- Nostra Who? Mad Christian Harold Camping was reportedly “flabbergasted” that the Rapture didn’t take place last Saturday, May 21, as he had confidently predicted. I am similarly flabbergasted that Kilmarnock weren’t relegated, as I assuredly stated on August 12: “I can’t see them anywhere other than last place.” Camping is now saying the Rapture was spiritual, not […]
- 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 […]
- 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.
- @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.
- State of the SPL – Part One Back in August I previewed the SPL season, and I’d planned to update this when we were a quarter of the way in – after last weekend’s games. As things turned out, there was a midweek round of games this week. I put together my thoughts three hours before these matches, thereby guaranteeing a set […]
- The Glorious Twelve Today is the Glorious Twelfth – the beginning of the shooting season for red grouse. There’s no equivalent name for the start of the Scottish football calendar – Sensational Saturday? – but this weekend sees the twelve powers of the Scottish Premier League re-align for another smashing season of soccer. Read on for a dozen […]
- Going on Holiday? Pack Your Replica Shirt Back in the mid-90s, before Mrs Williamson was a snowboarder, we’d often spend the Martin Luther King long weekend (mid-January) flying down to Miami and hanging out in South Beach. It was a fine break from the freezing New York winters and allowed me to transform my pasty white skin into a marginally less pasty […]
- What’s the Hampden? (Part 1 of an occasional series) This is the first in an occasional series where we will take a match result and look at memorable games in Scottish history with that result. This week: games that ended 4-1: 1882 Scottish Cup Final: Queen’s Park 4 Dumbarton 1 (after 2-2 draw)
- Six Months Later: The State of the SPL 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…