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 […]

Every month on Dear Scotland the Video page is updated with a new playlist containing all of the videos that have been featured in the previous month. The September video playlist is now up which includes gems like Big Country at the Barras, The Proclaimers on Family Guy and Faddy’s brilliant goal against Macedonia.

Last week, Mrs Williamson – a medical professional – educated me on the “Glasgow Coma Scale”.  This is used by doctors worldwide to assess the level of consciousness of a patient and is named because of its invention in the University of Glasgow.  Surprised that Glasgow has expertise in head trauma?  No, me neither.

Now a Sky Sports pundit and a scout for Middlesborough, Scotland legend Gordon McQueen sat down with James Rogers to discuss a controversial career that included playing under Brian Clough at Leeds, leaving Elland Road to join rivals Man Utd and a certain Scotland v England match at Wembley in 1977.

Such an emotional game. Billy went through the same emotions we all did. And he wrote about it as it happened from a bar somewhere in China. Maybe it’s too soon, but in time you will want to relive this game through Billy’s live updates that follow. Because that feeling that we could and should […]

After a poor first half on Saturday, something motivated the Scottish team to raise their game and play their best football of the campaign so far. Was it the Burley team talk or perhaps the half-time sing-along led by the Tartan Specials? We spoke with Kenny McColl and also look at tonight’s qualification permutations.

Now a highly regarded football analyst, it is easy to forget that Andy Gray was also a formidable striker in his day. In the 2nd part of an exclusive interview with Dear Scotland, Andy talks about Jock Stein, missing out on the Scotland World Cup squads and how he would fare as a player today.

I can exclusively reveal the shocking truth behind the release of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the convicted murderer of 270 people on the Pan Am flight 103 which was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. It is part of a desperate attempt by Tartan Army member, and Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Kenny MacAskill MSP […]

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).