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Skol, Skol, Skol, Skol…
This Sunday sees the sixth meeting of the Old Firm this season, and the first that will directly result in silverware – the League Cup. This tournament came into being in 1947. I’m not entirely sure why – presumably to throw a few more games into the calendar and thus bring a few more pounds […]
Billy Williamson
March 17, 2011
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El Radge Hadji and El Rey Pele
I’ve watched Rangers games in many strange places. I listened to the 1994 New Year’s Old Firm in a flat in Dakar on a short wave radio; I watched Paul Le Guen’s first game in 2006 in a hotel in Bombay; and in January this year I sat in a ski lodge in Japan while […]
Billy Williamson
March 10, 2011
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What’s the Hampden? (Part 1 of a very very occasional series)
Billy is still on his travels this week, although he probably found somewhere to watch Rangers get gubbed by Celtic for the second time in as many weeks. To cheer him up here is a ‘classic’ article where Billy looks at some memorable games in Scottish football history that all ended 4-1.
Billy Williamson
March 3, 2011
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All Rangers Fans Are Filthy Scum Who Disgrace The Perfect Name Of Scottish Football
Billy is on his travels this week but if I were Rangers fan I’d be speechless after their performance on Sunday too. Anyway, in recognition of their ongoing UEFA cup run, here is a classic article Billy wrote last year about the day he went to Manchester.
Billy Williamson
February 24, 2011
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Broughty Ferry to Brazil
This past week saw Dundee FC file a financial plan to allow them to escape administration at the end of the season – saving the club from extinction. Good news for Dundee fans, though other Division One teams can justifiably complain that Dundee’s excessive spending has been wiped out at the expense of the club’s […]
Billy Williamson
February 10, 2011
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@TEOTD CANT B RSED – TTFN – FLETCH
So Stephen Fletcher has decided to join a long list of Scottish non-footballing anti-heroes, from Kris Boyd to… erm… Lee McCulloch? But the once-promising Wolverhampton benchwarmer has applied a novel twist to his retirement from the international scene: doing it by SMS.
Billy Williamson
February 3, 2011
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Bald Men, Blackman, and Bye-Bye Sky
It’s a sad sign of the times when the main drama of the January transfer season is an alleged tug-of-war between the Old Firm to sign a Championship winger. No offence to Kris Commons – he’s decent enough, though he wouldn’t be in my first Scotland XI – but this seems like a case of […]
Billy Williamson
January 27, 2011
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Bullets, Bevvy, and Blades
“Bullet packages sent to Celtic boss,” reported the Sporting Life over the weekend. Last week a package addressed to Neil Lennon and Celtic player Niall McGinn was intercepted in Northern Ireland and turned over to the police, who are now investigating. On Saturday, congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in Tucson, Arizona by an apparently deranged […]
Billy Williamson
January 13, 2011
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The Boyos Are Back In Town
Or are they? “Welsh refs willing to help SFA” says the headline, although at the end of the Sporting Life article it quotes the president of the Welsh Referees Association saying it hasn’t been discussed by his members and they’re not due to meet until Sunday. And personally, he doesn’t think they’ll want to help.
Billy Williamson
November 25, 2010