It's sad tae be leaving, but me and youthful revolutions just dinnae go together somehow. Ah've always preferred players in ma teams that ken how tae shave.

Other than the sheer disgusting bucketloads ay money they're gonnae be paying, Preston's a guid move fer me as it's no too far frae the Scottish border tae escape after we lose games and still get tae Glasgow in time fer a guid Saturday night's clubbin' wi' the bird. Frae North End tae West End in a jiffy, ye might say. Ah will also be well placed tae spy on the English fer the benefit o' this diary, so dinnae worry, Paw's no leaving ye just yet!

An' of course, let's no forget, ah'll be able tae keep a close eye on all the wee laddies wi' Scottish grandmaws that ma pal Berti's picking for International duty frae England's second division, frae exotic places like Wigan and Stockport.

Apart frae me, there wiz something else that happened this month. Whit wiz it though? Oh aye, noo ah recall.

Literally dozens of people were dismayed at the announcement that Airdrieonians FC hud become the first senior league team in Scottish football tae go oot of business since Third Lanark back in the 1960's, in the days when ah still had hair oan ma heid and a pint o' heavy wiz thruppence ha'penny.

The North Lanarkshire team had teetered on the brink of bankcruptcy ever since moving away from their crumbling and invariably empty slagheap of a stadium at Broomfield tae a brand new purpose-built, all-seated, state of the art and even emptier stadium they couldn't afford tae pay for, miles away from what little fan-base the club already had.

Their demise has been greeted wi mixed reactions from the Scottish football fraternity, maistly ranging from "couldnae give a fuck" tae "good bloody riddance".

In truth, the "Diamonds" and their largely neanderthal supporters, of whom there are/were fortunately only a handful, will no' be sorely missed.

And they'll no' be the last tae go, either.

It's time Scottish fitba woke up tae the fact that the professional game in Scotland simply cannae sustain the number of full-time or even part-time clubs that oor mickey mouse leagues currently accommodate.

If 50% of them went ootay business tomorrow it widnae surprise me. In fact that wid be the best thing that could happen fer the survival of the game.

Nae wonder Celtic and Rangers want oot.

Scottish fitba is in a right mingin' state.

If it wisnae, dae ye really think ah'd accept a job in a grubby English shitehole like Preston?

Ye dinnae huv tae answer that.