Reviews from When Saturday Comes. Follow the link to buy the book from Amazon.
Cris Freddi looks at the history of the hairless footballer, and whether they are still around abroad
A bald fact: there weren’t many of them in the very early days of the game, partly because relatively few players won any caps after leaving university. Only when international careers grew longer did hairlines began to recede.
Tommy Burns was tasked with winning the league for Celtic, but Gary Oliver details how he found Rangers and Falkirk in his way
Twenty four hours after the country went to the polls, Glasgow East declared that Tommy Burns had lost his seat as Celtic’s manager. Although the Scottish press had campaigned for Burns to be granted a second term of office, Time For A Change proved the prevailing sentiment amongst voters in the Parkhead boardroom.
The Scottish First Division doesn't deserve its bad reputation, says Paul Hutton
This time of year is a nervous one for many supporters, particularly, it would seem, if your team is facing possible relegation to Scotland’s First Division. Most journalists in Scotland, and a worrying number of supporters, seem to view the First Division in the same way that mediaeval monks regarded strange lands with funny customs.
Colin McPherson explains how Edinburgh City have gained some new fans thanks to the supporters of Meadowbank Thistle
Like the first drops of snot at the onset of a bad cold we started to support our new team.
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“I saw Gary Lineker at a whisky promo in the British Embassy in Tokyo. He wasn’t very easy to spot as he was surrounded by a load of middle-class wankers pretending to like football. I was nervous like a kid and it took me ages to work up the balls to speak to him. I shook his hand and asked him what he felt like when he equalized against Germany. He said that he felt the same way that I did. So I told him I was German. Well I didn’t, but I thought of the reply 10 minutes later.”
John Tumilty