A Song For All Fans
Perhaps best left in the hands of pop culture or professional music critics rather than some stodgy old football blog, it still bears mentioning that today would have been Farrokh...
Scotland’s Non-League Clubs Given a Non-Chance
With this week’s focus properly set to the non-league game, it seems appropriate to also delve into Scottish non-league football. Perhaps unfairly at times, the Scottish game generates comparisons in...
Match of the Week: Aston Villa 0-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers
In this age, tradition often cedes its elevated status to accommodation. So it was that as the day’s West Midlands derby between Aston Villa and Wolverhampton evoked a sense of...
Europa League Matters: A Calm Rather Than The Storm?
As the results began filtering through from the different corners of Europe as Europa League matches concluded, a feeling that this tournament means something, despite its marginalisation as UEFA’s second...
Rangers Under New Management But With An Old Problem
When your club is the league champion, it seems everyone wants to take you down. Titles often come with that rather annoying Bulls Eye that the manager can never remove...
Book Review: “Home and Away” by Dave Bidini
Far too often we take things for granted. This might sound trite and at times can come across as somewhat hypocritical depending on who is saying it, for it is...
A Polaroid Moment in the Scottish Premier League
Photographs capture specific moments in time, with the more iconic ones representing certain splendors or symbolizing tumultuous events. The New York Times Square photo of an American sailor sealing victory...
Madly Honest For a Change
The only managerial soap opera that was to have transpired in Edinburgh this summer was to have been at Easter Road involving the love triangle between Hibernian FC, Colin Calderwood, and Nottingham...
The Twohundredpercent Pre-Season Previews: Tottenham Hotspur
In a bid to establish dominance, a cockerel performs a waltz of sorts about the hen house yard, strutting in a semi-circle with its wing down and glaring menacingly at...
World Cup Qualification: Scotland is Due
Forgive the Tartan Army should they be slightly pessimistic about Scotland’s chances of qualification following the draw for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. While Three Lions supporters expect to...
Down the Southern Road: End of the Line
One of the more unhinging moments for summer visitors to the Deep South might be when they lay down for sleep. Attempting to rest their heads on pillows for a...
Some Late Questions to Start the Scottish Premier League Season
Lightning indeed strikes twice in the same spot, but this still remains a less reliable proposition than seeing the Old Firm finishing one on top of another in any given...
Playing With the Numbers: The SPL Decide Against a Ten Team League
We are now nearly five years removed from discussions about the Scottish Premier League expanding with an SPL2 division, sparking a war of words with Scottish Football League officials keen on retaining...
When Squared Sausage Meets Currywurst: Scottish & German Clubs Collide
With the speed of a cheetah after it identifies its prey, the Scottish Premier League season approaches. As players in other top flight leagues wake from their midsummer’s naps and...
The 2011 Womens World Cup: A Possible Revolutionary Encounter
Back in 1950, Harry Keough perhaps summarised best the general attitude toward the quality of the American game that might still hold true in some quarters of the international football...
The Calderwood Conundrum
During the summer, when time is often measured in the latest player transfer rumours rather than in minutes passed, we have become acclimated to the concept of a player having...
Down the Southern Road: Derbies and Gents
Regardless of where played, a proper derby stokes supporters’ passions, incites vitriol to be spewed irrationally, and at times can pluck raw nerves to a bleeding point. If today’s player,...
A Scheduled Problem: The SPL Starts Early
When Mick Jagger and Keith Richards kicked around the lyrics and arrangement for “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” neither likely found their inspiration from Scotsmen knocking a ball...
The Heart of the Rant
Often, when bold remarks from an organization become public, they answer more questions than they raise. When a statement comes across as the one released by Scottish Premier League club Heart...
Jack Climbs A Beanstalk While The Giant Pays Transfer Fees With Golden Eggs
Fee-fi-fo-fum! I smell the blood of an Englishman? Hmm, smells like pound sterling…. In a more recent piece for the Financial Times, Simon Kuper informs us that top flight football...