Written by TJ [Please note this article will be moving to a new home at Football In The City and will soon no longer be available on this website] It All Happened Again In a break with how the rest of this has been written so far. I'm going to hurdle straight over the conflicts... Continue Reading →
Written by TJ [Please note this article will be moving to a new home at Football In The City and will soon no longer be available on this website] It Wasn’t the War to End All Wars To summarise parts 1 and 2, we established that poppies were being used symbolically during the First World... Continue Reading →
Written by TJ [Please note this article will be moving to a new home at Football In The City and will soon no longer be available on this website] The Commercialisation of the Poppy The Great War had altered the existing balance of power and the landscape of the world forever. Millions of women entered... Continue Reading →
Written by TJ [Please note this article will be moving to a new home at Football In The City and will soon no longer be available on this website] The Poppy is in evocative symbol these days. How deeply ironic is it to be told that there is only one way to remember those that... Continue Reading →
Written by TJ As FIFA and UEFA quarrel over rights to host tournaments worth billions ($25 bn being what is mooted for the new Club World Cup - read about it here), one particular quote stuck out for me: “I cannot accept that some people who are blinded by the pursuit of profit are considering... Continue Reading →
Written by TJ Roger Mitchell said something recently that stopped me in my tracks. Not at the start. I'd heard all that bit before - though its certainly as succinct a summary of the war for power at the SFA that's raged for 20 years as you are likely to read. At the end. A... Continue Reading →
Written by TJ Something seemed a little off when watching Scotland prepare for the Portugal game recently. I eventually put my finger on what it was. See I remember that Vauxhall had announced it was terminating its sponsorship of all the home nations effective from the end of the World Cup. Yet here we were... Continue Reading →
Written by TJ Last night I watched the Scotland game on my sofa, and then went to bed. But I also went on a bit of a journey. In the end I fell asleep reminiscing about football when I was younger with Pat Nevin’s voice in my ears talking intelligently about the Scottish football product... Continue Reading →
Written by TJ We previously called the SFA's failure to examine this issue properly an open, festering wound on the game. This may well divide opinion, but today I'm not going to write on the eligibility of players, campaigns for title-stripping or whether there was a 'sporting advantage' gained. In a gambit of questionable folly... Continue Reading →
The premise for this piece started off as discussion with Roger Mitchell, former-CEO at the SPL over the merits of a thought provoking article by Michael Wood. The topic - whether Scottish football was any better off for the SPL after 20 years. It is well worth a read if, like us, you believe it... Continue Reading →
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