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Interview with St. Johnstone Manager Derek McInnes
St. Johnstone, the SPL’s newcomers, have made a decent start to life back at the top level, and are currently sitting in 8th place. As the league gears up again for the Christmas stretch, manager Derek McInnes talks about life in the SPL and points to one win in particular that was especially significant.
Pete Reid
December 11, 2009
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Scotland’s Player of the Century
I think it’s time to take stock and review the state of our game in a rational and moderate way by searching for Scotland’s Player of the Century. Yes, let’s take a look back through the first ten years of the millennium and determine which player best represents our very own lost decade.
Billy Williamson
December 10, 2009
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Ten Scottish(*) Football Books Worth Reading, Part 2
(*) I continue to define ‘Scottish Football Books’ here under the ‘granny rule’ – even if they’re not Scottish but they mention Scotland, they qualify.
Billy Williamson
December 3, 2009
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Ten Scottish(*) Football Books Worth Reading, Part 1
(*) ‘Scottish Football Books’ are defined under the ‘FIFA granny rule’ – even if they’re not Scottish but they mention Scotland, they qualify. (I ignore the fact that Fever Pitch would almost certainly choose to play for England if it had the choice.) In No Particular Order:
Billy Williamson
November 26, 2009
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Martial Arts and Magic Tricks
Backed into a corner by the likes of Jim Traynor and Charlie Nicholas, George Peat and Gordon Smith demonstrated their mastery of the ancient samurai martial art of jujitsu – the core principle of which is the use of an attacker’s energy against him, rather than directly opposing it. I bow deeply in the face of […]
Billy Williamson
November 19, 2009
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Are Rangers Donald Ducked?
I’d like to continue last week’s theme on the proposals for the Atlantic League because there is more to be said there, but at the moment there’s only really one big question in Scottish football: Are Rangers Donald Ducked?
Billy Williamson
October 29, 2009
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How many frozen hot chocolates could Sepp Blatter eat before he explodes?
So I am back working in Tokyo this week, for obvious reasons; and because my team in Japan work incredibly hard for me, I was sitting at my PC near them at 9.20pm pretending to also work hard when I received an instant message from a colleague in New York – a Brooklynite with a […]
Billy Williamson
October 8, 2009
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Kane, Cadamarteri, and Keynes: The State of the SPL
I’m not sure if Scotland’s Premier footballing league more closely resembles the chaotic fractal patterns of a Mandelbrot diagram, with repeating patterns that are similar yet infinitely different; or the oscillators that occur in a computer-generated cellular automaton, constantly flitting between steady states.
Billy Williamson
October 1, 2009
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The Glasgow Coma Scale
Last week, Mrs Williamson – a medical professional – educated me on the “Glasgow Coma Scale”. This is used by doctors worldwide to assess the level of consciousness of a patient and is named because of its invention in the University of Glasgow. Surprised that Glasgow has expertise in head trauma? No, me neither.
Billy Williamson
September 24, 2009