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Queens Park and their Ongoing Disrespect for Fans
Queens Park have today (November 1st) announced that their home fixture with ICT eleven days from now on November 12th will be moved from a 3pm kick-off to 5.30pm. To the uninitiated this may seem a strange thing for a club to do at such short notice. But the Spiders operate in strange ways. They’re…
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12/42 – Airdrie v Clyde 17/9/2022
Game number 12/42 and today’s is the first one for which I’ve really struggled to get out of bed. In my defence, I got back from Hearts’ win over RFS in Riga just yesterday afternoon. It was a fantastic trip, but involved very little sleep and an awful lot of alcohol, and fuck me, am…
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11/42 – Livingston 1-0 Hearts 3/9/2022
For the last couple of seasons, I’ve sent the excellent When Saturday Comes magazine the same email. I send the email to ask them why they seem to apply double standards to their season preview edition every summer. For those unfamiliar with the WSC season preview, it involves a questionnaire sent round to fanzine writers,…
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10/42 – Dumbarton 2-1 Elgin City 27/8/2022
As I come down the stairs from Dumbarton East train station, I see my first big group of football supporters. Unfortunately, none of the thirty or so people huddled together on the pavement are wearing Dumbarton scarves, or even those of visitors Elgin City. Nope, these lads are wearing the red, white, and blue of…
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9/42 – Hearts v FC Zurich 25/8/2022
Tynecastle is great. It’s like having a really nice girlfriend who you know everyone else fancies. Even when people try to pretend that they’re not that impressed, you know fine well they’d swap with you in a heart-beat. It’s got a great location, a nearby train station, a good choice of pubs nearby, and The…
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8/42 – Arbroath v ICT 6/8/2022
I’m back aboard the 10.41 from Glasgow Queen Street, this time heading a wee bit further north than last week. While I did the journey alone last week, this time I’m joined by my mate Matthew, a long-standing mate and fellow Jambo. We spend the train trip discussing Hearts’ squad and its suitability (or lack…
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7/42 – Queens Park v Ayr United 5/8/2022
Queens Park pose a potential problem for me in my 42 attempt this season. They’re currently parked up at Stenhousemuir’s Ochilview Park, waiting for work to be completed on Lesser Hampden to allow them to complete their move there from the National Stadium. While accepted wisdom seems to be that work is running so slowly…
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6/42 – St Mirren v Motherwell 31/7/2022
Every season I feel like I start to hate football journalism more and more, and the start of the season is the worst time for it. After last season’s first weekend the widely held wisdom in Scottish football went something like this: Rangers – Champions, won their opening game, bound to win the league again. …
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5/42 – Dundee v Partick Thistle 30/7/2022
League Cup groups out the way, and it’s on to the real stuff as the league season gets underway. And I’ve decided to travel the road (or track) and miles to Dundee for an opening day game significant both in terms of promotion and beef. Dundee and Thistle are two of the more fancied teams…
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Stirling Albion v Peterhead 23/7/2022
You can see old faces in the most surprising places. I once bumped into someone I went to school with while checking into a hostel in Belgrade. Another time I was accosted by a former colleague I’d worked with in Sri Lanka while crossing the road in the centre of Sydney. And today in a…