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Brian Wake is appointed a first team coach at Swedish cracks Ostersunds FK: http://ostersundsfk.se/ian-burchnall-och-brian-wake-ny-i-ofks-tranarstab/

O'Ware has shown great disrespect to The Famous and it is incumbent on this once-proud fanbase to do what it does best of all - mercilessly hounding someone into oblivion.

The linked article to that story sheds some light on the situation: So what we can clearly see here are youth academy snakes getting upset because plucky Johan Johannson from the northern Swedish version of Braeside didn't have a role in Wake's divine plan to win the league because the latter is the actual point of a professional football club. And they'll be punished for this lack of support with enduring, miserable, failure. Rumours currently link this coaching prodigy to one of the vacant positions at Ostersunds, who lost their first team staff to Swansea a few weeks ago. I say Bring Him Home instead.

Shocked and appalled to hear tales of Jim McInally being an absolute fucking snake tbh.

Paul McGowan was also key to a seaside league title campaign and he's a reprehensible human being. It's almost as if a footballer's innate, snake-like qualities don't just disappear because they scored some important goals against plumbers and fishermen.

McLaren? Russell? There have probably been more than two hundred first team players who have left the club in that time period: I'd say that comfortably 95% of them aren't snakes. Here's a brief cut-out-and-keep guide: Whine about being let go because you were gubbins and try to give it the big licks to the Morton fans when you score, before getting relegated anyway - snake (McLaughlin) Decide that you wish to turn down The Famous in order to pursue 'a different challenge' elsewhere (preferably getting relegated to the seaside leagues and then failing in the play-offs again) - snake (Barr, McManus, D.) Construct lies about the fanbase abusing you in front of your wife and weans because you need to desperately backpedal from your promise to resign having failed in the play-offs - King Snake (McInally) Scheme to knife a manager in the back so you can get to take over the post despite having no credible qualifications or experience for the role - King Snake (Grady, McManus, A.) If you are in doubt as to whether a player is a snake, consult the above checklist. If any of them apply, he's probably a snake.

Unless you're also planning to out McLaren as the source of spurious nonsense about the towering Irish centre back he was working with then you haven't quite achieved full Zhivago. Remember kids - knowing and then grassing in your footballer contacts is the key to living with the stars.

In ex-player news that doesn't involve odious snakes, Andy McLaren is the guest in the latest of Simon Ferry's interviews, with his spell at The Famous and Dougie also being briefly talked about near the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_3kKqOiibA#action=share

Albion Rovers didn't appoint their new manager until May 22 so the time scale is being stretched beyond reason to turn his own seethe into some sort of scandal when it really isn't that. Can't say that I'm convinced by McLaughlin's newly found concern for the wellbeing of professional footballers either, but I'll admit to being heavily biased on account of him being a vile snake both in a Morton jersey and in his hilarious career consisting of perennial relegation ever since. Hopefully his dreams remain permanently haunted by the time when Sir David Irons released him for 'being too small*' to play for The Famous anymore. *gubbins

Because he was a top prospect in his position from Scotland that Newcastle could add to their collection of 17,000 centre-backs for a pittance - they weren't signing him to walk straight into their first team. And now he's established himself as an excellent young centre back in the Scottish top flight.

The facts have already been presented. Kilday was offered a contract which he rejected. O'Ware has just had the perfect chance to get his 'new challenge' at a higher level and had to settle for more of the same instead. The market has spoken on their relative merits as central defenders then.

I am talking about facts, not my impression.

The market is usually correct and O'Ware has just had an excellent opportunity to find his level - and for now, it's quite clearly 'in the second tier with also-rans again'.

The facts say otherwise, yet again. Which defender received a contract offer from a top flight club and rejected it to play for The Famous? Hint:

Erm no, the only fact here is that Lee Kilday is a better central defender than O'Ware. As further demonstrated by Kilday - and this is a fact - being the only central defender to have actually received an offer to sign for a top flight club; while O'Ware had to settle for a sideways move to that odious bunch of luvvies in Possil. If we were continuing with Duffyball for another season then keeping hold of Kilday would be a pretty good bet - because if you could get him fit again you'd be able to build a strong defensive partnership with Lamie at this level. If the club is serious about its intentions however, then that's no longer the case IMO. We will be relying on good luck with injuries in any promotion challenge given the club's resources, so it's hard to justify committing part of the budget to any player who has struggled so badly with them.

There's nothing to say that some of those traits couldn't be worked on by a new manager - including the 'Stuart McCluskey school of leadership' that he developed in the last campaign. Between giving McKinnon a chance to develop his game and not wanting to unsettle the defence, his departure therefore isn't ideal. But the reality is that if the club is serious about challenging for promotion from this level then it shouldn't be a loss - we already have good options and should be targeting at least one more centre-back given Kilday's fitness issues.

Perhaps he was a great servant to the club, but when you reject a contract offer from The Famous to sign for Partick fucking Thistle, you hand in that card at the gates of Cappielow - no exceptions are made.

We already have two better defenders at the club right now and the hierarchy have restated their intent to challenge for promotion. That should be taken at face value right now - it's what their regime will be judged against too - and the budget issue has to be viewed in that light. Through probably a mix of a smaller squad of contracted players and use of the loan system, McKinnon's task is to build a side that is better than what we have had over the past few years. Having to replace a centre-back is inconvenient given we'll have plenty of players to bed in elsewhere in the side, but is not a major obstacle to the task. The fact that Luca was punted after about 0.05 seconds despite being an okay option at this level suggests that the new manager has some targets in mind - let's just hope they're not from the same place that he got 'the Edge'.

Well if he's not up there with Sacchi then he obviously doesn't have a prayer against Wake. Next.

He has also been an absolute disaster at multiple clubs, including the one at which that snake Barr played for him. It's hardly Arrigo Sacchi we're dealing with here then.

Legia technically haven't won the title yet as the Polish blazers need to meet to determine the final result, so it's certainly worked in dousing their big day under a gallon of pish.

In the closing round of the Polish league today, Lech Poznan stood to watch rivals Legia Warsaw clinch the title on their own ground - Lech having nothing to play for themselves. So with fifteen minutes to go and Lech 2-0 down, the fans got the game abandoned by showering the pitch with flares and smoke bombs: I prefer the traditional methods of 'throwing rivets at the away fans' and 'taking their banners and burning them on Port Glasgow Road' myself.

If I was a journalist then I wouldn't actually be writing up a blubbering mess of a match report because that's not part of the job. Least of all for a nothing club like Cove, unless this is actually their equivalent of Marca and nobody has realised.

https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/sport/football/scottish-football/full-time-cowdenbeath-3-cove-rangers-2-officials-howler-ends-coves-scottish-leagues-dream/ This Aberdeen bumpkin journal doesn't seem to be taking today's play-off result too well. It's fairly unusual to see a meltdown spill over into print form nowadays, but here we are. Disgraceful to see the return of goading in Scottish football so soon after the infamous* Hibs v Rangers cup final IMO. * hilarious

Oooft, another truly stunning insight there from Dr. 'friend to the stars' Zhivago. Be sure to keep us abreast of your future exposes on the shitting habits of bears that live in the wods and the religious belief of Pope Francis. Can't wait!