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http://www.thisisguernsey.com/2010/02/15/m...-ease-to-title/

Well, another canididate might be Paul Elliott's 'goal' in the '91 semi-final replay, that would have put them 1-0 up very early on. Given offside, but definitely wasn't. Of course, it wasn't all that much longer until they went 1-0 up anyway, but I often wonder if the result might have been different had the first one counted. They were all over us at that point.

As the comment there says, what ever happened to giving the benefit of the doubt to the attacking team in offside decisions? If the linesman thought he actually saw Forbes in an offside position, then fair enough, honest mistake. But even Father Dougal is saying what we all suspected -- that the linesman most likely didn't see Forbes until the last minute, and ended up guessing, instead of saying "I dunno" and leaving it up to the referee to decide. And if the referee couldn't tell either, by giving the benefit of the doubt to the attacking team, the goal stands. Simples

Because most of the games we see involve the 'diddy' teams. If we watched 90 minutes of Rangers or Celtic every week, we'd likely see as many duff decisions against them, they just don't 'matter' so much because they usually win regardless. IMHO our officials aren't biased, they're just mince.

Aye, radio commentators got it wrong. Who'd have thought.

Ball's in the net from Craigan, but Forbes touched it on the way in and he was offside! Muppet! EDIT: Commentators got it wrong, was just a soft foul given instead...

Iraqgoals feed is back, lads. EDIT: And it's gone again

Richard Gordon has jinxed us just by saying it anyway, so I didn't think posting it as well would make any difference

544 minutes since we lost a goal in the league, record is 573 (both figures according to Radio Scotland, anyway).

D'oh, iraqgoals feed has died...

Not a bad way to score your first senior goal...

Which one you using? Only one working for me is http://www.freedocast.com/forms/PopOut.asp...28631D72133109C, which is rubbish. EDIT: Never mind, iraqgoals just doesn't like the beta version of Flash I've installed. Will roll it back...

Different location, different type of grass, different drainage system, could be any number of reasons. The club doubtless deserves a lot of the criticism they're getting over this, but just making direct comparisons to other pitches is rather over-simplifying things, I suspect. If a pitch identical to St.Mirren's had been identically laid and looked after at Fir Park, I'm sure you would still see differences between the two at this stage of the season.

Yup. Hard to disagree with anything he's written. Perhaps could have mentioned in passing that we were told it would suffer a bit in its first winter, but that surely doesn't account for the mess it's in now.

I refer the honourable gentleman to the results of all the previous occasions in the past decade or so that we've played Rangers when they were shite, regardless of how well or badly we were playing at the time. There's your answer. For whatever reason, we just don't know how to beat Rangers any more, so very few of us ever expect to do so. Of course, as soon as we do manage to beat them once, the same folk will expect to hump them every time

Well, hopefully the player he's passing it to has seen it as well, otherwise he's not going to be anticipating it and it's likely a bit of a wasted pass.

Wasn't our pitch "built by specialist sports turf contractor Greentech"? And if so, shouldn't we be sueing their arses...?

Juke scores! 1-0...

Annoying thing about him was that, just occasionally, he would beat a couple of players and curl one right into the postage stamp corner. *Very* occasionally, mind. Possibly even just once

I seem to remember Mair being the Kevin McBride of his day: a handy enough, if not exactly world-class winger until he was on the wrong end of a horrendous tackle in front of the main stand one day (can't remember who the culprit was, but I could hear the crack of splintering shinpads from the East Stand!), and lost all his confidence after that. Before he joined us, he'd scored a decent number of goals for Notts County in the (old, proper) English First Division, including one in a 3-1 win over Ipswich Town who finished second to Liverpool that year, so he was certainly no donkey, in his day. He even played alongside Martin O'Neill and Don Masson in that team for a while

Controversially, I'd say much the same about Sieb Dykstra not being John Gardiner Big Sieb never struck me as a particularly outstanding keeper at the time, although he certainly had other cult hero characteristics.

I think that'll probably where it falls down, sadly... especially away from home, we're not likely to be putting in some of our better performances, and I'd guess a lot of them aren't going to be worth revisiting. Maybe a better idea would be to save up the videos of our more successful outings, and show them over the summer months (maybe in conjunction with World Cup games?), when the club wouldn't normally be getting any income from punters at all?

24 shots on target between the two teams suggests the highlights didn't really paint the whole picture, then.

Typical, go to empty the dishwasher and miss two goals!