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Matthew Johnston @mtthwjhnstn.bsky.social · Nov 20
NEW: A starter pack of 42 journalists, editors and media outlets covering Scottish football -will add to it as and when new accounts appear 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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📍Saturday, May 10th.

A @heraldscotland.bsky.social ‘pink sheet’ tribute to the footballing link between Scotland and Italy.

An 8 page broadsheet special.
May 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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'It's been in my head for years, so I thought 'let's get what I'm feeling down on paper'

🆕 David Martindale takes Stephen McGowan through his personal blueprint for an expanded Premiership with a six-page PowerPoint presentation for @heraldscotland.bsky.social
www.heraldscotland.com/sport/251143...
David Martindale up for Celtic and Rangers sacrifice to achieve 16-team Premiership
PRINT out the document and it runs to six pages of A4 paper. The front page trumpets ‘opportunity and progression as the key drivers for…
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April 25, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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'We have clubs investigating clubs, clubs setting the rules for the clubs. Nobody is asking awkward questions'

🆕 PFA Scotland chief Fraser Wishart explains to
@mattlindsayht.bsky.social why Scottish football is due an overhaul for @heraldscotland.bsky.social
www.heraldscotland.com/sport/251145...
PFA Scotland chief predicts SFA and SPFL ‘fudge’, calls for overhaul of governance
IT is nearly nine years ago now since Fraser Wishart, the chief executive of footballer’s union PFA Scotland, was called through to Holyrood to…
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April 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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'There is no realistic hope of finding a solution which suits Celtic and Rangers as well as East Fife and Stenhousemuir'

Stephen McGowan for @heraldscotland.bsky.social on why clubs must stop torturing themselves over league reconstruction👇
www.heraldscotland.com/sport/250682...
SPFL reconstruction debate ignores an inconvenient truth
Why there is no realistic hope of finding a solution which suits Celtic and Rangers as well as East Fife and Stenhousemuir.
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April 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Multi-award-winning football writer Stephen McGowan has joined The Herald's sports team

www.heraldscotland.com/sport/footba...

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March 31, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Victor Wanyama set to join Dunfermline as Neil Lennon reunites with former Celtic midfielder

✒️ Exclusive @ewanpaton22.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/sport/250399...
Victor Wanyama set to join Dunfermline amid Neil Lennon reunion
Exclusive - Victor Wanyama set to join Dunfermline amid Neil Lennon reunion.
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March 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Haven’t read the comments section quite yet but assuming these have been met with the usual bonhomie and friendly jousting 🫡 @heraldscotland.bsky.social

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March 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Watching his Celtic-supporting son go to watch games at Motherwell, Hamilton, Partick Thistle, Falkirk and even Rangers raised a question for @mattlindsayht.bsky.social

Why shouldn’t football fans have the right to roam?

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For it's a grand old team to Follow Follow - why football fans have the right to roam
Is it acceptable for a Celtic fan to go and watch Rangers play? Can a Rangers follower attend a Celtic game? Do supporters have a right to roam?
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March 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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stumbled across this on tuesday and surely one of scotland’s greatest football pitches: canty bay near north berwick
March 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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presence: what a world we live in that steven soderbergh is beholden to no one. if he wants to make a film where the camera is a ghost, they give him money, if he wants to bring out a fassbender spy film like three weeks later, they give him more money. long may it continue.
February 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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red rooms: there was a point in this when i caught myself rooting for a clear sociopath to win enough bitcoin in online poker to buy a snuff film on a dark web auction
February 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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captain america brave new world: see at their best i loved these films but the only enjoyment i get from them now is trying to figure out whether actors were in the same room for their scenes and it all makes you feel like an eejit for ever actually liking any of it before.
February 19, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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one of them days/you’re cordially invited: listen they’re nae masterpieces but it’s few and far between for decent comedies in the year of our lord 2025 and i’m thankful for any time with keke palmer or will ferrell. laughed all the way through both.
February 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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A look at the new man in Motherwell's dugout

www.heraldscotland.com/sport/249429...

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February 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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the gorge: bad valentine’s day flick trojan horsed as a bad sci-fi with SPLOSIONS and MONSTERS so you can convince the boyfriend who didnae bother booking dinner to turn off fortnite for two hours and share his doritos with you. pish.
February 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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'Did I really once guffaw as a loitering member of the public assailed a poor reporter’s ear with a plastic purple phallus outside a training ground?'

@graememcgarry.bsky.social on why the Transfer Deadline Day bubble has burst for @heraldscotland.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/sport/249072...
I sat through deadline day on Sky Sports News, the bubble has officially burst
Sky Sports News on transfer deadline day used to be must-watch TV, but does it still hold the same appeal for football fans? We watched to find…
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February 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Deadline day looms for Bonnyrigg Rose as they bid to raise the money to level their sloped pitch.

The League 2 club have raised over £50,000 through crowdfunding but need to find the rest.

@mattlindsayht.bsky.social for @heraldscotland.bsky.social
www.heraldscotland.com/sport/248959...
Bonnyrigg Rose waging spirited pitch battle for survival as SPFL slope deadline looms
Bonnyrigg Rose must show the SPFL they have the funding and plan in place to level their New Dundas Park pitch by tomorrow - or face relegation.
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January 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Championship teams face a nervy wait with many expecting the top tier to vote selfishly - one club official I spoke to called this the start of a ‘Scottish Super League’.

@mattlindsayht.bsky.social with the scoop for @heraldscotland.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/sport/248959...
Premiership at 'closed shop' risk if Scotland's top clubs refuse to share UEFA wealth
The Premiership will become a "closed shop" if Scotland's elite clubs withhold UEFA money from their Championship counterparts, it has…
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January 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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'He could ultimately be shown to be a miracle worker who overachieved with the limited resources he had at his disposal'

The Motherwell fans who drove Stuart Kettlewell out of Fir Park could rue what they wished for come May.

In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/sport/248927...
Why Kettlewell's shameful exit could put Motherwell's 40 year top flight stay at risk
The Motherwell fans who hounded Stuart Kettlewell out of Fir Park could find his shock departure puts their 40 year stay in the Scottish top flight…
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January 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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anora: only sean baker could make a film with so much gary barlow rip so hard. sugar rush first half, brutal after hours-style second, gut-punch end, funny all the way through. well worthy if it ends up nicking best picture imho (apologies to hot frosty).
January 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Club chiefs are frustrated their attempts to discipline ultras for misdemeanours have been thwarted by 'high-powered legal representation'.

@mattlindsayht.bsky.social investigates a development in Scotland's struggle with pyro for @heraldscotland.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/sport/248654...
Only MSPs can stop rise in pyro use as ultras groups turn to ‘high-powered’ lawyers
Nobody saw the abject display which Celtic produced against Dundee at Dens Park coming. Sadly, the coordinated and large-scale pyrotechnic display…
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January 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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🇺🇸 The £6m man muscled off the ball at Dens Park
🇮🇪 The Ireland cap who's had to make do on the bench

Neither Celtic defender is perfect, but who's the man for the job against Young Boys? @mattlindsayht.bsky.social investigates for @heraldscotland.bsky.social

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Liam Scales or Auston Trusty? Who should start for Celtic in the Champions League?
Liam Scales or Auston Trusty? Who should start at centre-half for Celtic in their massive Champions League match with Young Boys?
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January 16, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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'It’s a sort of Poundland (or Temu, these days, I suppose) version of the debate that swirls around Ange Postecoglou'

The Thursday @heraldscotland.bsky.social column from @graememcgarry.bsky.social on why St Johnstone should persevere with Simo Valakari...👇

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Why St Johnstone should stick with Simo Valakari even if they go down
St Johnstone may have to take one step back to take two steps forward, but they should stick with Simo Valakari and allow him to build a team in his…
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January 16, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Absolutely bowled over to win the Jim Rodger Memorial Award for best young sports writer in Scotland.

Many thanks to the small team of freelance anthropologists the panel hired to verify that I am indeed under 35.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2486040...
Herald's Matthew Johnston wins prestigious Jim Rodger Memorial Award
Sports writer Matthew Johnston and The Herald have won this year’s prestigious Jim Rodger Memorial Award.
www.heraldscotland.com
January 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Sports writer Matthew Johnston and The Herald have won this year’s prestigious Jim Rodger Memorial Award.

It is the second year in a row that The Herald has won the most keenly-contested prize in sports journalism for young writers.

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2486040...

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January 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM