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Aye, but the SPFL is it’s members, and Rangers and Celtic are two of them, so are entitled to make whatever proposals they wish, and the other members are entitled to accept or reject them as they see fit. The problem of course is that Rangers and Celtic have the financial clout to influence the rest, and at the moment it looks like they’re striking whilst the iron’s hot, grounds are closed and clubs have been out of action for a few months so have received minimal revenue. As I suspect most of us would like, all I’m wanting is for Morton and MCT to confirm they’ll be telling Rangers and Celtic to fuck off with this nonsense, as Jamie says.

Some shitey wee lockdown isn't going to keep your intrepid bin pub reviewer down. As current visits are out of the question it is the best possible time to review a pub that has hardly changed a jot since about 1987. The KKK Bin Pub Review #27 Once a premium spot in the Greenock nightlife scene, The Norseman has faded under the stewardship of 'Max' to become a 'Cappielow and occasional darts night' establishment, which is completely dead and often now shut the rest of the week. Let's run through just some of the period features that you can find on your visit there: - plaster panels that has been hanging off the walls unfixed for the best part of a decade - a unique open-plan ceiling - a library whose books have had the last pages ripped out for someone to wipe their snotters on - heater fans that waft burning stour and Legionnaires disease across the pub when some arsehole turns them on - a cauldron of 'soup' (one Happy Shopper cup a soup packet to two kettles worth of water) that is used to entice punters to go back to its hovel after the game - the toilet featuring real life artworks such as a full sized shite sitting in a bucket of water There is no doubt then that this is a bin pub, but is it a good bin pub? Good The period features above all fall under this section. The Norseman also offers decent prices - excellent for spirits, average for pints. Unless you count the diluted soup and the dodgy pies kept in a shitey wee warmer oven, The Norseman also doesn't do food never mind coffee. A bonus half K is given to the only recent innovation: a carryout fridge that has half bottles of Buckfast taking pride of place (El Dorado would have merited the full K). This keeps The Norseman's wine list on the acceptable side, although it has been seen to serve pinot grigio to some particularly foolish customers. Bad The Norseman is run with even more apathy and disinterest than the neighbouring football club and this shows in the quality stakes of a bin pub's offering. Having shown some live sports on TV it has since chucked it and gone back to council telly, while also keeping some of its tellies off during the only busy spells of its existence in a further effort to be a stingy bastard. Its only form of in house entertainment then is provided by a pool table which only gets in the way when everyone is in your pub at the exact same time and its two yard from the bar itself. Verdict 1.5 Ks/3 A good bin pub should keep you in there twice as long as you had planned and happy with your choice. The Norseman is a needs must pit stop before all its punters head to a better drinking hole as soon as possible after the game and so fails that test.

The KKK Bin Pub Review #20 This time it's a trip to what claims to be Greenock's oldest pub. But is it Greenock's oldest bin pub? Good The Black Cat ticks all the boxes for a standard pin pub. Live sports on TV, no food menu and the big boy measures start at £1.70, making this one of the cheapest pubs in the area. Period features include a proper horseshoe bar in the centre of the pub and an air conditioner that hasnt been used since Celtic won the cup in 1988. Bad There's no escaping the elephant in the room here - the clientele alone merits a major mark down in this reviewer's book. Apparently the owners have recently tried to row back from the Black Cat's reputation as a den for Irish republican sympathising and have even banned the party songs once the other karaoke gets going. But the place is still the largest Celtic bin in the town by number of clientele. There's also not even a proper wine list or other top bin features that could possibly make up for this failing. Verdict 1K/3 The Black Cat is without question a bin pub but is also a hive of villainy that the KKK Review cant possibly recommend to its readers. Even if you ignored the plastic paddy shite it is still just a middling bin pub when finer options are available a short stagger away. As a holding bin for mhutants though, it keeps other bin pubs of Greater Greenock clear for the rest of us.