Changing room chat: Titter ye not

John Boyle is an enthusiastic sort, and game for a laugh as well. He would have to be to guest on Radio Scotland show Off The Ball, where he is regularly a subject of impersonations which bear more than a passing resemblance to the comedian Frankie Howerd.

The Motherwell chairman was welcomed on to the show by hosts Stuart Cosgrove and Tam Cowan on Saturday, but as well as seeing the funny side of the game, there were also serious points to be made regarding the SPL split, the running of the game in Scotland, and the financing of SPL clubs.

Cosgrove was quick to challenge Boyle on a couple of points, and the presenter requires special commendation for keeping a straight face – although one never can tell on radio – when Boyle made a claim for a share of the pot of gold the SFA keeps in a cupboard at Hampden Park.

According to Boyle, the SPL clubs see none of this cash, and it is high time that these riches "disapitate" down to the clubs.

Easy for you to say, John.

STOP THE CHICK CHAT

Still on the wireless, and our old friend Chick Young had the nation hanging on his every word once again as he brought us every cough and fart from St Johnstone v St Mirren with a sense of drama that would not have been out of place had he described Neil Armstrong landing on the moon.

The reporter's excitement reached fever pitch when St Johnstone scored a last-gasp equaliser with a controversial penalty award that Sportsound anchor Richard Gordon was immediately able to confirm as cast iron. This didn't stop our man on the spot, who refused to draw breath as he described the incident, the complaints, the incident, the complaints, the incident and the complaints again. In the meantime, clubs elsewhere in the country were promoted, relegated and possibly even forced out of business in the amount of time it took to relay events from McDiarmid Park.

Mercifully, as we were treated to the detail of what a supporter's banner said, Gordon stepped in to remind his colleague that there were other important results that the listeners might like to hear instead. You better believe it.

PRESSLEY GETS IT IN THE NECK

Considering how much was at stake in the basement battle between Aberdeen and Falkirk on Saturday, it was surprising how much attention was paid to what visiting manager Steven Pressley was wearing as he roamed the dug-out.

He had on a brown quilted jacket, a pair of blue slacks, brown Dick Advocaat-style shoes and a white silk scarf, which attracted a fair amount of criticism from Dons fans.

"Who's the ******* in the scarf?" they sang in the stands, while on the Aberdeen-Mad forum a thread was created to discuss Pressley's dress sense. One poster wrote: "That jacket looked like the sleeping bag I used when I went caravan holidays as a bairn. What, with that and the silky scarf, he looked like he'd just landed his Lancaster on Pittodrie Street afore the game..."