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It's not a contradiction to say that money is tight, and that they wanted to invest their money on a sharp, match-fit squad.

I actually agree with them on this one. Ridiculous decision.

That's a risk no matter where the money is coming from. If you give first team management and/or a Director of Football control over signings, then they need to be given a budget and left to get on with it, barring some limited exceptions (e.g. a bid too good for the club to turn down, or someone who's clearly out of his depth/on his way out trying to sign a full squad.) No manager in the UK worth his salt would accept being told who he can and can't sign and who he can and can't renew by what is at the moment a minor shareholder in the club.

Sair yin for Atalanta. Looking like a PSG-Bayern final, which Bayern will win approximately 20-0.

If clubs are unable to have crowds, they probably don't want that one on TV, so they can sell stream access.

It's a good point that St. Mirren will be match fit and match sharp, whereas non-Premiership teams will not be. That's going to be a real factor.

I used to work for a company that had offices in Katowice, Poland, so I'd spend a bit of time over there. I developed an interest in their local club, GKS. They used to be decent but are now in the Polish third tier, which is absolutely crap, and they probably play in front of 1,000 or so most weeks. Nonetheless, here's the kind of stuff their official club shop is putting out: http://blaszok.pl/ Meskie is Men, then the four options are Shirts, Jumpers, Hoodies, and Shorts. Gadzety you can probably figure out yourself; it's worth going through the 52 items they have on offer here. A lot of the shirt designs are great. The gadgets aren't anything to write home about but there's a terrific assortment of them. And this is for a fairly nondescript club, admittedly one from a big city, but a big city where there's probably as many Ruch Chorzow and Gornik Zabrze fans as GKS supporters. I really don't think they're turning these things out at volume, but nonetheless the designs are pretty good and there's a variety. Why can't we have stuff like this? Why do we just get these shan wee partnerships with Interstadia and Manuel's Basuras del Teléfono (Panama) Ltd.?

In fairness, Levante's logo has a wee bat.

They were a semi-relevant club not too long ago. Probably earning alright money - they get gates not much smaller than ours and their commercial revenue will dwarf that of Morton. Two-year deal for him as well. And I bet he stinks the place out.

Maybe we're getting more $$$ this way. Looks like they only ship to Europe. Understandable, but I would have bought the stadium one if they shipped to the US. (They ship to the Aaland Islands and "Man Island", btw.)

Is our logo a trade mark? Probably not a big deal if it's not.

The SFA can't do that - only the SPFL can do that. The SFA could have given a much bigger fine, or even expulsion. I can understand the SFA just wanting to draw a line under this, but the danger is that they've shown there is really no reason for a club not to go to court instead of to arbitration if it has a good case (or believes it does.) I fear that the SFA, with such a minor punishment, have doomed their own arbitration proceedings in the future. Perhaps a small fine, coupled with a warning that a similar rule breach from either club in the next decade would be met with expulsion, would have prevented this.

The other hooped prototype looks like a ZX Spectrum graphic. I like it. There's a real air of the blown-up Kick Bishop Brennan Up The Arse graphic in that video. Marvelous stuff. Everything about that tableau is fucking magnificent. Nothing is quite symmetrical. The current Morton top is hanging off something at a jaunty angle. The ghost of DDF looms over all. The less said about the Anglian Lives segment after the 10 minute mark (during which someone slightly tilts the camera) the better. None of this is a dealbreaker but it's amazing watching anything that Morton put out, they never, ever check their work and there's always something slightly weird and Craggy Island about it. I love it - genuinely.

Jack Iredale is a free agent. Bring Him Home* *after Sir Gavin

I know his tattoo is of his late grandfather but it looks like Brian Epstein.