Cup Fever
I'm afraid it is a bit of a football special today as an early start tomorrow and copious amounts of drink after the game, win, lose or draw, means that it is unlikely there will be any posting tomorrow.
Scottish Cup weekends are that little bit special, particularily when you are still in the Cup after New Year, for the second year running the mighty Sons of The Rock face a daunting challenge away from home to a Premier League side, this time it is St Mirren (aka Rangers if you are Chick Young) who happen to be the nearest senior side to my residence, being surrounded by St Mirren fans means that a good performance if not result is required.
Under our new management hopefully at least a good performance will be delivered, we may be given no hope but neither did Scotland when they went to France and won and as you can see below we have our own hero in Brian McFadden.
Courtesy of Mr Galloway!
To lighten the mood and calm the nerves before tomorrow I have been delving into a Chrimbo book present "The Bumper Book Of Funny Football Quotes" and thus bring you these little gems.
"sorry Mr Chairman but this is the earliest I have been late for some time"
Ally McCoist to Rangers Chairman David Murray
"I'm often asked how this Rangers Team (1993) compares with The Lisbon Lions. I have to be honest and say that if they were to play I think it would end up a draw, but then some of us are now getting on for 60"
Celtic legend (and former DFC Manager) Bertie Auld
"he'd no alternative but to make a needless tackle" Paul Elliot
"I've always been a childhood Liverpool fan even when I was a kid" Harry Kewell
"a lot of hard work went into this defeat" Malcolm Allison
"we must have had 99% of the game, it was the other 3% that cost us the match" Ruud Gullit
"we didn't have the run of the mill" Glenn Hoddle
"their keeper played well and it wasn't the best of surfaces but I am not making excuses" Graham Rix
"we pressed the self destruct button ourselves" Brian Kidd
Finally a quote which is perhaps too close to the truth in today's world of revolving door managers:-
"You're not a real manager unless you've been sacked" Malcolm Allison
Comments
Sadly I'm not going to make it tomorrow but I'll have the Radio Scotland latest scores page on in the shop.
Come on the Sons!