The Bank Holiday Monday Stickler
Falkirk are champions, paths become clearer and Dead Rubber Sunday lives down to expectations.
It’s a sunshiny but slightly chilly holiday Monday. The weekend of Scottish football clarified quite a few things not in the way I would have liked personally as the drama has somewhat lessened now.
Big congratulations to Falkirk though in winning the Championship and securing back to back promotions. A remarkable job done by John McGlynn which earned him another Manager of the Year award last night.
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Falkirk will be a great addition to the Premiership.
No messing around with any of the playoffs as they get underway on Tuesday night.
The plot thins in the Premiership
After their unbeaten run was ended in the North East, the Leith Team got right back on the horse on Saturday by halting the Tangerine Bandwagon 3-1. The Big 99, lauded for his “unseen work” (that’s code for a striker who doesn’t score very often), burst through the ponderous United defence to plant the second.
The pressure was on Aberdeen to find a way past bogey team / bogey venue Paisley Saints. They fucked it. I suggested on Twitter that hosting the Player of the Year Awards on a Thursday night with a game on the Saturday isn’t the best idea. No shots on target and another piss poor handling of a ball into the box suggests the hangover was real.
I think that makes it very difficult for Aberdeen to get past Leith Team now for third and the top six is pretty likely to finish as it now stands.
The top two played off on Sunday at Ibrox. It finished 1-1. Headlines were made when a dead rubber plant was thrown onto the pitch by a fan.
And then there was the Rangers tifo. A strange celebration of Star Wars Day.
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Onto the bottom six. Dundee got a bit shafted on the VAR front there with a sketchy disallowing of their second goal. Rubbing their face in the shite was Maswanhise springing up with a brilliant header to grab three points for Motherwell.
