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Ten Scottish(*) Football Books Worth Reading, Part 2
(*) I continue to define ‘Scottish Football Books’ here under the ‘granny rule’ – even if they’re not Scottish but they mention Scotland, they qualify.
December 3, 2009
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Ten Scottish(*) Football Books Worth Reading, Part 1
(*) ‘Scottish Football Books’ are defined under the ‘FIFA granny rule’ – even if they’re not Scottish but they mention Scotland, they qualify. (I ignore the fact that Fever Pitch would almost certainly choose to play for England if it had the choice.) In No Particular Order:
November 26, 2009
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Martial Arts and Magic Tricks
Backed into a corner by the likes of Jim Traynor and Charlie Nicholas, George Peat and Gordon Smith demonstrated their mastery of the ancient samurai martial art of jujitsu – the core principle of which is the use of an attacker’s energy against him, rather than directly opposing it. I bow deeply in the face of […]
November 19, 2009
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All Rangers Fans Are Filthy Scum Who Disgrace The Perfect Name Of Scottish Football
My iPhone screensaver is a beautiful blue Manchester sky, with a sign in the foreground reading ‘Retro Bar’. It was taken the afternoon of the UEFA Cup Final in 2008.
November 12, 2009
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Same, Same; or Different? Part II
I am glad to see my musings on the Atlantic League generated a bit of discussion and some good points were raised in the comments. Our man Shiner nailed a lot of the concept – the Atlantic League is not a replacement for or challenger to the Champions League; however it is a replacement for […]
November 5, 2009
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Are Rangers Donald Ducked?
I’d like to continue last week’s theme on the proposals for the Atlantic League because there is more to be said there, but at the moment there’s only really one big question in Scottish football: Are Rangers Donald Ducked?
October 29, 2009
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Same, Same; Or Different?
“I’ve long maintained that the Old Firm need to break out of the Scottish league for the benefit of all involved – to keep the two big clubs competitive at a pan-European level (by having access to serious TV money, basically) and to re-introduce the notion of competition to the Scottish league – without the […]
October 22, 2009
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Ennui’ll Support You Evermore
Billy Williamson reports from Yokohama: Ennui (noun): boredom, tedium, listlessness, lethargy, lassitude, languor, weariness, enervation; malaise, dissatisfaction, melancholy, depression, world-weariness, Weltschmerz. Sums it up, eh?
October 15, 2009
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How many frozen hot chocolates could Sepp Blatter eat before he explodes?
So I am back working in Tokyo this week, for obvious reasons; and because my team in Japan work incredibly hard for me, I was sitting at my PC near them at 9.20pm pretending to also work hard when I received an instant message from a colleague in New York – a Brooklynite with a […]
October 8, 2009
