Of course, the Bisto Kids have come to see such help from match officials as their God-given right. You never hear them admit that they were 'lucky' or that they 'scraped through'; every victory, no matter how it was achieved, is a clear sign of their superiority. They say that the Championship this season is going to be harder to win than the Premiership; and that's certainly true. Teams like Aberdeen and Dundee United have their best chance in years to win the league, while the likes of Hearts and Hibs face four games each where they'll be a man, and a goal from a penalty, down. God help us all if this new team actually gets into the top league next year!
McMurdo's banging on about Celtic downsizing because Rangers aren't around any more. They just don't get it, do they? It's called living within your means. Every top team in Scotland had to spend money they couldn't afford just to try to keep up with Rangers, who, as it turns out, couldn't afford it either. It was obvious that when Rangers disappeared Scottish football would settle down and start living at its own level. The big money's simply not there; it never was. Rangers being liquidated and Hearts and Dunfermline almost going the same way are proof of that. Scottish teams are in no position to challenge the likes of the EPL in the spending stakes.
Anybody that thinks Peter Lawwell is sitting on a bank balance of squizzillions of pounds is seriously deluded. Nor, however, as McMurdo and his disciples seem to think, is he sweating buckets over huge debts. The way McMurdo puts it, Celtic are downsizing while Bisto FC is already splashing the cash like serious Champions League contenders. All this proves is that The Peeppul have learned nothing. The days of side letters are over and, if Bisto get into the Premiership. every penny they spend will be scrutinised. And it won't just be Celtic that will raise matters with UEFA; every club in the Premiership is still smarting from all those years of being cheated.
Rather than worry about what Celtic are doing, McMurdo and his acolytes would do better to worry about their own team. The best part of £60m quid was pished away to win two amateur leagues. And now they're boasting about their squad while the loans from the Easdales and that other guy haven't been paid yet. It looks like they're doing a Craig Whyte: robbing Peter to pay Paul and we all remember how that turned out! And we're supposed to be worried about them 'coming down the road'?
I'm hoping for a serious GIRFUY moment tonight. The game in Warswa flattered Legia and they're really not as great as they seem to think they are. I'm expecting Celtic to give them a serious trouncing and I'm looking forward to all the gloating Govan cockroaches crawling back under the floorboards where they belong.
And so onto the referendum debate. I thought I'd be able to watch it on BBC iPlayer but it's not available. I didn't need to see it, though, as every syllable and nose twitch has been scrutinised endlessly for meaning. The reactions to the programme have been entirely predictable, with both sides claiming the upper hand. The Daily Record, of course, says that Alistair Darling came out on top. This claim is, however, belied somewhat by their snap poll of some 'undecideds'. All of these people said they were impressed by Salmond's case and will now be voting YES. What I take from that is that, despite the desperate Unionist claims to the contrary, Alex Salmond actually put up a good showing.
The Daily Record are still going on about currency in an independent Scotland. They still don't seem to understand that currencies these days are all in the hands of banks and there's not a thing any government can do to stop anyone using a particular currency. If China decided to start trading in GBP tomorrow then the Westminster government would be powerless to stop them. Not that they'd want to. Having another country trading in your currency only strengthens it, which is why the US toppled Saddam Hussein to stop him switching from US Dollars to Euros. Alistair Darling's scare tactics are just that and a complete fantasy. Alex Salmond's talk of UFOs etc went right above the heads of the studio audience, and many in the population in general. He was pointing out the ridiculousness of the Bettertogetherers' campaign, which has been nothing but a bunch of scare stories, with no substance whatsoever.
Alistair Darling puts his point across.
IN MEMORIAM
Don't get all stroppy about wearing a poppy
We need to remember the slain
If they hadn't won and defeated the Hun
It would have happened all over again.
Just think of how we’d be living now
If Germany had won the war
We’d all be slaves and go to our graves
With nothing much worth living for.
Poor housing, low pay and no kind of say
In how our own country is run
And rich upper classes with overfed asses
Making sure their will is done
With our unions toothless, the ones in power ruthless
And Draconian laws being passed
The judges all partial, the police forces martial
They’d keep down the whole working class.
A Teutonic clan would rule o’er the land
To whom we’d have to scrape and bow
Although rich as Croesus they’d continue to fleece us
And live by the sweat of our brow
There’d be lodges and bands all over the land
With songs full of hatred and bile
If you’d different skin or didn’t fit in
They’d want you off of this isle
They’d go marching round in every town
Wanting us kept in our place
And telling us clear that we’re only here
Through the kindness of the Master Race
We’d all worship Mars and be fond of wars,
Our soldiers would be seen as saints
They’d be free to pillage some far-away village
Without any fear of constraints
And throughout the World all folk would be hurled
Into endless wars and starvation
With no let-up or cease and no sign of peace
And no will to change the situation
So don’t point or laugh at the cenotaph
And think of the fallen with love
They fought hostile nations so next generations
Would never live through the above.
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