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 | Should Calderwood be the man to rebuild? | | 12:53am Friday 2nd May 2008 | | SO, Jimmy Calderwood
is being given free reign
to rebuild at Aberdeen
this summer after coming through the aftermath of that
inglorious defeat to Queen of the South in the Scottish Cup semi-final. It will, apparently, be the biggest revamping of the squad for 40 years, although we all know football chairmen will say anything if they think it will push the right buttons with supporters. |
| Schools hold the key to providing sporting legacy | | 12:17am Thursday 1st May 2008 | |
THE legacy topic (Doug Gillon on Wednesday) was interesting. We have to concentrate on schools. Staff them to deliver PE, recreational sport/fitness, competitive sport and work closely with clubs. |
| Why Rangers’ plight is worthy of sympathy | | 12:13am Wednesday 30th April 2008 | | As Rangers' quadruple campaign begins to show stresses akin to the similarly front-running Obama campaign over here, I offer a comment that would also apply were the boot on the other Old Firm foot. |
| Fear of failure weighs heavily on Ibrox minds | | 12:19am Tuesday 29th April 2008 | | Though Walter Smith has exceeded expectations throughout this season, he seems fragile to criticism. His embarrassing outburst at Peter Lawwell Celtic chief executive before a highly charged match was at best ill-advised, and his decision to include Amdy Faye in the squad and then play him out of position was baffling. Fear of failure is clearly weighing heavily on all our minds. I just hope Walter shows more of the mental strength we will need in May. |
| Fans with Laptops | | 12:05am Friday 25th April 2008 | | Old Firm moaning depresses us all
Terry butcher summed up the debate regarding the extension of the SPL season perfectly when he said in Thursday's Rangers pullout words to the effect that "if
the SPL have annoyed both Rangers and Celtic, they must have done something right". |
| Fans with Laptops | | 12:23am Friday 18th April 2008 | |
Time to introduce the "penalty goal" in football
What if Celtic had not scored that injury-time winner against Rangers on Wednesday night? |
| Tennis comments are out of date | | 12:47am Thursday 17th April 2008 | |
While I agree with many of the points in Doug Gillon's article today (Final Say, Wednesday, April 16), the comments on tennis seem out of date. |
| Aberdeen fans mixed on Calderwood issue | | 12:02am Wednesday 16th April 2008 | | In response to Darryl
Broadfoot's article (Monday, April 14), the Aberdeen
support's view of Calderwood is very mixed. Clearly, he has brought a degree of stability and significant progress from the Skovdahl/Patterson/Alex Miller days. However, it has been interspersed with some appallingly bad results (including Saturday's) and some extremely dodgy
signings. |
| Jimmy Calderwood: the case for and against | | 12:51am Tuesday 15th April 2008 | | Darryl Broadfoot wrote (Monday Sport) that "Jimmy Calderwood has become the focal point for the pent-up frustrations of a support that has demonstrated prodigious irrationality since Alex Ferguson left". |
| Fans with Laptops | | 12:37am Friday 11th April 2008 | | The real reasons that fans are sick of Strachan
I would like to make the following points regarding Gordon Strachan:
(1) The fact that he is not liked by a section of the support has nothing to do with the fact that he played for Aberdeen. The dislike is caused by his apparent lack of manners when faced with criticism and when being interviewed. |
| Fans with Laptops | | 12:21am Thursday 10th April 2008 | | Glasgow must not waste this opportunity
Doug Gillon's column about how athletics could learn from swimming (Midweek Sport) mentioned the increased number of Scots in the Munich Olympic team of 1972 compared to the Mexico City team in 1968. In between were the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. While modest by today's standards, those Games provided role models of achievement in the pool and on the track. A generation later the dismal state of the swimming and athletics venues demonstrate no investment or even
maintenance. |
| Another theory on the origins of Amen Corner | | 12:46am Wednesday 9th April 2008 | | Amen Corner at the west end of Paternoster Row, London, was where the Monks finished the Pater Noster on Corpus Christi Day as they proceeded to St Paul's Cathedral. They began in Paternoster Row with the Lord's Prayer in Latin, which continued to the end of the street, then said Amen at the corner. It was destroyed in an air raid on December 1940. |
| Novel thinking required to fund grassroots football | | 12:32am Tuesday 8th April 2008 | | The loss of local playing fields as highlighted in Kenny Hodgart's article of April 4 (Local Hero) is something which should be addressed by Scottish Why can't a levy be put on all tickets sold for senior games to help provide proper local facilities for young people? Twenty pence from each ticket would surely not break the bank accounts of those clubs paying thousands of pounds a week to their players. |
| Smith underestimates desires of support | | 12:01am Monday 7th April 2008 | | It seems to have penetrated Walter Smith's consciousness that not all Rangers fans are knuckle-dragging, no-surrender nonentities who demand victory, over Celtic above all, at any cost and in any manner. He seems quite peeved about that. |
| Case for a Scotland team at the Olympic Games | | 12:47am Thursday 3rd April 2008 | | Doug Gillon's otherwise
fine interview with Lamine Diack of the IAAF repeats a fallacious argument: that Scotland must be independent before it can have its own Olympic team. That position is against International Olympic Committee policy and practice. Several countries without national sovereignty have their own Olympic teams. |
| Much hypocrisy over Thomson’s ‘dive’ | | 12:35am Wednesday 2nd April 2008 | |
I refer to Kevin Thomson's dive against Celtic on Saturday, and the support he has subsequently received from his management, various pundits in the game, and most crucially Fraser Wishart, the head of the Scottish Player's Union. |
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