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Winning Strategies For Football Chairmen, part one: How To Choose A Manager
So with half the fixture list behind us, a quarter of the teams in the SPL find themselves without a long-term manager in place. At the start of the season you’d have been given long odds on Craig Levein being the first out of his office, although after the Norway-Scotland game I’ve no doubt the […]
Billy Williamson
January 14, 2010
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From Harthill to Harajuku – A Journey Through Scottish Football Fashion
Before Sunday’s Old Firm game, I performed the usual ritual. Open up the bottom drawer and rummel around in 25-odd years worth of old Rangers shirts to find the one for the game. This time, I settled on the 1990-92 Admiral version (see it here). Normally a certain shirt brings back memories of certain players […]
Billy Williamson
January 7, 2010
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The Williamson-modified FIFA Bollocks Ranking Scale
Following Scotland’s failure to qualify for the World Cup, our Fifa World Ranking dropped down to 30. However in October 2009, Billy invented the above named scale which took into account the size of our country and propelled us to #4 in the World. Brilliant. Full details below.
Billy Williamson
January 2, 2010
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Ten Things You Just Don’t See These Days
The full story can never be made public, but I had to leave New York in a hurry; angry people were looking for me. I left my apartment with just a few minutes’ warning carrying nothing except my passport, the Williamson cats, and Mrs Williamson (she didn’t want to go).
Billy Williamson
December 24, 2009
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From Fife to FIFA
This week a leaked document came into my possession from a mole deep within the SFA hierarchy. Obviously I can’t reveal his name, so let’s just call him Gorgeous Pete.
Billy Williamson
December 17, 2009
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Scotland’s Player of the Century
I think it’s time to take stock and review the state of our game in a rational and moderate way by searching for Scotland’s Player of the Century. Yes, let’s take a look back through the first ten years of the millennium and determine which player best represents our very own lost decade.
Billy Williamson
December 10, 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:
Billy Williamson
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 […]
Billy Williamson
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.
Billy Williamson
November 12, 2009
