I remember years ago, when I was a teacher in Glasgow, schools weren’t too strict about uniforms and children would turn up dressed in all manner of tracksuits. The fact that sports shops took council clothing vouchers didn’t help matters. Some parents were a bit more savvy than others and bought cheaper tracksuits so they […]

I’m currently working on the follow-up to A Toast to Charlie Hanrahan and when I’m a bit stuck I go for a wander on the internet. Last night, I happened to come across a Wikipedia entry for Neo-Gers in Season 2018-19. Of course, it’s full of stuff about Gerrard’s signings and it also has a […]

Everybody’s been congratulating Phil Mac Giolla Bhain for his ‘exclusive’ about Club 1872 taking out a £2m loan for the benefit of Honest Dave. (Although, to be fair, he didn’t claim it was an exclusive.) Unfortunately, it’s a bit like one of JJ’s ‘exclusives’ and came from elsewhere; namely a Hun blog called DaviesLeftPeg.I I’ve […]

I’ve written before about John Niven, of the Daily Record, who seems to be on a one-man crusade to out bigots. He wrote before about Trump’s supporters in American and now he’s banging on about Star Wars fanatics having a go at an actor in one of the new films because they happen to be […]

You can just imagine Steven Gerrard phoning Jürgen Klopp. ‘Alrigh’ there, Mr Klopp? I was just wondrrrrin’ if there’s any chance, like, a gettin’ a loan-a a couple-a loan players, like.’ ‘You can haff Ovie Ejaria.’ ‘Wha’? That la’ that the Sundrrrrlan’ supporrrrterrrs said was the worrrst player they’d evah seen, like?’ ‘Take it or leeff […]

As Dorothy said to Toto, “Wur no’ in fuckin’ Kansas any mare, wee man!” I mean, what the hell’s going on? We’ve got a convicted criminal questioning everybody’s integrity and the football authorities giving in to his twisted demands. Meanwhile, the likes of Keith Jackson and Graham Spiers are cheerleading from the side-lines. Okay, the […]

That’s the paperback version of Another Agnivore in a Different Kitchen available now. It’s on a different page to the Kindle version; it usually takes Amazon a couple of days to realise that it’s the same book and put both versions on the same page. Paperback £5.99 (Steady there, Monti!) available here. Kindle £1.99 available […]