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Actions and Consequences
In the days after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s vile regime, I was genuinely revolted by a gruesome picture published by the BBC, a so-called ‘respectable’ news organisation. That photo of Gareth Bale modelling a “Team GB London 2012” football shirt made me sick to my stomach.
Billy Williamson
November 3, 2011
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The Mucking of Craigie’s Byre
Rangers owner Craig Whyte banned the BBC from Ibrox because he said a documentary they produced was “muckracking”. He should have banned them because it was just a pile of shit. “Rangers: The Inside Story” was sensationalist and shoddy, a tangled mess of half facts and guilt-by-association. And it didn’t answer the most important question: […]
Billy Williamson
October 27, 2011
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The Scottish Disease
I don’t care for rugby, but I visited an egg-chasing friend at the weekend so was obliged to accompany him to his local boozer on Saturday to watch fifteen genetic freaks lumber around under the dreich Auckland skies playing against the Scottish team. After a stout performance where the underdog Scots won an early lead […]
Billy Williamson
October 6, 2011
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Methil, No More
Scotland, bloody Scotland. Less than three decades ago, home to a great footballing side, one feared, or at least admired, throughout Europe and beyond, for punching well beyond its weight. Now it has fallen on hard times: mediocrity has replaced magic. It’s a shift that didn’t happen overnight. But day by day, week by week, […]
Billy Williamson
September 22, 2011
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For The Good Of The Game
The future of Scottish football sits on Celtic’s shoulders. Following a catastrophic set of qualifying results which saw all four Scottish entrants dismissed from continental competition, Celtic were handed a reprieve when UEFA (rightfully, in my opinion) expelled FC Sion from the Europa League tournament. The Parkhead side replaced the team that knocked them out […]
Billy Williamson
September 15, 2011
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Down The Toilet
The inspection shelf is a German invention, though I first encountered one in Prague. The shelf extends above the waterline in a toilet, holding the fecal matter for a quick review before it’s flushed. Changes in the shape, consistency, or colour of bowel movements often indicate disease, so spot-checking the stool is a healthy Teutonic […]
Billy Williamson
September 8, 2011
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You’ll Have Had Your Tea?
In the pub last Sunday, an English friend told the tale of his teenage journey to the Edinburgh Festival, hitchhiking up from the Midlands to sleep rough in Princes Street Gardens. He was woken from his newspaper-wrapped slumber not by a rapist, a mugger, or the Lothian police, but by a friendly Scotsman handing him […]
Billy Williamson
August 25, 2011
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UEFA To Scotland: Drop Dead
Back in the early 1990’s, the European Cup stopped being a football tournament and became the Champions League. The raison d’etre of the rebranded competition: creation of an ever-expanding trough of filthy lucre to feed the pigs running European football’s biggest clubs. To their credit, UEFA do a shamelessly good job of quantifying exactly how […]
Billy Williamson
August 18, 2011
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This Could Be The Future of Scottish Football
(LONDON, 11 Oct 2014) — Under-pressure Team GB manager Roberto Martinez declared himself “satisfied” with his team’s performance despite their 2-1 home defeat to Denmark yesterday in the first competitive match for the amalgamated British team. “We have only had a couple of friendlies to mould a team since the four national associations were combined […]
Billy Williamson
August 11, 2011
