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The Big Macs forgot about McDonald
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After a relatively long sleep, the elephant in the room has re-awoken, doubtless much to the annoyance of everyone else in the room. Yes, it’s been a while since the last Celtic-desperate-to-join-the-Premiership headline. Actually, it may be a while more.
Nope, these days they’re setting their sights higher, if chief-exec Peter Lawwell is to be [...]
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Tags: Celtic, Derek Riordan, Falkirk, Hibs, John Hughes, Motherwell, Neil Lennon, Paul Telfer, Peter Lawwell, Scotland Premier League, SPLWantaways take note
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Three years ago, it’s fair to say things were looking up for Stephen Pearson. Man-of-the-match performances for Motherwell, a recent Scotland call-up and boyhood heroes Celtic apparently knocking on the door. When he signed in January 2004, he was met with the usual chorus of scepticism about a promising Scot being dumped on the Old [...]
Category: Scottish Premier LeagueTwo-hit wonder
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He’s hardly the first. Great artists as varied as JD Salinger, The Las and, er, Vanilla Ice were his forebears. All it takes is one moment of inspiration and you’ll never escape the shadow of the one hit that just won’t go away, no matter how many Franny and Zooies (or Roll ‘Em Ups) you [...]
Category: Scottish Premier LeagueNovo’s no Mo
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It’s been the source of conjecture for some time, but finally confirmation today that Nacho Novo does indeed have it together upstairs. As most people in the west of Scotland will tell you, it’s been raining so hard the last three weeks that shares in ark merchants are the new black. So hardly surprising that [...]
Category: Scottish Premier LeagueCup Corner – the road to Hampden continues at, er, Hampden
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Sunshine in July. Burberry-clad neds. Colin & Justin. Also included in that veritable list of Scottish curiosities is Queen’s Park FC, the nation’s oldest football club – founded in 1867 – and key figures in establishing the rules of football. To this day they are the only league side to have remained amateur.
Most intriguingly, they [...]
Category: Scottish Premier LeagueGood Weekend/Bad Weekend
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Good weekend for…
Hibs fans – not the dream win but a stunning first-half against Celtic. Some say John Collins and Tommy Craig just have to say “more of the same, please.” Maybe so, but the management team have still to taste their first defeat.
Valdas Ivanauskas – Formula One’s loss is Hearts’ gain as the Great [...]
Category: Scottish Premier LeagueThe Top Flight Tussle – Hibs v Celtic
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There are evergreen footballers, and there are ever green footballers. John Collins slips comfortably into the latter, having given six stellar seasons to both Hibs and Celtic. On Sunday he welcomes to Easter Road the Glasgow side who, like Hibs, are on something of a roll.
Far from breaking down under the pressure of succeeding Tony [...]
Category: Scottish Premier LeagueScotland in Europe – Le Guen welcomed back to the fraternité
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Ronjers are looking to maintain their 100% record in the Uefa Cup tonight under a visibly more relaxed Paul Le Guen. If not quite steadied, the SPL ship has at least been dislodged from the ocean surface in the last couple of weeks. Added to that the Gers’ progress in foreign climes this season and [...]
Category: Scottish Premier LeagueAudi manage that?
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The cops are forever warning us about the dangers of driving under stressful circumstances. Well, at last they have their high-profile example to warn everyone they’re serious.
Valdas Ivanauskas was caught doing 97 in his Audi last month in Perthshire. Let’s just hope for the soon-to-be-booted coach’s sake that the Great Dictator doesn’t ask for the [...]
Category: Scottish Premier LeagueThe rain in Falkirk falls mainly on Falkirk
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While optimistic Celtic fans today google ‘flights athens may’, Falkirk’s Alan Gow also has sunnier climes in mind, with Levante apparently eyeing him up for a January swoop. Whether permanent or a mere three-month loan, there are surely worse ways to dodge the West Lothian winter.
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