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Good afternoon. Welcome to the results show. Who knows what lies | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
ahead in the next 60 minutes. We had a rough idea and we will keep | :00:22. | :00:29. | |
you up-to-date with what is going on. We will also bring you the | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
latest news concerning Rangers. And goodness we have two of the finest | :00:34. | :00:44. | |
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minds in the country to do it. Pat Nevin and our own asparagus farmer. | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
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Welcome. Pat, what is happening? There was a penalty kick, which was | :01:11. | :01:21. | |
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strange, but definitely on. On to the Premier League. One match today | :01:33. | :01:42. | |
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- Inverness CT. There were a rash of chances. Kilmarnock got the | :01:47. | :01:57. | |
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better of Inverness CT. Over to New Douglas Park. Early goals. | :02:02. | :02:12. | |
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McManaman and Boyd have scored. Falkirk against Partick Thistle. | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
Duffy was sent off, but the score was drawn level from the penalty | :02:25. | :02:35. | |
spot. I hope you are keeping up at home. We are off to the Scottish | :02:35. | :02:43. | |
Cup and there was a big lunchtime match. He is the story of the game. | :02:43. | :02:53. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 90 seconds | :02:53. | :04:24. | |
was deserved. St Mirren draw first was saved by McDonald. It has gone | :04:24. | :04:34. | |
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in! Can you believe it? St Mirren are off the canvas and still in the | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
Scottish Cup. Incredible. In the first 30 minutes, our position in | :04:43. | :04:51. | |
the pitch was not very good. After we changed our position, or weep | :04:51. | :05:01. | |
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created a lot of chances. -- we created. It was high quality. | :05:10. | :05:18. | |
Everything you want from Scottish football. Very good goals and an | :05:18. | :05:28. | |
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At a cracking goal at the end, and they get to do it all again. | :05:33. | :05:41. | |
great way to start a weekend of Cup action. There was of a sleep | :05:41. | :05:50. | |
disappointment, but can be in for that reply. -- there was obviously | :05:50. | :06:00. | |
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disappointment. Hibs have had three really good chances. When they went | :06:00. | :06:10. | |
1-0 up early in the game, there was nothing beekeeper could do about it. | :06:10. | :06:20. | |
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-- they could do about it. After about 25 minutes, I think United | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
looked good in the second half. However, they are getting tired and | :06:36. | :06:46. | |
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they need to battle on. Let us go For the first half-an-hour | :06:56. | :07:05. | |
Inverness had been ahead. Sunderland managed to pull a save. | :07:05. | :07:15. | |
The ball had been bouncing out in the Inverness penalty area. There | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
was a misguided overhead kick. Surely this season's most | :07:22. | :07:32. | |
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You are so used to St bad news for Hibs. What we saying there? The bad | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
news is that they are beginning to hope they can win the Scottish Cup. | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
But bad news for Inverness was the own goal. It was an absolute howler. | :07:56. | :08:05. | |
We're trying to work out what he was trying to do. Maybe he was | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
trying to execute an overhead kick, but it really look like something | :08:08. | :08:18. | |
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else. -- looked like. Over to Counties seemed to have settled | :08:29. | :08:39. | |
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this one quite early. Morris and created the it first -- Morrison | :08:41. | :08:51. | |
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created the first goal. Hamilton have offered very little in this | :08:53. | :09:01. | |
match. County are a step closer to the SPL. | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
This would be their 24th game unbeaten, stretching back to August | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
when Hamilton beat them 5-1. How things have changed. They are 11 | :09:14. | :09:22. | |
points clear. They'd do not look as if they will start to falter. -- | :09:22. | :09:32. | |
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they do not look. Off to Falkirk Falkirk are down to 10 men. Kieran | :09:40. | :09:50. | |
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Duffy was sent off. The game was levelled from the penalty spot | :09:56. | :10:06. | |
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before Duffy were shown that straight red card. -- was shown. | :10:08. | :10:17. | |
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Falkirk pressing for the win, which they really needs. -- really need. | :10:26. | :10:35. | |
If Falkirk do not win, they will be 11 points behind Ross County. | :10:35. | :10:44. | |
think you can put the trophy in the car now. There must be something in | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
the air up there. I remember a couple of years ago at Inverness | :10:48. | :10:56. | |
were on a similar run of victories. Time for us to consider the latest | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
developments in the ongoing Rangers story. Yesterday, players agreed to | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
take a salary cut to keep Rangers going until the end of the season. | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
Meanwhile, administrators are trying to find a buyer for the club. | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
It all seemed simple enough, but the company that bought the rights | :11:17. | :11:27. | |
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to advance tickets are having problems. It all gets curiouser and | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
curiouser. Through the internet and a miracle court Jonathan Sutherland, | :11:39. | :11:48. | |
we will hear what supporters think. First of all, we will hear from one | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
of the administrators. I am pleased to announce today that a package of | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
cost-cutting measures have been a Greek with the Rangers playing stop | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
that allows the club to move forward. The agreement on | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
substantial wage reductions and voluntary departures from the club | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
represent a major sacrifice by the Rangers players. The discussions | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
had been lengthy and by no means easy for anyone involved, but the | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
most important objective in this process is to achieve an outcome | :12:20. | :12:28. | |
that will help to save the club. has been another busy week in the | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
history of Rangers. First, Rangers players taking a cut in wages. A | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
huge respect from the fans to them and the manager who has been | :12:40. | :12:50. | |
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handling all of this. Paul Murray, a Blue Knights, who will decide | :12:50. | :12:58. | |
whether he will become a member of the ball? Buying Rangers may be a | :12:58. | :13:08. | |
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good way to protect �24 million. Perhaps the club needs to go back | :13:11. | :13:20. | |
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to the supporters and be run by a troupe Rangers men. -- run by a | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
troupe Rangers men. The Rangers fans have been more upbeat than | :13:27. | :13:37. | |
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they had been for a while. I am going to give a work pundits a | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
couple of minutes to cogitate over their whilst we head back up to | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
Inverness. There has been a dramatic development there. | :13:46. | :13:54. | |
You could not script this. Inverness have equalised. Pure | :13:54. | :14:04. | |
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atonement on the part of Golobart. He forced the ball over the line. | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
At telly what you can't really script, the Rangers story. Let us | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
bring you up to date with the very latest developments. This afternoon | :14:14. | :14:23. | |
there was a meeting of Rangers supporters. There is the coach and | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
some of the representatives of the supporters. This was to set up a | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
Rangers fans fighting fund which will allow them to make cash | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
donations. According to those behind it, it will go a long way to | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
help to support its future. None of the supporters in there would say | :14:43. | :14:53. | |
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anything to our reporter. They were keeping quiet. Thankfully, a member | :14:57. | :15:07. | |
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of the retell department came out It went very well, and we will be | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
making an announcement early next week. I'm not saying anything, | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
there will be a press conference on either Monday or Tuesday. Pat Nevin, | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
things cannot be scripted in this, Sandy Jardine coming out of that | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
meeting in a positive frame of mind - is the tunnel may be not looking | :15:30. | :15:38. | |
as dark as it was? You're hanging on to absolutely anything, if | :15:38. | :15:46. | |
you're a Rangers supporter at the moment. We understand that they are | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
taking a decrease in wages for a short period of time only. But it | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
helps put off this perspective of going into liquidation. But as one | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
of the people said very clearly, we are not out of the woods yet. The | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
big problems have not gone away. The thing that we can take out of | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
that meeting today, we do not know much about it, but the fans, | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
obviously, some fans at least, want to put some money in. That could be | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
a lot of money, it could be not so much, but the important thing is | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
that this money is away from the administrators. This money will be | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
passed on to the administrators, I understand. Well, I'm not convinced | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
it that is a good idea. It will go into a massive pot and it will | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
disappear, which would be really sad. It would be nice if they could | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
have some money themselves, so that they could see where the problems | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
were, and it could be separated. If it is thrown into a big pot, it | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
could be just lost.. We do not know the details of this, but we know | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
that it is intended to see the club through the administration process | :16:48. | :16:56. | |
in the short term, then to be used in the longer term. Alan, at Dundee, | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
there were some parallels, were there not? Yes, as long as the cash | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
is able to be released as and when required, to the administrators, I | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
don't think it is a question of giving it to the administrators... | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
I thought these wage cuts were guaranteeing things in the short | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
term. Curdle there might also be a pot for when and if the club goes | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
into administration, that is what happened at Dundee. But I think you | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
cannot expect the fans just to sit back and expect something to happen, | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
it is good that they are getting involved. At the start of this | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
process, there was some disquiet at the fact that fans were not getting | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
involved as quickly as they might have done. Rangers fans themselves | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
were saying, why are they not get involved, like they did at Dundee | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
or at Motherwell? It is good that they are getting themselves going | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
seriously now. Another thing is this consortium, the Blue Knights, | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
and they want to get Ticketus involved. Let me get this straight, | :17:58. | :18:07. | |
Craig Whyte put fans' money into Ticketus, reportedly. And there is | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
no absolute certainty that they do get any benefit out of it. We are | :18:12. | :18:19. | |
all being cynical, understandably so. I think we are all bamboozled. | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
To some degree, everybody is. There are professionals who cannot | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
believe what has gone on. It is a number of people who have used | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
methods which should not be used within business, which have muddied | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
the waters. You do not want to dive in and say, this has happened, this | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
has happened. Ticketus might have a number of reasons for getting | :18:42. | :18:50. | |
involved. The obvious, cynical one would be, they are scared in for a | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
penny, in for a pound, maybe, with Ticketus. There is some dismay | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
among Rangers fans about the association with Ticketus. Are | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
Ticketus really the criminals in this? It was not their fault they | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
got involved. They thought that they had a good deal with Craig | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
Whyte, and now, as you would, you want to try to protect that deal. | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
The administrators were also night that just because the Blue | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
Knights are in the forefront of the media spotlight, they might not | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
even be the front runners. But the question I think has to be posed is, | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
the one earth would want to put their hat in the ring just now, | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
with this massive tax case in the background? On the information that | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
we have got, nobody would, it would be madness. Even if you get out of | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
this with a percentage of the money, surely it would not take into | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
account the �49 million or whatever it is which is going to be waiting | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
for you afterwards. So, who is going to buy into that? I cannot | :19:56. | :20:06. | |
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imagine. There is no way that Rangers, over 15, 20, 30 years | :20:10. | :20:18. | |
camera can get out of that. Unless you're a multi- millionaire, I | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
cannot see any way out of it, at the moment. There full-time scores | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
are beginning to trickle in. First of all, Falkirk versus Partick | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
Thistle. Yes, this one has finished a 1-1. The visitors went in front | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
just before half-time, through Paul Cairney, but Mark Millar levelled | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
seven minutes after the break. Duffy was bizarrely shown a red | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
card, and then a penalty was wrongly awarded. It was taken by | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
Paul Cairney, and saved by the Governor. It should have been won | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
at the end, but McGovern pushed the shot onto the post. It finished 1-1. | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
Well, we did say earlier on, Falkirk really had to win this one | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
- can you now declare the First Division title race over? I would | :21:12. | :21:21. | |
never do that. Full-time at Somerset Park. Yes, the game | :21:21. | :21:31. | |
slightly petered out at the end. Peter had were not able to get the | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
goal. But you can see the professionalism of the Hibernian | :21:34. | :21:42. | |
players playing off in the end. It is looking better and better over | :21:42. | :21:50. | |
the last three or four weeks. he is, the man who scored a penalty, | :21:50. | :21:57. | |
Griffiths. He has made a difference. For what I have seen, yes, you need | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
something at the base of it. Hibs are almost starting again, they | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
have got so many new players. As well, a new manager, and it looks | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
much better now. Full-time in the Hamilton game as well, against Ross | :22:12. | :22:22. | |
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County... It finished 2-0. Ross County had extended to 24 games | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
their unbeaten run. The first one came from close range from Colin | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
McMenamin, and the second was equally clinical, scored by Scott | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
Boyd. Chances were few and far between, with Ross County happy to | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
control the ball, and Hamilton lacking any creative spark. Ross | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
County seem to have an inevitable league title and promotion ahead of | :22:50. | :22:58. | |
them. There does Dundee's unbeaten record, 23 games, from last season. | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
Ross County have beaten that there could, and they are aiming to go | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
unbeaten for the season now, can they do it? I think they can. We | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
spoke earlier about their home form, and it is astonishing. But that | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
away game at Hamilton is one where they might have slipped up, but to | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
negotiate that like they have done, very professionally, I think we are | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
looking at two Highland clubs in the Premier League next season. | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
Let's go to one of those clubs now, Inverness Caledonian Thistle | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
against Kilmarnock. It was a slip up in the first half from Roman | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
Golobart, but he managed to score at the right end in the second half. | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
Yes, this one finished a point apiece. Caledonian Thistle got the | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
opener, through that calamitous own goal from Roman Golobart. It was a | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
massive mistake. Ironically, on either side of this, Inverness had | :23:56. | :24:03. | |
maybe 10 chances, with Mackay to the fore. In the second half, again, | :24:03. | :24:13. | |
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lots of pressure for Inverness. Then, the Inverness captain was | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
one-on-one with the 'keeper, but he was thwarted. Then, sublime | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
atonement by Roman Golobart, who forced the ball over the line, amid | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
intense pressure for an equaliser, with seven minutes to go. | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
Kilmarnock forced a series of late corners, but could not get the | :24:34. | :24:43. | |
winner. We're going now to Somerset Park, the Big Match of the | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
afternoon in the Scottish Cup quarter-final, let's hear the story | :24:48. | :24:57. | |
of the match. Ayr United have lost this one, the Hibernian fans pour | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
out of the ground knowing that they are destined for Hendon Park for a | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
semi-final date. It was an entirely professional performance from Hibs, | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
a shock never looked to be on the cards. The visitors went in front | :25:10. | :25:17. | |
as early as six minutes, Roy O'Donovan getting the goal. On 19 | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
minutes, a Leigh Griffiths penalty doubled the lead. The result was | :25:23. | :25:31. | |
never in doubt after that. The only real threat came on 56 minutes, | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
when the Hibs goalkeeper saved brilliantly from a header. But | :25:34. | :25:44. | |
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other than that, Ayr United did not really threaten the Hibs goal. So, | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
let's hear how are and other two clubs from the First Division but | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
on this afternoon, Morton against Livingstone. This one finished 3-1. | :25:56. | :26:03. | |
Livingstone took the lead on four minutes, Marc McNulty calmly going | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
round the goalkeeper. Morton equalised through a header from | :26:10. | :26:18. | |
McDonald, who was totally unmarked at the back post. Then, five | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
minutes before half-time, Livingstone took the lead after | :26:20. | :26:28. | |
good build-up play led to a goal from Iain Russell. Into the second | :26:28. | :26:38. | |
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half, they stretched their lead further, through Craig Barr. There | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
was no more scoring. Livingstone took the points. I have to go back | :26:50. | :26:59. | |
to something Charles said, talking about the second goal from Roman | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
Golobart, describing it as sublime atonement. You would never believe | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
his day-job was as an English teacher, would you? Yes, the joy in | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
his face when he put that in the net, I thought for a moment it was | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
going to be called offside, but there is nothing better, as a | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
player, if you can atone for your own goal. It is one of those things, | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
it seems to happen quite often, players will go back up the other | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
end and get one in the right end. Yes, he did well, it was a | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
defender's finish, he turned and slammed it in from one yard. I was | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
glad to see him get himself out of a hole. That point apiece for both | :27:40. | :27:47. | |
clubs, does it end Kilmarnock's top six prospects? To be fair, I think | :27:47. | :27:52. | |
the top six is finished, really. I don't think they will be caught, | :27:52. | :27:59. | |
any of them. This underlines it for me. It is a shame, we talk about | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
this every season, most people do not like it, more often than not, | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
it means that most games will mean something right to the death, but I | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
think there will be some this season which to not mean a great | :28:11. | :28:19. | |
deal, which is a shame, because for many years, we have had great | :28:19. | :28:28. | |
excitement at both ends right to the end. What about the relegation | :28:28. | :28:35. | |
battle? Well, I hope I was not jumping the gun when I said there | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
would be two Highland clubs in the Premier League. But I think they | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
are safe, that is a positive point for them today, I would say. I | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
think Terry Butcher has fielded something like 21 different | :28:48. | :28:53. | |
permutations of defenders.. It has not been a great season. Know, he | :28:53. | :29:00. | |
has had to chop and change such a lot. -- no. It has been a tough | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
season, but they will be glad to get to the end of it and go again | :29:04. | :29:14. | |
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next season. We can move on now to We will start today with the | :29:23. | :29:33. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 90 seconds | :29:33. | :34:35. | |
Just one match in the Clydesdale As I mentioned, a good day for | :34:35. | :34:42. | |
Bolton Wanderers. They beat Queens Park Rangers in the lunchtime kick- | :34:42. | :34:52. | |
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off. A huge victory for Bolton and a damaging defeat for Queens Park | :34:53. | :35:01. | |
Rangers, who have 10 difficult games to play. A lucky victory for | :35:01. | :35:11. | |
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Bolton. The ball had crossed the line early in that game and nothing | :35:16. | :35:26. | |
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was given because the referees that did not see. Rangers equalised just | :35:27. | :35:35. | |
after half-time, but Bolton won it with just three minutes to go. | :35:35. | :35:45. | |
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us hear how Blackburn affair. They want a weight to -- they won away | :35:45. | :35:55. | |
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to Wolverhampton. There were two significant Mrs from Wolves. | :36:02. | :36:12. | |
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Blackburn dominated from start to finish. Blackburn played as 18 | :36:17. | :36:24. | |
right until the end. Great celebrations. A work that, for | :36:24. | :36:34. | |
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Wolves, the grim Reaper is hovering by the dressing room door. Chelsea | :36:37. | :36:42. | |
sacked their manager after last week's was sold. Things went a bit | :36:42. | :36:52. | |
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better for them today, at home to Stoke. What would have happened if | :36:59. | :37:09. | |
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there wasn't a send-off in the first half? Well, throughout, or | :37:18. | :37:28. | |
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Chelsea had the edge. -- Chelsea. Stoke City still kept on coming up | :37:29. | :37:33. | |
for words and used all their substitutes. Surely Wednesday night | :37:33. | :37:43. | |
will be a different proposition. Over to the Stadium of Light. | :37:43. | :37:53. | |
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Sunderland and Liverpool. Sunderland have won. The goal came | :37:55. | :38:05. | |
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at the last minute. It was almost a comedy of errors. A disjointed | :38:12. | :38:17. | |
display from Liverpool. They did stage a cavalry charge at the end | :38:17. | :38:22. | |
and in the dying minutes there was an outstanding tackle in the | :38:22. | :38:27. | |
penalty area. Right at the very death, Steven Gerrard strained | :38:27. | :38:37. | |
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every sinew. But third successive league defeat for Liverpool. That | :38:39. | :38:49. | |
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has not happened for nine years. -- the third. Aston Villa won over | :38:53. | :39:02. | |
Fulham, but I have to come to Blackburn. I want them to stay up. | :39:03. | :39:07. | |
The guys at the bottom of the League have had a good day. There | :39:07. | :39:17. | |
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is so much pressure on Steve Kean. The abuse was just coming from | :39:19. | :39:28. | |
everywhere. More than anything else, they didn't like the new owners and | :39:28. | :39:37. | |
they loved Sam and did not wanting to go. However, there seems to be | :39:37. | :39:47. | |
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some fighting spirit there, but not the same for Wolves. What about | :39:49. | :39:57. | |
Queens Park Rangers? Well, it was interesting to hear from that | :39:57. | :40:07. | |
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report that Blackburn are playing as a team. That was good to hear. | :40:15. | :40:20. | |
Artlessly a great win for Owen. Yes, not looking good for QPR. You | :40:20. | :40:27. | |
wonder about the wisdom of changing managers during the season. What | :40:27. | :40:37. | |
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about Aston Villa? The pressure is on. The fans have not taken to the | :40:43. | :40:48. | |
new manager. They do not like negativity and had been complaining | :40:48. | :40:56. | |
about the style of play. They start from a defensive base with one guy | :40:56. | :41:00. | |
up front. I think they have done well. A lot of players have been | :41:00. | :41:07. | |
lost and there is not a lot of money, so I think he has done well. | :41:07. | :41:17. | |
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I agree. Kenny's result is not great for Liverpool. A third defeat | :41:17. | :41:23. | |
in a row. There is to work to be done at Anfield. We can head to | :41:23. | :41:33. | |
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Somerset Park now. A one reporter spoke to the winning manager. | :41:35. | :41:42. | |
Congratulations in getting through to the semi-finals. We started the | :41:42. | :41:48. | |
game really well and created a lot of chances. I thought from start to | :41:48. | :41:54. | |
finish, it was a good performance. I read that you said your team have | :41:54. | :41:59. | |
to be at it in this game, in terms of the possibility of an upset and | :41:59. | :42:08. | |
there seemed to be. We spoke about it in the week. We knew there was | :42:08. | :42:17. | |
going to be some attitude. It seems to meet the players you -- to meet | :42:17. | :42:22. | |
the players you bought in in January have improve the pack. They | :42:22. | :42:30. | |
seem to have increase the quality and class of your side. They have | :42:30. | :42:35. | |
helped the boys who were already here. They were under pressure for | :42:35. | :42:40. | |
a long time and that can take its toll. But on and off the pitch | :42:40. | :42:48. | |
there is a good atmosphere. There was a real rock at the heart of | :42:48. | :42:57. | |
your defence. Yes. We identified that area quite early in that we | :42:57. | :43:07. | |
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needed to have strength there. pleas were you with LEA? -- how | :43:17. | :43:26. | |
pleased were you with it LEA? was fantastic. You have a chance to | :43:26. | :43:35. | |
write your name into the history books with Hibs. We are in the | :43:35. | :43:39. | |
semi-finals. We will see what happens in the trough. We have a | :43:39. | :43:44. | |
bigger job on our hands, making sure we stay in the league and that | :43:44. | :43:54. | |
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is what we need to focus on. managed to grab a few words but the | :43:55. | :44:05. | |
manager of Ayr United. Are you disappointed with your tee | :44:05. | :44:12. | |
not starting at a tempo that they should have? Well, it was | :44:12. | :44:19. | |
disappointing. It was incredibly windy day. It makes it difficult, | :44:19. | :44:27. | |
but there was a cheap free kick. To go up a goal down so early is | :44:27. | :44:30. | |
difficult and we didn't have a chance to get back in the game | :44:30. | :44:38. | |
after that. I don't think we played acts as good a tempo as we have | :44:38. | :44:43. | |
done previously. Second goal, I know you were upset. Was it with | :44:43. | :44:52. | |
the decision of the corner-kick been allowed? I have to see it | :44:52. | :44:58. | |
again. I think a lot of the decisions went in favour of Hibs. | :44:58. | :45:08. | |
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It is disappointing. The penalty kick, the referee, and if he is | :45:08. | :45:11. | |
giving penalty kicks for something like that, then there will be an | :45:11. | :45:21. | |
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not in any given game. I will watch On the TV, it does look as though | :45:29. | :45:33. | |
he has a hold of his jersey, but I suppose you would say that it is | :45:33. | :45:37. | |
not always given in that situation. Yes, you see it in every game, in | :45:38. | :45:46. | |
every penalty box. It is very rare that a penalty is actually given. | :45:46. | :45:51. | |
It is not easy for referees, but there would be a lot of penalty | :45:51. | :45:55. | |
kicks given if it was so easy to give them as that. But these are | :45:55. | :45:59. | |
the things which went against us today, decisions seemed to go | :45:59. | :46:04. | |
against us. Saying that, I don't think we played as good as we can, | :46:04. | :46:07. | |
which is no disrespect to Hibs, but we have played better than that in | :46:07. | :46:13. | |
previous games this season. We need to pick ourselves up now. We will | :46:13. | :46:17. | |
be able to see whether in fact it should have been a penalty or not | :46:17. | :46:21. | |
tonight in the highlights show. But right now it is time to go to | :46:21. | :46:29. | |
Jonathan Sutherland. He has been on the Internet all afternoon. His | :46:29. | :46:34. | |
most recent brief has been finding out what the online community made | :46:34. | :46:39. | |
of today's Scottish Cup quarter- finals. Yes, never knowingly | :46:39. | :46:42. | |
offline. We thought there was a possibility of a Cup upset at | :46:42. | :46:47. | |
Somerset Park today, but the SPL side took the lead after just six | :46:47. | :46:52. | |
minutes, and it was pretty comfortable after that. On Twitter, | :46:52. | :46:57. | |
one Hibs fan said, this was a tricky away Tom tie at Ayr, I am | :46:57. | :47:03. | |
thinking this could be Hibernian's year, only to flop dismally in the | :47:03. | :47:10. | |
semi-finals again. Such cynicism! A replay beckons in Paisley for | :47:10. | :47:16. | |
Hearts. This fan says, a story of two halves. We should have been | :47:16. | :47:20. | |
thumped in the first half, and were well out of sight in the second. It | :47:20. | :47:25. | |
will be tough in the replay, but with Craig Beattie fit again, we do | :47:25. | :47:30. | |
have the players. And this one, a St Mirren firm, says, we were | :47:30. | :47:33. | |
terrific for the first half an hour, we should have been a few goals | :47:33. | :47:39. | |
ahead. -- a St Mirren fan. The officials had a shocker, he says. | :47:39. | :47:43. | |
Plenty to talk about there. Do you want to get stuck into that Hibs | :47:43. | :47:53. | |
fan, who's saying, dismal...? Hibs fans have had this for long | :47:53. | :47:57. | |
enough, they do not get carried away. You can't, because this has | :47:57. | :48:02. | |
been going on for such a long time. It was a decent display today, but | :48:02. | :48:06. | |
it did not make you think, yes, you're going to win the Cup, it was | :48:06. | :48:10. | |
good enough, no more than that. Celtic are still in the competition, | :48:10. | :48:15. | |
and Hearts as well. Dundee united will be difficult to get past as | :48:15. | :48:19. | |
well. So, Hibs can just be quietly happy about that. The word | :48:19. | :48:23. | |
professional was used again in the interview, it is a word which has | :48:23. | :48:31. | |
not been used about Hibs for a long time. What about this one, the | :48:31. | :48:34. | |
manager saying he did not think it was a penalty, but we have watched | :48:34. | :48:38. | |
it a few times, and I think you will have some bad news for him... | :48:38. | :48:47. | |
Yes, I know the point he was making, but I think it was a penalty. If | :48:47. | :48:51. | |
they see it again, I think the defender will think, what was I | :48:52. | :48:55. | |
doing? But I do understand the manager thinking that it would not | :48:55. | :49:02. | |
a penalty. He made the point also of an SPL side coming down and | :49:02. | :49:07. | |
perhaps getting the decisions. Should we be surprised that St | :49:07. | :49:11. | |
Mirren scored two goals? What surprised me, let's be upfront | :49:11. | :49:14. | |
about it, I would not have been surprised if it was a boring game, | :49:14. | :49:20. | |
but in fact it was a really exciting game. The first 20 minutes | :49:20. | :49:27. | |
were brilliant, I thought they were going to run away with it, but the | :49:27. | :49:32. | |
goal was scored just that the right time, by Beattie. There were so | :49:32. | :49:37. | |
many talking points, how on earth you will fit into the highlights | :49:37. | :49:46. | |
show tonight, I do not know. Before the match I was reading the | :49:46. | :49:56. | |
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comments of the manager, but did he have the balance right today? | :50:02. | :50:06. | |
would say so, I would say that Danny Lennon got it right. That | :50:06. | :50:09. | |
biggest thing in that game for me was the re-emergence of Craig | :50:09. | :50:13. | |
Beattie. He looked a fine player. There were some concerns for him | :50:13. | :50:17. | |
down at Swansea, I think he was their highest paid player, and he | :50:17. | :50:22. | |
seemed to disappear, but he really looked a fine player today, with a | :50:22. | :50:26. | |
fine finish for a goal which was wrongly ruled offside. That replay | :50:26. | :50:31. | |
will be a week on Wednesday. But I wonder, Pat Nevin, could that be | :50:31. | :50:37. | |
the result of the day? Oddly, no, I'm going to go for a completely | :50:37. | :50:44. | |
different one. Going down to the Premier League in England, I cannot | :50:44. | :50:49. | |
overlook this, Sunderland beating Liverpool 1-0. Martin O'Neill took | :50:49. | :50:52. | |
over that team, it looked as though they were relegation fodder, they | :50:52. | :50:58. | |
have just beaten Liverpool, their only two points behind Liverpool. | :50:58. | :51:03. | |
That is, to borrow a phrase from Martin O'Neill, absolutely | :51:03. | :51:09. | |
astonishing. I think it beats any other result I have seen today. | :51:09. | :51:14. | |
would you like to take for your result of the day, Alan? I am torn | :51:14. | :51:20. | |
between Angus and Wolverhampton. I thought it was a great result for | :51:20. | :51:23. | |
Forfar, but I think I would have to go down to the English Premier | :51:23. | :51:28. | |
League, and say Blackburn Rovers beating Wolverhampton Wanderers. It | :51:28. | :51:34. | |
was a huge result for Steve Kean. He looked such a sad and isolated | :51:34. | :51:38. | |
figure on the touchline, but then they got that fantastic win at Old | :51:38. | :51:44. | |
Trafford, followed up by this one, it is great for him. Well done, | :51:44. | :51:48. | |
gentlemen. Let's move on, because we have got two more Scottish Cup | :51:48. | :51:54. | |
ties this weekend, both between SPL clubs, Dundee United at home to | :51:54. | :51:56. | |
Celtic and Motherwell against Aberdeen. We will talk about those | :51:56. | :52:02. | |
in a minute or two, once we have heard what supporters are thinking. | :52:02. | :52:06. | |
Jonathan is going to channel their thoughts like some kind of online | :52:06. | :52:14. | |
spiritualist. Are you with us? here, don't worry about it. Yes, | :52:14. | :52:18. | |
those two games tomorrow, I'm really looking forward to them, | :52:18. | :52:23. | |
says this one. This one says, we have scored 16 in a last 10 games, | :52:23. | :52:28. | |
and conceded just one, but our record against Celtic is horrific. | :52:28. | :52:33. | |
We are due a victory, he says. This Celtic fan says, we will not get an | :52:33. | :52:37. | |
easy victory, but we should have just enough to make it through, | :52:37. | :52:40. | |
possibly with a replay. This one says, the winner of this one should | :52:40. | :52:44. | |
go on to win the Scottish Cup. After that it is Motherwell against | :52:44. | :52:48. | |
Aberdeen at Fir Park. This Aberdeen fan says, I am just happy we have | :52:48. | :52:52. | |
not been knocked out by a team from the lower leagues yet. Our record | :52:52. | :52:57. | |
at Motherwell is ranked bottom, and I do not see it changing any time | :52:57. | :53:01. | |
soon. And this one is equally pessimistic, saying, not looking | :53:01. | :53:05. | |
forward to this, would much have preferred Queen of the South. | :53:05. | :53:09. | |
Aberdeen will bring a big crowd, I can only see a draw a victory for | :53:09. | :53:16. | |
Aberdeen. That's the spirit. Let's talk about these matches, Dundee | :53:16. | :53:21. | |
united-Celtic first. Dundee United, Peter Houston saying, they are | :53:21. | :53:27. | |
going into this in top form, but they need a bit of luck. Yes, like | :53:27. | :53:32. | |
in any cup competition, we have seen bits of luck for various teams, | :53:32. | :53:36. | |
but Dundee United, they're on a good run, but compare that to | :53:36. | :53:46. | |
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Celtic's nun, to be fair. Dundee United will be confident, but... | :53:50. | :53:54. | |
This performance, going to Ibrox, a number of us were not all that | :53:54. | :53:58. | |
surprised. This was before the madness descended on ibex, I | :53:58. | :54:08. | |
:54:08. | :54:09. | ||
thought Dundee United macro played really well that day. -- on Ibrox. | :54:09. | :54:13. | |
As a partnership, I thought they were fabulous. But in the end, if | :54:13. | :54:18. | |
both teams play as well as they can, then Celtic will win, but anything | :54:18. | :54:23. | |
less than the best from Celtic, and Dundee united have got a fabulous | :54:23. | :54:33. | |
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chance. You look at Celtic, and they have got plenty of firepower | :54:35. | :54:43. | |
themselves. Yes, I think United have got 16 goals in the last five | :54:43. | :54:51. | |
games, suggesting they have really got firepower themselves. I think I | :54:51. | :54:56. | |
am right in saying they have only beaten Celtic once in the last 20 | :54:56. | :55:02. | |
games at Tannadice. They have got a very good record against Rangers, | :55:03. | :55:07. | |
on the other hand. I would think they could give Celtic a run for | :55:07. | :55:13. | |
the money. Next week Celtic have got Kilmarnock in the Community's | :55:13. | :55:19. | |
Cup Final. It is important for their treble aspirations. Yes, | :55:19. | :55:22. | |
nobody within Celtic Park wants to talk about the treble. But | :55:22. | :55:27. | |
realistically, if you look at it, they have got a brilliant chance. I | :55:27. | :55:31. | |
would say there are more likely to win the treble than not. They are | :55:31. | :55:35. | |
that far ahead of everybody else. They do not have to keep everybody | :55:35. | :55:41. | |
fit, there is not one player who, getting injured, would put them in | :55:41. | :55:45. | |
trouble. They have got a really good, strong, well-balanced squad. | :55:45. | :55:49. | |
That's the thing. People say many things about Neil Lennon as a | :55:49. | :55:56. | |
manager, but he has built a squad which is so well balanced. They are | :55:56. | :56:02. | |
not reliant on any players. Also, I am really looking forward to | :56:02. | :56:12. | |
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Motherwell-Aberdeen. The manager loves building up his opponents. | :56:15. | :56:20. | |
Yes, what Craig Brown has done at Aberdeen has been tremendous. I | :56:20. | :56:25. | |
watched them last week at Celtic, and somebody described their | :56:25. | :56:29. | |
unbeaten run as one of the most underwhelming unbeaten runs of all | :56:29. | :56:35. | |
time. But nonetheless, I thought last weekend, against Celtic, they | :56:35. | :56:39. | |
showed what they can do. Lesser teams would have crumbled, going a | :56:39. | :56:43. | |
goal behind against Celtic, but Aberdeen in the second half were | :56:43. | :56:53. | |
very, very good. I'm really looking forward to tomorrow's game. It | :56:53. | :56:58. | |
could be another draw, perhaps. would not be surprised if it was | :56:58. | :57:04. | |
another really would -- really good game, because Motherwell are an | :57:04. | :57:07. | |
attack-minded side. They have got players that can do something | :57:07. | :57:11. | |
slushy different. I do not want to be biased, it is not because I had | :57:11. | :57:14. | |
some involvement with Motherwell in the past, I would like to see them | :57:14. | :57:20. | |
playing at Hampden Park. They were there last season in the final, | :57:20. | :57:25. | |
remember. Yes, but this would be a good opportunity to play their | :57:25. | :57:31. | |
style of football, expansive football, on a good service. But | :57:31. | :57:34. | |
Craig Brown has done a great job, and he is the man who brought me | :57:34. | :57:40. | |
into football. He has got a lot to answer for. Gents, it has been fun, | :57:40. | :57:44. | |
but it is almost time to leave the viewers in peace for another week. | :57:44. | :57:46. | |
Our main headlines... Hibs, the first team through to the semi- | :57:46. | :57:56. | |
:57:56. | :57:59. | ||
finals of the Scottish Cup, by after winning away at Ayr. It | :57:59. | :58:04. | |
finished 2-2 at Tynecastle. And Inverness ended up drawing their | :58:04. | :58:10. | |
match with Kilmarnock. Roman Golobart got a goal at both ends in | :58:10. | :58:13. | |
that one. In the first division, Ross County are now well clear up | :58:13. | :58:17. | |
the top, after beating Hamilton Academicals this afternoon. I have | :58:17. | :58:22. | |
left just about enough time to try to persuade you to watch more of a | :58:22. | :58:27. | |
product, starting tonight... Highlights of those Scottish Cup | :58:27. | :58:31. | |
games tonight. And we will be back tomorrow night, with highlights of | :58:32. | :58:36. | |
tomorrow's two games. Jonathan and myself are back next week with the | :58:37. | :58:43. |