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  • Wake Me Up

    I feel queasy.

    Scotland are playing with that familiar air of panicked desperation. Georgia are lording it over them like a playground bully who's stolen your conkers and is twirling them contemptuously, just out of reach.

    I haven't seen that since ...

    AGGGHHHH!!!

    He's coming towards me, arms outstretched, wearing that inane yet malevolent grin.

    He sings, puntuating each utterance with a taunting, drawn-out, sibilant 'z'.

    "We are ze cheeky boyzzz! We are ze cheeky boyzzz! Touch my bum! Don't be shy!"

    NOOO!!! IT CAN'T BE!!!

    BERTI LIVES!!!

  • Classic Footballing Stereotypes No 173

    Aberdeen coach Sandy Clark pontificating about AC Milan keeper Dida on Radio Scotland tonight:

    "Being Brazilian, he's obviously temperamental."

    Yes, really.

  • Dida and McGhee

    MARK McGhee can look forward to a career in journalism when he leaves football management, should he wish to pursue that line of work.

    A fan has just run onto the pitch at Parkhead and struck out at AC Milan keeper Dida, seconds after Celtic had scored what proved to be the winning goal.

    Apparently - I'm listening to Radio Scotland - Dida ran after the fan, then stumbled melodramatically to the ground and had to be stretchered off.

    Analyst Murdo MacLeod is foaming at the mouth at the Dida's apparent antics - he's making the most of it, claims MacLeod.

    Enter McGhee and a voice of reason. McGhee, who has impressed with his calm and insightful thoughts on the game since becoming manager of Motherwell, chides MacLeod. Dida may be faking injury, but it is too early to draw any opinions - did the guy have a knife, did Dida have a flashback to horrific indcident when he was hit by a flare thrown by an Inter Milan fan, have we seen it from the wrong angle? We have to wait for the tempestuous atmosphere to subside and look at things with a clear head.

    Some say trying to find out about the world by reading a newspaper is by telling the time with a clock that only has a seconds hand. McGhee, though, has the sort of cool rational head that makes a a journalist - never mind a football pundit - par excellence. Look out Nick Robinson.

    On another note, I almost pity the idiot that ran onto the pitch and nobbled Dida. Football fans have no sense of perspective (you wonder how many see any irony in Bill Shankly's claim that it is more important than life or death) and the retribution this guy will get in the streets of Glasgow, in the workplace and in prison - if that's where he ends up - will be far more than the crime deserves.

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