about a decision he made & then changed.

And even funnier than one of the men demanding his resignation over it was an accessory to one of the biggest fucking lies in the history of modern warfare, but there you go.

Why are Russia so shite at cricket?

Remember that corner Man Utd did a couple of years ago when Rooney rolled the ball about a foot out of the quadrant to make it look like the ball wasn't yet in play and Giggs took the ball and they scored but it was disallowed?  I remember backing the referee saying if the other team had gone and knicked the ball then Man Utd would have squealed "we've not taken it yet".  Well Kilmarnock tried the same thing against Dundee Utd yesterday but the Utd player was switched on and ran across to steal the ball - the referee waved play on and none of the Kilmarnock players complained.  I take it all back.

Silly laddie.  Canna keep a lid on it.

Oh fuck off

That should be Leeds home and hosed (i hope).  2-1 up at home and Hull down to ten men.

True, i fancy Aberdeen to bounce back myself and i think 13/8 is a decent enough price

Aberdeen have been stinking all season, not just on Saturday.  McGhee needs a win tonight to save his job so it's no really a game i'd touch (although i've taken some risky ones myself).

Leeds v Hull - home 4/5

Newcastle v Blackburn - home Ev.

Wigan v Liverpool - away 4/5

Dundee Utd v St Mirren - home 4/7

Motherwell v St Johnstone - home 8/11

£2 acc rtns £35.17

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Everton v Bolton - draw 23/10

West Ham v WBA - draw 11/5

Hearts v Celtic - draw 5/2

50p treble rtns £18.48

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Dundee Utd 2-0 St Mirren, 1st goal David Goodwille

50p @ 16/1

He's a proper 'clean shorts' defender like.

Whitey pants!  :colo:

Happy chappy.

He looks like my ex.  I bet he has a really smelly fanny aswell.

I thought he was fucking majestic today.  Whether he can hold it together until the end of the season without his head bursting again we'll just have to wait and see but more performances like today and no front page headlines = everybody's happy.

Their breakaway from our corner at 0-0 was the only time they had me worried today.  3rd goal killed it.  At 2-0 they could have gone in at HT and said "Right, forget that lads, if we go out there and get a goal we're right back in this".  Canna dae that at 3-0 though.  They were woeful tbh.

Has anybody even mentioned the streaker?

 

Daft t*** 

He could have ran around for as long as he wanted, nobody chased him, hge eventually ran off the park and turned himself in i can only assume because he got bored.

Just back.  Thoroughly enjoyed that.  Could have been seven or eight if we'd gone looking for more goals instead of knocking the ball about, trying to goad them and generally taking the piss.  Still, what an absolute kicking to take in a derby.  Marvellous.  Barton was terrific today, totally ran the show.  Sunderland are fucking stinking.

I'm driving down for this one with a couple of friends 

Never been to a game against Sunderland before so i'm looking forward to it.

As a defender myself i fucking detest it when some clown comes charging in getting involved like that and gives the attacker the opportunity to go one way then the other.

He looks the part.  Adds a bit of craft and guile to an otherwise workmanlike midfield.

See Wolves were being dirty c***s against Spurs and getting away with it again. Disgusting team.

I remember hearing that Mick McCarthy committed more fouls than any other player in the 1990 world cup.  Pretty good going considering they only got to the quarter final.  That man and his ilk sum up the "fuck off ref", "It wouldn't have happened in my day" mentality that ruins football as a spectacle.

"Born offside".

He's only gone and done it again.  Although the left back was a bit slow to get out and probably just played him on.

I've got Everton on my coupon.

Ach well.