Dear England, I am Scottish – and I won’t be supporting you at the World Cup. I will be supporting Algeria, the USA, and Slovakia. Or maybe Slovenia – I can’t remember which one is in your group.

This time next year, we’ll be in the final stages of the inaugaral “Four Associations” tournament in Dublin.  This competition, announced in March 2009, will see Northern Ireland, the Republic, Scotland, and Wales compete in a round-robin format where the winner will… well, nothing really.  There doesn’t seem much point to the whole thing.

A shameless ripoff of the wonderful Harper’s Index. Pictured: Lee McCulloch protests against a yellow card for the 48th time this season. More stats below:

My friend Greg, a Scotland and Killie fan, died on Saturday morning.  He was only a few years older than me, but a couple of weeks ago he had a terrible accident which caused irreversible brain damage.  His life support machine was switched off late last week and he passed away a few hours before […]

This week an interesting football match broke out in Scotland!  The final Old Firm game of the season was expected to be a strange affair and surely it was – strangely full of decent attacking football and strings of passes from both teams. Maybe the lack of meaning in the game allowed football to emerge […]

“Too big to fail” is a term that’s been heard a lot in the last couple of years, mainly in relation to giant financial institutions receiving massive government bailouts because the alternative – allowing these banks to go under – could trigger the collapse of the global financial system. It’s also a term that many […]

Saturday evening, 9pm local time, and life is good.  Celtic are 2-1 down to Hibs with 12 minutes to go, I’m already a bit drunk, and I am heading out for more, sans Mrs Williamson, who is sleeping off an afternoon session.  If all goes to plan, the following evening will be spent celebrating both […]

Mr Williamson asked me to fill in for him this week. He’s very busy in Tokyo “working” i.e. hanging out at the Apple store, dining at Birdland (the best yakitori place on the planet) and shopping at my favorite Tokyo housewares store (Tokyu Hands) for a second toothpick holder for me so that I have […]

Back at the beginning of October I did a review of the SPL table at that time and made a few predictions for the rest of the pre-split season.  Six months later, let’s see how things have turned out…