Seeing red
RANGERS' star striker Alfredo Morelos sent off in yesterday's tousy Old Firm game. Brian Donohoe watches him leave the pitch with his blue shirt carrying the sponsors' logo "32 Red" on the front, and muses: "Only another 27 to go this season."
Clocked it
"SORRY," says John Henderson yesterday. "A bit confused this morning - with the Brexit delay, wasn’t sure if the clocks were to go forward an hour or back 40 years."
And Adam Gordon says he as solved Brexit. Wales and the English regions leave the EU as desired, but Scotland and London form their own remain country which will be called ScotLond.
Knees up
YES it was the last episode of Still Game the other day. Young actor Sean Connor who played the chap signing Isa up for charity donations declared on social media: "Dream come true for me. The final episode of Still Game and I get to be part of it. A massive thank you and congratulations to Ford Kieran and Greg Hemphill." We did like the response of a former schoolmate who replied: "A mind a had a square go with Sean in Primary 6 and told him prancing about a stage at acting classes is bent and to start playing football. And here a am sitting with knackered knees waitin' on a date for a scan and he’s in Still Game - only one winner here.
"Still swung him aboot but."
Hats off
GROWING old continued. That last episode of Still Game transported Ken McLean in Denny into a poignant moment, as he tells us: "When Still Game started I saw a lot of my Dad in Victor and Jack. Now it’s finished after 17 years I realise that with my dear Dad faded out of life it’s myself I now see in the characters, though I’m not yet wearing my Dad’s bunnet."
Bit of a card
MOTHERING Sunday of course yesterday and well done to Glasgow restaurants The Dhabba and Dakhin where staff left roses, Mother's Day cards and pens in their male toilets yesterday for any chaps who had brought their mothers out for a meal but had forgotten these little touches. Owner Navdeep Basi said he felt some blokes might have been a bit preoccupied with the Old Firm game to do a bit of shopping beforehand. Nice touch - although they might think about putting birthday and anniversary cards there on a permanent basis.
Bit shirty
TODAY'S piece of whimsy comes from Nathan Gregory who says: "I am pleased to report that the spider I felt on my neck that caused me to nearly drop the baby was, in fact, my shirt tag."
In the pink
EDDY Cavin recalls: "Watched the Dunfermline v Ayr United match which reminded me that when my parents were newly married in 1947, dad was playing football for a local amateur team. He would bring the muddy strips home each week for mum to wash and one week, well, there was an accident and the strips all turned pink. Cue much grumbling among the players and comments from their opponents on the team in pink.
"It was good to note therefore that in the Dunfermline game, Ayr United played in an all-pink strip with the Breastfeeding logo on their shirts. Who says we can't change? Oh and mum didn't have to wash the strips again after the 'accident'."
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