GLF 55: Geoff reports with a view from the seaside.
Blackpool Rock
MOTHERWELLHow long is it since we’ve had a day as good as Easter Road? Hearts a Third Force? To do that they’ll have to change their system and start playing some football. Our revolutionary tactic of putting the ball on the deck and passing it totally bamboozled them. And just how quiet were the Jambo fans? They knew they were getting a footballing lesson and it shut them up until five minutes from the end when their friend Dougie McDonald continued to favour them. Up in the Well end everything was mental. Streamers, balloons, party poppers, inflatables (full marks to the giant Boabie) and thousands of Well fans revved up and ready to go. I didn’t care that I ripped my jeans or that my new white 'Well top was covered in face paints. It me even have been to our favour to travel to the game cause we all got together early and started the party.
So to the Final. The Huns are not unbeatable, even Dundee United had them worried, imagine if the shot that hit the posts went in or the penalty was given. Sorry, just re-read that. Penalty against the Huns at Hampden indeed. I would like to apologise for my stupidity. Whatever happens, we’ll have a great day out. Win, lose or draw its party time.
BARRY THE NEDBack he comes with his tail very firmly stuck between his legs. Only the Huns would give him a hero’s welcome. For me he shows a complete lack of ambition. Just doesn’t like playing in a team that regularly loses hence all the Scotland call-offs. He knows he can come up here and go back to his old fouling ways and get away with it every time. Down there he had referees who were impartial. Did he light up the Premiership? Has he become a better player? Absolute bull. The old family reasons got trotted out. Live in the real world you fool. Last time I looked Blackburn was hardly a million miles from Scotland. Just hasn’t got any bottle.
RECREATIONAL DRUGSAccording to the English FA they are rife in the game. They do more testing than anyone else does yet when they catch someone twice in six months they ban him for six months yet don’t release his name. Just what is that all about? They may not be performance-enhancing drugs but they most certainly are still illegal. In England, footballers have too much money and nothing to spend it on.
They are easy prey for the drug scene so if they’re caught let’s deal with them accordingly. If a Well player got done for this offence I’d want to know who it was.
GAME OFFLooks like we can’t even get our undersoil heating to behave. Unfortunately it was just one of those things but the Rancid and Sunday Mail couldn’t wait to trot out the ‘Well face SPL Fine’ story. Pity their quotes didn’t back that up. Remember Livi’s heating failing? Recall any threats of a fine for them? Motherwell Vs the World.
BLACKPOOLJust can’t get away from Jambos as Pool had two Cup games against Hearts (Leicester branch). Played well in both games and lost out to a singular spectacular goal in the replay. Ticketing for the replay proved a farce. Season ticket holders got first shout but on the first day of open sale, with a huge queue outside, the computer system crashed. Only season ticket holders with their book at hand could get tickets as they had proof of their address being on the system. Then it happened again the next day, and the next, and the next!! It seriously cut the numbers at the game, which nearly didn’t go ahead when local roadworks cut through the telephone lines to the ground. Only the fact that ambulance staff etc had mobiles allowed the game to start. Typical Pool.
PARANOID?From Flourish, the official journal of the Archdiocese of Glasgow. Guess the missing club. “Hence the need to return again to the hoary old accusation that Catholic schools are to blame for religious bigotry, an accusation repeated yet again by those beacons of forbearance in our society, Rangers FC, GUESS WHO and the Orange Order. Certainly, when people so expert on the subject of religious hatred speak, we do well to listen, but, depressingly, they have nothing new to say.
Much easier to join with Rangers, GUESS WHO and the Orange Order and blame the sickness upon the sufferer. But this means that the sickness, undiagnosed, will never be cured, for no patient ever recovered simply by insisting that he wasn’t ill.
As for Rangers, GUESS WHO, the Orange Order and all the rest, I have a proposal for them - if they stop telling lies about us, we’ll stop telling the truth about them.”
“Guess who” is US!! I wouldn’t give it the time of day were it not from such an official and religious source. Pathetic. We are not completely free of bigots but have done nothing to rate such abuse.
Come On Ye Well
Up The Pool
Geoff Baby
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