Football

The years when every top English side had a nucleus of world-class Scottish players is due in no small part to two ‘super scouts’. At Leeds and Man United, John Barr and Jimmy Dickie were rivals competing for talent north of the border but their friendship and

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There can’t be many things more uncomfortable than holding a mirror up to yourself and to countenance the possibility that all the certainties of your world are starting to evaporate before your eyes. Is this what is happening to Brendan Rodgers, and the fans alike, in his

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There are places I’ll remember All my life though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain In My Life – The Beatles Like most obsessives, football was introduced to me at an early age. The buzz of cup finals and

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There will be no changing of the guard any time soon. No removal of Scottish football’s lynchpin from his hundred mile-high pedestal. Pretenders to his throne haven’t even earned the position of clown prince – they will have to earn the right to lace his boots before

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