Up shit Greek
Liverpool the other night were beaten by a freaky goal, a classy goal, and by their own ineptitude at putting the ball in the net when they had the lion’s share of possession. I had this next musical...
View ArticleOne James McFadden, there’s only one James McFadden
Napoleon Bonaparte, Louis Pasteur, Claude Monet, Victor Hugo, Joan of Arc, Marie Curie, Gustave Eiffel, Thierry Henry, Jacques Chirac, Gerard Depardieu, Inspector Clousseau and Joe le Taxi. Your boys...
View ArticleIt’s great being Scottish
We’re top of our group, we’ve dumped the French twice and today we beat the Ukrainians 3-1. We are Scotland. We are magic. We are going to Euro 2008. Get your flat caps and clumpy shoes on and...
View ArticleOver……..the party’s over.
Oh well. Nearly but not quite. The nation goes back to work tomorrow and all the “I told you…“, “I knew all along…” stories will start. Screw them. We were great. Just not great enough. The La’s were...
View ArticleThey think it’s all over. It is now.
A country with 10 times the population of Scotland should have 10 James McFaddens, 10 Craig Gordon’s, 10 Darren Fletchers, 10 Alan Huttons. Even 10 Gary O’Connors. But they don’t. Shame that. Overpaid...
View ArticleBurns’ Immortal Memory
Tommy Burns died today. He always seemed like a decent man to me. All the cliches are out – “football man“, “family man” etc etc, and for once they’re all true. I never met him, but I often cheered him...
View ArticleWANTED! WANTED! WANTED!
One ticket for this Saturday’s Ayr Utd v Kilmarnock Scottish Cup Tie. Must be for Killie end. Your price paid (as long as it’s face value). Any kindly folk out there who can feel a dose of the sniffles...
View ArticlePretty Girls, Pretty Boys, Have You Ever Heard Your Mama Say Noise Annoys?
Aye. Noise annoys. If you’re having a rare old time watching the World Cup but because of this you feel you don’t have the time to catch up on reading your favourite blogs, why not combine the 2 by...
View ArticleRamble On
One of the greatest pleasures in this blogger’s life is the daily digestion of blog stats. At any given time I can see who’s visited here, where they’re from and what the most popular posts and...
View ArticleSix Of The Best – Stuart Cosgrove
Six Of The Best is a semi-regular feature that pokes, prods and persuades your favourite bands, bards and barometers of hip opinion to tell us six of the best tracks they’ve ever heard. The tracks...
View ArticleScore Draw
In 2005 the Berlin based Scottish artist Douglas Gordon came up with the idea of creating a film about Zinedine Zidane. Zidane was at the time arguably the finest football player on the planet; an...
View ArticlePlaying For Scotland
Man. Folk go on and on about milestone birthdays. 40 is the new 30 and all that nonsense. I was OK with 30. I was even OK with 40. Heck, I got a trip to New York out of it, so who was complaining? For...
View ArticleJesus Is Just A Spanish Boy’s Name
Hearts and Celtic go head to head this weekend in last season’s delayed Scottish Cup Final, a game that both teams will want to win but one that neither probably expected to manifest. Hearts, currently...
View ArticleThe Twelfth Men
This great picture of young Celtic fans storming the Hampden Park barricades and getting themselves into the big match is a real look back in time, to an era when showpiece games at the national...
View Article“Oim sorry, lads, this is a members’-only cloob….”
The Euros start at the end of this week. That they’re occuring a year later than planned means nothing to my nation. My son is 14 and he’s ridiculously excited at the thought of seeing Scotland on the...
View ArticleGrim Fairytale Avoided
To enjoy the feast, you must first experience the famine. That’s me misquoting Chick Young, BBC Sport Scotland’s football reporter, a man much-maligned but one who seemingly has a soft spot for the...
View ArticleOutside Looking In
North of Hadrian’s Wall we’re looking on enviously as another World Cup without Scotland gets underway. It’s a common occurrence these days to find the Scots tiptoed on wooden crates, peering over...
View ArticleTriggers
In the build-up to Scotland’s historic win over Spain the other night, I caught myself watching old YouTube clips of the same fixture from 1984. Grainy but preserved digitally forever, they opened a...
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