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The Scottish Premiership was again the best supported League in Europe per capita in 2024-25. It attracted the 7th highest overall top flight attendance & the 8th highest matchday attendance, despite 25 nations having a higher population. Our numbers remain incredible. #SPFL 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@CalMccandlish @mcguireliam08 @AnthonyRJoseph @CBSSportsGolazo Of course he chose to play, 99% of pros will, the fault lies with the three managers who constantly selected him in spite of the consistent shite he was producing.

@AgentScotland @mcguireliam08 @AnthonyRJoseph @CBSSportsGolazo He can refuse to play, he clearly found it too painfully to dive to the left, he chose to play so he could play at the world cup ... fuck him

Celtic goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel requires surgery on a shoulder injury that will keep him out for up to a year. He admitted to @CBSSportsGolazo that he may have played his last ever game. The 39yo will undergo surgery next Friday. His Celtic contract expires in the summer.

@ETimsNet I've been critical of him all season, was evident for so long, but you hit the nail on the head, he didn't pick himself, three different managers who saw and worked with him ever day, continued to select him, that in itself is extremely concerning, it's not like he hid it well.

Was magnificent last season aside from Scottish cup final. Brought leadership & experience to club. Has been playing this season through known shoulder issues. All credit for him (to his detriment!) playing through pain but mgrs continually picking an injured keeper is baffling.

@mcguireliam08 @AnthonyRJoseph @CBSSportsGolazo He didn't pick himself! Three different managers who saw him every single day, always without hesitation, selected him.

@AnthonyRJoseph @CBSSportsGolazo Cost us 2 cups , knocked out Europe and potentially cost us a league since last may when he broke his shoulder, thanks for nothing pure selfishness

@tirnaog_09 My old mans favourite ever player and that's good enough for me.

'To me Bobby Murdoch will go down as one of the finest Celts ever. He was absolutely magnificent and could have played for any team at any level. The phrase “world class” is a bit overused, but he was that and a little bit more.' Bertie Auld

@tirnaog_09 That commentary is embedded in my brain, first time I heard it was in the very early 90s when I got Hail Hail Old Firm Cladsics VHS as a kid, used to shout that line to myself when i was playing football. Brilliant.

Of course, the high press is nothing new. Celtic were doing it 50 years ago. The excellent Paul Wilson with 2 goals against Rangers because of it. Arthur Montford on the mike with, 'what a ball, what a pass, what a chance, what a goal!'

@BoJaM1872 Are you the old club's accountant?

12 after today and that’s 4 times as much as 2nd. If that doesn’t scream suspicious I don’t know what does.

@TRobinsonNewEra Fuck up ya dirty, racist, grifting off idiots wee shitebag wank.

Motherwell football club becomes the latest to suffer the islamic wailing. It's all by design.

@BGX71 Exactly.

@AgentScotland But it did …

Yang had an excellent game today, particularly 2nd half, was anonymous until his first goal but after that he was superb, took both goals expertly & his layoff for Maeda was sensational, boy has so much talent, if a manager can get him to connect the dots he'd be a major player.

@BGX71 March 2016 Forrest...never gonna happen.

@AgentScotland Yang…Never Gonna happen…

FT: Kilmarnock 1-0 Hearts Huge result at the top and bottom of the Scottish Premiership. Thought Kilmarnock fully merited their result, deserving winners, Hearts just couldn't get going from the first whistle.

@ChrissieBhoy @chivs1O5 @Shuggie556 No, the laws of the game state that DOGSO results in a straight red card if it's outside the box, inside the box it's a penalty and a yellow, UNLESS the fouling player makes no attempt to win the ball, in which case double jeopardy rules apply, like what happened today.

@chivs1O5 @AgentScotland @Shuggie556 the rules are that if you deliberately deny someone a goalscoring opportunity (regardless of where the offence takes place) it is a red card. so for the current rules a red was needed. actually i agree with this. basically stops someone scoring into an empty goal.

Just seen a clip of the penalty decision, at the game in real time I thought it definitely looked like one, but watching the clip I didn't realise how obvious it was and how great a view Beaton had of the incident, why he didn't give it instantly is baffling.

@BGX71 Nobody thought James Forrest would be able to get those kind of numbers before Brendan Rodgers arrived, not even his maw, and that was his7 full season as a Celtic player, then someone came in and got the very best out of him.

@AgentScotland Not in the same class as Abada or Kuhn ..He will Never get anywhere near their numbers..Here or elsewhere.

@garydoyler @JockStalin1967 I'm talking about when he went to the monitor. 🙎‍♂️

@AgentScotland @JockStalin1967 He pointed for a kick out straight away 🤷🏻‍♂️

@gaz8467 @MaestroMcStay @brianboru67 @chivs1O5 @Crazylegs67 @Shuggie556 If it's in the final few minutes of a game then absolutely, not even debatable.

@AgentScotland @MaestroMcStay @brianboru67 @chivs1O5 @Crazylegs67 @Shuggie556 You think any manager is gonna select yellow and goal over a red / pen?

@Whistler1967 I never said that's what he should be, but at the moment he's a far better sub than he omis a starter, he'll be much easier to punt than Balikwisha, though.

@AgentScotland 5m for an impact player. Nah....get him sold along with Balikwisha. Recruitment is pants!

Tounetki was lucky to make it all the way to halftime, woeful, he's a dar better impact player than he ever is as a starter, don't know how O'Neill or Maloney can't see that.

@ETimsNet Nah that's absolutely fair enough, can definitely see why anyone would have a different view on this one.

@AgentScotland Well respectfully agree to disagree.

@ETimsNet He's been a frustrating player for sure but I do think he's improved a fair bit this season, but every single aspect of the club have been inconsistent at best, he's started 54 times, 30 of them have came this year, I think a good manager could raise his game considerably.

@AgentScotland Great workrate but so inconsistent after what, 100 games?

@JockStalin1967 Don't think the pen was in any doubt, the time it took him was him delibrating whether it was a red card offence or not.

@AgentScotland We know why he didn't give it. It was the most obvious penalty you could ever see, he watched a dozen times to find a reason not to give it

@MaestroMcStay @brianboru67 @chivs1O5 @Crazylegs67 @Shuggie556 I've said this for about 20 years, if the decision is a red card and penalty, the benefiting manager should be allowed to decide what he'd prefer, his decision would likely differ depending on the time of the game, early doors & they'd take a pen & extra man, late, just the goal.

@brianboru67 @chivs1O5 @Crazylegs67 @AgentScotland @Shuggie556 Could football have a Penalty Goal” type rule? If a defender denies a clear goal eg. handball on the line, the ref can award a goal rather than give the defending team a chance to save a penalty. Ghana suffered due to that when Uruguay beat them in the World Cup quarter final

@ETimsNet Don't disagree but I remember the same things getting said about Forrest before Brendan Rodgers arrived, yet every single teammate he had always spoke about how talented he was, we didn't see too much of that, then the right manager came in and finally got consistency out of him.

@AgentScotland He has one decent game in six.