Still no time for book reviews. But, I have an excuse: I've been sick. Nothing major, just ugh. I had to jump back into things for work (see fox.com/sports) but next week I'll tell y'all about what I've been reading. Some of it has been good.
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Tuesday Oct 19, 2010
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Thursday Aug 26, 2010
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Wednesday Jan 27, 2010
Wow, super busy.
Regardless to whether people believe or do not believe in the new terminology of "Celtic paranoia" (which of course is said to dismiss and downplay actual grievances of which there are a plethora of cases to point out in which actual bias is proven), there is also another side to this whole thing assuming there is no bias.
That side being that the officials in the SPL are piss poor.
You know personally because you write about and follow games in CONCACAF region and know that they also have notoriously bad officials, but I have yet to see things as bad as what seems to go on in the SPL on a semi-regular basis without referees suffering any consequences.
Rangers fans always blame "paranoia", or say "it will always even out" or "that's just the way it goes" but that's not going to help Dundee United win a UEFA Cup spot now is it?
So saying there wasn't any actual underhandedness (many of course believe there was) McCurry should clearly be reviewed and taken off SPL matches. There is a difference between one fuck up, and missing a penalty, a head butt, a punch to the face, an clearly onside goal all in one game.
Not to mention its ONE game out of many this year where he has been appalling.
But of course, I expect the SPL to do nothing and maybe the Laptop Loyal will try to downplay how absolutely horrific and unexplainable that entire game was in the media in the next week to come.
I have never seen a manager react like Levein did tonight, and it will be interesting to see what the fallout will be.
I can only hope they blow the Cup final and the League for some sense of justice.