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Scotland - A Very Foreign Land To The English 25 Aug 2013 | 10:12 pm
AS A young man, almost like a Mormon, I did my spell of duty as a foreign missionary, trying to teach guid Scotch ways to the good folk of West Yorkshire - only to find out the Tykes were simply well-...
Squeaky Bum Time At Parkhead 21 Aug 2013 | 11:23 am
THAT Titan of the sports-writing game, my fellow Ayrshireman Hughie McIlvanney once suggested that were "Smokin' Joe" Frasier and Mohammed Ali ever to find themselves in adjacent wheelchairs as a coup...
Ian Black - A Handy Wee Smokescreen For Greater Guilt 20 Aug 2013 | 01:04 pm
I AM rapidly coming to the conclusion we are somewhere in the middle of Act II of Wagner's Gotterdammerung - The Twilight of the Gods - at least where the brand known as Rangers is concerned. For ...
Rangers Monopoly - It Could Catch On 16 Aug 2013 | 12:18 pm
THAT was a nice wee break, concentrating on football and Scotland, rather than finance and Rangers, for a day or two. But, with the national team put back in the box until next month, it's back to thi...
Let's Get Organised - Or We Will Fall Further Behind 15 Aug 2013 | 03:54 pm
LAST night's result doesn't look any better in the cold light of day. We had a really good chance of beating England, but, not for the first time, we came up short. Aye, I'm not happy, but, having sur...
We Lost, But, For Once, I'm Not Overcome With Grief. 15 Aug 2013 | 02:54 am
HAVING endured a good few Wembley heartaches, I didn't burst into tears when England scraped home tonight. Maybe a draw would have been a fairer result, but, I don't think we did enough in attack to b...
Flower o' Scotland - When Will We See Their Likes Again? 14 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
THIS is THE day - Them v Us is finally back on the football agenda, and, at 8pm tonight, I will be in front of my television, stomach tightening, waiting for the kick-off as, for the first time in nea...
The Winners and New Champions of the World - SCOTLAND 13 Aug 2013 | 11:15 am
SEVEN down, two to go; we are nearly at the end of our wee trip to Wembley via Memory Lane. Today we re-consider what I believe to be our second-best Wembley win; this came on 15 April, 1967 - the...
Scottish Goalie A Wembley Hero - Shock 12 Aug 2013 | 07:41 pm
WEMBLEY Week is finally upon us - we have our pipes beneath our oxters, our kilts are neatly pressed, we've got a sporran full of oatmeal for the road, some Crawford's tartan shortbread, and tottie sc...
Shankly Wasn't Ready 11 Aug 2013 | 04:25 pm
ONE common thread in Scotland teams, back in the days of the SFA having a selection committee of butchers, bakers and candle-stick makers who knew better than the professionals, the players and manage...
