One of the joys of living in an area without any significant light pollution is the wonder of the night sky.
This is especially true in the crisp winter weather.
There is something about the dry cold in local hills during these months that makes the stars appear almost touchable.
On many treks in the Derryveaghs with the Donegal Mountain Rescue Team, it was utterly awe-inspiring just to look up and be lost in the vista.
However, last night I was fearful of doing that in case I would see something that terrified me.
When Kevin Clancy called the contest to an end, Sevco had been reduced to ten men, and the Dons had been awarded a penalty.
I was convinced that an Extinction Level Event was imminent.
The normal human reaction is “Don’t Look Up!”
Last night at Pittodrie Aberdeen got one penalty when they should have had two.
Yet, they still got a spot-kick against a team from Ibrox!
Players who would typically be allowed to impede their opponents with impunity found themselves subject to sanction.
One of them was sent off.
Scott Brown continues to have rent-free accommodation within the collective consciousness of the Ibrox klanbase.
Sevco’s Dutch manager didn’t keep to the DUP approved script in the post-match reaction.
His assessment was clear and grounded:
“In the end, especially with ten men, we were happy with the one one because a point is a point.”
You can see the interview here.
Unsurprisingly, the Ibrox klanbase were less than Zenlike about the two dropped points.
One of the scapegoats seemed to be John Lundstram, who had come off the bench.
Perhaps he was playing like a chap who had recently been told that if an offer came in for him, then the chaps in the Blue Room wouldn’t stand in his way.
At present, because his signing on fee is being paid in weekly instalments, his take-home pay makes him one of the best-paid players in Scotland.
Follow follow the money.
Always…
I come back to the situation with John Souttar.
Now, I’m sure Hearts wouldn’t be too difficult to deal with if hard cash was put on the table.
Of course, that would also mean the defender going straight onto the Sevco payroll as well as a signing on fee.
Many in the Ibrox klanbase seem to think that the ten-year-old club is rolling in it after the sale of Nathan Patterson to Everton.
Last night, one bit of good news for the Sevco High Command was that young Master Hagi got on the score sheet.
That will assist the Director of Fantasy in his Sterling efforts to bring in some cash for the Romanian.
Alas, there are still no takers for the forlorn Alfredo.
Pobrecito…
Failure to reach the riches of the Champions League next season could have the chaps in the Blue Room afraid to look up.
I think that’s a good answer, isn’t it?
Sevco’s evidence-based manager will want to have his core squad intact in February.
In a sense, it is out of his hands.
If I were him, I wouldn’t look up…
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Dunno what the hold up has been with Hagi’s move to Real Madrid. If you cast your mind back to his signing, the belief among the hard of thinking was that he would be moved on to RM the following summer for tens of millions, done deal, and they were actually lucky to have such a genius for six months.
The wages are due again this coming week. Be interesting to see if there’s another Friday night share issue. If there is, that would imply that the Patterson first installment is already gone.
Why would a Club make their biggest ever sale an undisclosed fee?
You would think it would be shouted from the rooftops just how much the Paterson deal raked in?
I should think the Everton Annual Report should be quite revealing and that the figures being banded about (unsubstantiated figures) are a bit shall we say bloated by succulent means ?
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00036624/filing-history
Next accounts made up to 30 June 2021
due by 31 March 2022
If he was to look up at the night sky then all Gio would see is Orion’s (Fenian) Belt getting tightened.
Isn’t it strange how the star constellations including Orion’s Belt never change, and have never changed, down the millennia?
I even read somewhere recently that this is because they ‘reset themselves in the sky after every Winter Solstice to them re-begin their annual celestial drift across the heavens and repeat the very same process again the following year, and every year after that, just as they have down the aeons.’
And my question is this:
How can such a thing be possible if the Earth is a ball flying through space at millions of miles an hour and the stars should therefore quite literally be changing by the second?
I suppose that would all depend on whether you believe that the trajectory of all the planets and stars (which appear to be spherical in shape coincidentally) is a constant and whether you believe the Universe to be expanding at a constant rate.
If you believe this to be true then the picture would remain a constant given the small snapshot mankind has had of it in the big scheme of things.
Or alternatively you can believe we live on a giant flat pizza inside a snow dome surrounded by light in the sky 🤷🏻♂️
Whatever floats yer boat I suppose.
Well, the fact that the star constellations never change is enough in itself to disprove all the indoctrinated nonsense you’ve just spouted to be false, is it not?
When Orion’s Belt never changes, when Orion itself never changes and when not one other star constellation in the sky has ever changed throughout recorded history has ever changed either?
Recorded history is a mere blink in the big scheme of things.
Meanwhile back at the football.
Dee Dee de dum 😉
Orion’s Belt DOES though doesn’t it?
For example:
When viewed from the Northern Hemisphere the constellation of Orion moves across the night sky (slightly rotating as it goes) from left to right.
When viewed from the Southern Hemisphere the constellation of Orion moves across the night sky slightly rotating and in the complete opposite direction than that of the North sky) not only from right to left but also UPSIDE DOWN.
Now explain that in your flat earth stationary object Universe.
You see the obvious explanation is we are currently on a rotating Sphere moving through space at a constant speed same as Orion’s constellation.
Take yer time Dee Dee…
I wonder if the publication of the penalty stats regarding Sevco, published yesterday in the Scottish media of all places, had anything to do with the official’s unusual behaviour.
Yes, sevco are selling not buying.
CFC seems to have bought a couple of valuable additions plus a loanee.
We now have strength in depth – whereas sevco are only a couple of injuries, or suspensions, away from a crisis. 🙂
BUT, like last season it’s our title to lose… no complacency!
I’ve said it before…and I’ll say it again…
If Sevco fell out a window …they’d float up onto the roof.
This mob carries more luck than luck…and have done for years.
They didn’t deserve anything from the game last night…but still managed to steal a point.
Only a Sevco goalkeeper would have escaped punishment for that tackle last night…outrageous decision by Clancy not to award a penalty and sanction McGregor.
But I share your incredulity Phil regarding a red card decision and a penalty award…in favour of Aberdeen.
Who would have thought that ?
Anyway…based on what I’ve seen of us…and of them…if we don’t win the League this season…we should be ashamed.
We are good…they are not.
Hail hail
PS: Thanks Broony…again.!!
I had to laugh out loud Phil. When I read the opening couple lines I wondered “Where on earth is this going…?” The ELE line was a cracker! LOL!