Martin Canning 33-years old Centre back/beleaguered boss v St Johnstone * Let’s say I went to a gig and two-thirds of the way through the show the guitarist decided to put down his guitar, get his tadger out and start pissing on the amp. And let’s say that he continued pissing until the amp blew […]
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Kieran Sadlier 20 years old Winger v Celtic (03/04/15) Rating: ** Thursday, rather than Friday, was my night of choice this week to get absolutely blootered. Hey, it was a bank holiday after all. After much paranoid retching I managed to pull myself onto the couch and tune into St Mirren v Celtic on BT Sport. I […]
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James Forrest 23 years old Winger v St Mirren (03/04/15) Rating: *** Philosophy and football don’t tend to share a great deal of common ground (apart from an iconic Monty Python sketch of course), but my latest assignment left me pondering one of the sport’s biggest questions. How do you define a good performance? For […]
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Matt Ritchie 25-years-old Right winger v. Northern Ireland (25/03/15) Rating: ** You know as well as I do that international squad selections exist as much for the angsty frothing-at-the-mouth reaction they provoke from supporters as they do for winning football matches, and Scotland this week have not disappointed. While perhaps not drawing the same incredulity […]
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Phil Roberts 20-years old Striker (playing wide right) v Raith Rovers (21.03.15) Rating: * It appeared that the fates were conspiring against me as I took my seat inside Stark’s Park for Saturday evening’s Championship fixture between Raith Rovers and Alloa Athletic. It’s hard enough to understand what a Fifer is saying at the best […]
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Craig Curran 25-years old Striker v Hamilton Academical (14/03/15) Rating: **** Shortly after depositing my backside on the plastic chair in the wide-open space Hamilton call a football stadium, I began to notice an unwelcome, and unseasonal, chill in the air. After a few brief seconds of cursing myself for forgetting my gloves, or leaving them in […]
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Conor Grant 19-years old Centre midfielder (playing on the right) v Aberdeen (13/03/15) Rating: *** Settling down into my sofa for BT Sport’s latest instalment of Friday night football (well I wasn’t going to make it up to Aberdeen for quarter to eight on a working day), I was torn on which player to focus […]
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A hugely forgettable season saw holders St Mirren crash out of the Scottish Communities League Cup at the first hurdle, ejected from the William Hill Scottish Cup at the Quarter Final stage and lurch from crisis to insignificance and everything in between. SPFL Premiership survival looked a tall order with six games remaining, but an […]
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In January 2013, Peter Houston left Dundee United under a bit of a cloud. In a press conference he called shortly before his departure, he stated that with budget cuts on the horizon, he didn’t want to be the man responsible for taking Dundee United back to the bottom six. Now most fans knew that this […]
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