After the 10 rebels decided to break free from the shackles of the Old Firm in midweek, the West Coast based TV and Newspaper giants will be out to pay us back. I mean, can you imagine the Scottish league in 2004 without Rangers and Celtic. Unless Partick Thistle take on the mantle of Glasgow giants Killie and Motherwell will be the main West Coast challengers. The power of Scottish football will move to the East Coast. That will be seen as sacrilegious by the media as a whole and some of the well known pundits like Jim Traynor could find it hard to keep themselves in a job and talk about Scottish football without the Old Firm in it.
BE ON YOUR BEST BEHAVIOUR. I was ashamed at some of the things I've seen at derbies this season. United's pitch invasion, the throwing of a flare on the trackside at the last Dens derby, and of course, our own fans throwing coins at the last Tannadice derby. THIS MUST STOP. IF YOU SEE THOSE COMMITTING SUCH CRIMES REPORT THEM IMMEDIATELY. It's your club they're defiling.
Show them once again that Dundee and Dundee United have the best behaved fans in the country and that we can drink together, work together and be friends despite the results and the fierce banter.
In fact, to show that this friendly rivalry isn't false I've been invited from quite a few Arabs who post regularly on the websites or run their own, to meet them for a pre-match swallae in the Airlie Arms. No, it isn't a cunningly set ambush, it's typical of the Dundee/United way of doing things. And it doesn't happen in Glasgow very often, I can assure you.