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I'm confident we'll play better than we did in the 2011 cup final. That's as optimistic as I'm getting.

I'd be delighted with the totally undeserved winner, cos that's fitba'. Being a liberal old sap, though, I'd much rather win without getting away with anything we shouldn't have got away with. Fair and square always feels ten times better.

Pity. The longer I live in Ireland the more I want them papped oot of every competition ASAP

Flow said on Twitter tonight that it was unlikely, just not logistically possible to run any more.

One of my favourites that one, too.

They didn't (and rarely do), according to Mr B: https://twitter.com/Alan_Burrows/status/923090466169597953

Haven't watched it so I couldn't tell you. Your comment about "regardless of who he was aiming at" just suggested that it wasn't clear at the time, in which case it shouldn't have been a free kick.

The ball has to be "deliberately kicked to the goalkeeper by a team-mate" to be a free kick, though. So who he was aiming at is very much the key point.

Sounds like a football version of the WWE...

Not any more...

If you want the biased view: http://www.mixlr.com/motherwellfc

From the BBC: "Rangers defender Fabio Cardoso is apparently having a go at Motherwell in the Ibrox programme tonight, describing the Fir Park outfit as a football version of WWE."

It's not commercial, but they still have a budget that the Government likes to cut as often as it can. I'd guess they probably don't go to any press conferences outside of Glasgow or Edinburgh.

To be honest, I would have no problem with them just watching on YouTube (the questions are usually just the same predictable tosh every week anyway), provided they still fairly and accurately reported anything of interest.

Vince Lunny weighs in on the Alves ruling... http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/41747625

*shrug* Doesn't seem like it should be a big surprise to anyone that kicking your legs around another player on the ground is sometimes going to get you a card. But in this case it didn't, so it's all good.

No surprise there, he said he was expecting to be hearing from them in this morning's press conference. If he gets the same one-match ban that Caixinha's likely to be getting, I'm sure we'll cope.

That. If the ref decided there was intent in "kicking his legs towards Alves", which was quite possible given he'd just been on the receiving end of an attempted assault, he could have been in big trouble, contact or not.

Loved Robbo's response in the presser this morning when journo asked for his thoughts on Caixhina saying we wouldn't finish the Final with 11 men on the pitch if we played like that again

It is, the FIFA definition is "feigning injury or pretending to have been fouled". So we can only assume they think Ambrose played the ball.

Nice wee 5 minute video from the SPFL with some different camera angles: https://twitter.com/spfl/status/922471386215362561/video/1

All goals from that semi-final here, Psycho's at 4'50", Kirkie's at 6'20":

Highlights up on YouTube now.

Still doubt he'd take it. Seems dead set on wanting to try his luck on a bigger stage against better opposition every week, and who can blame him.

Would've been half-tempted to vote for Carson myself, if I'd been there. Inspired confidence in the team from the back all day, and one of the few who didn't try to kick anyone either That said, the decision not to sell Louis even though we knew he'd walk for free instead has surely now proven to be correct beyond all doubt.