Journalists
It is 1970 and as the ball crosses the goal-line and the referee blows for full-time, Glen Gibbons is in a press box full of journalists who don’t know if Celtic have just beaten Benfica in Portugal or not. It all turns on the flip of a coin. Or two…
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Rodger Baillie’s career in football journalism spans more than 50 years and placed him in the victorious Celtic dressing room after the 1967 European Cup final. Here is what he saw…
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Do the Japanese eat dogs? Certainly not. Daisuke Nakajima, intrepid Shunsuke Nakamura correspondent, is offended, amused and then finally comes to terms with the weirdness of Scottish football…
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“Mo, Mo Super Mo, Super Maurice Coyne.” Being called Maurice in Glasgow turns from a blessing to a curse thanks to a certain blond striker…
Read MoreThe great, young Ajax team of Louis van Gaal is remembered, uniquely, through a dark prism of Goya’s crafting, as Madrid is conquered by Kluivert, Overmars, Davids and Litmanen…
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On the road with Aberdeen and Uncle Duncan: card-sharking, can-swilling, Fruit Club-throwing, gob-absorbing hero of Dan Stewart’s youth…
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An incredible tale of how the last years in the life of an Aberdeen great of the 1930s intersected with a journalist who would become the chief chronicler of the club in the modern era…
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A glorious night in Gothenburg in 1983 prompts esteemed Scotsman sportswriter Mike Aitken to abandon his objectivity and join the party…
Read MoreThe memory can play tricks, but witnessing a Willie Miller rollicking at close quarters sears itself on a young mind forever…
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