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Jamie Mackie's goals against Citeh and Liverpool in 2012.
The one against Citeh ultimately meant nothing, but at the time it was everything.
The one against Liverpool, our third goal in the last 20 minutes of the game to win 3-2, kick-started our survival push, and will always be remembered for this reaction from Phil Thompson.
He clearly knows how to score a goal at this level, which is a desirable quality at this level. However.... he also has no interest in working for a team who don't have possession of the ball. Unfortunately for him, this is also a desirable quality in the modern game.
I suggest this signing may be out of desperation rather than one which is the missing piece in the jigsaw of a Rooney Masterplan.
My son supports a Premiership team, but is quite happy to wear a variety of shirts from clubs all across Continental Europe. The reason being that he simply likes the designs and they're cool to wear among his peers. Hardly a month goes by without another shirt arriving from a sweat-shop in Hong Kong or Classic Shirts. Exclusive loyalty to one team's kit is not a rule among many of the young generation.
Prompted by this thread, I looked at a couple of the programmes I have from that season. In one "Michael Wale Report" which was a regular column in the programmes, notably written a few weeks before that match, he referenced SB.
"I am always accusing Rangers fans of not making enough noise. But there is a borderline between good humoured ribaldry and needless violence, and I think the levels of violence reflect the grounds that breed it. Notably the shed at Chelsea. Literally a barn of a place, an invitation to lunacy."
That video brings me right back to my youth. Currie wearing Number 10, cars at Stamford Bridge, the two fingered salute, fans clapping in unison.... marvelous.
I'm going to the Ireland-England match with my son tomorrow. It's been quite a while since the two a sides met in a competitive international, and I'd like him to experience the atmosphere.
It's on an occasion like this that I'm reminded of a conversation I had with some Bristol City fans in the C&S before our match against them last season. You may recall that was Marti's first home match and fans were still suffering from the trauma of the dying days of the Ainsworth stewardship. The Bristol lads were great craic, but as we got up to leave for the match one of them uttered "may the best team win!". My instinctive reply was "God, I hope not...."
In a similar vein, I'd align the respect for the referee rules for football to those in rugby. There is no chat back to the ref, nor teams surrounding a ref to intimidate him. Only the captain can speak to the ref. Any deviation from this straightforward rule earns you an automatic yellow card.
It doesn't just help the people who are diagnosed, but also those around them.
Neuro-divergency is real, all our brains are wired differently. Understanding how you think and understand the world is really important to both you and those around you, whether in work or your social life. For example, some people only think in black and white, they can't see the grey in between. Understanding how a person thinks is really important as it influences how you need to interact with them.
Similarly, if you are aware of your own condition then, in theory, you possibly can/should identify the triggers and therefore take control over how you react to a situation, overcoming your natural instinct. Whether drugs improve that awareness or not, I don't know.
It's easy to predict that 3 points will be easily plucked, I don't think this will the the turkey-shoot that several of us are anticipating. I watched the extended highlights of their draw last week, and they can play if given time and space on the ball. Given our lack of depth in centre-mid, with Colback on enforced leave of absence, I wouldn't be surprised if we only drew this.