Bill Leckie

YOU wonder what makes a 35-year-old man like Kyle Lafferty risk his career for the sake of a cheap sectarian jibe. Then you remember. It’s the same, ingrained impulse that, every week of every seas…

OZAN KABAK sounds like something the Arabian Knights would holler to open a secret passage. And it was the magic phrase that made Scotland’s defence open wide. Get the ball out wide, call the centr…

FORT Myers Beach is open for business — and believe me, that’s not a sentence I thought would be written any time soon. Not after a dream stay there that ended in the nightmare of evacuation from t…

SORRY, Killie. But you just don’t get penalties like that, in games like that, when it’s all going down to the wire like that. It’s just not how Scottish football works. If you’d been 1-0 up on Cel…

NINE minutes to go in a derby six-pointer you simply cannot afford to lose. You’ve just equalised. The momentum’s with you, the place is bouncing for the first time all afternoon. One point’s yours…

THUNDER rumbled over Rugby Park as the final whistle blew. But the storm clouds were shifting from over Steven Naismith’s head – for now. Alex Lowry’s dramatic 91st minute with his first touch…

WE’VE all shouted things we shouldn’t at the football. We’ve all unleashed abuse at refs or opposition players and fans, that we wouldn’t dream of saying to their faces if we met them in the street…

THERE’S a lyric by the band Faithless that cuts right to the chase of our mental health. It goes: “If you place a thing at the centre of your life that lacks the power to nourish, it will eventuall…

RONALD KOEMAN admits he can’t believe his team got away with a clean sheet against Scotland. The Dutch coach watched his Euro title hopefuls being outplayed for long spells in the Johan Cruyff Aren…

STEVIE NAISMITH claimed NEITHER side deserved a penalty on a day of video nasties for the Jambos. The visitors has one turned down vis VAR despite ref Colin Steven deciding Celtic defender Liam Sca…