On and on goes the saga of Rangers in administration. We await with incredulous bemusement the latest shoulder-shrugging plea of “who? Me? Nah, it wisnae me” from the sinisterly farcical Craig Whyte. We await, with an interest that is not entirely becoming, to find out where the administrators will wield their redundancy axe. A piecemeal [...]
A staggered weekend fixture list gives Celtic the opportunity to go 23 points ahead at the top of the SPL tomorrow. 23 points. Maybe only for a few hours having played a couple of games more. But 23 points? At one stage this season, with similar quirks of TV scheduling handicapping them, they found themselves [...]
Apparently the first recorded example of football boots were owned by Henry VIII. Football boots: worn by oversexed egomaniacs since 1526. The description of Hank’s boots – heavy, leather, ankle high – actually chimes with the general principles of the humble boot through much of the last 150 years or so. Not now. There have [...]
“We paid our wages on time,” say Hearts. “Naw. You didnae,” say the SPL. A prize to whoever identifies the voice of reason and truth in the parcel of rogues contributing to the latest farrago over Hearts and the saga of the paid/unpaid wages. As it stands Hearts are to be charged “under SPL Rule [...]
Fare ye weel, Davie Weir. The Scottish Football Blog has often been facetious about the Methuselah of Scottish football. Unfair that. Davie Weir was playing at the highest level in Scotland in his 40s and I’m often too lazy to play dominoes in my 30s. Perhaps unsurprisingly Weir and Rangers will part company this week. [...]
So yesterday was a day without Wikipedia. How did we all cope? Maybe by using the various workarounds that let you bypass Wiki’s self-imposed protest blackout. Or whiling away the hours following STV’s #fitbawiki chat on Twitter. Or you could have gone old school and picked up a book. A book like Maurice Dougan’s Hibernian [...]
If you’ve got a moment or two to spare might I point you in the direction of The Away End? They’re on the lookout for the 100 greatest Scottish league players of all time. That is the best players – of all nationalities – to have graced league football in Scotland over the decades. I [...]
He’s back. “The fans will appreciate that we’re trying to do something different and the players will recognise they’ve got two guys who want football played.” And if the players don’t, the real fitba’ men will. A perfect quote to herald the return of John Hughes. It’s taken a while but here is, back in [...]
Hibs, not so much always the bridesmaids as always the sailor-suit clad page boys of Scottish football, have some experience of hosting parties for visitors. Rangers and Aberdeen have won league titles under the noses of a bemused and bewildered Easter Road support. It feels a bit like spending the night standing next to the [...]
Will Scottish football die if Rangers are wiped from our footballing landscape? No. It would be greatly changed. But it would adjust and it would survive. But it’s disingenuous to deride those who claim that the end of Rangers equals the death of the game as weak willed apologists for a failed institution. The question [...]