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Remembrance, Old Firm-style From
rendall
in Fitba Hell
(9 days old)
I was a naïve 18-year-old when I arrived at Glasgow University in 1993, never having been to Scotland's biggest city before for more than a couple of hours. I’d grown up in Aberdeen, disliking Celtic … more
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Thirteen syllables From
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in Fitba Hell
(13 days old)
Never mind whether Newcastle have sold out with their new stadium name. I'm more interested in the epic amount of syllables that have been squeezed in: there's a grand total of 13 in the (draws breath… more
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Hit the north From
rendall
in Fitba Hell
(16 days old)
The Highland League is like French pop music: a familiar form in a bizarre parallel world. Like Serge Gainsbourg singing about men with cauliflowers for heads or suicidal ticket collectors (youtube.co… more
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How good is Marlon King? From
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in Fitba Hell
(21 days old)
Marlon King is a thug and bully, but also possessor of an arrogance inversely proportional to his talent. I can just about stomach a bit of posturing from Cristiano Ronaldo or Didier Drogba. But Marlo… more
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Drumcree scarf From
rendall
in Fitba Hell
(29 days old)
Rangers gave free tickets to the military for their champions League game on Tuesday. Take a look at the bloke with the scarf on the left-hand side. Isn't the British Army meant to be the neutral … more
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Roman will be sulking From
rendall
in Fitba Hell
(78 days old)
Hilarious. Chelsea aren't allowed to sign anyone for another 16 months. Now if that ban could only be extended to all the other European football behemoths, football might start getting interesting ag… more
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McGhee abuse From
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in Fitba Hell
(78 days old)
Why is it that so many people think football exists in a moral vacuum? Mark McGhee was the subject of vile abuse from a section of Motherwell supporters last week, which doesn't deserve repeating in a… more
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Charmless From
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in Fitba Hell
(88 days old)
Back in the mid-1980s, Aberdeen and Everton won the European Cup Winners' Cup within two years of each other. Both teams had a period where they could justifably lay claim to being the best side in Eu… more
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How to become a legend From
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in Fitba Hell
(92 days old)
Barry Ferguson comes out before a crucial Scotland game and whinges about the way the SFA made him persona non grata. A few days earlier, Darren Fletcher had said representing Scotland at the World Cu… more
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Norway shocker From
rendall
in Fitba Hell
(98 days old)
Even some of the more sensible media pundits - Richard Gordon, for one - have been getting stuck into George Burley. It's all just a bit too easy, and a bit of historical perspective is required. A… more
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There is nothing like a ... From
rendall
in Fitba Hell
(107 days old)
So Real Madrid have bought Xabi Alonso for a mere £30million, the latest blow in their tit-for-tat with Manchester City to see who can spend the most grotesque amount of money this summer. It's like w… more
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25 years on From
rendall
in Fitba Hell
(113 days old)
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… more
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First Gretna, now Livi From
rendall
in Fitba Hell
(114 days old)
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 ups… more
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Sidney Govou and the 'Well youngsters From
rendall
in Fitba Hell
(114 days old)
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 sh… more
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Diego gets ambushed by the Record From
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in Fitba Hell
(367 days old)
There’s a picture on the back page of the Daily Record today of a journalist looking like a plonker and Diego Maradona looking mildly alarmed. The Record wanted to reward Maradona, somewhat belatedly,… more
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We hate Beckham, Beckham is us From
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in Fitba Hell
(394 days old)
England fans must hate themselves. It’s hard to conclude otherwise when you see the venom directed at their own any time the national team fails to win. Expectation builds up to a frenzy before tourna… more
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Not just knuckle-draggers From
rendall
in Fitba Hell
(395 days old)
Well done Walter Smith. Rangers chairman David Murray has been laying into the Rangers bigots for a while now, but I can’t recall Smith ever expressing his disdain for the sectarian “bile” that refuse… more
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Boyd v Iwelumo From
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in Fitba Hell
(398 days old)
Chris Iwelumo has reacted with incredible good grace to the humiliation of that miss against Norway last week. He's had to field constant questions about an incident that's made him an object of deris… more
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Good little boys From
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in Fitba Hell
(398 days old)
Strathclyde Police praised Scotland fans for their good behaviour before and after the World Cup qualifier against Norway last weekend. Isn't this a bit odd when you think about it? Isn't it the sort … more
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More significant than Robinho From
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in Fitba Hell
(423 days old)
Robinho, despite his his £32million price tag, was not the most significant signing on the last day of the transfer window. The little-noticed (beyond the north-east of Scotland) arrival in Aberdeen o… more
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Should have gone to Specsavers From
rendall
in Fitba Hell
(588 days old)
Gary Megson must be the most spectacularly short-sighted manager of all time. With a chance of winning the UEFA Cup - a competition the club had celebrated gaining entry into with gusto last year -… more
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Moral Vacuum From
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in Fitba Hell
(588 days old)
No one batted an eyelid the other night when, after Theo Walcott's amazing run to set up Arsenal's equaliser against Liverpool, one TV pundit chose instead to focus on the apparent stupidity of the de… more
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Shhhhhhh From
rendall
in Fitba Hell
(607 days old)
Rangers’ fans were on spectacularly impotent form on Wednesday night. I was in the Broomloan End with two Partick Thistle-supporting friends, who, along with another 3,000 or so of their ilk, were del… more
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Poor Little Rich Things From
rendall
in Fitba Hell
(644 days old)
Writing elsewhere about five years ago, I predicted that the pressures of football’s bid for world domination could lead to a scenario where Manchester United were put under pressure to move lock, sto… more
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Luca Toni: good player, top-class human being From
rendall
in Fitba Hell
(644 days old)
There are three ways to deal with abuse from opposition fans: most players ignore it, a few stoke it up, but it’s only a tiny minority who confront it head on with good grace and humility. Luca… more
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Wake Me Up From
rendall
in Fitba Hell
(765 days old)
I feel queasy. Scotland are playing with that familiar air of panicked desperation. Georgia are lording it over them like a playground bully who's stolen your conkers and is twirling them contemptu… more
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Classic Footballing Stereotypes No 173 From
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in Fitba Hell
(774 days old)
Aberdeen coach Sandy Clark pontificating about AC Milan keeper Dida on Radio Scotland tonight: "Being Brazilian, he's obviously temperamental." Yes, really.… more
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Dida and McGhee From
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in Fitba Hell
(779 days old)
MARK McGhee can look forward to a career in journalism when he leaves football management, should he wish to pursue that line of work. A fan has just run onto the pitch at Parkhead and struck out a… more
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Gaelic Goals From
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in Fitba Hell
(881 days old)
THERE really is no escape these days. For all the media attempts to define the essence of summer as stawberries and cream at Wimbledon, tumbling in the mud at T in the Park or inane sexual shenanigans… more
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Naismith's Nae Bigot From
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in Fitba Hell
(892 days old)
What a traitorous mercenary that Steven Naismith is. So you might expect Rangers fans to protest as one of their own stands to be pilfered by the green and white hordes. Naismith - unlike the more… more