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Some Things I Learned This Week, and Some Things I Knew Already
(1) We’re going to Poland/Ukraine Big Lee McCulloch has made himself available for selection for Scotland again! That’s qualification sorted then. (2) The SFA are incompetent You’d think someone, somewhere, would have thought to check up on Andrew Driver’s actual eligibility before having a bloody press conference about it.
Billy Williamson
February 18, 2010
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Meet Me In Almaty
Before this draw, I was convinced, sure, certain, that we were finally going to bag one of my dream dates: Kazakhstan. A nice short hop (for me) to Almaty, a town where a friend once ate a horse’s penis. How do you manage that without getting a kick in the head, you might ask? Well, […]
Billy Williamson
February 11, 2010
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Tony, What Are You Thinking?
In Greek, the name “Tony” means “thriving” (look it up if you don’t believe me). Sadly for Celtic fans everywhere, their Tony is anything but.
Billy Williamson
February 4, 2010
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More Tales of a TA Gourmet: On Fast Food and Football
Continuing last week’s culinary travelogue, I hope you appreciate the risks I have taken along the way – most notably a wonderful jalfrezi in a dirty curry house in Hong Kong’s Chungking Mansions which set a new record time through my intestine. It reappeared within four hours of the meal’s completion.
Billy Williamson
January 28, 2010
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Tales of a TA Gourmet: On Fast Food and Football
Despite the fact I can barely boil an egg, I do like to think I appreciate a quality bit of grub, whether it’s fried soup dumplings from Yang’s in Shanghai ($1 for 6) or lunch at Le Bernardin in Manhattan (quite a bit more for 6 courses).
Billy Williamson
January 21, 2010
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Winning Strategies For Football Chairmen, part one: How To Choose A Manager
So with half the fixture list behind us, a quarter of the teams in the SPL find themselves without a long-term manager in place. At the start of the season you’d have been given long odds on Craig Levein being the first out of his office, although after the Norway-Scotland game I’ve no doubt the […]
Billy Williamson
January 14, 2010
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From Harthill to Harajuku – A Journey Through Scottish Football Fashion
Before Sunday’s Old Firm game, I performed the usual ritual. Open up the bottom drawer and rummel around in 25-odd years worth of old Rangers shirts to find the one for the game. This time, I settled on the 1990-92 Admiral version (see it here). Normally a certain shirt brings back memories of certain players […]
Billy Williamson
January 7, 2010
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The Williamson-modified FIFA Bollocks Ranking Scale
Following Scotland’s failure to qualify for the World Cup, our Fifa World Ranking dropped down to 30. However in October 2009, Billy invented the above named scale which took into account the size of our country and propelled us to #4 in the World. Brilliant. Full details below.
Billy Williamson
January 2, 2010
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From Fife to FIFA
This week a leaked document came into my possession from a mole deep within the SFA hierarchy. Obviously I can’t reveal his name, so let’s just call him Gorgeous Pete.
Billy Williamson
December 17, 2009
