Celtic and a bona-fide bin-fire that was utterly avoidable

In keeping with pretty much everything else you’ve read, seen or heard about the Scottish League Cup final, you’d be forgiven for presuming today’s Football Daily will almost entirely be devoted to the fact Celtic is run by an incompetent bunch of cheapskates who appear to consider their paying customers an entitled rabble of insubordinate plebs, with only a cursory mention of plucky little St Mirren’s actual triumph at the end. Except that’s not how this daily football email rolls and by sneering at everyone else’s coverage of the Buddies’ not-entirely-surprising Hampden Park triumph, we’ve now mentioned their win twice already, which means we can exclusively devote what remains of this section to going in two-footed with our views on the Scottish champions.So Nottingham Forest beat Spurs 3-0 (lol) after Spurs beat West Ham 3-0, in turn, following West Ham beating Nottingham Forest 3-0, which is the Premier League equivalent of an Escher drawing. As Danny Baker used to say, ‘football is chaos’ ” – Noble Francis.Is anybody else looking back with fondness to a time when Sepp Blatter was Fifa’s chief suit?” – Gary McGuinness.As a compatriot of Tyler T (Friday’s Football Daily letters), may I add a preemptive global apology for anything Alexi Lalas says? There’s really no excuse. As a people, we should have long ago endeavoured to make sure he never actually speaks into a live microphone. And I’m sorry to Tyler as well for bandwagoning his letter” – Daniel Stauss.Re: rival fans being nice (Football Daily letters passim) – my friend, a lifelong Coventry fan, asked me to join him at the Spurs v Coventry FA Cup final in 1987. Unfortunately he could only get tickets in the middle of a Tottenham section. Notwithstanding this he wore his Coventry scarf and we both were on our feet cheering when Coventry equalised, without any adverse reaction from the Spurs fans. Not only that, after Coventry won the match – and the Cup – the Spurs fans remained in their seats and clapped the Coventry team when they came round celebrating their win. Those were the days” – Danny Sullivan.