JABBA THE AGNIVORE

MULTIPLE MOANS

One of the big stories in The Sun today is about some idiot haranguing Andy Goram in a bookies in Peterhead. Amazingly some clown hurling sectarian abuse is headline news but thousands doing it merits not a mention. Last season we were treated to rousing choruses of The Billy Boys and The Famine Song with nothing at all said by Vincent Lunny or our friends in the meeja. The 'demonstrations' outside Ibrox to 'save the big hoose' were peppered too with 'We hate Celtic...Fenian B-'. Again the Fourth Estate said nothing. And yet this one moron will be trotted out as part of the old 'bad as each other' excuse.

Meanwhile Keith Jackson has decided to write about Gary Hooper. Amidst all the smokescreen he uses to obfuscate his main point he goes on about what a great player Hooper is, how well Celtic are doing in Europe and how well Neil Lennon is doing. Waft away the fog, however, and his point is that Hooper is going to be sold before the end of the transfer window. How many times have the Daily Record got to peddle this line? Every transfer window they try to stir things up by speculating about players leaving Celtic!

And apparently it's great news for Sooperally. Portland Timbers (Who?) have decided to get rid of useless, so-called striker Kris Boyd. According to the Daily Record this frees him up for Rangers to sign him next September! Will they? Maybe. When he was at Rangers Boyd got away with absolute murder: blatantly offside goals, dodgy penalties and, his speciality, going in on the goalkeeper with both feet, studs aimed at the guy's head. Will he get away with things again? A quick look at the number of red cards handed out to Rangers' opponents this season tells you all you need to know!

A strange story to finish with. Celtic Women's team were thrown out of the Scottish Cup. Due to injuries they only had 14 players fit to be fielded. Unfortunately 4 of those players were called up for international duty so were unavailable. Scottish Women's Football at first agreed to a postponement but changed their mind after Celtic's opponents, Glasgow City, appealed against this. Of course, no blame can be attached to the SWF, can it? Well, it puts a different slant on things when you discover that the four players called up for international duty were playing for SCOTLAND!

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose!