THAT'LL be the summer bye then - the Commonwealth Games are now a warm, fuzzy memory, the tail-end of Hurricane Bertha has given us a rough few hours overnight, oh aye, and the funny pages at the back of the papers are wall-to-wall with the Bigot Brothers.
If it wasn't for that other on-going circus, the lead-up to the Referendum on 18 September, we'd be back to being miserable Scots gits.
From the perspective of Scottish Football, Celtic getting that UEFA reprieve is, probably good news - at least, we might have a club still in Europe when we take the first step down Independence Road. Mind you, I can still see an independent Scotland coming before another Scottish European trophy win.
I might be wrong, and, in all honestly, I cannot be arsed looking it up; but, I think the situation is, if Celtic lose their Champions League play-off, then they really are out of Europe this season. It might be better calling-up Michel Platini and saying: "Look Michel, thanks for the reprieve and that, but, in all honesty, we were so-badly humped by Legia, we'd be better-off staying where we are in the Europa League".
I cannot help remembering how, when Old Rangers were in their death throes, and the papers and websites were choc-a-bloc with conjecture about what division, if any, they would be playing in in season 2012-13, the non-Rangers fans in Scotland were going off their skulls with calls for "sporting integrity" - with the Celtif Camily leading the choruses.
Well, clearly, somebody in the office at Legia Warsaw fucked-up, not deliberately, but, they did. To chuck-out a team which had so-comprehensively won a tie on a technical issue, stemming from a fuck-up. Well, there's not much integrity there, particularly from the team which takes advantage of such a let-off.
AT LEAST, Celtic are still, in either case, still in Europe. Across Glasgow, the Ragners Tribute Act is in more deep doo-dah,
Given how the two clubs finished so-far apart, and the good run of form which Hearts enjoyed at the end of the campaign, even allowing for the change of management and the tinkering with the squad, you might have expected them to beat Rangers at Ibrox on Sunday.
At the end of that campaign, the two clubs were 11 places apart - that's a complete league division. Factor-in the fact, that swinging points deduction was the major factor in the Tynecastle club's relegation, while, let's be honest, Rangers' for all the advantages they enjoyed in the First Division last season, are still a shite team, being managed by a manager who has spent the past two and a bit seasons demonstrating, for all he is just about the nicest guy in Scottish football, he's more a taxi than a coach, and, he canny manage.
Still, in that respect, he's in good company at Ibrox - it strikes me, the board canny manage either.
Then, we have the comedy gold, which is Charles Green. On the excellent Wings Over Scotland pro-independence website, the threats, hysteria and general mutterings of what the Yes side, rightly in my view, term: "Bitter Together's" more-rabid media luvvies Alan Cochrane, a couple of hectoring coonsilors, and some of the red-top rotweillers from the Hun and the Daily Heil, for instance, is listed under: "Zany Comedy Relief".
Maybe the MSM should list any alleged news stories, or proclamations from Chukkie under the same label.
I HAD the pleasure of walking across the new, synthetic Rugby Park pitch on Friday, as the SRU promoted the Scotland v Tonga international in November. It looks great.
I am looking forward to the Tonga game, if the Ayrshire rugby fans turn out in numbers, the atmosphere will be great. By the way, I booed Michael Johnston at the do, so he wouldn't suffer from withdrawal symptoms. He seems a much-happier man, now Billy Bowie is the man in the hot seat.
The new pitch, and the fact the team will, henceforth, train at Rugby Park, will, I am sure, help heal the divisions between club and fans. Mind you, I'd still like to see a lot more Ayrshire boys in the Killie ranks.
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