The other week I was playing in a football tournament; one of the opposition teams was an Arsenal supporters team.  We gubbed them 3-1, but one of their players made a comment afterwards regarding the standard of the SPL: “We were unbeatable in England, so we’d never lose a game in Scotland.”  I suggested that […]

Burnley were in Southern California recently for a friendly with PDL side Ventura Fusion. After the game Regan Jackson spoke with Owen Coyle about scouting in LA, Scottish managers and how it felt to be offered the Celtic job.

Billy provides live updates as he watches the Scotland v Norway game in Hong Kong. Noon: I have come out of hiding this week and crossed the border into bandit country – aka Wan Chai – Hong Kong’s drinking and, well, “other things” district; less well-known, it is also the midpoint of a not-so-recent 12-hour […]

AC/DC, The Eagles and U2 will play Hampden Park this summer. Now add the Tartan Specials to that list. The Tartan Army troubadours play in Oslo tonight and have been asked to play at half-time during Scotland’s last two home World Cup qualifiers. We caught up with Tartan Specials bass player, Brooklyn resident and occasional […]

Recently I upgraded to the new iPhone 3GS and it’s an amazing piece of technology.  How amazing?  Well, the other day I was typing the outline to this week’s column; I typed “Faddy fit”, and the iPhone changed it to “Daddy fit”.  Too bloody right, I thought – Norway, who’s your daddy?  Faddy’s your daddy.  […]

“For a millennia the Tattoo and the Bagpipe has called Scotland’s heroes to defend her land, and her honour. Now a new challenge presents itself as a Germanic horde invades the Scottish midlands. The Frankfurt Galaxy and the Scottish Claymores clash in World Bowl 96 as a season’s worth of emotion and sweat will rise […]

[transcript begins] Mint: “This is Sir David Murray.  Sir David, to you.  Murray.  That’s Sir.  David.  Murray.” Watty: “Boss, gonnae gie’s some dough fir some new players?” Mint: “Walter, I telt you already, naw.” Watty: “How naw?” Mint: “Ah’m skint.” Watty: “Are ye f*ck.  Ye’re loaded.  That’s why yer caw’d The Mint.”

Former Scotland striker and Sky Sports / ESPN commentator Andy Gray was in New York recently for a charity dinner and he took some time to speak to Dear Scotland about scoring his first goal for Scotland, being an expat Scot and what he misses about home.

Footballer autobiographies. Rarely written by the player and rarely read by anyone except for 5 minutes on Christmas day, their only redeeming feature might be their awful pun titles. We at Dear Scotland openly embrace the pun so today we look at the best and worst Scottish football book puns, and propose some alternative titles.