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Kenneth WardHerald Scotland |
AFTER a recent routine spring clean of the household finances, I was confronted with a raft of unfair, skewed, politically motivated figures: an...
A FEW weeks ago, I suggested that April could be the cruellest month for Rangers. And so it has proved, in the cinch Premiership at least. But is...
I STRONGLY disagree. No, not the customary response from the sports editor whenever I present him with this column. This was instead the retort from...
IT may have been several days ago, but the backdraft from Sunday’s blazing 3-3 derby draw between Rangers and Celtic at Ibrox can still be felt like...
THE international break is to the sports desk what one of those mysterious “in-service days” must be to teachers. Does anyone outside of education...
“April is the cruellest month”. So begins TS Eliot’s doomsday masterpiece The Waste Land. I think of that line every time I glance out at the...
WHEN Brendan Rodgers climbed into the Celtic cockpit for a second time last summer, he knew what he was getting himself into – so the merry refrain...
BRENDAN RODGERS faces a touchline ban for the upcoming derby against Rangers over his criticisms of VAR John Beaton following last weekend's 2-0...
WHEN it comes to referees, I’ll forgive all manner of sins. All the little errors – throw-ins given the wrong way, pulled jerseys missed, balls...
SOMETIMES, it can feel like the universe is speaking to us. Those moments of synchronicity, where apparently unrelated coincidences bring meaning to...
DID you ever read The Da Vinci Code? Buy a James Blunt album? Watch the Twilight movies? Is the real answer the one you would admit in public? Now...
WITHOUT even looking at the cinch Premiership table, you can already sense there is a title race on. Every point gained or dropped, every chance taken...
AFTER re-securing the back garden gate to a makeshift fencepost in the wake of Storm Isha, having picked through the wreckage of long-ago disregarded...
IS there a socially acceptable way to get blotto? Have a few cans and a bottle of tonic wine on the train to the game, and, like Bananaman after...
IF your email inbox is anything like mine, you’re probably being inundated daily with images of sunned Adonises bathing on foreign shores with...
ON the back of the astounding success of the recent docuseries Alan Bates vs The Post Office, there’s maybe someone working behind the scenes at...
IT was an “expensive” error. So said Rangers manager Philippe Clement in the immediate aftermath of his side’s 2-1 Premiership defeat to Celtic...
COLD TURKEY anyone? Now that the Christmas dinner plates have been cleaned and put away, the tinsel hanging from every surface of the home is starting...
BAH, humbug! That favourite chorus line of the misanthrope. Charles Dickens conceived of the embittered Ebenezer Scrouge, who saw through yuletide...
SUMMER seems a distant memory. Events have shrunk from the mind like small boats on the horizon. Brendan Rodgers’ return to Glasgow in June occupies...
HE may have been forced to cancel his plans to attend COP28 in Dubai this weekend, but Pope Francis declared himself fit enough to honour his meeting...
WHAT’S the Spanish for “We’ve been VARed”? In fact, what is it in Italian, or Dutch for that matter? Come to think of it, what is it...
WHAT do you do when the smoke alarm sounds? The interminable tests we practised at school, shivering out in the cold in lines as an imaginary blaze...
COGITO, ergo sum. Three words which came to define Western philosophy in the face of modern times during the Enlightenment. For Celtic, holding onto...
MENTION VAR these days and, coupled with an inevitably harassed sigh, one phrase you are almost certain to hear is “clear and obvious”. Ah yes, we...
IS anyone else cowering in a purgatorial corner waiting for the Hollywood writers’ strikes to catch up with their diet of mind-numbing bingeworthy...
WHEN Celtic were drawn against Feyenoord, Atletico Madrid and Lazio in Champions League Group E at the end of last month, my eyes lit up. Not at the...
FOR some, Brendan Rodgers’ return to Celtic was something of a damp squib. After a failure to launch in August following defeat to Kilmarnock in the...
COLLECTING the middle child from school has been interesting. One experience this week felt like it had been sent by the refereeing gods as a sign, a...