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David Beckham is in line for a shock move to Scottish football. The 36-year-old LA Galaxy star has been coy about his next step now his five-year stint in America’s Major League Soccer has ended with victory in the 2011 MLS Cup, but I can exclusively reveal he is negotiating with Stewart Milne, Aberdeen FC’s [...]
Last Saturday morning I woke up and immediately checked the sports section of the online paper. I knew the Euro 2012 qualifiers had been played overnight (Hong Kong time), so I made a beeline for those results. I saw Ireland had pumped Estonia 4-0 away from home in the first leg of their playoff, and [...]
In today’s cultural climate a novel called ‘The Existential Detective’ could be said to have a double handicap in reaching a readership before it begins. Those who are set against the genre of crime fiction will see the word ‘detective’ and decide it’s not for them, similarly the term ‘existential’ puts many people in fear [...]
In the days after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s vile regime, I was genuinely revolted by a gruesome picture published by the BBC, a so-called ‘respectable’ news organisation. That photo of Gareth Bale modelling a “Team GB London 2012” football shirt made me sick to my stomach.
This month, Vic Galloway has more on We Were Promised Jetpacks who are currently touring the US. Also on tour this month – Three Blind Wolves, Rachel Sermanni, Clannad, Robin Guthrie, Hudson Mohawke and more. Full listing of all Scottish international gigs below.
Each month we present some of the best new photos of Scotland in the gloaming, the magical time before sunrise or after sunset. This month featuring images of the Clyde Valley, Orkney, Bla Bheinn, Arisaig and more.
Rangers owner Craig Whyte banned the BBC from Ibrox because he said a documentary they produced was “muckracking”. He should have banned them because it was just a pile of s**t. “Rangers: The Inside Story” was sensationalist and shoddy, a tangled mess of half facts and guilt-by-association. And it didn’t answer the most important question: [...]
This month in Scottish Entertainment / Actor News was a bit quiet, but Helygen still brings us all the latest developments relating to Dougray Scott, James McAvoy, Gerard Butler, David Tennant and more.
After the Liechtenstein-Scotland game last Saturday, two Scottish players were taken into a small room inside the Rheinpark Stadion to produce urine samples for a drug test. UEFA didn’t think the Scottish performance was so good it must have been drug-fuelled; it’s just standard procedure after every international game to test two players from each [...]
