ALEX’S ANGLE: £14m JOHNSTON? GET REAL – OR GET LOST
THERE are lowball offers and there are downright insults. If reports are accurate, guess into which…
Browsing: Personally Speaking
ALEX’S ANGLE: SILENCING THE BIG MOUTHS
THERE are still far too many critics out there who have failed to deliver even any…
ALEX’S ANGLE: REF OFF, DEREK
AMONG my multitude of failings is the inability to lip-read. That skill would have been particularly…
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: PROPHETS AND LOSS
BACK in the summer of 2006, Scotland’s national newspapers followed the time-honoured custom of asking…
ALEX’S ANGLE: BALIKWISHA AND SAD ECHOES OF BOERRIGTER
MARTIN O’NEILL utilised nine substitutes in the 2-2 stalemate with AC Milan at Parkhead on…
ALEX’S ANGLE: DANNY ROHL, GAME FOR A LAUGH
WHO KNEW Danny Rohl was such a kooky funster? A German with a sense of…
ALEX’S ANGLE: A FOOL AND HIS MONEY
OUR AMERICAN friends across the River Clyde obviously have far too much money. How else can…
ALEX’S ANGLE: STORM ALERT
ONLY those afflicted with the IQ of a moth would be unaware of the sinister…
ALEX’S ANGLE: WEE DEREK AND EMPTY VESSELS
INTERESTING to see Motherwell’s Elliot Watt hammered with a four-game ban following comments after Celtic’s penalty-kick…
ALEX’S ANGLE: DOLBERG DILEMMA
IF THERE is any truth in reports emanating from Denmark that Celtic are about to…
ALEX’S ANGLE: SLOW MOTION CELTIC AND THE RACE AGAINST TIME
IN EXACTLY a month’s time, the ball will roll off the centre spot at Parkhead…
ALEX’S ANGLE: THEY THINK IT’S BAWL OVER – IT IS NOW
ONLY Scotland can snatch dismal desolation from the jaws of sky-high expectation. Was it really…
ALEX’S ANGLE: SLIP SLIDING AWAY, SCOTLAND’S SAME OLD SONG
SCOTLAND’S international players constantly remind me of the cross-channel swimmer who does all the exacting…
ALEX’S ANGLE: CELTIC’S QUIET MAN
JOHN CLARK was the only member of the Lisbon Lions not to write an autobiography.…
ALEX’S ANGLE: THE TROUBLE WITH FAIRY TALES
IT’S TOO EASY to reflect upon the extraordinary league and Cup double in the season that…
ALEX’S ANGLE: HEARD THE ONE ABOUT THE DUTCHMAN, THE GREEK-AUSTRALIAN, THE FRENCHMAN AND TWO IRISHMEN?
LIVERPOOL sacked manager Arne Slot on Saturday and expect to announce Andoni Iraola as his…
ALEX’S ANGLE: SUCKER PUNCH
THE SILLY SEASON has started early this summer. Those gurus of guff, those connoisseurs of claptrap,…
ALEX’S ANGLE: TALK IS CHEAP
JUST WHEN you thought you had seen, heard and read it all and Celtic’s detractors…
ALEX’S ANGLE: MARTIN O’NEILL AND THE £40m QUESTION
YOU AND I – and everyone else of a Celtic persuasion – knew we would…
ALEX’S ANGLE: SFA’S ANSWER TO THE MONSTER RAVING LOONY PARTY
WHAT have SFA’S Key Match Incident Panel got in common with the Monster Raving Loony…
ALEX’S ANGLE: BURDEN OF PROOF
IS IT SAFE enough to pop my head up above the parapet? Has the last…
ALEX’S ANGLE: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLASS AND STYLE
SANDY JARDINE was worthy of the accolade bestowed upon him by the country’s football writers…
ALEX’S ANGLE: FLAWED DIAMONDS AND SEASON’S BLEATINGS
GOOD GRIEF! We’ve all come within an inch of suffocating under an avalanche of verbal…
ALEX’S ANGLE: ONE LAST HURRAH IN PARADISE
MARTIN O’NEILL last enjoyed a Celtic title triumph in 2004. The effervescent Irishman was 53 years…
ALEX’S ANGLE: DAYS OF WHINE AND POSES
I BELIEVED we were about to witness a piece of TV history last night. I…