ALEX’S ANGLE: RUTHLESS RODGERS AND LESSONS FROM THE PAST
JIMMY JOHNSTONE’S glittering career stalled in season 1974/75, but, at the age of 30, most onlookers…
Browsing: Personally Speaking
THANKS FOR THE MEMORY, FRASER
EUPHORIA will never fade from the recollection of Fraser Forster’s majestic and triumphant goalkeeping exhibition…
ALEX’S ANGLE: THE BERNARDO GUESSING GAME
I AM beginning to wonder if Paulo Bernardo is Oliver Abildgaard with a better tan.…
ALEX’S ANGLE: THE PROBLEM WITH BEING A CELTIC PLAYER
HERE’S a wee tale which I swear is true. I cannot divulge the identity of…
ALEX’S ANGLE: ECHOES OF THE DIM
MY dad took me to my first game at Celtic Park sixty years ago -…
ALEX’S ANGLE: LAST WORD ON DARK ARTS AND THE DEPLORABLE DIEGO
THIS is the last time I will mention Atletico Madrid, I promise. Unarguably, the team…
ALEX’S ANGLE: LET’S GET UGLY, BRENDAN
BRENDAN RODGERS walks in the shadow of Jock Stein. The Irishman, and all before him…
ALEX’S ANGLE: RODGERS AND THE PRIORITY JANUARY RECRUIT
I DOUBT if Brendan Rodgers requires a reminder of his priority target in the January…
ALEX’S ANGLE: RISK-TAKER RODGERS AND DAVID’S DILEMMA
BRENDAN RODGERS didn’t hesitate for a heartbeat when he required a substitute for hamstring victim Reo…
ALEX’S ANGLE: RODGERS AND THE NO-BLAME GAME
NO-ONE could have blamed Brendan Rodgers if he had adopted a scattergun approach in his…
ALEX’S ANGLE: HEARD THE ONE ABOUT THE DUTCHMAN, THE ENGLISHMAN AND THE BELGIAN?
I AM working off memory here, but I seem to recall honeymoon periods tend to…
ALEX’S ANGLE: PANIC BUTTONS AND DEAD MEN WALKING
THE Premiership was a blank canvas back on the morning of August 5 when I…
ALEX’S ANGLE: PERENNIAL LOSER IN THE KILLING FIELDS
THE tag of perennial loser is not one that is likely to be welcomed by…
ALEX’S ANGLE: QUESTIONS FOR Mr BEATON
AM I alone in believing Joe Hart was extremely unlucky to be removed from proceedings…
ALEX’S ANGLE: MARQUEE SIGNINGS AND A LOT OF BALLS
A CRYSTAL BALL should be the priority acquistion for every manager about to venture into…
ALEX’S ANGLE: SHUT IT, CELTIC
EXCITING? Or excruciating? Adventurous? Or agonising? Praiseworthy? Or painful? I’m talking about Celtic’s forays into…
ALEX’S ANGLE: ‘NO BAD FOR AN EFFIN’ LINSEMAN, EH, WALTER?’
AS a veteran of way too many Hampden and Wembley skirmishes – and I’ve got…
ALEX’S ANGLE: HITTING THE BOOS WITH BRENDAN
BOOS and jeers bouncing around a stadium on the south side of Glasgow in the…
ALEX’S ANGLE: McGREGOR, CONDUCTOR IN SEARCH OF AN ORCHESTRA
WITH the clock ticking down all too quickly against St Johnstone, did you notice the…
ALEX’S ANGLE: CELTIC’S EXTRAVAGANT WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY
WHAT is the point of Albian Ajeti? As the clocks throughout Europe tick down towards…
ALEX’S ANGLE: GOALKEEPERS, GUNSLINGERS AND GOLDFISH
A FAIR percentage of Joe Hart’s critics wouldn’t know a goalkeeper from a goldfish. The…
ALEX’S ANGLE: BRENDAN’S CONCERNS OVER DEADLINE DAY DILEMMA
HERE is a scenario which will surely concern Brendan Rodgers with 19 days remaining of…
ALEX’S ANGLE: RUNNING SCARED OF RODGERS
OUR chums across the Clyde are running scared of Brendan Rodgers. Actually, terrified might be…
ALEX’S ANGLE: REFFIN’ HELL: HERE WE GO AGAIN
AM I alone in not getting overly excited at the SFA’s announcement there will be…
YOGI REMEMBERED: A PERSONAL THOUGHT BY GERDA GORDON
THE day I met Yogi is stored forever in my memory bank. Gruff doesn’t do…
ALEX’S ANGLE: LET’S SAY YES TO THE BHOY WHO SAID NO
THE airwaves are usually infested by a superabundance of hoo-ha, hullabaloo, duplicity and deception when…