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Good afternoon and welcome to a results show Christmas special. | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
All right, so it's nothing special, but it is Christmas. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
Football-flavoured fun furnished by our reporters around the country, | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
with banter brought to you by Pat Nevin and Michael | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Now before we start our Boxing Day bounce around the grounds, | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
I'll tell you about some matches that have been postponed | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
Among them the Premiership matches between Dundee United | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
and Motherwell, and Partick Thistle and St Johnstone are off, | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
as is the Championship game between Raith and Alloa. | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
Right, to the festive fixtures that are afoot. | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
We will start at Pittodrie. Second Aberdeen are playing Internet. | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
Let's hear from Scott Davie. It is 2-1 to Inverness Caley Thistle. | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
Aberdeen have a chance to go top if they win. They are coming back into | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
it after losing goals to Liam Polworth under Greg Tansey penalty. | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
Niall McGinn has brought them back into the match. A bad mistake by the | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
central defence, allowing Niall McGinn to score. The pressure is now | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
on. There will be quite a bit of injury time because Owain Fon | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
Williams, the Caley Thistle goalkeeper, getting as serious head | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
injury. He is playing on with his head in bandages. Can Aberdeen | :01:40. | :01:47. | |
managed to rescue themselves? Off we go to Dingwall. Ross County | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
and Dundee. Plenty of excitement. What a game. | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
Craig Stewart set up Kane Hemmings for the opener. Liam Boyce got the | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
equaliser. In the second half, Kane Hemmings again. Michael Gardini | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
equalised and then Jackson Irving gave them the lead. | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
-- Jackson Irvine. Plenty of goals there. Jonathan Sutherland is | :02:17. | :02:25. | |
watching Kilmarnock and Hamilton. One goal in this match. It was a | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
freaking loopy effort, it has to be seen to be believed. The match is | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
getting lively towards the end., niqab never won at New Douglas Park. | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
Could today be the day? We will also find out what is happening in the | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
Championship match between Falkirk and Dumbarton. It is 1- 04 Falkirk. | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
The home fans are full of these festive spirit thanks to Blair | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
Alston's straight in the first half. The home side dominating in dreadful | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
conditions. A nice Christmas message from Brian | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
McLauchlin. Let's see of Charlie Mann can philosopher the festive | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
cheer. He is in Paisley Western men are playing Livingston. | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
Not for St Mirren funds. St Mirren Park is make Paisley nightmare is | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
continuing. They have not won at home in the legal season and they | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
are losing to Livingston, 4-1. If the score stays the same, St | :03:29. | :03:30. | |
Mirren will be second bottom. We will talk about that later. Michael, | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
you are not pleased, Aberdeen are trailing Inverness, 2-1. I did not | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
see that coming. This is the result that will ruin Christmas. Aberdeen | :03:44. | :03:56. | |
have been a bean on a terrific run. They had great support today, | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
nudging towards 20,000. If they lose, the supporters will feel let | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
down. They are putting on a late rally, Niall McGinn getting a goal | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
back. It sounds great from Inverness, they will be backing the | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
top six if it stays like this. Everyone knows how it is in the | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
bottom of the league up to the middle. If Aberdeen are losing 2-0 | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
and they managed to scrape a draw, psychologically it will not be a bad | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
position. Celtic have a tough game coming up going away to Hearts. That | :04:32. | :04:43. | |
is not given by any manner of means. Ross County are up on Dundee, 4-2. | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
They are going great guns, county. They have had a sticky spell of | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
late. Yes, but they have got goal-scorers. Billy Dodds was a | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
striker. He spends as much time organising that as anyone else. Liam | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
Boyce is scoring lots of goals for them just now. He has got 12. If you | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
are scoring for Michael goals at home, generally you will get a | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
victory from that. They are a team with a lot of confidence. They have | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
had our ups and downs, but since that difficult time when they first | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
took over, it has been a very good job from them. Killie are winning | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
1-0 away to Hamilton. Both sides need a victory, Watmore put -- but | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
Killie have been under real pressure, Gary Locke in particular. | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
Neither team has been winning recently. Hamilton Academical have | :05:39. | :05:54. | |
one now on in nine. Gary Locke is under pressure. If they can hang on, | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
it will relieve some of that. Speaking of pressure, are Falkirk | :05:59. | :06:06. | |
are playing some pressure on Hibs and Rangers? They are not that far | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
out of it. I heard about it on BBC radio this week, that Falkirk are on | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
a good run. They have got a game today and begin midweek as well. | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
Knowing that Hibernian are playing against Rangers at Ibrox, someone | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
will drop points. They have every chance of getting back into it. | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
People have said it is Rangers against a burning. Falkirk are | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
loving the fact they are tucked in nicely. Michael, can you read St | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
Mirren out of the play-offs in the Championship? Rate them out of the | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
division! That is Alex rev's first proper match in charge, picking the | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
team. It is at home, in Paisley, and you're losing 4-1 to the team that | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
started the day in second bottom. St Mirren look like a club that it does | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
not matter what they do, it does not work for them. They have been | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
relegated last season and they could go through this division as well. | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
That would be catastrophic for the infrastructure of the club and its | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
finances. Just because of the income that gets cut off if you're outside | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
the top two divisions. Merry Christmas to you as well. Let's go | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
to the Premiership and get more details on the matches. We will | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
start at Pittodrie and Scott Davie. It is still 2- for Caley Thistle. | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
There are a few minutes of stoppage time. Perhaps five minutes. Quite a | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
long time for Inverness to hang on. Aberdeen are trying to salvage | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
something from a game they have dominated in terms of territory. | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
They have failed to create much. Much more hurried and more thought | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
going into things now. Niall McGinn drives in a shot. It has gone | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
whistling past the post. Lovely improvisation from Niall McGinn who | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
has brought his side back into the game. His 57th goal from the club. | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
It was a bad mistake by Warren, the captain of Inverness. You try to | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
clear his lines and did not take the opportunity. Niall McGinn pinch the | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
ball and slid it into the back of the net to bring Aberdeen into a | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
game. Liam Polworth got his second goal of the season, his second in | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
successive games. Good play by Ross Draper, reinstated after injury. He | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
outmuscled Paul Quinn and pulled it back for a Liam Polworth to score. | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
Then more disaster for Quinn as he needlessly push Ross Draper over. It | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
was a penalty, Greg Tansey scoring from that. Aberdeen showing lots of | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
character, for eating for everything. -- fighting for | :08:49. | :08:56. | |
everything. The referee is going to get the yellow carded for Jonny | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
Hayes who has taken his complaints to fire. It has been a fiery | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
encounter in a terrible day for football. | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
Nicely poised right now. Off to Victoria Park and Dingwall. | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
An update from channels. No advance on 4-2. I do not like cliches but | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
Christmas cracker is unavoidable. The game started at full tilt with | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
county providing the early pressure but Bundy opened the scoring when | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
Greg Stewart provided Kane Hemmings with a pinpoint through ball and he | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
headed in from 12 yards. County had the ball in the Dundee box but there | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
were no takers before Stewart pulled a great save out of the keeper at | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
the other end. On the half hour, County equalised through Liam Boyce | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
and a through ball from Andy Davies. He rolled it into an empty net. | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
Again, Stewart set up Hemmings before a spectacular equaliser from | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
Michael Gardyne. Jackson Irvine put the ball into the net just seconds | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
after coming on to the park but there was debate as to whether it | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
crossed the line. Then another from Liam Boyce. | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
It is 4-2. After New Douglas Park. Last we heard, Killie were leading, | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
1-0. The away side looks like taking another goal. They have had a boost | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
in confidence since that strike which put them ahead, a weirdo, | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
looked effort which Michael McGovern could not keep out. That was midway | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
through the second half. It will give Gary Locke boost. He has been | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
under severe pressure after some heavy home defeats in recent weeks, | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
notably against Aberdeen and Partick Thistle. Hamilton are not out of | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
this match, going on the attack with Carlton Morris. Well saved. Hamilton | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
tried to test, nick defence from the. A shot from the centre circle. | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
He perhaps finds his chances given the bad form of the, no defence, but | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
the keeper saved comfortably. Then Conrad Balatoni clearing off the | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
line from Dougie Imrie after he had beaten the keeper with a close range | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
shot. It was stunning from Balatoni. One to be seen on the highlights | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
programme tomorrow. In the second half, Josh Magennis looked like he | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
might have given, nick the lead, but again, McGovern with a fantastic | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
save. A lengthy dilate as Lucas Tagliapietra was carried from this | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
field. Idlib citing injury for the Hamilton Central defender. Then a | :11:30. | :11:41. | |
moment of hope for, nick. Be bold looked into the net. , nick are | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
trying to take a 2-0 lead. If they get a victory today, it will be | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
massive four, neck and Gary Locke. Will it be enough to satisfy the | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
Kamara board? 1-0. I was waiting to see we could | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
get the third mention of his own show in there. | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
He is cheeky. Like Ted to Falkirk Stadium. | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
Brian McLauchlin. It is 1-0 four Falkirk. This game has been | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
dominated by the home side since the outset. In the first-half John Baird | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
had a shot on the angle from 12 yards out. The goalkeeper did well | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
to parry it away. Eventually the breakthrough came and what a strike. | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
A short free kick taken to Blair Alston. He took the ball across his | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
body and fired in a shot from 22 yards. It rivalled beyond Mark Brown | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
and into the net. So close to a second just seconds into the second | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
half. Blair Alston said his team-mates through on goal. The bold | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
looked to be destined for the bottom corner only for a terrific block by | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
Frazer Wright at the heart of the Dumbarton defence. One-way traffic | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
towards the Dumbarton goal. Beard looked certain to score but he | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
delayed his effort and the defence got back to score. Seconds ago, | :13:09. | :13:19. | |
again, the ball was knocked down and the striker find the target, but the | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
goalkeeper saved. Just a few minutes left for play. It looks like Falkirk | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
are destined to go to within three points at the top of the | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
Championship this evening. And the points in Paisley are | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
destined to go the way of Livingston. It was 4-1 for | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
Livingston the last we heard. Any change? No change. Five minutes | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
left in Paisley. St Mirren are destined to go second bottom of each | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
and pinch a table this afternoon. They are losing 4-1 to Livingston. | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
They have been very poorest throughout the 90 minutes, | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
particularly in the second half. Defensive problems all over the | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
place. Livingston 2-0 up after 30 minutes. The first from Liam | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
Buchanan, the second from Ben Gordon. Lawrence Shankland gave St | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
Mirren hope on 41 minutes with a goal. In the second half, | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
defensiveness takes again, particularly on 54 minutes. It was a | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
free kick and a terrific goal. High into the back of the net, but Jack | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
Baird in advance of that had a very bad patch and a clumsy challenge to | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
give away the free kick. Then Liam Buchanan on 66 minutes. A simple | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
through ball, away from the defenders, cool and collected under | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
the goalkeeper. If I were a St Mirren Fran, I would be afraid. -- | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
St Mirren Fran. I am saying nothing. We are going to | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
Victoria Park now. What a game this is. It's 5-2. Boyce | :14:58. | :15:18. | |
completed a hat trick. Ross County 5, Dunne key 2. -- country tee. I | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
was looking at that earlier and thinking Ross County and Dundee. | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
Hemmings scored a couple for Dundee, I was thinking can he score | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
back-to-back hat tricks? He has been upstaged by Liam Boyce. Yeah, | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
they're strong at home a lot of the time. He is on fire. If a striker | :15:37. | :15:44. | |
goes on a run they - the goal looks about 20 feet wide as if they can't | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
miss anything. Boyce is having that sort of game today. It's odd, we | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
feel that a about a lot of teams but Dundee maybe specifically above | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
anyone else, I have no idea week to week what they're going to do. I | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
would never bet on them one way or another. There was a while you could | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
bet on them having a draw and 1-1 at that. That's bucked the trend. 4-0 | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
winners last week. Then 5-2, could have been six. You have no idea | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
where it's going to come to. The good thing is we have seen a lot of | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
goals with them involved. Before the game I would have put money on Ross | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
County for this one purely because they've got scorers. We are | :16:24. | :16:25. | |
unpredictable on this show, as well. We are going to the English Premier | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
League for the lunchtime match today. Stoke City against Manchester | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
United. Let's get the details on that one. | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
Stoke 2, Manchester United 0. There have been a lot of defy apt talk | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
from Manchester United, in particular, Louis Van Gaal, but all | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
that fire was quickly extinguished in a display in which Stoke were too | :16:48. | :16:59. | |
good. Arnautovic should have added a third. The decision to leave Wayne | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
Rooney out of the starting 11 was reversed at half-time. The visitors | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
did rally. Buckland making a couple of excellent saves. In the truth, it | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
was really Stoke's day. A victory for them and a United performance | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
which will have done little to alter the raft of back page headlines that | :17:16. | :17:24. | |
have so upset Louis Van Gaal. Right now there is an incident. There is | :17:25. | :17:38. | |
six minutes of stoppage time. The referee has given a penalty. Rooney | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
so good from the spot, of course, looking to convert what will be his | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
14th goal of the season. Rooney steps up and scores! Sends the | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
goalkeeper one way. The ball into the corner of the net the other way. | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
From 2-0 down, still five minutes of stoppage time to go here at | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
Pittodrie. Aberdeen still have a chance to go to the top of the table | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
if they can get another goal in this game. Aberdeen 2, Inverness Caley | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
Thistle 2. Feeling more relaxed, Michael? It's the natural order has | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
been restored. The natural order has not been restored at Manchester | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
United. They've lost 2-0 against Stoke. The headlines were that Louis | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
Van Gaal was for the chop. That was before today's match. The likelihood | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
is he will be. You need good results if you are a top club. It doesn't | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
look good enough. Also they're not playing an exciting brand of | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
football. A month ago they were top of the table. Exactly. But they | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
weren't playing brilliantly well. You could see the weaknesses there. | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
I don't think it's anything like you have lost the dressing room, one or | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
two players aren't suited to playing with him. In the end Manchester | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
United expect more. In a season where there is a great opportunity | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
to take the league, because everyone seems really keen to hand it to | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
everyone else, Leicester may be Arsenal apart, wasn't - I would say | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
one thing, certain teams are underestimated now. That result | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
against Stoke, I have been to see Stoke this season, it's not a | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
surprise to me, they're a fabulous team. They will continue to hammer | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
up that league, I am sure about it. You may disagree over what I am | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
going to say next, but van Gaal had a real go at the media this week, | :19:18. | :19:25. | |
Pat. A monologue at the beginning, criticising the media for stories | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
reported about him, some have proven to be thus far unfounded. You have a | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
lot of sympathy for him. I have sympathy for anyone in that | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
position. When you are in the headlights of what is a media | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
barrage, whatever it is, whether they're right, wrong, whether it's | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
opinion or not, it's incredibly hard to deal with for a family and | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
everyone around it. More often than not whoever it is, being it Mourinho | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
or van Gaal or whoever, be it myself now and again, it doesn't matter. | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
What happens behind the scenes, people don't know about and don't | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
seem to care. We don't seem to have the humanity to care about it. At | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
least he brought that humanity out and said this is hurting my family, | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
try and remember that. You know what, not that I disagree, he is not | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
doing well enough and probably will lose his job, but I liked the way he | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
brought the humanity in and says remember when you are doing this a | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
lot of people got hurt. A valid point, Michael? It is. I | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
vice-president seen what exactly Louis Van Gaal is upset about in | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
terms of the media coverage. -- haven't seen. We don't see the | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
editions of the newspapers here. It wouldn't happen here in this | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
country! It is an interesting point to what extent you get criticised | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
personally. If he thinks he will not get criticised for results and | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
performances and style of play at Manchester United he is kidding | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
himself on. He knew what he was coming into when he took the job. He | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
knows how big it is and knows you are going to get criticism if you go | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
seven games out a win. They're out of the Champions League and Carling | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
Cup, Capital One Cup. It's looking like he is going to go. Jose | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
Mourinho's availability doesn't help him either. Yeah, I am sympathetic | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
to his family and the rest but that comes with the territory and with | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
the pay cheque that you get. Bad day for him. Another good day for the | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
Falkirk manager Peter Houston. His side have won at home to Dunbaren | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
to. Let's get the details. -- Dumbarton. They're very much in the | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
championship title race. Three points off the top two teams, | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
Rangers and Hibernian who meet on Monday afternoon at Ibrox. Only goal | :21:39. | :21:47. | |
coming after 36 minutes. A screamer. He could have had a second. Decided | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
to pass the ball rather than play to goal himself and he played in Baird | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
who could have had a hat trick but for some terrific defending from the | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
Dumbarton defence. In truth, this was all about Falkirk this | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
afternoon. They managed to scrape the victory but much more | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
comfortable than the joer line was. It finished -- score line. It | :22:10. | :22:18. | |
finished Falkirk 1, Dumbarton 0. Charlie, over to you. It's the | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
opposite of what Brian was saying there. It's damp and bleak. But it's | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
not a happy stadium here. The fans of St Mirren booing the team off the | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
pitch because they've now gone to second bottom of the table. Their | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
terrible home league record continues. 4-1 they've been beaten | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
here this afternoon by Livingston who did a really number on St Mirren | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
here. It was a terrific game for Livingston, very poor for the home | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
side. Buchanah had Livingston in front at 23 minutes. Shankland | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
pulled a goal back for the home side. But the second half, St Mirren | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
were terrible in defence. A third goal for Livingston. Glenn with a | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
terrific free kick, 25 yards out, blasted the ball into the back of | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
the net after Baird had given the ball away and compounded that by | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
fouling his opposing player. Then 66 minutes, Buchanan ran away from the | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
home defence as easy to knock in his 8th goal of the season. Saints | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
nowhere in this game at all. They've real problems and St Mirren are | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
second bottom of the championship. Back to the Premier League. -- to | :23:34. | :23:41. | |
the premiership. Aberdeen blew a chance to go to the top of the table | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
on a rain-sodden afternoon at Pittodrie but showed character and | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
determination to come from two goals down to at least dig out a point in | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
a dramatic afternoon's football in the granite city. It was good | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
counterattacking play from Caley Thistle in the first half. Although | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
Aberdeen had a lot of the ball it was the counterattacking pace of | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
Storey that caused problems. Twice he was through but didn't make Ward | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
work hard enough. But on the counterattack in 41 minutes Polworth | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
gave the high landers the lead, it was great play by Draper getting to | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
the buyline. Quinn muscled out of possession. It was guided into the | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
bottom corner of the net. Quinn's afternoon didn't get better. Two | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
minutes after the restart he bundled into the back of Draper conceding a | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
needless penalty and Tansey stepped up and made a comfort job of taking | :24:45. | :24:52. | |
the spot kick. Then it was really a case of Caley Thistle defending | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
deeper trying to play on the counterattack with long balls. | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
Aberdeen piled the pressure on. Finally they did manage to get the | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
breakthrough on 73 minutes. McGinn claiming his 50th goal for the club | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
but it was a moment of real disaster for Gary Warren, went to clear the | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
ball, slipped, and McGinn pinched possession and slid it under the | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
body of the goalkeeper Williams who played for the last 25 minutes plus | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
stoppage time with his head in bandages after back-peddling to | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
gather a corner and cracking his head off the post. Williams was | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
actually booked for time wasting late on. By then Rooney had stepped | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
up and made his usual confident job from the penalty spot in the first | :25:43. | :25:52. | |
minute of stoppage time. A shot towards goal and the referee judging | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
there was deliberate handball and Rooney despatching the penalty kick | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
that puts them level with points, level on points with Celtic at the | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
top. Celtic with the superior goal difference and with two games in | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
hand. I think Derek will be relieved that his side managed to show the | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
character and determination to come back from that blow being two goals | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
down and show that they can scrap and battle away and maintain their | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
recent decent run of form. Aberdeen 2, Caley Thistle, 2. Let's chaer | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
from Charles at full-time Ross County and Dundee. -- hear. County | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
ran riot in the second half at Victoria park. Incredible game, it | :26:36. | :26:51. | |
started franticly. Stuart missed a chance of 2-0. County's equal icer | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
came when Davis returned a goal kick and Boyce found an empty net. Into | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
the second half, Stuart again set Hemmings for Dundee's second. | :27:07. | :27:19. | |
County's second equaliser. Boyce got County's 4th and Boyce completed a | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
hat trick to make the final score Ross County 5, Dundee 2. Full-time | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
at New Douglas Park. Over to Jonathan. Hamilton on 0, Kilmarnock | :27:30. | :27:37. | |
1. A huge victory this for Gary Lock, a first win for Kilmarnock in | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
over two months which has to ease some pressure that's been building | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
in recent weeks on the manager. Footballing success so often built | :27:46. | :27:55. | |
on narrow margins, Lock could have the winger to thank. A shot had | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
beaten MacDonald but right there on the line was Conrad who managed to | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
head away a clearance. It was spectacular and one to watch on the | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
highlights tomorrow night. Kilmarnock more lively, more | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
substance, overall. McGuinness looked like he had given Kilmarnock | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
the lead. A volleyed effort to the top corner somehow McGovern kept it | :28:21. | :28:30. | |
out. A worrying moment for fans as Petra went down injured, looked bad, | :28:31. | :28:33. | |
for about five minutes he was taken care of by the medical team. He was | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
stretchered from the field to a standing ovation. Let's hope it's | :28:39. | :28:47. | |
not too bad. The ball found Obadeyi in the box. It looped over the | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
Hamilton goalkeeper McGovern. He couldn't keep it out. The Kilmarnock | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
fans were on their feet as they saw the net billow. A huge moment for | :28:57. | :29:02. | |
Kilmarnock and it gave the team much needed confidence. That's how it | :29:03. | :29:08. | |
stayed. Gord hn a header that was well saved by MacDonald. It was | :29:09. | :29:12. | |
almost 2-0 in front but it ended 1-0. Hamilton one win from the last | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
ten games. Kilmarnock move to within a point of Motherwell. Ten points | :29:18. | :29:20. | |
clear now of Dundee United. That match sounds as if it's worth | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
catching in the highlights programme tomorrow night. Not sure. You said | :29:25. | :29:30. | |
he got a ht trick? Well done. He never got any plugs in for his show | :29:31. | :29:35. | |
last week, he made up for it today! Certainly worth watching if you are | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
a Kilmarnock fan, Michael. First win since October 24th. After all the | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
plugs were out of the way the last point Jonathan made was they're ten | :29:45. | :29:48. | |
points clear of Dundee United which obviously United didn't play today | :29:49. | :29:53. | |
so they've a game in hand but that's beginning to look really significant | :29:54. | :29:56. | |
for both clubs. But ominous for United. The other thing you have to | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
look at Kilmarnock are up object 20 points... I know what you are | :30:02. | :30:05. | |
saying. They're close to the top half of the table. This is Gary | :30:06. | :30:08. | |
Lock, if you read on Twitter last week apparently was getting sacked | :30:09. | :30:14. | |
or had been sacked and it shows how extreme this game - how quickly it | :30:15. | :30:17. | |
can change and how extreme opinions are. In fact, a couple of wins and | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
you are into a comfortable position. I have a feeling none of those clubs | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
in the bottom half are going to be in a comfortable position for | :30:26. | :30:29. | |
sometime. It's going to be tough for Dundee United to catch them but | :30:30. | :30:32. | |
always going to be one getting close to that play-off position. | :30:33. | :30:39. | |
St Johnstone are in fourth place, it is 11 points between them and pen | :30:40. | :30:48. | |
between Killie and United. United are getting detached. Keep your | :30:49. | :30:51. | |
powder dry, we will talk more about this later in the show. Right now it | :30:52. | :30:56. | |
is time for the classified results round-up. | :30:57. | :34:40. | |
Let's have a look at the league tables after I have slugged some | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
water. A valuable victory for Kilmarnock | :34:45. | :35:03. | |
takes them ten clear of Dundee United. A week off and there are, it | :35:04. | :35:07. | |
skews me. -- a wee cough Leicester City stay top. They lost | :35:08. | :36:20. | |
today to Liverpool. Tottenham Hotspur move up to fourth with a | :36:21. | :36:22. | |
handsome victory over Norwich City. Let's get some more details from the | :36:23. | :37:18. | |
game in England today. Pat's former club Chelsea were playing at home to | :37:19. | :37:23. | |
Watford. Let's hear from my wing -- let's hear from Mike Williams. | :37:24. | :37:29. | |
This Hiddink have drawn 2-2 with Watford in his first match back in | :37:30. | :37:35. | |
charge. Watford, Crystal Palace, Swansea and Bournemouth have all | :37:36. | :37:40. | |
taken something from Chelsea this season. Fantastic from Watford who | :37:41. | :37:46. | |
scored through Troy Deeney and Odion Ighalo. Diego Costa scored as well. | :37:47. | :37:57. | |
He picked up a yellow card and will miss Chelsea's next match. | :37:58. | :38:03. | |
Frustration for Guus Hiddink and joy and celebration for Quique Flores. | :38:04. | :38:09. | |
The Watford players go over to the left to celebrate in front of their | :38:10. | :38:13. | |
travelling fans. They have held on for a famous draw. | :38:14. | :38:19. | |
2-2. It cannot be that famous. Chelsea are losing lots of games at | :38:20. | :38:24. | |
home. It should not be a surprise to anyone. Watford have been really | :38:25. | :38:30. | |
good. Odion Ighalo has been phenomenal this season, and | :38:31. | :38:32. | |
alongside Troy Deeney, who is beginning to score, it makes a | :38:33. | :38:37. | |
massive difference. This should not be a shock any more. Teams like | :38:38. | :38:43. | |
Watford, Leicester, Stoke, Crystal Palace, they are not monks. You have | :38:44. | :38:48. | |
to take them seriously. It is not a fluke. You should not be shocked. | :38:49. | :38:53. | |
These teams will continue to take points of the so-called big teams | :38:54. | :38:56. | |
between now and the end of the season. Tottenham Hotspur beat | :38:57. | :39:01. | |
Norwich City this afternoon. Let's hear from Mark Webber. A | :39:02. | :39:06. | |
lesson in football from the Lilywhites at both ends of the page. | :39:07. | :39:11. | |
Tottenham were dominant in attack. Harry Kane's well struck penalty | :39:12. | :39:15. | |
started it and he doubled it before half-time. Tom Carroll replace the | :39:16. | :39:20. | |
rampant Dele Alli and he made it three in the second half. It could | :39:21. | :39:26. | |
have been five or six. Hugo Lloris kept the clean sheet with another | :39:27. | :39:32. | |
smashing double save. 3-0. Let's go to the seaside to find | :39:33. | :39:38. | |
out how Bournemouth feared that home to Crystal Palace. | :39:39. | :39:40. | |
Six games unbeaten for Bournemouth. It shows how much they have | :39:41. | :39:44. | |
progressed that they will be disappointed not to have taken all | :39:45. | :39:47. | |
the points. Ritchie headed wide, Murray flocked from ten yards. Paris | :39:48. | :39:54. | |
have lost just one in eight. -- Crystal Palace. It was a | :39:55. | :39:59. | |
full-blooded encounter. It ends all square. Restore Palace | :40:00. | :40:03. | |
going well near the top of the table. Right into the top echelons | :40:04. | :40:08. | |
of the league. If you watch them play, and I have watched them a few | :40:09. | :40:13. | |
times, they are incredibly well-organised. They have a simple | :40:14. | :40:18. | |
system. Quick, attacking wide players, Wilfried Zaha I is | :40:19. | :40:23. | |
particularly special. They sit back and break brilliantly. It has worked | :40:24. | :40:27. | |
superbly for them and it is now is a price they are that high up the | :40:28. | :40:33. | |
table. Teams like Watford, Crystal Palace, Leicester, because of the | :40:34. | :40:37. | |
serious extra money in the Premier League in England, they have all got | :40:38. | :40:42. | |
much, much deeper squads. They all have an opportunity. They will not | :40:43. | :40:47. | |
follow way they have done before. Another club going well Michael, | :40:48. | :40:50. | |
Tottenham Hotspur. Yes, they have been below the top four, out of the | :40:51. | :40:56. | |
Champions League places for so long. No Chelsea out of the running this | :40:57. | :41:01. | |
season, Manchester United are slipping out of the running, but | :41:02. | :41:05. | |
still they have been below the top for Michael, out of the Champions | :41:06. | :41:08. | |
League places for so long. Now Chelsea are out of the running this | :41:09. | :41:10. | |
season, Manchester United are slipping out of the running, but | :41:11. | :41:12. | |
still Diarra thereabouts. Todd numb have three or four points of the | :41:13. | :41:14. | |
lead over United. Dashed Tottenham Hotspur. Pat makes a great point | :41:15. | :41:22. | |
about the television money. It means that clubs like Leicester might be | :41:23. | :41:27. | |
able to hold onto players. When Chelsea came in for stones, everyone | :41:28. | :41:31. | |
thought he would leave Everton, but they were able to keep him. Maybe | :41:32. | :41:38. | |
Leicester will be able to do that with the Riyad Mahrez and Jamie | :41:39. | :41:42. | |
Vardy. No problems with money for Man City. Another big victory for | :41:43. | :41:46. | |
them at home to Sunderland. Pellegrini says they have the | :41:47. | :41:51. | |
strongest squad in the Premiership. I would disagree. I think Arsenal | :41:52. | :41:56. | |
have more depth. Against the very top teams, in Europe and in England, | :41:57. | :42:03. | |
Man City Niedermeier and players, they need Vincent Kompany to be | :42:04. | :42:06. | |
playing well, they need Yaya Toure to be at his best, they need David | :42:07. | :42:11. | |
Silva still to be in there. They have spent money on players, but | :42:12. | :42:17. | |
they need those four. Some of the players in the squad do not look | :42:18. | :42:21. | |
anywhere near as good. They have a good chance of winning the league, | :42:22. | :42:26. | |
but I would still fancy Arsenal. Arsenal can go top later today. Do | :42:27. | :42:32. | |
you think they will do that? Everything is a line for Arsenal. | :42:33. | :42:35. | |
This is what they have been waiting for four years. I preferred it when | :42:36. | :42:42. | |
you disagree but I do not mind if you agree. I watched Arsenal the | :42:43. | :42:45. | |
other night and they were very convincing. Pat is right. Some of | :42:46. | :42:50. | |
their traditional rivals are temporarily out of the running. It | :42:51. | :42:55. | |
is not now or never about Arsenal. It is the best chance in ten years, | :42:56. | :43:01. | |
the best they have had. Leicester lost 1-0 at Liverpool. Liverpool | :43:02. | :43:06. | |
have been stuttering and Jurgen Klopp. The results have been | :43:07. | :43:12. | |
average. Compare the results to what they were like with Brendan Rodgers. | :43:13. | :43:17. | |
They are not much better. I will see nothing against Jurgen Klopp until | :43:18. | :43:20. | |
he gets his chance to add to the team in January and possibly longer | :43:21. | :43:26. | |
than that, in the summer. He will rebuild the team. Now he has got | :43:27. | :43:31. | |
players from the previous regime. I am not judging him. Let's find out | :43:32. | :43:35. | |
what happened between Swansea City and West Brom. | :43:36. | :43:39. | |
Robyn Cowen was watching. Wonderful scenes at the Liberty Stadium, fist | :43:40. | :43:45. | |
pumping and hiding at the final whistle, the first victory at the | :43:46. | :43:49. | |
Liberty Stadium first Swansea in a Premier League game. The goal was | :43:50. | :43:56. | |
slightly fortunate. Angel Rangel's effort hit the post. Ki Sung-Yueng | :43:57. | :44:01. | |
reacted first. West Brom had a few have chances in the second half but | :44:02. | :44:06. | |
came up against a very solid and hard-working Swansea City defence. | :44:07. | :44:09. | |
They are out of the relegation zone for now at least. | :44:10. | :44:15. | |
1-0. Add Villa Park, the bottom club were at home to West Ham United. | :44:16. | :44:21. | |
Ivan Gaskell has the story. Relegation looks increasingly like a | :44:22. | :44:26. | |
certainty for Aston Villa. 20 of the last 23 side bottom of the Premier | :44:27. | :44:30. | |
League at Christmas have gone down. After this it will take a miraculous | :44:31. | :44:35. | |
change of fortune for Aston Villa to come back. At times they played well | :44:36. | :44:39. | |
and push West Ham bag but they still went behind to Aaron Cresswell's | :44:40. | :44:44. | |
late well struck first half goal. Aston Villa swept forward after the | :44:45. | :44:48. | |
break when Rudy Gestede was bundled over. Jordan Ayew converted from the | :44:49. | :44:56. | |
spot but Aston Villa could not finish West Ham. For Aston Villa, | :44:57. | :44:59. | |
draws are not enough. He is right. It's a massive jump. | :45:00. | :45:08. | |
It's to the 4th bottom team. It's going to be tough. Oddly enough, | :45:09. | :45:18. | |
they've some good players. And the goal scorer, not to the level he was | :45:19. | :45:21. | |
at Blackburn, but without a shadow of a doubt, I don't see anyone that | :45:22. | :45:27. | |
I have met at all that's betting on Aston Villa surviving the season, it | :45:28. | :45:30. | |
would take something extra special. I am not convinced they've got it. | :45:31. | :45:34. | |
Go on, Michael! It's a big story, Villa going down. They're not a | :45:35. | :45:40. | |
club... A long time. I don't know if they have. Someone will send a text | :45:41. | :45:46. | |
in or something. They've a top level Premier League. If Newcastle take | :45:47. | :45:50. | |
anything tonight, Norwich go to the bottom three, as well. They're just | :45:51. | :45:54. | |
outside, that would be troubling for Alex Neil. There is a lot of | :45:55. | :45:59. | |
goodwill to Alex in Scotland. We want him to do well. He has had an | :46:00. | :46:02. | |
incredible year. A shame if they finish in the bottom three. The | :46:03. | :46:07. | |
promoted club that's struggled most, Pat? He came in with this attitude I | :46:08. | :46:16. | |
will attack it, the way Watford did. They had a real good go at it. They | :46:17. | :46:22. | |
got a hammering I think at Newcastle 6-2 and Alex seemed to come back and | :46:23. | :46:26. | |
more defensive and Gary was working beside him and they thought we will | :46:27. | :46:30. | |
be more sensible about it but it's not natural, I don't think, to them | :46:31. | :46:34. | |
and they seem to be halfway between what they want to do and what they | :46:35. | :46:40. | |
feel they should. Tough for Norwich at the moment. Big matches to come, | :46:41. | :46:45. | |
including what could be a tricky trip to Tynecastle for Celtic. | :46:46. | :46:50. | |
Hearts haven't won for a while. Their most recent match a no scoring | :46:51. | :46:54. | |
draw to St Johnstone. In the circumstances it wasn't a bad result | :46:55. | :46:57. | |
at all. You remember this, Pat? Down to ten men early on. | :46:58. | :47:04. | |
Yeah. It's one of those ones where, he lost it... Just about every | :47:05. | :47:07. | |
player has lost it for a second but you don't go that far. There was no | :47:08. | :47:12. | |
doubt about that that he had to go off the field. A reprieve here for | :47:13. | :47:17. | |
them. There were many opportunities. Loads of chances in this game. No | :47:18. | :47:23. | |
bigger than this one, as well. Hearts were well organised | :47:24. | :47:28. | |
defensively. It was about an hour I think they played without Juan. That | :47:29. | :47:32. | |
I guess is encouraging for them, they were able to survive and take a | :47:33. | :47:36. | |
point in those circumstances. You mentioned a tricky trip to | :47:37. | :47:39. | |
Tynecastle for Celtic. It should be. They always are. But their record at | :47:40. | :47:46. | |
Tynecastle is terrific. It's a seven straight wins there and goals, 26 | :47:47. | :47:51. | |
scored and two conceded. Talking about Hearts going down to ten men, | :47:52. | :47:57. | |
they do work on that. Depends who the referee is. Players will fall | :47:58. | :48:01. | |
into that system, that regime and feel comfortable about it and they | :48:02. | :48:04. | |
don't panic. They don't lose it. They all know their jobs and that | :48:05. | :48:08. | |
helps. I pose it was a striker as well which may help the | :48:09. | :48:13. | |
reorganisation, you know, the back four and the defences, it's | :48:14. | :48:21. | |
unchanged. Meanwhile at Celtic last week, Celtic were losing at home to | :48:22. | :48:26. | |
Motherwell. And much has been made, obviously Scott Brown... From a | :48:27. | :48:29. | |
leading position, as well. That's the unusual thing. Oddly enough, I | :48:30. | :48:33. | |
heard people talk about it, when Brown is not playing, it's almost | :48:34. | :48:37. | |
like a different team you are playing because the driving force is | :48:38. | :48:41. | |
not there. That's maybe slightly harsh on Motherwell who had a good | :48:42. | :48:47. | |
day. They played well on the day. They were intelligent. You see the | :48:48. | :48:51. | |
defending there at the Motherwell goal is poor. It's poor again here. | :48:52. | :49:02. | |
Bitton gives it away. Actually I think they've looked better in the | :49:03. | :49:06. | |
last few weeks than at the start. But Motherwell exposed them last | :49:07. | :49:11. | |
week. Only thing I would say about it it's rare for Celtic to stumble | :49:12. | :49:15. | |
in two consecutive domestic games. They tend to react when they have a | :49:16. | :49:19. | |
bad one, which it was last week and there was negativity from the | :49:20. | :49:22. | |
stands, negativity in the media aftermath. They tend to react to | :49:23. | :49:26. | |
that and Tynecastle is a place that you would react to. You would react | :49:27. | :49:30. | |
to the atmosphere. Remind me of the stat you were saying earlier about | :49:31. | :49:35. | |
Celtic's great record at Tynecastle. 26 goals scored, two conceded in the | :49:36. | :49:39. | |
last seven? Remember what happened the last time they went there? Yes. | :49:40. | :49:43. | |
Good, because we are going to see it. Celtic came out on top. Yeah, I | :49:44. | :49:52. | |
think Griffiths... You know, it's always going to be tough, well not | :49:53. | :49:57. | |
always, because there have been really big scores, but I think | :49:58. | :50:01. | |
Hearts won't go into this fearful. Even though the stats don't sound | :50:02. | :50:04. | |
good, they won't go in fearful because they'll be up for it. It's | :50:05. | :50:07. | |
going to be an incredible atmosphere and it gives them a chance to get | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
back into being talked about again. Everyone has been talking about St | :50:12. | :50:15. | |
Johnstone and talking about Aberdeen. There is, if Celtic have | :50:16. | :50:20. | |
had a slight wobble, you have to try and take advantage of that and | :50:21. | :50:24. | |
that's what Hearts are going to have to try to do on this occasion. | :50:25. | :50:28. | |
Everyone has been talk being it all week, it isn't only one result | :50:29. | :50:32. | |
really. There was the Kilmarnock someone one, as well. In the end, | :50:33. | :50:35. | |
Celtic generally have a wobble and get back on to it again. That's the | :50:36. | :50:39. | |
difference between them and say Aberdeen, they had a boggle and it | :50:40. | :50:44. | |
was mega. We saw Griffiths enjoy scoring against Hearts. He may play | :50:45. | :50:50. | |
tomorrow. He may not. He is back in the straight and narrow in fitness | :50:51. | :50:54. | |
terms, Michael. A big player. A big player in this fixture, as well. He | :50:55. | :51:00. | |
scored a few against Hearts and revelled in it. We asked Ronnie the | :51:01. | :51:05. | |
other day whether he was going to play, I didn't get the feeling he | :51:06. | :51:08. | |
was that confident. He gave a vague answer. He has been out for three | :51:09. | :51:13. | |
games I think with a calf strain. They're not the same attacking force | :51:14. | :51:18. | |
without him. They don't carry the same threat. To Monday and Rangers | :51:19. | :51:26. | |
and Hibs. Whoever comes out on top will go into 2016 as league leaders. | :51:27. | :51:30. | |
They're level on points. Rangers have a superior goal difference. | :51:31. | :51:34. | |
It's one win each in terms of league matches between the teams this | :51:35. | :51:38. | |
season. Rangers winning 1-0 at Ibrox in August. It was a show-stopper, | :51:39. | :51:45. | |
Pat. Yeah. I did say at the time if you put that goal in and by Messi or | :51:46. | :51:53. | |
Ronaldo, you would say what a goal. That's a phenomenal free kick there. | :51:54. | :51:57. | |
He has meant it, as well. He was on fire at that time of the season. Not | :51:58. | :52:01. | |
saying he is as good a player as them but it was a moment of | :52:02. | :52:06. | |
brilliance. Not as - he has varied a bit as have Rangers but they'll be | :52:07. | :52:10. | |
up for it for this win, no doubt at all. Hibs won the match at Easter | :52:11. | :52:15. | |
Road, 2-1 on this occasion. Both games have been interesting because | :52:16. | :52:21. | |
they could have gone the other way. Quite interesting! Yeah. Japgers | :52:22. | :52:25. | |
really could have won this game at Easter Road, they ended up losing to | :52:26. | :52:30. | |
a late goal. Just as I thought Hibs might have won that one at Ibrox. | :52:31. | :52:35. | |
The game we vice-president mentioned was the Cup tie on the opening day | :52:36. | :52:41. | |
of the season, 6-2 at Easter Road. It almost feels like two different | :52:42. | :52:45. | |
teams. Hibs are a different team. Rangers aren't playing with the same | :52:46. | :52:50. | |
verve or scoring to the same rate. Rangers have scored in every game | :52:51. | :52:53. | |
this season having said that. You think that's virtually the first | :52:54. | :52:57. | |
thick that Hibs have to deal with -- first thing that Hibs have to deal | :52:58. | :53:03. | |
with. They still score freely at Ibrox. Plenty through the managers, | :53:04. | :53:08. | |
all conducted through the media. Warburton said he is more concerned | :53:09. | :53:12. | |
about Christmas shopping than Hibs. Stubbs says Rangers have been in | :53:13. | :53:17. | |
denial. Warburton has come up and you have to learn what it's like in | :53:18. | :53:23. | |
Scotland, it's extraordinarily pressured anyway, if you are a | :53:24. | :53:26. | |
Rangers manager it's going to be constant. If you are pressure on you | :53:27. | :53:28. | |
from other managers or people you have to accept that. It's part of | :53:29. | :53:32. | |
the deal. I think Mark was taken aback by it but then I have been in | :53:33. | :53:36. | |
a situation where I have welcomed people that have come up from down | :53:37. | :53:39. | |
south and players and had to explain to them you are going to get it up | :53:40. | :53:43. | |
here, a bit of needle, you have to learn to deal with it. In the last | :53:44. | :53:47. | |
press conference I thought Mark seemed to be dealing with it. He is | :53:48. | :53:50. | |
getting it a little bit now. Don't worry about what the press are | :53:51. | :53:54. | |
saying and don't worry about other managers, it's part of the wind-up, | :53:55. | :53:58. | |
deal with it. He said that, that's exactly the right way to react. Who | :53:59. | :54:03. | |
do you fancy for it on Monday night, Hibs and Rangers? I don't know. I | :54:04. | :54:09. | |
will come back to you! Pat? I won't hide the fact I have a slight bias, | :54:10. | :54:14. | |
I would take a draw now as someone like Hibernian to do well, in fact, | :54:15. | :54:20. | |
I think it'sroom almost the likely result, I don't think there's much | :54:21. | :54:26. | |
between the teams. Just now or going for the league generally. Michael, | :54:27. | :54:30. | |
reached a decision? It's hard to disagree with any of that. They've | :54:31. | :54:35. | |
been equally matched, not even this season, last season, as well. I can | :54:36. | :54:39. | |
see a draw. I guess both teams will be happy with that. It keeps Hibs in | :54:40. | :54:46. | |
the hunt and unbeaten run going. It will keep Falkirk happy, as well. | :54:47. | :54:52. | |
Will both teams be happy with a draw at Pittodrie this afternoon? | :54:53. | :54:55. | |
Aberdeen will be disappointed to have dropped two points. They had a | :54:56. | :55:00. | |
big turnout today. Fans are expecting them to go top. In the | :55:01. | :55:04. | |
circumstances of the match 2-0 down with 20 minutes left at home, it's | :55:05. | :55:07. | |
all right. You can take something from it. It shows a bit of | :55:08. | :55:11. | |
character. That's exactly what Davis said in the match report. There was | :55:12. | :55:15. | |
character shown. We were actually talking about it through the show. | :55:16. | :55:18. | |
If you look at the players who scored, it's kind of noticeable. | :55:19. | :55:22. | |
They've got that front four that is fantastic. It's going to be big for | :55:23. | :55:26. | |
them. Hayes and McGinn, everyone is talking about them now. McClean is | :55:27. | :55:30. | |
going to be a huge player for them, as well. The story about Rooney, | :55:31. | :55:36. | |
scores a penalty today to save them a point and that, I don't know if | :55:37. | :55:41. | |
you read it, he practises penalties and tells the goalkeeper where he is | :55:42. | :55:45. | |
going to put it, that's a great line that. Maybe you tell them and psych | :55:46. | :55:49. | |
the goalkeeper out. That's really good to be that confident in | :55:50. | :55:52. | |
yourself that you are going to do that. That front four, that's the | :55:53. | :55:56. | |
four that will do it for Aberdeen between now and the end of the | :55:57. | :56:00. | |
season, two of them have scored goals today. Big for Ross County, | :56:01. | :56:05. | |
and 5th, on 27 points. That's only seven clear of the redpags play-off | :56:06. | :56:11. | |
spot. -- relegation. You cannot get carried away. If you score five | :56:12. | :56:15. | |
goals, what a massive boost of confidence to you. You add on top of | :56:16. | :56:20. | |
that they've a striker in Boyce who is on fire just now. You are so, so | :56:21. | :56:24. | |
comfortable that wherever you are playing, when you are playing, | :56:25. | :56:27. | |
however you are doing, he will get us a goal and that gives you so much | :56:28. | :56:32. | |
confidence all over the team. Gary Lock will be enjoying Boxing Day? He | :56:33. | :56:37. | |
will. First win for several weeks. It lifts them and makes sure they're | :56:38. | :56:42. | |
one of those teams in that pack. The league is ridiculous almost. Between | :56:43. | :56:48. | |
5th and 11th there is nothing. We are trying to speculate on who might | :56:49. | :56:54. | |
go down or in the play-offs, it's impock db -- - impossible. Hamilton | :56:55. | :57:01. | |
are on a bad run. Two points ahead of Kilmarnock. No one will relax. | :57:02. | :57:06. | |
Managers are trying to calm players and tell players it's OK, we are | :57:07. | :57:09. | |
doing well, we are having a nice run. This is a little blip now. In | :57:10. | :57:14. | |
fact, nobody with probably the four top are going to be completely and | :57:15. | :57:19. | |
utterly relaxed and I can't see them relaxing because they've a lot of | :57:20. | :57:23. | |
players down that bottom of that table who have been in this problem | :57:24. | :57:26. | |
before and can't seem to drag themselves out. You get teams that | :57:27. | :57:30. | |
move, two or three wins together and they change. | :57:31. | :57:35. | |
Now, folks, that's almost it from the results show for 2015. | :57:36. | :57:50. | |
A big win for Ross County. A hat trick for Liam Boyce. | :57:51. | :57:59. | |
Congratulations to him. In the championship: | :58:00. | :58:10. | |
St Mirren, not a great day for Alex first match in charge: | :58:11. | :58:19. | |
Just time to reboot some charge: of the graphics once more this year | :58:20. | :58:22. | |
to remind you of some of today's outcomes. | :58:23. | :58:25. | |
Now, please remember to watch the highlights show tomorrow night | :58:26. | :58:28. | |
Your first football show of the New Year is the results show | :58:29. | :58:33. | |
next Saturday the 2nd of January at 4:30 on BBC One. | :58:34. | :58:36. | |
But in a minute or two, it's an Off The Ball Saturday | :58:37. | :58:39. | |
Supplement Boxing Day bash with Tam Cowan. | :58:40. | :58:40. | |
And since it's Christmas, the part of Stuart Cosgrove will be | :58:41. | :58:43. | |
Some chap called Michael Grant's on it as well. | :58:44. | :58:46. | |
Thanks to Pat and Michael for their wisdom and wit, | :58:47. | :58:53. | |
Take care and enjoy the rest of the holidays. | :58:54. | :58:59. |