Voice of Reason, 22nd January

Jan 22 2010 by Stuart Wilson, Ayrshire Post (main ed)

IT’S good to be back.

Although the VoR must admit, Jeff Stelling and my sofa were becoming an attractive pair.

But it took just three minutes on Monday night to smack me back to reality.

Football that was so good, it would have eaten itself.

Woodburn to Mendes to Stevo – the lay back – and bam.

All got a bit guff after that.

Should have been 4-0 but wasn’t. Top effort from the Brechin keeper, mind.

Fair play to more than 1100 for turning up.

Crowds have been lambasted in recent times - and rightly so.

But to turn out on a winter Monday night was good stuff.

Now double it in the league and we might start going places.

nROSS County away on Saturday.

The kind of fixture that makes you wonder what Scottish football in January is all about.

Snowfall is predicted in Dingwall towards the end of this week.

That would be lovely – just in time to have another postponement.

nEVENTS have taken an interesting turn up the road.

Many people ask me where I stand on the K*llie going bust debate.

Would I take great joy in theirdemise or would I rather they stay alive?

For me it’s simple. Life without them to laugh at would be a duller existence entirely.

Next season’s derby matches have been a long time in coming.

But at least they’ve replaced whispering Jim Jefferies with a man of quality.

Or should that be tan.

nENJOYED a steak pie in one of my all time favourite boozers last week.

Ayr’s Wee Windaes is where it’s at when it comes to the gravy.

And as all us pie fans know, the gravy separates the men from the boys.

Landlord James McSherry tends to hang around the celebrity scene these days.

Just the other day he was lunching with Tam Cowan.

And quickly followed that up with the VoR.

All the big names in the Wee Windaes.

nTO betting corner. And the spoiling tactics of Iain Ferguson are fooling no-one.

He got out of jail once again this week as my selection won, but his was postponed.

Under official rules, that means we must void the week.

So Fergie continues to cling on by the very tips of his tipping fingernails.

It’s embarrassing stuff.

And this week it gets desperate as the Ferg-meister plunges down south to go for Cheltenham 0, Rochdale 3.

The old boy’s going for those straws and clutching in a big way.

The VoR’s saying Gillingham 1, Colchester 1.