@fateck.bsky.social
Glasgow-based football writer and podder. Twitter escapee. Saw The Smiths at Magnum Leisure Centre, Irvine in 1985. Rangers, Scotland, Winton Rovers. Scraped a third from a Russell Group uni-kinda patter. https://www.youtube.com/@FatEck1999
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The Old Firm Fallout word salad is far more ruinous than any balaclava-wearing pitch invader...
Okay, except the tennis, darts and indoor cycling.
... thanks.
Stop it, Scotland. I've had a lifetime of this. In all sports. Just stop it. It's beyond cruel. Just be rubbish. I can deal with that.
Some people are on the pitch. They think we won't come over...
“The clear winner of this war is Putin”
Must be a coincidence 🙃
... my repressed childhood trauma: the lack of slap bass on Jackanory.
I really enjoyed looking through the arched window. AND the round window. But the best Little Ted and Humpty could manage was "The Wheels on the Bus go Round and Round"...
I fucking HATE having to do an extra pod.
Strange how every “America First” move somehow ends up helping Moscow. What a coincidence.
And then there's last season's Conference League winners...
Champions of the World, by the way (Can't remember who they thrashed in that final). Which is probably why they went a whole round further than Olympiacos, the 2024 Conference League winners.
Actually, this on a banknote
Last two Europa League winners pounded in last night's Champs League Last 16. The 2023 winners didn't make Europe and 2022's twice had five put past them while finishing 33rd in this season's UCL group. When does the elite competition get truly elite? Well, the 2025 final ended 5-0 so maybe never.
Meanwhile they are doing nothing to help children who are already here.
Nothing to get children basic healthcare, food, or protection from mass shooters.
Watching the Scottish News and am horrified that the pyro thrown into the Broomloan started the fire at Central Station.
And Glasgow School of Art.
Hell, yeah. That would've been the final insult. The game was enough of a horrible exercise in tortuous frustration. Glad you at least got to miss that logistical nightmare. I'm home from Ibrox in 20 minutes yet still starting to seriously despise Sundays.
Aye, yet again we're left hoping it's just growing pains. Celtic outthought us yesterday in that their actual game plan was to sit in and take it to pens. Rope-a-dope. But so many bad passes from us at critical moments creates a horrible limbo: glad to own the ball but the repeated waste of it is🤮
Apt thumbnail. A horrific vision of torture. I look like I'm being squashed in the vice of what my eyes had to watch yet again. Six straight domestic knock-out tournament exits to Celtic who haven't beaten us over 90 minutes for nine straight games. Just an unbearably fucking shite day.
I wonder if a drone has hit Dubai Marina. Or whether it was just
debris from a successful interception.
If only loads of Dubai based accounts, including Isabel Oakeshott's, could tell me.
Second Old Firm game in a week, fifth this season already. Three different competitions, five different managers. Endless podding by fat baldy blokes with (hullo hullo we are the) billy bookcases in the background.
Last attempt to get last Sunday out the system before we move onto the same shit, different Sunday.
Today in Trump foreign policy:
Fox: Can you comment on Russians helping Iran target our troops?
Trump: That’s a stupid question. I’m only talking about college football before I fly to Palm Beach for a weekend of golf.
Bessent: We are now lifting sanctions on Russian oil.
Biggest regret, never seeing this guy play.
Found this site for US mass shootings.
America is more violent than ever.
Violence begets violence
Please 🙏 stop, it’s not about mental health. It’s about a culture where the DoD is now the Department of War, intentionally.
massshootingtracker.site
There's almost enough teams involved to turn the play-offs into a little round-robin tournament. You know, like everyone plays each other home and away? I'm sure there's a name for it...
That's four seasons in a row now that the Premiership's penultimate Old Firm derby has seen both sides score twice or more.
Been worried about this since reading the book. The "real" baddie is another Waingro, i.e., he reframes other criminals as mere "victims of circumstance" by, of course, doing horrific things to women. Potential for the gratuitous. Still remember Tom Paulin slating Waingro victim scene 31 years ago.
So, this regular-type life; that your life?