Anyone Who's Good Enough For Middlesbrough Won't Be On Dis Ting: SPL 2010/11

Fixtures out. No New Year derby game, instead it's on the Wednesday night between Christmas and New Year. Brilliant :/

Still, wee result as I've got a couple of things I can't get out of later in the year and we're away for both of them.

How come our visit to Ibrox is still at a weekend? Wasn't the Summit supposed to have recommended moving all 'Old Firm' games to weekends? Or is it only when it inconveniences Celtic fans?

By visit I mean visits, both of them currently scheduled for Saturdays.

I was so drunk last night I think I convinced myself this morning that I'd made this whole Gordon Smith thing up to wind up pub Huns. It's a thing though. Ex-head-Hun in charge of the SFA, ex-head-SFA in charge of the Huns. Magic.

How come our visit to Ibrox is still at a weekend? Wasn't the Summit supposed to have recommended moving all 'Old Firm' games to weekends? Or is it only when it inconveniences Celtic fans?

CQN running with the allegation that the New Year game was switched to avoid paying the polis double time on a public holiday (see also Easter Sunday rather than Easter Monday last time out).

Vlad's back in some style:

http://www.heartsfc.co.uk/articles/20110624/hearts-statement_2241384_2381659

The Hearts Board of Directors has issued the following statement in relation to outside influences on players and the club.
"What's happening with the club today is not a new thing. For almost 7 years we have been fighting to shield the club from crooks, criminals and thieves. Many of the top players at the club have felt the bitter results of the swindles that have been carried out with them on their own skin. Skacel and Webster have returned to the club after realising where these 'football patriots' have led them.

"Over a short space of time 4 players at our club have been on the wrong end of the law. We note that 3 of them are represented by the same agent - Gary Mackay - who has been so vicious in his attacks against Mr Romanov.

"Taking into account the facts that have been omitted by the media it can be presumed that each of these cases is not a coincidence, but the result of targeted actions of a mafia that wants to manipulate the club and the results.
"Every year Hearts fights to be in the top 3, but even last season in the last 12 games of the season it was almost like someone replaced the team with a different one. Whose fault is that? Players? Manager's? Or it is mafia.
"Stealing players, bad games, problems with the law - all of that on top of record SFA fines. Problems are just shifted to another level.
"Mafia are dragging kids into the crime, in order to blackmail and profit on them. It is not possible to separate these people from pedophiles, and you don't need to do that. Each year we are forced to fight against these maniacs harder and harder. We are standing in their way not letting them manipulate the game of football in the way they want. As such they undermine us in every possible way they can.
"The task of the club is to tear these kids out of hands of criminals."

i posted it in rolling wtf thread because i didn't think it should languish in our provincial thread, but i don't think that gets much traffic either. it's really a must read for anyone who likes laughing.

Was toying with the idea of a separate Vlad thread years ago, around the time of the monkeys stuff. Guy needs a wider audience than the SPL thread, def.

Getting near time for a new thread with the season kicking off in less than two weeks. Title suggestions anyone? Will we make it a generic Scottish football thread now rather than SPL?

Was toying with "Summits, Sex Offenders and Shite Football" but figured no-one would want that open in a tab at their work.

"There's no grass on it - Scottish football in 2011"

Scottish football 2010 - Oh god not another year of this rubbish...

2011, even

"tearing our kids out of hands of criminals" - Scottish Football 2011

Celtic B v the jags at fir hill 3pm,tenner at the gate. Apparently going to feature 45 minutes of EMILIO. Going solo like roald dahl.

Half thinking about that. Still in close-season mode though, can't believe we kick off next week.

Aye it's ridiculous. Not complaining too much tho,my life is p empty without it!

"tearing our kids out of hands of criminals" - Scottish Football 2011

― ailsa, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:22 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^seconding this.

Hi thread. I've been away. Have we signed or sold a left back?

no.

izaguirre looked like he'd gained a few during the off-season today.

"Tearing our kids out of hands of criminals" - rolling Scottish football 2011/12 thread

Have at it.