If you weren’t looking for a football ground you would miss Blairwood Park. Home of Oakley United, the ground peers on to the main road as if it’s playing hide and seek with cars. It played host to the latest instalment of the ‘Fitba’ Greats’ series. These
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KEVIN GRAHAM: It’s been a long two weeks. The days have seemed short but the weeks long. There is something comforting in being the underdog again. It suits me better that we can create siege mentalities and perceived professional injustices. Lennoxtown would have been a frustrating place
Read more →His flame-red curls like a fire in the glen, grace and poise juxtaposed with underdog victories, the self-destructive nature of a classic rogue, and the ability to play football like it was an art form… Perhaps the life and times of Jimmy Johnstone was always destined to
Read more →I grew up in Knightswood in the west of Glasgow, and had been training with Celtic once or twice a week from the age of about 14. I didn’t come up from the Boys’ Club, I was playing with Drumchapel Hibs at the time. Initially I got
Read more →Glasgow Doors Open Day has become an annual event where business and buildings across the city let the public in for a behind-the-scenes look at some of the city’s most famous venues. You can tread the boards at the Tron, pop your head into the Panopticon or
Read more →The reaction to The Bhoys’ ‘Twenty’s Plenty’ banners at recent away games was predictable. It was the only outcome after years of divide and conquer tactics employed by club owners and governing bodies. We are conditioned to be selfish and default to ‘whitabootery’, while those who
Read more →PAUL JOHN DYKES: All over Scotland, police intelligence officers are scrolling and trolling social media and football fan forums to identify associations and to capture images. The Police National Computer is being checked to identify ‘risk supporters’ before further agencies are tapped into in order to confirm
Read more →Celtic were booed off the field on this day 54 years ago. Nine players who would become Lisbon Lions a couple of years later were the subject of their own supporters’ wrath for only being able to overcome Go Ahead Eagles by a solitary Joe McBride headed
Read more →PAUL JOHN DYKES: The reassuring sight of Fraser Forster’s long-reaching arms, held aloft in preparation as Cluj squared-up to launch their corners into the Celtic box on Thursday night, seemed like a distant memory this afternoon at the Tony Macaroni Arena. The 6’ 7” stopper, along with
Read more →ALAN MORRISON: Despite losing stalwarts such as Kelly, Gallagher, Halkett and Menga, manager Holt has seemingly pulled together another awkward squad. Although attendances average under 3,000, Livingston sit mid-table on eight points from seven games. Livingston are one of only four clubs on double figures SPFL goals
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