Voice of Reason: 22 December 2008

Dec 26 2008

IT'S Christmas, but no time for festive fun, my friends.

This is where the serious business gets done at the summit of the league and the turkey breast is carved from the rest of the division.

Said it before and I’ll say it again – we’re the best team in the league. Stoppage time winners will catch up with Raith (literally) and Brechin have shown an immediate slump in the aftermath of Michael O’Neil’s departure.

So it’s time to knuckle down and win a league that is blatantly there for the taking.

For if we don’t, someone else will.

THE superb run of lookalikes continues at lightning pace this week.

And we’re delving into the murky world of politics to produce another beauty which, if I say so myself, could be our best yet.

Step forward Russell Graham – South Ayrshire Council admin king and parliamentary star of the future.

If points were awarded for the quality of the game you talked, this lad would be winning the league every year.

But it seems he has a flaw. Big Russell is doubling as Fabio Capello, manager of the Auld Enemy.

The pictorial evidence kicking around here is bordering on ridiculous.

LOT of talk lately about sticking to rules. The SFA demanded we play on a bog when nobody could make the game – because those were ‘the rules’.

And now we’re seeing the SPL get upset at Killie and Motherwell for cocking up their undersoil heating systems.

And you’ve guessed it ladies and gentlemen – it’s in THE RULES that they must have such a system in order to take their SPL place.

So it got the VoR thinking. If our near neighbours can’t/aren’t allowed to use their heating, then shouldn’t they be chucked out of the Premier League?

It’s in the rules, after all.

CREAM always rises to the top like a backpacker scaling Goatfell.

And it would seem the fat lady is already clearing her throat for AUFC lottery guru Dougie Morton.

My pal at Somerset HQ has put up a brave pre-Christmas fight in our betting challenge, but he’s now staring into the abyss after a hot festive run from yours truly.

The VoR leads 15-12 after another spot on prediction saw me take Bolton 2, Portsmouth 1. The form horse is right here – feel free to mount at any time.

We’re charging towards a hectic period of games and Mr Morton takes Hibs 3, Kilmarnock 1 in a bid to get back on track.

This is one time I hope he’s right. Meanwhile, I’ll take St Johnstone 2, Clyde 0.

JUST time to wish my band of readers across the globe a very Merry Christmas.

Be good to the world around you. And the world will be good to you.