Congratulations to Mark Daly and the BBC production team behind The Men who sold the Jerseys, who received the award from the Royal Television Society for Best regions current affairs and news event for their documentary into the goings-on in the years before Rangers descended into liquidation. They won against Grananda’s Hillsborough – The Truth At Last, which centred on a hugely important human and political story, which illustrates the standard of achievement.
Television journalist of the year
Congratulations also to Alex Thomson, of Chanel 4 News, “one of the UK’s leading correspondents. With a portfolio of coverage from Syria to door stepping Kelvin Mackenzie over Hillsborough, to Glasgow Rangers, he displays great range and versatility with a knack for finding strong angles and compelling stories. He brings real authority and storytelling skills to whatever he covers.”
Thomson is a game changer. Never has a UK journalist had so many people wanting him to stop asking questions, including many in his own industry. Fortunately he appears to be some kind of Geordie-hostility-feeder.
Good journalism is important. Well done to the winners and those in their support teams.
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South of Tunis
Each to their own and I have no time for Bonnie Prince Cherlie, Jean Brodie (fascist sympathiser), Walter Scott …..but Burns.
To me he is epitomises the the deepest of humanity, its goodness and its failings.
Scotland celebrates a poet as its hero…I’ll take that any day.
Sunday should be an ideal opportunity to give some of our youngsters/fringe players a run out at CP. Save the big guns for midweek at Motherwell.
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After last nights EL games Scotland now sitting in 24th place in the co-efficient table with 15.1 points.
Looks like it will be a few years of playing 3 qualifying rounds before we can even think of making the CL group stages.
snake plissken
Yip, we dae….. Always have, and we always will…
God bless the proclaimers, finger oan the pulse…
Minx1888
Your 18 year old may learn hee haw about the complexities of Scottish independence but he’ll now know there’s not a thong wrong with a sturdy pair of Ys ;-)
Estadio
01:10 on 22 February, 2013
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Estadio,
Get a grip.
Post 1am is a time for Moonhowling.
We cannot have it turned into some literary orchard full of exotic fruits & stirring imagery.
Even by your standards, that was SPECIAL.
Thank You.
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08:30 on 22 February, 2013
Magic.
Charlie Tully played international football for Northern Ireland. One game is particularly well remembered. In 1952 Tully scored both goals in a 2-2 draw with England, one of which was scored from the corner flag. Before the kick-off he said to his marker, Alf Ramsay, “Do you enjoy playing for your country, Mr Ramsay?” “I do, Mr Tully”. “Make the most of it today then – it might be the last chance you get!”
The match report read ‘Tully took a corner with his right foot. The inswinger sailed waist high and at speed, swerving into goal at the last moment. Merrick sensed the danger…but the swerving ball bounced out of his arms and over the line.’
Tully achieved this feat again in 1953, not once but twice against Falkirk in a Scottish Cup tie at Brockville. Tully took a corner for Celtic and swung the ball directly into the net. The referee, presuming that the ball must have been placed outwith the arc, instructed Tully to retake the corner. Tully did so with the same result, swinging the ball into the net directly from the corner.
Tully spent brief periods on loan to Stirling Albion before being released in September 1959. Thereafter he took up the position of player-manager at Cork Hibernians before spells in management with Bangor (twice) and Portadown.
Tully died in his sleep at home in Belfast on 27 July 1971. The Falls Road was packed with mourners for his funeral.
His sons (Charlie and Brian) and daughter Patricia all still live in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
@ wiki
Ten Men Won The League (10:34): “Take into account that Roma fans were amongst the group who attacked Spurs fans last year, and its fair to say that Rome is the problem.”
I blame the Catholic schools… ;o)
I despair that we celebrate the likes of Burns as our national hero.
No wonder the country is in the state it is.
HAMILTON TIM 1037
I don’t think you can “wibble” properly unless wearing a suitable pair of y-fronts on your head.
A thong fails the gravitas test.
gordon_j backing neil lennon
It can’t be regulated, unfortunately, we won’t get a perfect system..
By the time I get back to Scotland, I will have been out the country fir around four years, due to work commitments… I’ll now have tae pay for my children’s university fees., as they left Scotland when they we’re 13/14, and will return to uni in Scotland.. In fact having had my kids at school in London, I’ve been advised I’ll have tae pay the higher rate set fir the English at Scottish universities…
There’s no perfect system
Listening to the Sportsound podcast from last night about how the Swiss ditched the 12-12 splitting in to 8-8-8 league system that the SPL want to introduce. They had it for 15 years but most interviewed were very negative towards it (Ramon Vega was the only interviewee who was positive about it). During the 15 years they had the 12-12/8-8-8 system their international and eurpoean ranking fell but since changing to new league structure it has risen.
They now have a 10-10-16 set up with regional leagues below that. They were against a 16 team top league because they saw it leading to a reduction in quality of football.
With a population of 8 million, to our 5 million, they have less professional clubs and more part time clubs.
It highlights the folly of 42 league clubs in a country of such a small population, and trying to fins a structure that includes everyone. Drop at least 6, and as many as 12, teams to regional leagues and run with 30-36 professional teams.
SydneyTim
08:36 on 22 February, 2013
Hope to share a wee gless with yourself and other significant C.Q.N.lads around that time.
Take care.
Hamiltontim
Mon the poets.
SoT
Ouch, you got me on the Prince. But the point I was trying to make, as someone with family associations with the Scottish Gaels, was that it’s wrong to link the Highlanders with that dissipated fool. Highlanders fought for and against him; Lowlanders likewise.
I agree with you on Scott, not on Burns – you like music and perhaps poetry – try Dick Gaughan’s Now Westlin Winds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML9yQuZnf-E
Terry Butcher s being linked to the Swindon job vacated by Paulo Di Canio.
Seems a few English clubs do watch what happens up here. Wonder if he will be tempted to move south?
gordon_j backing neil lennon
Ps. Ah do believe if you have made Scotland your home, you should be eligible to vote, regardless of your birthplace… No doubt, is that not the case?
I would think anyone viewing Question Time last night might make the case for inviting London to set up its own wee country. Everyone taking part in the programme, including the audience seemed to take it for granted that the terms UK, never mind England, and London were interchangeable. For all that, some very interesting discussion on inculturation, race and citizenship.
jduffy132,
Yes, anyone living here will be able to vote. The discussion is over Scots (however defined) who live elsewhere.
Anyone remember a Glasgow group called the Poets?
Around in the 60s/70s I think.
I liked them!
hamiltontim
10:37 on
22 February, 2013
Ok I’m undecided and require convincing.
Should I have gone with the Y fronts or the thong this morning?
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HT down Tesco’s this morning getting his Hagen Dazs
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Tim Tanium at 11:03 on
I also agree with your/Gordon J’s position on who should and shouldn’t vote in the referendum – i.e. it is not a vote for Scots but for all people eligible to vote in Scotland regardless of where they were born.
On the SNP strategy, surely a constant loop of Question Time, Top Gear, any British sitcom (except Fawlty Towers) since the 70s and Downton Abbey would be enough to swing the vote to YES. All add breaks would be replaced with 90 seconds of a smiling still image of Tony Blair staring out at you from your TV.
BMCUW
You’re wearing them the wrong way round ya fool!! ;-)
Celtic First
Love poetry it’s more his lifestyle I have an issue with.
Mind you William Wordsworth was married to Fanny…..
Och might as well lob in my view which is very similar to one Italyboy (I think) posted and it involves Edinburgh. And Paul is bound to put up a new article and no one will see it or even care
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For an advert of how an unbridled Scotland might behave look no further than the last 13 years. Two major Scottish banks acted with a degree of financial recklessness that went against all that my thrifty upbringing had taught me. Those banks were Edinburgh based and their ineptness follows the creation of a Scottish Parliament. There are links in the mindset between the banks and the politicians.
There has been an abandonment of ethics and common sense and I fear that being further diluted by separation not strengthened.
Before retiring my job and future hard earned pension and that of my colleagues was threatened by market testing.Only TUPE which was I believe a EU based law protected the workers. In football UEFA acted to end the Billy Boys being sung not any Scottish authority and the SG have been derelict in their duty to supporters by not calling the SFA to account.
On the Famine Song it was Phil and the Irish Government that brought that to a halt in law at any rate.
My point is that in matters of principle or ethics it has taken outside intervention to do the right thing.
Doing the right thing does not tale a politician, it takes a Statesman and as good and well intended a politician as Alex Salmond is he is no Statesman and I see none in Edinburgh.
So for me, whilst the idea of going it alone has its attractions I see no evidence of the existence of leadership to take us along a safe path once unbridled.
Banking and football are an example of what happens when no one guards the guards and for all its other faults unity provides some degree of overall protection against some of the less desirable characteristics of Scottish society.
Oh and apologies to those from Edinburgh, it is more a lable for a mindset than individuals.
Off track a wee bit but who cares, cheered me up :))
Three friends married women from different parts of the world…..
The first man married a Greek girl. He told her that she was to do the
dishes and house cleaning. It took a couple of days, but on the third
day he came home to see a clean house and dishes washed and put
away…..
The second man married a Thai girl. He gave his wife orders that she
was to do all the cleaning, dishes and the cooking. The first day he
didn’t see any results but the next day he saw it was better. By the
third day he saw his house was clean, the dishes were done, and there
was a huge dinner on the table…..
The third man married a girl from Scotland . He ordered her to keep
the house cleaned, dishes washed, lawn mowed, laundry washed, and hot
meals on the table for every meal. The first day he didn’t see
anything, the second day he didn’t see anything either but by the
third day, some of the swelling had gone down and he could see a
little out of his left eye and his arm was healed enough that he could
fix himself a sandwich and load the dishwasher. He still has some
difficulty when he urinates…..
Gordon J
Take had been taken from the High Road long before the demise of that earthy social drama. Indeed I yearn for the days of Garnock Way which I am sure inspired Mike Leigh.:-)
Don’t get me started on Alex Neil…..I’m sure he is trying to relive the political career of George Brown.
Its Friday…I’m in love….
Pogmathonyahun aka Laird of the Smiles
11:31 on
22 February, 2013
hamiltontim
10:37 on
22 February, 2013
Ok I’m undecided and require convincing.
Should I have gone with the Y fronts or the thong this morning?
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gordon_j backing neil lennon,
Ok, I’ve not been follow the independence debate back home, so wasn’t sure..
Doesn’t get much coverage in England, unfortunately
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A wee snippet for SoT
In sober oors I am a priest,
A hero when I’m tipsy-o,
But I’m a king an’ everything
When wi’ a wanton gipsy-o
Hamiltontim
His life style is the failings I referred to…but should heroes not be human. To err is human is it not.
He had an overactive libido and the looks and charm to match. A rock star of his day but with more important things to say about mankind.
Tim Tanium /79 Caps —-
That each to their own thing means I much prefer Ivor Cutler and William Topaz McGonagall to that great Chieftain of The Pudding Race . Do Scottish school pupils still study the work of that SNP / CP chap who thought a Nazi takeover of the UK would bring benefits to Scotland .
Think my favorite poet is Smokey Robinson . .
Dick Gaughan —– As with much of ” British ” Folk music , I tend to like the politics and the words but rarely the sound . I have very bad memories of seeing Dick Gaughan on a bill with Ten Years After in Plymouth . Some Royal Navy chaps decided that Glaswegian me would like a fight . .
Dick Gu
Philbhoy,
The Poets? They reformed a couple of years ago for (I think) a couple of live shows and did a studio session for Radio Shortbread. I think one of them (the singer?) died fairly recently.
Sorry been away for a bit
Earnie- fair point- I don’t see Scots as homogenous, funnily enough I don’t see being right wing and grasping as a class thing- so e are born to it others slip into the jacket with great gusto when they see the main chance.
The gist of my point is that I am suspicious of Thatcher’s children, Scots or otherwise, as the greed is strong in them and I wonder what they could possibly want with purr wee Scotland.
South of Tunis
We all harboured dreams of better things and dreaming about America was as good as any. Many of us have made our life here in Scotland and, I believe, have contributed to creating a better place than it was- not perfect by a long way but changed for the better.
Bournesouprecipe.
I can remember Charlie mesmerising the Airdrie defense as he danced around the ball and advanced in from the wing.
He moved forward and they moved back. When in line with the post Charle just flicked the ball into the net.
He had that Celtic magic.