McGarry

AT a time when we are all looking for reasons to be cheerful, it was with great joy and relief that football supporters up and down the country welcomed the news this week that they would be allowed back into stadiums to see their team.…

THERE was an amusing theory that surfaced on social media at the start of December, just as the world was bracing for the impact of the Omicron variant of Coronavirus. You see, ‘Omicron’ was an anagram of ‘No Crimbo’. Well, if you…

IT’S curious how quickly we come to take things for granted. Sitting in empty football stadiums last season – as one of the privileged few to be granted access – you couldn’t help but pine for the return of supporters. It has become…

LET me start off by clarifying a few things, just on the faintest scintilla of a chance that Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou ends up reading this column. Maybe when he’s bored on the toilet, for example, where I’m sure he’d find another…

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us. I don’t know if Celtic chairman Ian Bankier and the rest of the club’s board are fans of Rabbie Burns, but they could do worse than think on some of the Bard’s musings.…

WITH Scotland inching closer to their first World Cup in 24 years, the thought of not making it into the play-offs and eventually winning through to the tournament proper is a hard enough one for the Tartan Army to stomach. But what if…

IT is an image that has become iconic in Scottish football. When Rangers legends Walter Smith and Ally McCoist helped carry the coffin of their great friend Tommy Burns into St Mary’s Cathedral, the cradle of Celtic Football Club. The…

WHEN Celtic’s acting chief executive Michael Nicholson confirmed this week that Rangers supporters would not be allowed access to his club’s ground for the January Old Firm fixture, the fallout was predictable. In this case though,…

IN 2014, shortly after serial biter Luis Suarez had clearly bitten Giorgio Chiellini during a World Cup match broadcast all around the globe, the Uruguayan attempted to explain away the incident to FIFA’s disciplinary committee by…

THE Scottish Premiership has long been the ultimate drug store handicap. Less an open competition than a two-horse race between the flat-track bullies of Glasgow. With Celtic looking as sure-footed as Devon Loch and Rangers seemingly a…