Jaggy Jim

The gun manufacturers and NRA care more about profit than lives. It's as simple as that. I'm sure I've seen polls that suggest the majority of Americans do want stricter gun control but as long as the lawmakers are in the NRA's pocket it's not going to happen. If it didn't happen after Sandy Hook it's not going to happen after today's latest spree. Their usual line about needing a good man with a gun to take out the bad man with a gun is total nonsense. How is a good man with a gun going to know someone's about to spray a crowd with bullets from the 32nd floor.

Saw him at Hyde Park just a few weeks ago. Can't believe this. Gutted.

I quite like the new points system but £50 for a membership is an absolute joke. There is no need for it to be that high.

Wednesday night was an absolute shambles. There are 2 reasons for playing friendlies. One is to blood new players, the other is to prepare for a match that matters. The Canada game was the latter so Strachan should have been putting out the team he was planning to pick against Slovenia. To rest the Celtic players was a joke. To suggest they can't play Sunday-Wednesday-Sunday is nonsense. I'll be surprised if more than 2 or 3 of the Canada starting XI start against Slovenia. Strachan's post match comments about the players being rusty were just plain wrong. Of the Canada starting XI only Anya, Burke and Martin haven't been starting for their clubs recently. He's either lost the plot or just given up.

Sentiment's got nothing to do with why he should still be in the job. If he's good enough to take them to a title and the last 16 of the Champions League, he's good enough to keep them up. It's a ludicrous decision. He's been badly let down by the players, plus Kante has been a huge loss. He protected what is really a pretty average defence and made them a lot better than they actually are. If this is what money does to football I'm almost glad the Scottish game is skint. I really hope they get relegated now and don't come back up until the current owners are gone. I'd like to think the Leicester fans will boycott home games. Hit the owners in the only place that matters to them, the pocket.

Not sure you can blame Ryan for the loss. Yes he made an error in getting sacked at 28-20 but the holding call helped push them out of field goal range. Ultimately it came down to their defence being unable to stop the Patriots in the 4th quarter and OT.

The day before the White Paper is given to parliament!

3 goals in his first 2 games for Malagueno

That's different from the stadium plan info the SFA sent out last week. According to that we've also got sections 527-533 in the upper tier.

Just back from the NFL UK Live show at the Usher Hall. Good chat from ex Giant Osi Umenyiora who's working for the BBC this season, but the real stars of the show were ex Bronco safety Nick Ferguson and recently retired Packers wide receiver Greg Jennings. Both natural storytellers. Hosted by Sky's Neil Reynolds and included a Skype link with the guy that presents Red Zone for the NFL Network. Really good night with all the ex pros happy to express opinions without watering them down.

Rhodes doesn't even get off the bench for Boro in the League Cup in a loss to Fulham. Looks like his time's up there.

If that's the interview Cavendish did with the BBC sports correspondent David Bond after the road race he was quite right to be chippy with him. Bond obviously knew nothing about cycling and was asking stupid questions including whether Cavendish was too tired after riding the Tour de France, ignoring the fact that Vinokourov who won the road race had also raced the TDF. Cavendish proved the point by winning a race on the continent the next day.

1. Celtic 2. Aberdeen 3. Hearts 4. Rangers 5. St Johnstone 6. Thistle 7. Motherwell 8. Ross Co 9. Dundee 10. Killie 11. ICT 12. Accies

Penalties when the games end in a draw because they need results to decide the actual winner of the trophy at the end of it all, except that Man U v Man City being postponed means they can't actually award a trophy!

So when SNP MPs applaud speeches they support and believe in they are reprimanded but when they refuse to be hypocrites and applaud a Prime Minister they disagree with almost 100% they are criticised. What a place Westminster is!

Thought Ozil was excellent against Italy. Worked his arse off, was always finding little pockets of space and a tidy finish for the goal. Crap penalty though.

I thought her smile had as much to do with the crowd going mad when they saw the score as the result itself. Didn't see the first 2 sets of Djokovic's match on Friday but watched it yesterday and there was definitely something wrong with him, either illness or injury. There was no snap on his serve or ground strokes. If he'd been playing one of the top 10 he'd have been beaten far more comfortably. As it was Querrey nearly bottled it, his serve got him through.

On Thursday night Coburn was reportedly asked about the tanking pound and replied that he was glad he was paid in Euros.

The usual clueless arrogance from the commentators and pundits. Crouch calling them part timers. Their entire squad are full time playing in leagues all over Europe. They qualified comfortably from a group including the Dutch, Czechs and Turks and were unbeaten in their 3 games in the group stage of the finals. Currently 34 in the FIFA rankings. But Tyldesley is comparing them to San Marino and the USA amateurs of 1950.

Think I heard 18-24s was 38%

Umanna is one of your modern politicians. Very polished and always sounds like he's speaking very well, but after 20 minutes of listening to him you realise he hasn't really said anything and you have no idea what he stands for.

No way this will fly. Having watched a lot of the news coverage today it's obvious a lot of Leave voters did so as a middle finger to those they see as the political elite. To then see that political elite negotiate a way back in to the EU would lead to all sorts of trouble. The news channels have spent the day looking for interviews with the most ignorant Leave voters they could find I think. I've seen a guy in Burnley who had no problem with immigrants coming from Europe but voted Leave to stop Muslims coming, a woman who didn't know why she voted Leave she 'just had', a guy who assumed it would be a Remain result but just wanted to make it closer and various other nonsensical reasons. Despite being in the Remain camp myself I accept there were valid reasons to vote Leave, but the news channels seemed to be struggling to find folk with such reasons. If they did they weren't broadcasting them. Hopefully this will all lead to a 2nd independence referendum and a Yes vote. Whether we're close to that I don't know, but I have been encouraged to see a couple of friends on Facebook who were very vocally No first time round sharing SNP articles today. Also had an English cousin who's very pro-union saying he wish he had a party like the SNP he could vote for south of the border and that he'd completely understand if Scotland went independent now.

A Leave voter interviewed on BBC this morning said he was shocked at the result and worried about the future! Why the feck did you vote Leave then you moron!

I'm not doubting his record with giving youngsters a chance. He gutted the Man U squad of experienced players so he was always going to have to rely on youngsters if injuries hit. I'm just saying he got lucky with Rashford. At the start of January he was behind Rooney, Martial, Keane and Wilson in the striking pecking order. He only got a chance because the first 3 got injured at the same time and Wilson was sent out on loan. Van Gaal was forced into playing him. He wouldn't have selected him had any of the other 4 been available. Fosu-Mensah looks a real prospect. I'd be surprised if any of the others he's blooded become anything more than squad players at best. Lingard might have a shot but he needs to strengthen up and become more consistent. Borthwick-Jackson has done well but once Shaw is fit he'll struggle for a game.

He's off to his home in the sun in Portugal. I don't see him working again. He was innovative in his day but it's been obvious in the last 2 years that the game had left him behind. His only legacy at Man U will be Martial and Rashford, and he got lucky with the latter. He would never have played but for injuries. He'd only just broken into the u21 team and made a couple of appearances after spending the entire season playing for the u18s.