Things that only happen in Scottish football

The man is a complete idiot.

There's quite a lot of stories about his time at Falkirk and Hibs where he made life a living hell for a lot of the teenage players and foreign players who didn't speak good English. All this was done to such and extent that the payers union allegedly got involved. 

He was also obsessed with screaming "poofs" and "fairies" at the top of his voice to players both of the opposing team and his own. A psychoanalyst might have some theory about hat.

His own English isn’t great himself 

He says “sree” instead of three 

Roberto Baggio wrote: yes Yogi

There are two former Celtic players called John Hughes who were nicknamed "Yogi"

I presume it's the guy who scored at Ibrox on Paddy's Day 1996 rather than the guy who scored against Leeds in 1970 that's being referenced here

 

 

so Murph , I hear that you are  racist now ?

 

Stretching it a bit here admittedly but I'll bet the Gulf states have a ban on alcohol too.

Personally, I'm a latter day puritan who is completely against allowing fans to buy alcohol at Scottish football games. 

Keep the rules as they are. We still have an unacceptably high drinking problem here that's proving hard to erase.

And, frankly I don't trust people to have a drink at such highly charged games such as the Glasgow or Embra derbies or other frequently ill tempered games such as Aberdeen vs. Rangers or Celtic vs. Hearts.

Our drinking culture needs to change radically before we can ever allow drinking at the football here again. 

It's not really the drinking culture that needs to change in this case

Certain football matches are just full of hatred and let's face it, that's why they are what they are - hatred

Alcohol and hatred are a potent mix 

If there were stalls selling pints of actual alcoholic lager at Celtic v Rangers, that's when you'd know that it had lost everything that ever made it a match we love to watch

On the other hand they can fire out all the pints they like at the rugby or even GAA because ultimately everybody is on the same side

Shedite wrote: Any idea who Bonyrigg Rose are? promote to Scotish league 2 last season and are favorites to win that league this year. Are they a reincarnation of some other team or have some sugardaddy backing them?

Bonnyrigg Rose are an old club, founded 1881 in what was then a town in the heart of the Lothian coalfields. They played in the East of Scotland junior leagues for decades until junior football was abolished a few years ago as part of major league reconstruction.

This is a good interview with the current owners (one of whom is a former miner) from just a couple of weeks ago - https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/rise-of-bonnyrigg-rose-why-club-is-surprised-at-favourites-tag-the-journey-from-ground-zero-mining-and-facing-hibs-3770940

A lot of these former junior clubs are better supported and run than many established third and fourth tier sides so I'm not surprised to see Bonnyrigg, Kelty and Cove doing well. I hope to see Clydebank (2002 incarnation) back in the senior leagues one day.

I think he's probably preoccupied with being no longer with us.