Ball's Up Ballantyne

...and were not talking balls on the pitch. Dear old Jim Ballantyne, chairman of Airdrie United FC made a severe cock up of the clubs remembrance programme by choosing a some what insulting image of Nazi soldiers on the front of their Remembrance Day match programme.

Jimmy boy said on the clubs website, "The original match sponsor for the game was Network Rail so I decided to base our Remembrance programme images on wartime trains. A number of photos were considered and when the final choice was made, the wrong image was lifted which was almost identical to the one that I had selected. Unfortunately it showed German soldiers instead of allied troops with the nurses."

Whether or not there was another photo that shared similarity really existed we will never know but what an embarrassment for the club who have already suffered a considerable amount of bad press they indirectly received as a result of the financial demise of the old Airdrieonians FC.

The image shows German WW2 servicemen receiving gifts from sympathisers as they headed into battle. I'm afraid Jim sympathy is some thing the majority will not be feeling. Perhaps go and give that bald head of yours a wobble, lest we forget and what not aye luv.