Out and About

I took all these photos between 8 o’clock last night and 6 o’clock this evening.
I also managed a few hours work!
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Doctored Livingston I Presume?

Apart from the SPL clubs and the Setanta situation, there are several football clubs in the SFL with one foot in the grave and another on a banana skin.
Foremost amongst these are two clubs, Clyde and Livingston. Both clubs inhabit stadiums built for them and owned by their local councils. Both clubs moved to their [...]

Optimal Size. When Big Isn’t Beautiful.

What is the optimal size for…………….a country, a government, a business? How about a football club?
Eh? I hear you say.
Bear with me here.
On Saturday, around 800 folk from Dumbarton made the trip to Annan to witness the success of the local football club in lifting the third division championship. This is unusual. Normally a hundred [...]

Sons Snookered?

My good friend Ferncake tells me that when he saw Sons player Pat Boyle arrive at the stadium yesterday, He thought he’d slid back to an early 70’s Friday evening and Pot Black on BBC2

A Shot at Glory

My correspondent and pal Stu Who? brought up this film in the comments of another thread recently.
Stu pointed out that he’d had a part in the movie. Many of the readers and contributors here were in the crowd scenes.
My friend Craig Brittain also gets his name on the cast list as does Michael Dickie whom [...]

Wolves – The Glory Years

At New Year I mentioned that I had bumped into Malcolm Finlayson a former goalkeeper with Wolverhampton Wanderers and Milwall, at a friend’s party. Quite unexpectedly this week I received the book you see on the left, through the post ( I had told him about my business and he’d worked out the address) [...]

Football on Trial.

I didn’t do my normal ref comment on my match report on Saturday. This was partly because the ref’s performance played no part in the final outcome. I thought he perhaps let too much go unchecked but to be honest that is usually preferable than a plethora of cards. One decisive moment was in the [...]

It’s a Fix?

I see that two Norfolk based MP’s are calling on the (English) FA to investigate match fixing allegations over a match earlier this month in which Derby County defeated Norwich City 2-1. These allegations centre on betting patterns in the far east. Apparently a lot of money went on Derby at half time in the [...]

High Tension At Boghead

Scenes from the last game at Boghead in 2000. Thanks to On the Rocks
Thank you to both The Vinyl Villain and The Helpless Dancer for this record. It’s a 1997 B side (remember them?) from the Supernaturals which I have heard plenty about but I had never actually heard the record until today. This [...]

Coatbridge bound

I have my second trip to Lanarkshire within a few days and no matter what the result between Dumbarton and Albion Rovers today it will be a better day today. Fern Cake and I will meet up with our old pal Patrick Rolink the Rovers commercial manager.
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