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Skol, Skol, Skol, Skol…
This Sunday sees the sixth meeting of the Old Firm this season, and the first that will directly result in silverware – the League Cup. This tournament came into being in 1947. I’m not entirely sure why – presumably to throw a few more games into the calendar and thus bring a few more pounds […]
Billy Williamson
March 17, 2011
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El Radge Hadji and El Rey Pele
I’ve watched Rangers games in many strange places. I listened to the 1994 New Year’s Old Firm in a flat in Dakar on a short wave radio; I watched Paul Le Guen’s first game in 2006 in a hotel in Bombay; and in January this year I sat in a ski lodge in Japan while […]
Billy Williamson
March 10, 2011
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What’s the Hampden? (Part 1 of a very very occasional series)
Billy is still on his travels this week, although he probably found somewhere to watch Rangers get gubbed by Celtic for the second time in as many weeks. To cheer him up here is a ‘classic’ article where Billy looks at some memorable games in Scottish football history that all ended 4-1.
Billy Williamson
March 3, 2011
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All Rangers Fans Are Filthy Scum Who Disgrace The Perfect Name Of Scottish Football
Billy is on his travels this week but if I were Rangers fan I’d be speechless after their performance on Sunday too. Anyway, in recognition of their ongoing UEFA cup run, here is a classic article Billy wrote last year about the day he went to Manchester.
Billy Williamson
February 24, 2011
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The Yellow Cowdenbeath
The Scottish press have reported that the national team are to play in a ‘glamour friendly’ against Brazil at the end of March. Looking for confirmation, I checked the Brazilian press and found no mention of any ‘glamour friendly’, though they did confirm that Brazil were playing Scotland at the end of March. The game […]
Billy Williamson
February 17, 2011
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Broughty Ferry to Brazil
This past week saw Dundee FC file a financial plan to allow them to escape administration at the end of the season – saving the club from extinction. Good news for Dundee fans, though other Division One teams can justifiably complain that Dundee’s excessive spending has been wiped out at the expense of the club’s […]
Billy Williamson
February 10, 2011
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@TEOTD CANT B RSED – TTFN – FLETCH
So Stephen Fletcher has decided to join a long list of Scottish non-footballing anti-heroes, from Kris Boyd to… erm… Lee McCulloch? But the once-promising Wolverhampton benchwarmer has applied a novel twist to his retirement from the international scene: doing it by SMS.
Billy Williamson
February 3, 2011
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Bald Men, Blackman, and Bye-Bye Sky
It’s a sad sign of the times when the main drama of the January transfer season is an alleged tug-of-war between the Old Firm to sign a Championship winger. No offence to Kris Commons – he’s decent enough, though he wouldn’t be in my first Scotland XI – but this seems like a case of […]
Billy Williamson
January 27, 2011
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LEMMINGS
“Disgusting and cowardly.” “Pile of pish.” “Absolute gash.” “Twats.” These are just some of the comments I’ve seen from friends in response to the Scottish Premier League’s likely new format: a ten-team league. I’d add a few more: cowardly, short-sighted, and suicidal.
Billy Williamson
January 20, 2011
