Our old friend Cognitive Dissonance was at play again last night. Hearts manager, Paolo Sergio, seemed to accept Stephen Elliot’s second minute attempt was cleared so quickly officials might not have had a chance to ascertain if it crossed the line, but he tried to reconcile his frustration at this reality by publicly adopting a position which, on reflection, he should accept is in contravention to the rules of the game.
Elliot’s attempt struck Joe Ledley, who was standing on the line with his arms stationary and by his side, before being cleared by Fraser Forster.
Sergio said, “If you don’t see the ball over the line then you should see the handball which is a penalty and a red card.”
It’s scarcely credible that the Hearts manager is unaware of the rules of the game which clearly establish that for a handball offence to be committed the player needs to deliberately use a hand or arm to play the ball, not have the ball played against his stationary hand or arm.
No one had much of a clue whether the ball had crossed the line or not until after watching multiple TV replays and even then, while I can understand the attacking team claiming a goal, TV evidence does not provide conclusive proof that the whole of the ball crossed the line.
This will no doubt be the source of Sergio’s frustration; his team could have taken the lead but didn’t. Armed with this frustration he then created a false scenario which allowed him to reconcile his feelings of grievance.
What a shower. Struggling to operate in the SPL and pay tax, disorganised team structure and afflicted by football’s Cognitive Dissonance epidemic.
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Martin42
With days like yesterday, you should have a 70th more often!
FF
Sheriff Fatman Neither its Macleod&Macleods. Charlie Barleys is the best known but the most expensive. M&M,s is just as good but slightly cheaper. I normally go for Charlies it all depends on what you were brought up on, they are all good!!!! Hail Hail Hebcelt
Hail, Hail Fellow CELTS!
I’ve been an avid lurker for ages & love this site! There seems to be a proper familyesque banter on here with some intriguing points of view. I don’t get the opportunity to watch the bhoys in the flesh as often as I would like due to working & living overseas.
I just had to say that I watched the game last night on the box and our support were amazing. Singing non stop from beginning to end it was the first time in a long time I’ve felt genuinely home sick! I miss that atmosphere massively! It was reminiscent of being a wee boy being taken to PARADISE by my uncle & cousins.
The Bhoys could have really took the piss & destroyed the wee Huns. What’s happened? We were all over the place at the start of the season & since the infamous 3-3 game we’ve been unstoppable.
Happy as a pig in Shit! Put £20 on CELTIC for the treble before a ball was kicked this season @ 10/1 with willhill, thought it was a bit mental at the time, looks like I could be quids in! HAPPY DAYS.
HAIL HAIL
dirtymac says:
9 February, 2012 at 20:44
Maybe he read about D Weir retiring and is going to ask for a 15yr contract ,at 35 he is a mere pup down govan way
hail hail
tommytwiststommyturns says:
9 February, 2012 at 20:37
I overheard some Them fans talking about their grim future the other day and it was the first time I’d heard any of them admit they were bust. BUT the most shocking part of the conversation was that they all agreed if they went bust they wanted EVERY other club to go bust with them. As far as they were concerned if they died then Scottish football has to die with them. They really really really need to take a very very very long look at themselves.
Rico
Moonbeams Wet Dream.
Your not very good at organising anything,you’ve had a week to arrange four guys to join the team,there’s Hebbhoy looking for players or to join another team,he has four players we have two job done, unite.Music is not my forte,I’m tone deaf.
asked this on rtc so will ask here as well.
with all the talk now of needing rangers to survive in order to retain the current TV deal… would it not be the case that if a newco rangers entered the spl directly, the current TV deal would be automatically negated anyway??
Given that any newco would not be rangers, (as we know them now at least) and also in order to satisfy hmrc that the newco was in fact a newco, rather than a resurrection of the old rangers.
would hmrc not then be able to say, old TV deal, still old rangers, may we have our tax money please??
just a thought. feel free to pillory me if i’m talking nonsense.
jamiebhoy76 says:
9 February, 2012 at 20:51
Welcomes……….
MWD – sounds good. Gives Scottish society a long period to prepare for the end….holding pens, quarantine areas, special courts, etc.!
BT – I’m not joking about the blood bit. What do you think is going to happen when they go out of business? They will revert to type and lash out against anything and anyone they think has caused their downfall, while missing the guilty parties….Minty, Whyte, the Laptop Loyal. I hope you’re ready for the consequences!
T4
Enrico Dandolo nicked my Crusade says:
9 February, 2012 at 20:53
tommytwiststommyturns says:
9 February, 2012 at 20:37
I overheard some Them fans talking about their grim future the other day and it was the first time I’d heard any of them admit they were bust. BUT the most shocking part of the conversation was that they all agreed if they went bust they wanted EVERY other club to go bust with them. As far as they were concerned if they died then Scottish football has to die with them. They really really really need to take a very very very long look at themselves.
Rico
+++++++++
Heard much the same recently, as in…
It’d be great to see the looks on people’s faces if we go bust and their clubs follow etc, blah, blah, fenian, blah, blah, ouch my knuckles, blah, blah, http, blah, blah, blah
They don’t actually get that they’ve done wrong and (most) other clubs have been wronged by them – they just want other people to suffer.
who says we will lose the sky deal………..just show us twice as often………….problem solved……………apart from the rubbish kick off times
oldtim
Mrs BT just back home with the mobile so phone you soon..
have yuo spoke to the dog recently…?
BTW jamiebhoy67 your a hun…. o))
swindonbhoy says:
9 February, 2012 at 16:32
Hi all,
after many years of trying I am now probably the newest member of CQN.
Hi, just checking
Are you one of thems
:)
HH
Mike
T4
what would be different.. they are scum and will be scum wherever they go and whomever they support…
not all of them I must admit…
jamiebhoy76 says:
9 February, 2012 at 20:5
Welcome,76? you’re a bit young for this blog,
full of old geezers like oldtim n martin 42
both of them fought at the Somme you know.
Hail hail
Enrico Dandolo nicked my Crusade says:
9 February, 2012 at 20:53
Very similar analogy with Hitler and the Nazi Party.
A Germany without Hitler & Nazi didn’t deserve to live, they should all die. So they think Scotland without them doesn’t deserve a football league.
Well that’s why we call them…huns!!
Great picture of Broony doing the Broony on the back of The Scotsman. Didn’t know you had to be on your tip-toes when in full arched back Broony pose?
Delahunt tonight on the Hearts “goal”, said, and he was being serious here- “could the ref not see by the reaction of the Hearts players that it was a goal?” Aye very good Jim, just go by the shout, you are a complete warmer, mate.
The panel of course saying it was a goal, no doubt, no arguement- just like the Hooper no-penalty in the Dougie-Dougie game, if you say it often enough people will start to believe you.
Idiots.
I,ve got 2 tickets for the Dropkick Murphys at the Barrowlands on Saturday night, Any takers?Hail Hail Hebcelt
Evening bhoys, seriously cold, but hun free as ever.
fergus slayed the blues
If the hun lose the tax case, all the ex directors would not pass the fit and proper test.
But you may well be right, it’s the SFA we are talking about after all.
Follow Follow really is a treat right now- I literally froth over what will be posted next.
thismancraig
thanks, a bit to go for lennie, would love to see him do it after last year
hebcelt
GL2 is your man
oldtim
“Music is not my forte,I’m tone deaf. ”
You’re there to answer any questions on sea shanties.
Voguepunter,
When discussing me please get it right,
You should have said “The Boar War”, I had retired by the FWW.
Cheers,
Martin42
Probably opening myself up for a good hazing here, but I have another “help a Yank understand,” question:
I understand the celebratory nature behind the “ice cream & jelly” references. But, I was just wondering if y’all really put jelly on your ice cream? Is my jelly different from your jelly?
Such a weighty topic.
TT
Hebcelt
To be fair never tried M&M, brought up wi Willie Johns Marags, canna see past them.
Actually, I canna walk past there without stopping in, would be sheriff thinman otherwise!! lol
HH
dirtymac says:
9 February, 2012 at 20:56
They are so warped that they don’t even fit the 5 stages mentioned previously. Their 5 stages consist of:
1. Total Denial
2. Denial
3. It wasnae us
4. Blame others
5. Blame everyone else and accept no responsibility whatsoever
Rico
answer the phone old yin…
TTTT – Whyte isn’t a guilty party here, well he may well be, but in the pecking order of guilt, he’s a fair bit down the list:
Minty
Myth
The Little General
Lawrence Marlborough
The Beast
Alistair Johnston
The Underwear Model
Rank and file of Mordor
Laptop Loyal
Should all appear higher on the list than Craig White/Whyte 69/71 vintage
Anyone from the Inverclyde area can you keep an eye out…..The cubs all know this lassie
http://inverclydenow.com/news/local/6485-greenock-teenager-reported-missing
Martin 42
Glad you had a great birthday as did my wee yin. Congratulations on becoming a septuagenarian! I’m only a young thing. I’m a sexy genarian.
We’ll need to hear you tell us to ‘Stand up for the Champions’ sometime soon as one poster reminded us yesterday.
Tennessee Tim says:
9 February, 2012 at 21:06
Your jelly our jam?
Our jelly your jello?
:)
Danny
martin42 says:
9 February, 2012 at 21:05
Good Mhan,belated Happy birthday to you.
Tennessee Tim says:
9 February, 2012 at 21:06
Ice cream and Jello for our friend in USA.
Hebcelt I saw this on Twitter earleir
@Colette1888 Someone was offering a couple of tickets on CQN the other night if you go on there u might be lucky
Bogan Gone Abegging?
HH
The old media have never put ranjurs in the dock for their crimes and neither have they called them out on what they’ve been upto.
Can you imagine the invective and opporobrium that would have been heaped on us in similar circumstances………..????
The currant regime has been denuded of the traditional hun worthies with the only real teddies Big Wig, Sondy and Sally in place.
If the media are now going after the boul’ Whytey why not AJ? Why not the Colourful Impresario or the previous company secretary (surname surname)???
The Beeb are saying AJ is reporting Whytey……….Pot and Kettle anyone?
With the traditional teddies removed to a safe distance, who will even remember Whytey and Co once the music stops and they exit down the marble staircase?
The media will help hound this mob of stand-ins, out and will herald the new saviours back in as soon as you can say Terry Butcher………
A pantomime…..
Phil770,
I was at OLHS 54-59.
I was a year after Billy.
John Cushley and John Madden were in my year.
Bobby Murdoch was a year or two after me.
Martin 42