Barry Ferguson and Allan McGregor show how not to make controversy go away

Rob Parker | April 3, 2009

Scotland duo gesture at photographers

The furore which saw Rangers’ Barry Ferguson and Allan McGregor dropped from the Scotland team to face Iceland for a late-night drinking session at the team hotel shows no signs of stopping. And it is unlikely to so long as the players are giving photographers the Vs.
Reports suggest that Scotland manager [...]

Eurosport celebrates England’s defeat to Argentina last night

Rob Parker | November 20, 2008

Hang on a minute…

In the coverage that we saw last night, England beat Germany in Berlin. But in the parallel universe in which Eurosport exists the Three Lions were once again slain by Diego Maradona. A Eurosport hack who got a bit caught up in the Terry Butcher furore decided to write that Argentina had [...]

Top five predictable features of Diego Maradona’s debut as Argentina manager

Rob Parker | November 20, 2008

Things you could have put money on from Diego’s bow

1. Argentina beat Scotland.

The curious clauses of Diego Maradona’s contract

Rob Parker | November 18, 2008

A inside look at the document signed by the Hand of God…

…Clause 2. Paragraph 3. Section 2. Mr Maradona will be captioned at all times…

Chris Iwelumo’s shocking miss for Scotland against Norway

Rob Parker | October 13, 2008

Norway did you miss that!
You know it is a bad miss when the culprit looks on in shock as the ball misses the target. This is exactly what Scotland striker Chris Iwelumo is doing in this photograph. He had a gilt-edged chance to score the winning goal against Norway on his international debut. But [...]

Rangers fan’s house gets ‘Hoopy Birthday’ Celtic makeover

Rob Parker | October 8, 2008

Birthday presents, Glasgow style!

A Rangers fan returned from a birthday weekend away to find his house, garden and even wheelie bin had been painted in green-and-white hoops by his prankster mates. The vans he uses for his bouncy castle business were also given the Celtic treatment and a banner proclaiming “Hoopy 25th Birthday” was put [...]

Mission: Impossible - trying to stop the Tartan Army getting drunk

Rob Parker | October 7, 2008

Attempting to keep the Scots of the pish

Scottish police have launched a major operation to stop Scotland supporters getting plastered on their way to the the World Cup qualifier against Norway at Hampden on Saturday. Frankly, they would be better off throwing their resources into a major operation to win the World Cup for Scotland [...]