Hector Chicken
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A Brief History of Women’s Football at Tannadice
This week’s international match at Tannadice is doubly significant for your correspondent, both as a Dundee United supporter and as a relative of one of the Scotland squad – Rangers mid…
scottishumpire.wordpress.com
To mark Scotland playing at Tannadice for the first time I've written a thing about the history of women's football in the ground, feel free to have a read! scottishumpire.wordpress.com/2025/04/04/a...
Celtic really would give you the boak
February 15, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Celtic really would give you the boak
Improbably, Neil McCann seems to know what he's doing
February 15, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Improbably, Neil McCann seems to know what he's doing
United coming from behind to win, that's more like it
February 14, 2026 at 5:46 PM
United coming from behind to win, that's more like it
Bloody hell! Did not have a Julius Eskesen (*potential*) winner on my United bingo card
February 14, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Bloody hell! Did not have a Julius Eskesen (*potential*) winner on my United bingo card
An equaliser! Crikey
February 14, 2026 at 3:27 PM
An equaliser! Crikey
United losing again
February 14, 2026 at 3:23 PM
United losing again
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New Article: Randolph Septimus Galloway
From Sunderland to Santander, Randolph Galloway's style of football eventually took over the world.
He eventually landed at Sporting CP, bringing them uprecedented success.
Words: Roger West
Read here ⬇️
www.footballheritage.co.uk/randolph-sep...
From Sunderland to Santander, Randolph Galloway's style of football eventually took over the world.
He eventually landed at Sporting CP, bringing them uprecedented success.
Words: Roger West
Read here ⬇️
www.footballheritage.co.uk/randolph-sep...
February 14, 2026 at 11:59 AM
New Article: Randolph Septimus Galloway
From Sunderland to Santander, Randolph Galloway's style of football eventually took over the world.
He eventually landed at Sporting CP, bringing them uprecedented success.
Words: Roger West
Read here ⬇️
www.footballheritage.co.uk/randolph-sep...
From Sunderland to Santander, Randolph Galloway's style of football eventually took over the world.
He eventually landed at Sporting CP, bringing them uprecedented success.
Words: Roger West
Read here ⬇️
www.footballheritage.co.uk/randolph-sep...
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Some key topics covered in @fortrenn.bsky.social's 1949 Gaelic phrasebook
✅️ dirty forrin sandwiches
✅️ the unhelpfulness of moccasins
✅️ gruel/butter etiquette
✅️ gurnet v. dogfish
✅️ dirty forrin sandwiches
✅️ the unhelpfulness of moccasins
✅️ gruel/butter etiquette
✅️ gurnet v. dogfish
February 12, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Some key topics covered in @fortrenn.bsky.social's 1949 Gaelic phrasebook
✅️ dirty forrin sandwiches
✅️ the unhelpfulness of moccasins
✅️ gruel/butter etiquette
✅️ gurnet v. dogfish
✅️ dirty forrin sandwiches
✅️ the unhelpfulness of moccasins
✅️ gruel/butter etiquette
✅️ gurnet v. dogfish
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I have to say, I am very much enjoying Wes Streeting squirming and trying to save his chances of being Prime Minister one day with the gambit of, “No, I was never a friend of the disgraced pedophile associate, I just pretended to be in order to advance my career.”
February 9, 2026 at 8:30 PM
I have to say, I am very much enjoying Wes Streeting squirming and trying to save his chances of being Prime Minister one day with the gambit of, “No, I was never a friend of the disgraced pedophile associate, I just pretended to be in order to advance my career.”
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Looks like Mouat and Dodds have blown it in #thecurling. Peaked too early, pity
February 9, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Looks like Mouat and Dodds have blown it in #thecurling. Peaked too early, pity
Guess we're not playing on Wednesday, then
The Met Office alert comes into force from 9am on Tuesday.
39-hour weather warnings for rain across parts of Tayside and Fife
The Met Office alert comes into force from 9am on Tuesday.
dlvr.it
February 9, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Guess we're not playing on Wednesday, then
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Perhaps one lesson to be taken from Starmer's fate is that if you're going make things like integrity and good judgement key pillars of your political persona, you do then still have to demonstrate a little bit of these qualities once in a while
February 9, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Perhaps one lesson to be taken from Starmer's fate is that if you're going make things like integrity and good judgement key pillars of your political persona, you do then still have to demonstrate a little bit of these qualities once in a while
Tha seo glè inntinneach
Gaelic education has been a huge success in Glasgow, but some worry the culture is being watered down
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/gaelic-mediu...
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/gaelic-mediu...
Gaelic’s popularity in Glasgow is a lifeline — but has it come at a cost?
A new generation of Glasgow Gaels have revived Scotland’s traditional tongue. Some worry about cultural erasure
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
February 9, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Tha seo glè inntinneach
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The Big Match Revisited, September 1971. Wolves 1-1 Everton. And home keeper Phil Parkes is wearing what can only be described as a Porkpie Hat
February 7, 2026 at 11:30 AM
The Big Match Revisited, September 1971. Wolves 1-1 Everton. And home keeper Phil Parkes is wearing what can only be described as a Porkpie Hat
We all love Heligoland, don't we? open.substack.com/pub/davidbow...
A most unusual corner of the British Empire
Heligoland used to be Danish, is now German, but for 80 years was British. It had some surprisingly radical fans.
open.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:59 PM
We all love Heligoland, don't we? open.substack.com/pub/davidbow...
This corrupt cunt never met a dictator he didn't like
FIFA President Gianni Infantino said today the world football governing body should lift its ban on Russia competing in international tournaments.
FIFA boss says Russia should be let back into international football
Gianni Infantino says “girls and boys from Russia” should be able to play football in Europe.
www.politico.eu
February 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
This corrupt cunt never met a dictator he didn't like
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trending checks out
February 2, 2026 at 1:40 PM
trending checks out
Fucking VAR, man
January 31, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Fucking VAR, man
Oh fuck off! A red for that. Can't even slightly mistime anything these days, can you?
a man in a blue jacket is standing in front of a green tiled wall
ALT: a man in a blue jacket is standing in front of a green tiled wall
media.tenor.com
January 31, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Oh fuck off! A red for that. Can't even slightly mistime anything these days, can you?
Just watched our boy Jesse Randall score a cracker for Auckland, get in
January 31, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Just watched our boy Jesse Randall score a cracker for Auckland, get in
Important television news
Next Saturday, January 31st, from 11.05am BBC2 is showing a brace of Powell & Pressburger masterpieces - first, the absolutely gorgeous restoration of I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING followed by the incredible A MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH... #FilmSky
January 31, 2026 at 7:09 AM
Important television news