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A bastion of professional journalism as shown below. Managed 2nd place
in 1996-97 but walked away with the title
last year before reverting to 2nd in
1998-99. Their WWW site is
here
May 8th- Pic of "Weir" in action at Tynecastle - pity
it's of Darren Dods.
April 20th- Craig Russell reported as missing out on Sunday due to
a groin strain - nope it's a hamstring pull
April 7th- Article on Biscuits retirement mentions a "3-1"
win over the Jambos in League Cup last year - wrong it was 3-0 !!!
April 1st- "Marc Millar to step in again for the suspended
Bollan" - Blaster only just starts his suspension today.
March 27th-Stats page says Saints unbeaten at home in the League
since November. Try telling that to the folk that saw us lose to the
Gorgie Gits this month.
March 6th- Photo caption from Ibrox had Robertson identified as
Dolph.
February 28th- Picture of Del "celebrating" his goal
against Dundee Utd - what's he doing celebrating Dannys free-kick?
January 31st-Report of the TFOD cup-tie has Saints as unchanged
from the Motherwell game. So Darren Dods and Stuart McCluskey are one and
the same then?
January 10th - A Charlie Prickolas classic with "St.
Johnstone have been missing the influence of Andy Kernaghan"
December 28th- Picture of Del captioned as Graeme Jones. Oh dear.
December 20th- Paul Kane set up Chiefs shot at Rubgy Park - nope
it was the Pope.
November 25th- Photo caption mentions Weir tackling a Hibee -
photo is of Chief this time.
November 22nd- Two from the Aberdeen game. After a quiet period
it's back to normal with confusion betweem Graeme Jones and Gerry in the
Aberdeen report. Also the picture caption mentions Chief - pity the photo
is of Danny.
August 23rd - Two crackers with Keyring scoring the o.g. past
Gotgirlspantson instead of Main and Charlie Prickolas under the impression
that Saints play their Vaasa tie on Wednesday.
July 29th- Saints "chairman" Stewart Duff?
July 24th-Another on from OAP Cameron - "St. Johnstone
appeared in the Scottish Cup Final last season". Sad isn't it?
June 26th - Delightful crap from Senile Alex Cameron :: "St
Johnstone chairman Geoff Brown, who runs a tight ship at McDiarmid Park,
refuses to budge over deals for 11 of his players. As a former League
treasurer, Brown has insider knowledge of the state of club finances.
They're pretty lousy. " Apart from the fact that Saints are the only
club in the SPL without an overdraft.
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My daily read so expect a few entries here. Especially as they tend to
give some coverage to the non-OF teams. Excludes any drivel written by
Bill Leckie who has his own category.
May 15th- Report from the Sellik game mentions the lack of Sellik
fans in the West stand. Yup the one that's hope support only.
February 23rd- Report from the HIVBees game said it was Dolphs
first top team match since Aug 98. Nope he's had to come on as a sub since
then.
January 24th- Report from the Motherwell game credited Nathan with
setting up Pope for the goal - it was Kane.
August 21st - Listed Thomas as Sandys 2nd signing. So McBride +
Lauchlan = 1 does it? More Wegie maths.
August 14th - Saints backroom staff contains someone called "Arthur
Henderson" according to Euan Smith.
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Sun columnist and reporter with a dodgy quiff and a
wonderful fetish about Barbour jackets. Thinks of himself as the champion
of the underdog but in reality is just another annoying wee shite.
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Not a regular read but always good for some errors.
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Another honest and fair paper. Excludes the page of McNee rants - he
has his own section (see here).
May 14th- Picture of Pope captioned O'Halloran and mentioned a sub
called "Stephen Friel".
April 2nd- Picture of Del captioned Jones.
March 19th- Who's "Gary Bowen"?
November 7th- Match report of the Dundee defeat says that "if
it wasn't for the form of Aberdeen Saints would be bottom" - so
Killie in 9th means nothing then?
.July 11th- Match report of the St. Pat's game has Whiteford
giving away the penalty when it was Dods.
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Reasonable good coverage given that its a Scumdee Daily. Their WWW site
is here
with the Tele at www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk
May 3rd-Aberdeen report refers to Darren Dods as "the big
Englishman".
May 1st-Picture of the Corporal captioned "Parker".
Smelly Twats.
March 22nd- Tele reports Il Biscotti undergoing knee surgery -
nope it's his hip.
February 23rd- Report from the HIVBees game said it was Dolphs
first top team match since Aug 98. Nope he's had to come on as a sub since
then.
September 17th- Reported that only Bollan was booked for Saints in
Monaco - nope so was Nathan.
July 13th - Apparently we played "Brae Wanderers" last
night and a "Laughlan" played for Saints. Another 2 points.
July 12th- Reported Saints as playing Bray Athletic
tonight, not Wanderers.
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Old Firm are Scottish Football so the rest don't matter - as you might
guess. Columnist Hugh Keevins has his own section
here. Their WWW site is
here
February 27th- Tip for the Scotland Asst job is "St.
Johnstone manager Paul Sturrock" - as if !!!
November 28th- Photo from Tannadice report says it's Gerry -
picture is of Danny Griffin. Wonderful Stuff.
October 24th- Exclusive on Alan Mains private life had him playing
Celtic "tomorrow night" - late as usual for the Wegie Boys.
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The Dundee radio station, famed for Dick Donnelly and George
Duffus - don't take it seriously
February 26th - Who is "Dick" Dasovic?
September 16th - Four classic names from the Monaco game - let's
hear it for "John O'Kane, Paul O'Halloran, Alan Weir and Kieran
O'Halloran"
August 13th- Saints are in Europe so they send a blind moron to
Vaasa. The following courtesy of
Gary Panton at
Blue Heaven-
Vaasa are Finns not Swedes (3 times), Nathan has played this season and
being unable to tell the difference between Kane, Del and Blaster is worth
a point on it's own. 3 points.
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Again, don't expect too much here - Gordon Bannerman and Danny Chalmers
usually know what they're talking about. Their WWW site is
here
December 21st- Report from Rugby Park has the "Kilmarnock
Correspondent" crediting Blaster with setting up the first goal when
it was Goalden Graeme. Still we can have some comfort in the news that it
wasn't a PA reporter that screwed up.
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Don't expect too much coverage unless we're playing the Old Firm.
Includes the on-line version.
May 3rd- Report on the Aberdeen game said it was Kiegans second
start for the club - nope it was the 3rd.
August 26th- On-line preview of the Saints Vaasa game doesn't
mention us. Instead it likes Celtic and Cwmbran Town.
July 31st- Listed Miguel as our top scorer last season with 4
goals. Nope it was Legend with 6.
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Aberdeen-based daily with some good coverage of the East Coast teams.
August 21st- Reports from the Killie game had Stephen
McAnespie, a 3-0 scoreline and credited someone else with
Gerrys disallowed goals. Thanks to
Gary Davison for
these.
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With Saints in the Premier some coverage is guaranteed to be minimal as
last season - see here
for details.
November 28th- "Ronnie Grant's Testimonial" - as if !!!
September 16th - Andy Goram is "St.Johnstone's gloved
warhorse"
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Mainly Radio Scotland. Excluding Chic the Pric (see here)
but including On/Off The Ball.
November 27th- Tannadice commentary said "And that was close!
Jones puts it past the post with Main well beaten" !!
September 16th - Murdo McLeods name check at Monaco included "Derek
Mcquillon, Kevin Mcanespie and John Neil"
August 7th- "FatBoy" Smith has us playing Haka this
week. Wrong oh Hun-minded one.
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"Official" WWW site of the Scottish Footbal League. Good for
commentaries but some interesting things to say about Saints. Located
here.
February 28th- "Scouser" Nathan Lowndes?
October 30th- Who is "Gary Bowlam" ?
July 17th- "£100,000 Martin Lauchlan" - try halving
that.
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This could be a difficult one - do they actually have any listeners ?
July 17th- "Saints lost 1-0 to Wigan" - Nope it was 1-1
and we lost on penalties.
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Wegie-centric so dont expect too much. Find them at
http://www.herald.co.uk
October 25th- Totally shite report on the TFOE match credits
Dasovic with making the pass for the goal - nope it was Kane.
October 1st- Picture of Nathan in the Monaco report - with dark
hair he looks suspiciously like Dasovic.
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Including Extra Whine - again unlikely to feature much as Perth isn't
in Glasgow and they're too stingy to pay Sky for the rights to show the
matches. After missing out on the start of the season the STV show is back
with Jim "hes a right" Delahunt and Alan "Bankrupt"
McInally 1998-99 champions. This also includes
the digital S2 channel.
April 14th- HIVBees game still listed on Teletext as a 2.00
kick-off - its 3pm.
February 28th - "Garry Bollan" scored last week's
penalty against HIVBees - nope it was Chief.
February 16th - Peter Martin's commentary of the TFOD match
referred to Nathan as "Irish".
January 23rd- Commentary on Motherwell "highlights" has
the stunning comment that Saints fans were happy to see their first home
goal for two months. Given that it was our first match at home for 2
months it wasn't really surprising was it?
January 20th- Midweek fixture list mentions the TFOD game but not
the Jambos - another cock-up from our teletext pals.
January 14th- "Let's hear what you think 2000 has in store
for Rugby Park" - One question - why?
November 24th- Sorry but C4 Teletext has had more than enough time
to suss out that we play the Arabs this weekend.
October 24th- Coverage of their lineup for Celtic had Keyring on
the right and Chief on the left. Yes and I know I'm being pedantic but
Delac..sorry Delahunts smirking gob pissed me off.
October 15th- Stupid bint on Scotland today has us playing Hibs
tomorrow instead of Hearts.
September 30th.- Monaco coverage had Hately wittering on about
Jason Lowndes. Who he?
September 26th- Token coverage of Saints against Rangers listed
Parkes as a Saints sub. Who he?
September 12th- Commentary on the Motherwell game said that the
Messiah scored against the Sheep last week - even he isn't that
good - the goal was a fortnight ago.
August 29th - Report on the Aberdeen game says Saints weren't
troubled till the 2nd half. So Mains world-class save in the first 45 was
just our collective imagination was it?
August 26th - Grampian TV lunchtime news gave the score from the
first leg of the Vaasa tie as 0-0 not 1-1. Thanks to
mailto:i.a.c.greig@dundee.ac.uk
August 24th - Surprisingly enough the first falsehood comes
courtesy of the Saints quiz on C4 Teletext (P165). Incorrectly said that
the last time we played Hibs (prior to this season), the score was 1-1.
Nope we shafted them 4-0. Thanks to mailto:C.A.Roebuck@ncl.ac.uk
for that one.
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Including the Friday Old Firm preview. With rights to the goals from
the SPL this season expect more mistakes than before. Also includes the
BBC On-line service at news.bbc.co.uk
May 2nd- "Carl Kane" ? Who he?
April 29th - "Welshman" Graeme Jones? Please.
March 16th - Teletext refers to "Hearts manager Sandy Clark"
in a piece about Georgios injury.
March 11th - Preview of TFOE game had "Fergie" ready to
return despite the world knowing he's out for 9 months.
February 26th - Report on the Arabs game has us take the lead in
the 31st not 51st minute and the ref was "Kim" McCluskey.
February 16th - Report on the TFOD match sez they took the lead in
the first half.
February 5th- Rob McLean said Kane took the free-kick against the
Sheep when it was Pope.
December 4th- BBC On-line says "former Dundee striker"
Graeme Jones will face Rangers. So Dundee's in Wigan now is it?
September 20th - Dens park report from BBC Online reads "LOWNDES
LATE DOUBLE ROBS SAINTS" - What ineptitude.
August 27th- Ceefax tells us "Saints head to Germany" in
the UEFA Cup as they confuse us with Killie
August 15th- Ceefax tells us that Steve McAnespie set up the 2nd -
probably one of Jasons pals!
August 15th- Hazel Irvine refers to Saints striker Jason Lowndes
?!?!?!?!
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The Guardian version of Soccernet as found at
http://www.footballunlimited.co.uk
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STV Sports Editor, ex-Sunday Mail Columnist and the nearest we've got
to a Scottish Jimmy Hill. Now writing for the News Of The World although
with his obsession with Man Utd there is little Scottish content any
more!!!!
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Satellite TV and Teletext for the masses - known to come to McDiarmid
when a defeat is in the air. With the new Scottish Premiership on display
and ex-Scotsport presenter Jim "the Hun" White at the helm
expect a better showing from this mob this season.
August 23rd - Sky's WWW site has a pic of Pizza-face Wright in
their Monaco report for some reason. Thanks to
mailto:stuart.ferguson@virgin.net
for that.
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Ibrox's most famous St. Mirren fan and living proof that you need
fuck-all knowledge to be a journo.
February 15th - Pre-TFOD match the Bald One thanked Sandy for
playing Nathan and keeping Jones on the bench because of his bet with
Richard Gordon. Pity they were both on the bench. Thanks to
J.A.Morrison-3@sms.ed.ac.uk.
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Edinburgh daily that will be lucky to mention Saints outside of the Old
Firm meetings this season. The Pink is the Embra equivalent of the
Sporting Post except it licks the bottoms of the Hibs and Hearts and
includes a lot more Rugger Bugger stories. Their WWW site is
here
April 14th-Evening News saysJones debuted for Saints when he
scored at Easter Rd. Nope it was his second game.
April 1st- Have new Saints signing Gary Gow down to play for Ross
County against Stirling.
March 24th- Scotsman's piece on foreign influx mentions Saints
trial of Nash. First they seem to think we've signed him and then we get
"Not magnificent enough for Chester City who released him, apparently
believing he couldn't do anything for a club bottom of Division Three"
- actually they released him due to financial constraints.
March 16th- Scots[Edinburgh]man's electronic report of Jamblows
game 15/3/00 mentions "Stephen Ferguson " - who is he? Thanks to
J.A.Morrison-3@sms.ed.ac.uk.
March 16th- Confuse Danny with Nathan - yeah they're really alike.
November 24th- Evening News mentions Scott Cuthbert as
Saints youth keeper. Who he?
November 1st- Saints first shot on target at Fir Park is credited
to Bollan - nope it was Danny
October 25th- Tom Lappin's report on the Sellik game said that
Lowndes being subbed on Sunday was "perplexing" - He was
injured! Thanks to mailto:James.Morrison.23@Hotmail.com
for that one.
October 13th- Saints goal against the Arabs in the League Cup is
credited to Kane not Danny.
September 20th- Apparently the home support were yelling for a red
card for Douglas bringing down Thomas at Dens !!!
August 23rd - "Kevin" Lauchlan? I think not.
August 13th - Alan Pattulos otherwise excellent piece on the
Saints fans in Finland had the players arriving 24 hours earlier on
Tuesday night.
July 31st- Listed Georgio and Lowndes as last season's top scorers
- nope it was Roddy.
July 26th- Reported Lauchlan as making his home debut v Fulham -
nope he didn't play.
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Saintees everywhere's favourite ex-Scotsman journalist. Amazing tunnel
vision since based in Embra he seems incapable of dealing with anything
other than the Wegie Unwashed. New for this year since hes bound to cover
some Saints games. Now writing for the Sunday Mason as the replacement for
McNee (some honour eh). This man is the MOST LOATHED journalist
amongst Saints fans.
December 19th- "Dallas once sent off John McQuillan in a
League Cup tie against Celtic" - Nope it was John O'Neil.
September 10th- "Alan Main wasn't even born last time Saints
were in Europe". Alan is 31. We were last in Europe 28 years ago.
More Wegie mathematics.
July 4th- "Euro clubs will miss the 3rd round of the League
Cup" - Nope we only miss rounds 1 and 2.
June 27th - "Saints have 11 players out of contract".
Sorry Shug but that won't happen until next summer. Arse.
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Not a regular read and probably qualifies for a discount given that its
Manchester based but what the hell. Their WWW site is
here
March 6th- Photo of Dods from the TFOD match captioned claiming
it's Cap'n Jim. Cheers to i.a.c.greig@dundee.ac.uk
for that one.
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As found at
http://www.sporting-life.com/soccer/scotspremteams/stjohnstone.html
- normally a fairly accurate site.
February 15th- Rangers match report credits Nathan with the last
shot - it was Jones
December 17th- "St. Johnstone's Gordon Marshall" - oh
dear oh dear oh dear
December 10th- Hearts preview sez they won 3-1 at the start of the
season. Nope it was 4-1.
August 14th - "Midfielder Roddy Grant" - midfielder? I
think not.
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Not a regular read. Don't expect too much coverage of Saints either.
March 4th- Preview of Rangers game has a caption of Weir against a
Chief photo.
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March 16th- Metro reported Bollan being brought down for
the non-penalty against the Jambos instead of Paddy.
February 28th- Teamtalk credits Saints 2nd against the
Arabs to "Neil Lowndes"
December 19th- SPL's official site at
http://www.scotprem.com credits "Brian"
O'Neill with Saints second at Rugby Park.
November 27thwww.footballnews.co.uk
under players lists Nick Dasovic's birthdate as 1906 !!!!
November 25th.- SPL's official site at
http://www.scotprem.com gets 3
falsehoods in one report. It has Jones scoring against Well last night
(nope it was Hibs). We got a point at Easter Rd last Saturday. Nope it was
a point at home to Aberdeen on Sunday. dont you just love it.
October 18th- SPL's official site at
http://www.scotprem.com gives the
score from Tynecastle as 1-0 !!!!!! Totally missing out Nathan's
equaliser and even going on to describe the Jambos win. Pathetic.
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