Toepoke

Is it a long standing tradition in the USA? Seems to have taken off like wildfire here this year...

On a bit of a youtube nostalgia trip tonight. I think this was one of Arthur's last commentaries. I mind thinking at the time it was unusual to hear him as Jock Brown had pretty much cornered the STV mic duties by that point... Classic goal commentary at 8:45

Salmond did agree that the terms of THE VOW were ambiguous. He did emphasise though that the final judgement on it will come from the Scottish electorate...

How did we not get a penalty there??? Big Joe was clearly going for revenge at Anfield Some more Arthur classics from the 70s...

I've got the one from Hampden. Have a set of all 3 from the year's home internationals. Ma faither took me to the Ireland game but mysteriously sneaked out before the other two matches...

Question Time seems to focus more on local issues more these days, depending where it's being hosted...

Eck's on This Week though. I'm sure he'll be dissecting the Smith Commission output...

Always a heartstopping moment when James Forrest reaches to pull down his trackie bottoms...

It'd be interesting to see a comparison of where these powers would leave Scotland compared with other devolved regions and territories around the world?...

Nah guvnor... http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30218842

I read Douglas Fraser's comments, very interesting. I was joking earlier when i mentioned cutting the top rate, but it's probably the only way income tax could be utilized to Scotland's advantage, by encouraging non-domiciled high earners to pay tax in Scotland. The National should make for interesting reading tomorrow!

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Absolutely, poor guy, a real freak tragedy

Not much cop then. I suppose we could cut the top rate of income tax and create a tax haven for rich Londoners...

Haven't read the small print. Has every aspect of THE VOW delivered?...

The Admiral

Aww nawwww!!!

That's how we started the 2nd half isn't it?...

Heard a feature on the radio about Houston in Texas a few months back, where they've cut corporation tax radically (I think it might even be zero). Consequently there's loads of employment but public services are stretched to breaking point...

Back when I was at Glasgow Uni, watched the opening game of Italia 90 in the QM. Only intended staying for a couple but then Cameroon won so decided to stay for a few more, which then became a few more, on an empty stomach. Phoned my dad to say I was getting the half 10 train and he said he'd pick me up at Killie. I recall leaving the QM then nothing til I came to, walking unfamiliar dark streets. Checked my watch, 1:30am! "Aw naw I've missed my train!!!" I found myself walking into a truckers' overnight stop, some of the cabs looked inviting, but I promptly got a torch shone in my face by a night watchman "'ere, bugger off!" he said. I turned and headed back in the opposite direction thinking if I could get my bearings I could head for the West End and find one of my coursemate's flats. I then spotted a British Rail sign over a building I didn't recognise. "It must be the back of Queen St" I thought. I headed under a bridge to the front door of the station. A policeman was waiting there and asked me in an English accent "Are you feeling better after your walk?". This confused me even more. "Is this Glasgow Queen St?" "No, lad it's Carlisle. Don't you remember? We had to carry you off the train! Where are you going?" "Kilmarnock". "Right let's see..... yeah your next train is a 6:40am". Cue night spent between the station bogs and a bench (fortunately it was June). And a phone call home saying "Dad, you're not going to believe this..." Turned out I was on the train he was waiting for at Killie. I just didn't get off it. I'd won a few quid on the Derby that week, which was blown on the fare back to Ayrshire. When I got off the platform back home my old primary teacher was getting on to go shopping in Glasgow. She just looked at me as if to say "what has happened to him?"...

Didn't see that coming. Horrendous surrendering of possession by Bayern...

A goal and a man up yet still pumped by half time....