Voice of Reason, 12th February

Feb 12 2010 by Mike WIlson, Ayrshire Post (main ed)

TOTALLY avoidable. Everything about Saturday in Dundee.

None of it ever had to happen.

From the defeat on the pitch to the ridiculous situation in the stands.

On the field, both goals could have been stopped all day long.

In the away end, what transpired was a sad state of affairs.

An ugly scenario that raises many questions.

Eyewitness accounts are unanimous. A yellow jacket on a few bob an hour letting power go to his head likehelium.

What followed was totally inexcusable.

A dangerous cocktail of high spirits, anger and disbelief.

I never thought I’d witness scenes like that at any football game – let alone an Ayr match.

To lift someone for standing up at football sounds a bit laughable.

Especially when there’s 300 folkbehind him doing exactly the same.

We can debate it all day long. But the rights and wrongs are clear.

It never needed to happen, whatfollowed from sections of the Ayr support was also out of order.

But if one lesson is learned it must be this, the authorities at Dundee must take a long hard look at themselves.

Will they do the same to the Old Firm when they visit Dens Park?

Of course not.

Lunacy - it’s the new common sense.

nGOOD evening to one of my biggest fans.

Richard Cairns, editor of the K*llie match programme, is clearly an avid reader.

While his club staves off cavernous debts, Richard still finds time to get ants in his pants about this column.

Writing in Saturday’s match programme, Cairns bleated: “Second bottom of the league, 12 league goals scored all season, getting pelters for a postponement.

“Not Killie, but our county neighbours. Wonder what the Voice of Reason in the Ayrshire Post will make of it all?

“Maybe he’ll step back from his usual slagging of all things associated with Kilmarnock FC.

“Voice of Reason? Voice of Paranoia more like!

“He (we presume it’s a he)- doesn’t even have the bottle to put his name against his column.”

Lovely stuff. I suggest Cairns digs out a dictionary to check the meaning of paranoia.

A guy that doesn’t understand the English language - little wonder he’s editor of a K*llie publication.

And for the record, if the VoR was a woman, I wouldn’t look twice at you sir.

nI HEAR shouting. And it’s all over bar that.

Yep, we’re talking about the betting challenge where Iain Ferguson now lags five points behind.

So far adrift I can no longer see him without a pair of binoculars.

I’d hoped for a closer contest this season, if only to entertain you readers.

Sadly, the old warhorse hasn’t been up to the task.

This week he limps in with Brighton 0, Norwich 2.

VoR goes Barnsley 2, Plymouth 0.