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Yeah quite enjoyed the walk around that area. Plenty of boozers too. Good part of the city.

No he didn't. I thought he might have. Unless he did right at the start which we missed.

Ha ha. Morrie was indeed enjoying the hospitality of The Grove. I was pretty drunk by the time we left. Of course the excitement of the end of the game probably contributed to that. We did make it to Elton John although we did miss his first song due to his sharp stage time of 1930. Excellent recommendation re The Grove. Was busy, but not overly so. Just a good atmosphere. Nice variety of drinks and fairly reasonably priced. Cheers.

Yeah mate, I would agree with your new outlook. Just enjoy the ride with whichever manager is there for however long it lasts. If/when someone does leave, don't let it ruin your week.

Thanks again lads. Info is much appreciated, and yes the Viaplay thing is a bit of a hassle.

That's extreme, but so is worshipping the guy and thinking his shit doesn't stink. Either way it ain't healthy. All of them are just people doing their job like the rest of us. They are compensated handsomely in financial terms for doing said job. People shouldn't invest their lives in whether or not they see out their contract.

As an Atalanta fan I thank Rangers for the £3M for an utter dud of a player, certainly in Serie A.

Correct. Must of the wording in the Rangers statement here is lifted directly from the document the SFA sent to all the clubs. Lazy in the way the proposal was put together and now lazy in the way Rangers FC have removed their B team from the Lowland League. The Lowland League would operate better within the pyramid if all the B teams jumped ship as it would then open up for expansion to 18 teams with a two up two down system plus a playoff from the leagues below.

Thanks for the suggestions lads. Give us a few options. Much appreciated.

Wanted a catchy title but that was the best I could come up with. I'm heading to The Hydro on Saturday for the Elton John gig. Obviously want to watch the Scotland game at 1700, before Elton hits the stage at 1930, so says the Hydro website!! Anyway, Glasweigan friends, any good boozer recommendations for watching the game in? Added bonus points if anyone points us in the direction of somewhere within reasonable walking distance of The Hydro. Cheers in advance.

He does quality work. A bit like myself 😂

I dunno really. Taylor didn't really do anything wrong apart from say he believed he won the fight against Catterall. I'm not too sure what other boxers would have said after a close fight either. Things got out of hand badly after that resulting in trolls online publishing the address of his wife#s place of work and her and other members of his family receiving death threats. I think in general, even when he was winning, performing well and tearing it up on the way to becoming undisputed the media here didn't really like him. He is a bit stand-offish and can be spiky at times. The incident at the Edinburgh nightclub after he'd been on the bevvy all day also did his image no favours. I'm not sure if that answered your question or not. There is more boxing specific stuff in the article I just posted above. My pen was busy writing that.

I wrote a Taylor vs. Lopez wrap-up for NY Fights: https://nyfights.com/worldwide/teofimo-lopez-josh-taylor-evaluation/

If Fabrizio says it, it is more than likely happening. His sources across the continent are off the scale good.

Another thing, Taylor has always wanted to box at MSG, and with the recent Ken Buchanan passing and mention of him in the build-up to this one, to go and perform like that, in that building in front of the NY and most of the American fight writers is bitterly disappointing for Taylor. It could haunt him for a while.

Absolutely brutal viewing for Taylor fans that. Getting comprehensively outboxed from round 4/5 onwards and couldn't do anything about it despite solid instructions and ideas on how to do that from his corner. At the start of the fight Taylor employed a nice looking body attack, then he abandoned it somewhere around the third and just started loading up with one off head shots. Worst thing he ever did was move away from Shane McGuigan, he regressed so much under Davison and well here we are. McNally is a good trainer but maybe what he's working with is the problem. As good as he looked in prep for this one and at the weigh-in, he looked drained in there last night. Is the weight cut to 140 just too much now? Or, are we watching a fighter who put so much into his steep climb to the top that this is what we are left with? Hopefully that isn't the case but we can't rule it out after his last two performances. Lopez was a worthy winner in my eyes, so congratulations to him.

It's poorly phrased but I think he was trying to say Moyes joins an exclusive list of top managers "only seven" rather than making a disparaging remark about our fitba culture. I could be wrong though.

between 4am-5am UK time I have been told.

Did a prediction panel piece for this for NY Fights. Some really good observations made by my writing colleagues and the others I asked to contribute. Have a read if interested...... https://nyfights.com/worldwide/josh-taylor-vs-teofimo-lopez-prediction-panel-global-special/

https://featured.japan-forward.com/sportslook/celtic-fc-remains-on-top-in-scotland-but-success-attracts-attention/ Editor in Japan asked for an end of season piece on Celtic's Japanese players. Just published earlier today.

Yeah, I noticed that yesterday as I was taking a look at the groups drawn out for the League Cup qualifiers. The administrators of Scottish football are a shambles.

If you want loyalty in a manager bring in Dick Campbell. The rest of these guys are only in it for themselves. Unbelievable the fans of clubs like Celtic, Rangers and other Scottish clubs buy into the pish rhetoric they spout when things are going well. Rodgers left at the first available opportunity, Postecoglou and Gerrard too. I guess if Beale goes on a tear and Fulham come sniffing about in Jan/Feb 2024 he will do the same. Scottish fitba is just a stepping stone for ambitious and progressive football coaches. Might as well accept that instead of deluding yourselves that they love your club. Do you/did you at any point in your working life love your employer?

Fair enough. You did a good job.

The SFA deserve zero credit and none of your sympathy for this. They have done absolutely nothing over recent years to progress player development, yet when the ugly sisters of Glasgow pipe up they bend over backwards to accommodate them which resulted in this rushed and poorly thought out proposal. Mulraney, Maxwell et al are a shower and should be ousted insted of being voted in for future years, as they just were. I'm sure when this issue returns in 5-6 months time the SFA blazers will be pleased to have your sympathy.

At any point during talking to that shower of mainstream media shite did you consider going Gonzo and just unleashing a rant about how poor Sky's coverage of Scottish football is overall? Granted if you had done you wouldn't have made the final cut, but just want to know your thought process.