@ Friday, Jul. 31, 2009 – 00:48:40
I feel sad more than anything else about Aberdeen's thumping in Europe tonight. Mark McGhee's last game as an Aberdeen player was in a European semi-final in 1984. His first as manager was to lose 5-1 at home in a preliminary round.
I know Aberdeen and Scottish football have been overtaken by forces far beyond their control in the last 25 years. But couldn't more have been done to build long-lasting foundations on the success of a team that, for a time, was Europe's best?
@ Thursday, Jul. 30, 2009 – 00:30:49
Looks like another of the newer names in Scottish football will soon cease to exist. Not that Livingston FC will be mourned by too many. Like Gretna, they were perceived as Johnny-Come-Latelys who upset the established order by living outwith their means.
But what's more worthy of contempt? A Gretna or Livi who took risks and dared to aspire to success against the odds, or an Albion Rovers or East Stirling, enjoying impunity from relegation and content to bump around the farthest depths of the league structure in perpetuity? There are plenty of better-supported and more ambitious teams in the Highland League, East of Scotland league and the Juniors. Let's open a trapdoor like they have at the bottom of England's Division 2 - it'd be one small step to reinvigorating Scottish football.
@ Thursday, Jul. 30, 2009 – 00:19:44
A good few years ago I taught English to Sidney Govou. Sidney went on to play for Lyon and France, but at that that time he was a 15-year-old nightmare with a penchant for dancing on tables when he should have been conjugating verbs.
Four years later, I bumped into him at a party after he'd been signed up by Lyon. As people got wasted around him, his presence was conspicuous. He was upright, immaculately turned out, spoke quietly and seriously, and refused umpteen offers of booze and snacks. This was a young man intent on going places.
A few months ago I was on the same train as two Motherwell youth players on their way to training. They were stuffing their faces with Lion Bars and Irn Bru. Sidney would not have approved.
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