SpiritOfTheForest

Oh aye, good one. If I remember right, Barton was giving it the big man before arriving in Glasgow about how he was going to come in and walk the league. In the event, he was a complete failure and the most memorable thing he did was this fantastic picture of him utterly shiteing it against Scott Brown. Edit: Actually missed the emojis before I posted 😅

Vasilis Barkas. On paper, a good signing - a Greek international bought from AEK Athens for the fee of £4.5 million (which is no small change in Scottish football terms.) To be fair to the lad, he arrived during the pandemic. so that can't have been easy for him and there was a general malaise around the club at the time he arrived, although that didn't last long once Big Ange got going. . Good lord though, he was absolutely hopeless. A keeper who was incapable of stopping shots. The guy didn't even catch Covid. After Joe Hart got in the door, he was immediately punted out the squad before going on loan, and ultimately signing for, Utrecht. I believe he's actually doing pretty well there and mind seeing a couple of videos of some of wonder saves that looked a million miles beyond him in Glasgow. I think it's case of wrong place, wrong time but Barkas has to be one of our worst ever signings.

Smashing strike from Deryn Lang for 4th tier Stranraer to equalise in the Scottish Cup against 9th tier Threave Rovers this evening. The game was also noticeable for featuring young Charlie Watson, a 19 year old player who is battling Stage 4 cancer. The terrible story has been given some press this week and how remarkably courageous the guy is for somehow managing to still play with all that going on. Anyway, tonight he gets a red card in the 91st minute with the score at 2-2 and Stranraer then go on to score a winner with the last kick of the game. One of the cruelest things I've ever seen in football. Some goal though. Edit for Bacon: Threave Rovers are in the 9th tier, not the 8th tier as originally posted.

Cheers for that, Carbomb! One for the "Today I Learned" thread. Love wee things like that.

Absolutely gutted by this one. A bit of a hero to me and a better public speaker you will never meet. The man got an entire new generation in Scotland interested and invested in politics and did so much to advance the cause of Scottish indepedence. Sad to see him away before his dream of a free Scotland was realised. I'll raise a wee dram to him tonight.