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Fair Blows the Wind of Kazakhstan 21 Aug 2013 | 09:04 pm
I was one of the lucky ones in that I wasn't in Kazakhstan to report on the game so it meant that I wasn't one of the poor saps who were tied to the back of a tractor and dragged through a potato fiel...
The Andromeda Strain 19 Aug 2013 | 03:28 pm
` So the Demon Hunter had returned. This was bad news because Jorg Albertz only ever pops up when there are supernatural forces at work and the world of Scottish football has been refreshingly fr...
The Cerebus Syndrome 17 Aug 2013 | 03:42 pm
The past few days I’d spent with Keith Jackson were a real eye opener: five days of wine, women and cowboy hats as we loafed around the pubs and clubs of Byres Road, discussing how best to make mischi...
Stab Everybody 6 Aug 2013 | 10:33 pm
A journalist's quest for truth, the desire to shine a light on the murky conspiracies and machinations that go on in the bristling underbelly of Scottish society, sometimes take him to places where he...
Hello Darkness My Old Friend 23 Jul 2013 | 06:25 pm
Over the years I've found that some cities have their own peculiar scent: Paris smells of coffee and garlic; Amsterdam has the pungent aroma of grass and Berlin, well Berlin smells of shame. I notice...
The Tacitus Tactic 4 Jul 2013 | 10:56 pm
'Right,' said Lawwell, flexing his horse whip. 'In your new role, will you be revealing any details about the tv deal?' 'Of course I will...' replied Doncaster before being rudely interrupted by a h...
The Roche Limit 1 Jun 2013 | 04:03 pm
Where have they gone, those heroes of this past season? So many strange and fantastical characters that have orbited my glowing magnificence. Alex Thomson He lay unmoving as the midday sun burned h...
The Transparency Conundrum 30 May 2013 | 08:46 pm
"They wanted transparency so we gave them transparency and sent the Invisible Girl over to Lawwell's country retreat, Schönhausen" said Chris Graham, sitting looking louche on a leather armchair, play...
To the End 29 May 2013 | 09:42 pm
Graham Spiers sat in front of Peter Lawwell, a rictus idiot grin spread across his face, his head nodding in time to every order enunciated by his master. He looked pathetic; fawning and flattering, ...
Ring of Bright Water 21 May 2013 | 05:52 pm
The breeze on the Boulevard St. Germain was light and only noticed when little puffs of seeds floated down from neighbouring trees and settled on tables and in the hair of tourists sipping coffee and ...
