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1 hour ago, Gemmill said:

I think it's based on the actual reasons given for cautions. So that probably tells you a bit more about how the refs are a bit too pally with Arsenal players. 

Yeah, it only shows where dissent or a tactical foul has been blown up. Man City are prodigious with the ol' tactical foul, but get away with it.

 

Chelsea and Man Utd are most likely to suffer in my opinion. They're more reliant on the individual plucking a bit of quality out of their arse, rather than the team's style. Bruno Fernandes gets benched for 10 minutes, then there's nobody to pull the strings. If Nunez gets benched, Liverpool will get by without him just fine. 

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12 hours ago, Dougle said:

The names in this league man. Tremendous

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Where’s the Civil Service Strollers when you need them? 

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8 hours ago, Monkeys Fist said:

Is that Keith Huntly, the famous detective who caught the notorious Irn Bru Bandits, Banks O’Dee and Buckie Thistle? 

From Brigadoon? 

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16 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

the batsman's holding the bowler's willey

It was the other way round as, unlike the great Michael Holding, Peter Willey wasn’t much of a bowler. I think that was apocryphal unfortunately (although I like to imagine Brian Johnston saying it then making the TMS box giggle). Lillee caught Willey bowled Dilley actually did occur though. 

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3 minutes ago, Meenzer said:

And the mighty Gala Fairydean :gay: 


Who’s hallowed Netherdale ground I graced with my presence in my youth

😎 one or two games v John Collins ex Hibs, Celtic, Monaco,Everton, Fulham etc…

 

Wait till you see the stand, it’s a fuckin doozy 😊


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-63426968

 

 

 

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32 minutes ago, Alex said:

It was the other way round as, unlike the great Michael Holding, Peter Willey wasn’t much of a bowler. I think that was apocryphal unfortunately (although I like to imagine Brian Johnston saying it then making the TMS box giggle). Lillee caught Willey bowled Dilley actually did occur though. 


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They’re Lowland League along with dear old Berwick Rangers nowadays. What you’re looking at there is the Highland League fixtures :) 

I did subsequently realise that. Along with, sadly, Cowdenbeath. One of the less unusual names but with the superb nickname ‘The Blue Brazil’. I used to love  (even as a very young kid) listening to James Alexander Gordon reading out the full classified results. Mainly for the unusual and poetically named Scottish teams. Even Celtic and Rangers, with their not being named after the place they play. Then Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian. The latter being the Roman name for Ireland. As you went down the leagues the names got better. Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Hamilton Academical and so on. My favourite was always Queen of the South though. Which I later found out was a reference to Dumfries in a Robert Burns poem, and that phrase in turn is a biblical quote referring to the Queen of Sheba. :D 
Edit: I checked and it was David Dunbar, not Burns (although Buns was from around Dumfries too) 

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6 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:


Who’s hallowed Netherdale ground I graced with my presence in my youth

😎 one or two games v John Collins ex Hibs, Celtic, Monaco,Everton, Fulham etc…

 

Wait till you see the stand, it’s a fuckin doozy 😊


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-63426968

 

 

 

 

It's like they saw Gateshead and said "that, but smaller and in concrete"

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I did subsequently realise that. Along with, sadly, Cowdenbeath. One of the less unusual names but with the superb nickname ‘The Blue Brazil’. I used to love  (even as a very young kid) listening to James Alexander Gordon reading out the full classified results. Mainly for the unusual and poetically named Scottish teams. Even Celtic and Rangers, with their not being named after the place they play. Then Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian. The latter being the Roman name for Ireland. As you went down the leagues the names got better. Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Hamilton Academical and so on. My favourite was always Queen of the South though. Which I later found out was a reference to Dumfries in a Robert Burns poem, and that phrase in turn is a biblical quote referring to the Queen of Sheba. :D 


There’s a book you’d like here, I think QotS feature in it, written by a smoggie who lives in Scotland..

 

https://www.waterstones.com/book/stramash/daniel-gray//9781906817664?gad_source=1&sv1=affiliate&sv_campaign_id=863943&awc=3787_1707913557_38306248f3b4d0b9d85f98e1df32bfa6&utm_source=863943&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.octer.co.uk%2F

 

 

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9 minutes ago, Meenzer said:

 

It's like they saw Gateshead and said "that, but smaller and in concrete"


I’ll never forget the first day I saw it… I was maybe 11ish and I thought it had been dropped on to a football pitch from another planet :lol: It’s right next to the Gala RFC rugby ground, where we were watching Gala v Kelso but I didn’t watch much of the match I just couldn’t take my eyes off this massive fuckin carbuncle next door.. 

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