Ooh, aah, Nacho's Da?
Should we welcome Nacho Novo into the Scotland team with open arms?
He's lived here for years. His family is Scottish. He would give George Burley an option that he's sorely lacking at the moment.
But. But. I'm not convinced. National teams should have an emotional attachment. The ties with the native land have to be powerful enough - you have to want to play for the...
A belated happy 80th birthday to Lawrie Reilly.
The spearhead of the Famous Five that achieved such dominance in the Scottish game for Hibs in the early 1950's Reilly also performed spectacularly for Scotland and scored five times in five visits to Wembley.
He remains Hibs most capped player and it seems inconceivable now that someone playing for a side outside of Glasgow's big two could...
What Borders?If you go here Yes BBC Scotland-local news, you might expect to find something going on in the Borders? Borders? Where's they? Put 'Borders' or to be dangerously specific 'Scottish Borders' into the regional search engine on that page, what do you get? Nothing-sorry can't find you.Yes, if you look closely at the choice of regions there is South Scotland. So something sometimes happens in South Scotland-but the Borders, shown separately in the dinky wee map- is a news free region. 'Happy is the country which has no history' somebody once said. So to have no news is surely blissfully happy. Or justpig ignorant.(the image, for the benefit of BBC Scotland, is of the Borders. As you can see its all downhill from...
Another season, another club, another departure. Just what is wrong with Ian McCall? His “amicable” split with Queen of the South marks the end of his sixth spell in management. It is suggested that his next stop will be Partick Thistle. Which seems obvious enough because Thistle are a club crying out for a manager that seems to offer no stability whatsoever. Clydebank (during...
