The Thursday Stickler
Nick Walsh relegates Perth Saints, Leith clinch third, McInnes walks and the return of the FMB
Aw man. What a night of football that was. I endured most of that absolute shambles from Pittodrie (more on that later) and was in such a mood that I saved Sportscene for this morning.
A sockless Thommo, a sleepless Charlie and an incredulous Michael.
The Opinion Saxophone hit all the right notes when it came to the fucking ludicrous decision by Nick Walsh to award RossCo an injury time penalty. Charlie not so much as he went for the “if you’ve played the game” card as if the rest of us don’t know what it’s like to be pushed in the back.
These things even themselves out over a season etc etc but in this moment, the penalty equaliser doomed Perth Saints and meant Dundee aren’t safe yet. Let’s also agree that the punishment doesn’t fit the crime with so many penalty awards. The nick off Portales had no impact on the phase of play and yet from it comes a free shot from the penalty spot. Disgraceful.
Perth Saints boss Simo Valikari was accepting of his fate nonetheless.
Motherwell pumped Killie so wantaway manager Derek McInnes did a post match runner rather than face the media. Killie have since announced he won’t take the team on Sunday because they don’t know where he is. The Stickler does.
Into the top six now and despite some shoogly offside line drawing the Leith Team held on for a 2-2 draw in Paisley and secured third spot and a place in the Champions League knockout stages for the next decade. Scenes of utter jubilation ensued.
Fair play, Leith, fair play.
Barry Ferguson said farewell to Ibrox with another win. His increasingly rampant ego convinced him not to give any youth a chance and rely on the underperforming stalwarts instead. Huzzah!
That leaves us with a sorry tale from the North East. I don’t know which was worse. Seeing Captain Shinnie being repeatedly skinned by wee Jamesy Forrest…..
….or discovering the Predator had visited Cormack Park before kick off and removed the players spines.
Two consecutive skuddings with third place on the line can mean only one thing at The Stickler. A visit with the Football Monitoring Board.
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It’s Monday morning after the debacle at Ibrox and the FMB are having an emergency debrief.
