I lived in Edinburgh for years and if there was one time when it wasn’t safe to go to the pubs, it was when there was a rugby match on at Murrayfield. Before, during and after the match, the pubs would be full of loud, middle-class thugs, throwing glasses about, molesting women and beating up […]

Well, that didn’t take too long. I was expecting my book to be available tomorrow at the earliest, but it’s up on Amazon already. They’ve not got both versions on the same page yet, so the Kindle and paperback are listed separately. So, what’s it about? Rather than write a whole other spiel, I’ll just […]

If you’re as old as me, you’ll remember what cakes were like back in the 60s and 70s. Birthday cakes weren’t the sponge cakes you get these days. They were solid fruitcakes, with a layer of marzipan on top and covered in thick icing that was allowed to solidify. It was so hard you needed […]

With the furore over the Premiership split handing Neo-Gers a few extra home games, the Daily Record decided to do a piece about how the football authorities have angered football clubs in the past, just to even things up a bit. Top of the list, of course, is the scandalous way Rangers were treated in […]

Imagine, if you will, two young lads at their grandfather’s house, with their family. “Give us a song!” says Granda, following which the boys burst into a song they’ve been hearing on the radio, I Can See Clearly Now. Granda loses the nut, “That’s wan-y they fuckin’ reggae songs, intit? Ah’ll hiv nae ‘darkie’ songs […]

That was a great result for Celtic; especially since everybody expected the worst. No doubt we’ll hear all the stuff about Zenit not having played a competitive match for ages etc. etc. Well, Celtic have about half the team injured, don’t forget about that! The real reason, though, that Zenit didn’t put up the performance […]

Well, it’s that time of year again. The florists in Edinburgh’s New Town are always busy with secretaries buying last-minute bunches of flowers for the boss’s wife, which he needs in order to mollify her for ‘working late’ that day. Other couples are forced to pretend they’re in love for the day, eating silently by […]

As I get older, I am more and more hearing of the deaths of famous people that I knew of and liked when I was younger: actors, sportsmen, musicians etc. The older I get, the less of a shock these deaths are; in fact, I’m almost coming to accept it as a fact of life. […]

Things are getting ridiculous now; well, even more ridiculous than they were before. It’s beginning to look as if Auld Dignity won’t be taking over the Scotland job after all, for whatever reason. Maybe he doesn’t want the job or there’s opposition to his appointment or perhaps they’ve all read JJ’s blog; after all, he’s […]

So Auld Dignity is a ‘surprise candidate’ for the Scotland manager’s job, is he? Is he hell. We were all expecting it. The myth of what this character is supposed to have achieved goes hand-in-hand with the Big Lie and the story that those EBTs and side letters made no difference to Rangers’ capacity for […]