This is the fierce last stand of all I am...
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It was all thanks to Keith Carlyon really. Keith was the year above me at school, a Jambo, nice wee guy but prone to the odd provocative comment about football. Some years later, his dad Charlie would become Scotland’s first heart transplant patient (true story). I’d been prevaricating all week about whether to trail through […]
When you reach a certain age, you find yourself looking back at events in your past that have defined you, pointed you in the direction you eventually find yourself as a person. I write this on the cusp of the 40thanniversary of one of the defining days of my life, Sunday 10th October 1982. That was […]
It’s the year punk rock was born, Concorde entered commercial service and a tiny Romanian gymnast changed the sport forever… Archie Blunt is a man with big ideas. He just needs a break for them to be realised. In a bizarre brush with the light- entertainment business, Archie unwittingly saves the life of the UK’s […]
As is occasionally my wont, I’m moved today to write a few words on the enduring genius of Teenage Fanclub, specifically given tonight’s final leg of the Barrowland three-nighter, and with it the last appearance of Gerry Love with the band on a Glasgow stage. My relationship with TFC goes back to 1991 around the […]
I was chatting on Twitter a couple of weeks ago with a couple of good pals about the barely credible fact that it was coming up for 30 years since we’d all attended what we each saw as a formative run of gigs at the Barrowland, namely The Pogues mini-residence of December 1987. It transpired […]
I’ve always had a slightly selfish, ambivalent streak as far as charity events go. By this I mean, like most other people, I’m happy to turn up & chip in, but I’ve never really had much of an interest or inclination in becoming involved, always citing some excuse or other & hoping that whatever I […]
Ah, that joyous day that comes once a year for Celtic fans…the Season Ticket Renewal announcement. After a very difficult and at times downright aggravating season, it’s been good to see that, this year, the Club have taken account both of the prevailing economic challenges most of us are facing, and also taken a degree […]
I’ve been threatening to do this one for a while. Over the last few years, I’ve intermittently written a series of blogs on some of the records that, for a multitude of reasons, have had an impact on me down the years, usually positively. I’ve also managed to weave in numerous references to albums, and […]
When I bought my current house a few years ago, I ended up, after a long time of envy & longing, with a spare room big enough to claim as an office- in reality, a man cave. Plans were drawn & redrawn for how this room would be furnished, with a particular emphasis on the […]
There’s a lot of talk amongst Celtic fans just now about the possibility of this season yielding the domestic Treble of League, Scottish Cup & League Cup. Our next two games will go a long way toward determining our fate in the two cups, with an increasingly congested SPFL programme ahead to decide the outcome […]
