The Crooks and Clowns of Copland Road
Craig Whyte has never met Prince Albert. That’s one of many unnecessary things I learned from the latest “BBC Investigates” documentary about a decade of murky dealings at Rangers. The recent SFA...
View ArticleCredit Where It’s Due: The Rangers Fiasco Awards
With the failure of Rangers FC plc’s Company Voluntary Arrangement and the liquidation of the club to follow, the Rangers debacle is finally coming to a resolution. Fittingly for a situation involving...
View ArticleSporting Integrity
Integrity is defined in the dictionary as “the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.” There’s no dictionary definition for “sporting integrity,” though there’s been no end of talk...
View ArticleHow Scotland Can Still Qualify For The 2014 World Cup
Virtually everyone has already written off Scotland’s chances of making the next World Cup. But as I watched us crush Estonia last night I started to wonder what needs to happen for us to make it. I...
View ArticleNYC Scotland Look For Revenge in Cosmos Copa
Back in 2006 when I lived in New York, I was part of the first annual Tartan Army Tartan Day football match between the NY Tartan Army and Tartan Army visitors. I know that there is too much ‘tartan’...
View ArticleNYC Scotland 4-4 NYC England
NYC Scotland President Colin Reid blasted his English counterpart over comments the NYC England man made after Sunday’s 4-4 tie between the teams in a pre-Cosmos Copa friendly in Brooklyn on Sunday,...
View ArticleNYC Scotland “Ready to take on the World” in Cosmos Copa Soccer Tournament
New York’s best Scottish soccer talent is set to make its debut appearance in the Cosmos Copa tournament this Sunday, 23 June, where they will face teams representing Gambia, England, and Paraguay. The...
View ArticleScotland Writers FC
It started, like all the best ideas, in the pub. I can’t remember which pub now, or how exactly the conversation went, but that’s always the way with pub chat, isn’t it? Either way, myself, fellow...
View ArticleOn How A German World Cup Win Could Lead To Scottish Independence
When I worked at the Scottish Parliament about 14 years ago, I had a fanciful conversation with a senior MSP about what effect a Scottish World Cup win would have on a vote for independence. My feeling...
View ArticleHere’s Why The Scotland v England Game Is Not A ‘Must-Win’ For Scotland
On Saturday, Scotland will host England at Hampden for the first time since 1999, and for the first time ever in a World Cup qualifier. Scotland currently lie 4th in Group F, behind England, Slovakia,...
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