Back before the pandemic, when I could travel the land freely, there was various rationale for picking clubs to visit as well as write about. I went to both Bo’ness United and Pollok to see them face their local rivals on massive derby days. With their centenaries round the corner, off I went to St […]
Maybe if I had gone on that trip of a lifetime to The Euros in Holland & Belgium then it wouldn’t have happened, but as the new millennium dawned darkness fell over my love of football for a quite a long time. Arriving at university in the second half of 2000 my biggest interests rapidly […]
Describing the rest of Scotland’s France ’98 campaign as ‘pretty dismal’ is perhaps a little unfair, looking back at the footage shows that our boys fought hard, played well and gave their all throughout. Sadly, despite their best efforts, the results in our two final group games were more abysmal than simply dismal. Firstly, on […]
“The world may not be shaking yet, but you might prove them wrong. Even long shots make it.” Momentous. That’s the word I used to describe our Euro ’96 game between Scotland and our eternal rivals England, which in fairness was very much more momentous for us than it was for them. The English marched […]
“Das Ilhas as Mais Belas e Livres” I can really consider myself lucky during the current coronavirus pandemic. So far, touch wood, neither myself or any of my family have fallen foul of the illness and due to being a teacher I’ve been working throughout, after a fashion, therefore my bank balance hasn’t suffered due […]
I am often asked “What’s the greatest game you’ve ever been to?” and when considering the answer I think beyond my travels as The Fitba Nomad and consider every game ever attended over a lifetime as a football fan. So far that footballing lifetime covers a thirty year period and it would actually be rather […]
It began with the emigration of Kelty Hearts in 2017 has become a mass exodus. Junior clubs are leaving the grade, with over 130 years of history, in droves to join the senior ranks of the SFA’s Scottish Pyramid System, a set-up which removes the glass ceiling and allows anyone with the right money and […]
Like the virus itself we all knew it was coming; the suspension of Scottish football due to the oncoming Covid-19 storm. When it did arrive however it came as a bit of a shock to most I imagine, it certainly was to me. On Friday the 13th of March 2020, as a quarter of a […]
Coronavirus has seriously screwed up the end of the footballing season but for me I was almost done anyway, my third campaign cut short with only three games left. All Scottish football was closed down on Friday 13th of March, twenty four hours before I was due to travel to Beith Juniors for their SJFA West […]
“The name’s Rose, Bonnyrigg Rose” The week before I pay any club a visit I engage in a period of historical research and one area always delved into is a side’s famous ex-players. This afternoon I travelled to Midlothian where Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic might very well just lay claim to the most iconic name ever to […]
