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…
OFFER me the choice between free VIP tickets to a three-day rock festival or a weekend sticking forks in my eyes and the cutlery drawer wins every time. It’s not that TRNSMT, Glastonbury, Coachella…
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…
HERE’S a list of the ones I can work with. Here’s the ones I want out the door. Here’s the ones I have to get in. That’s how a manager makes his mark. By telling the board who’s who, what’s what an…
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…
THE lady at the Emirates check-in holds onto my passport and boarding card just a tad longer than feels necessary, then smiles and utters a sentence that turns my guts to molten lead. “If you care …
THERE’S breathtaking, then there’s doing yoga on a cliff’s edge at 11,727 feet. Up here, the air’s so thin that every downward-facing dog and warrior pose genuinely leaves you gasping. Up here, the…