• Back To The Future The Scottish Premier League’s rule change to allow the re-introduction of terracing at football grounds is just the first in a series of announcements to be made under a “Back to the Eighties” initiative to reinvigorate, revitalise, and revivify top-tier Scottish club football. Over the next 18 months, soccer casuals, football specials, and genuine competition […] Billy Williamson
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    December 22, 2011
  • A Postcard From Billy If you’re looking for some off-season Billy, here’s a quick one – a Word Cloud I created from the McLeish Report. What’s a Word Cloud?  A visualisation of the relative frequency of words in a piece of text – which can give insights into that text. In this case, I cut and pasted the entire […] Pete Reid
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    June 23, 2011
  • 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
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    February 17, 2011
  • Whatever Happened to… The McLeish Report Billy is away this week so we are republishing his brilliant analysis of Henry McLeish’s recent report into Scottish football. The report was in development for over a year and was supposed to “send shockwaves through the Scottish game“. But 5 months on, and aside from the SFA getting a Facebook page, has anything changed? Billy Williamson
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    September 30, 2010
  • The Football We Deserve James Curran Baxter was born in 1939 in Hill of Beath, Fife.  He played 381 games for Raith Rovers, Rangers, Sunderland, Nottingham Forest, and Scotland, scoring 38 goals, including both in the 1963 win at Wembley – the stadium where, four years later, he played “keepie uppie” against the newly-crowned world champions.  Baxter retired from […] Billy Williamson
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    July 29, 2010