Alan Worrall
Aspiring journalism student and actual French student. Most interested in Scottish football and US Soccer, but currently expanding knowledge to Brazilian and Italian.
Scotland – the second toughest job in football?
As Brian Glanville opined in his book on England managers, it is perhaps the toughest job in football. As the founders of the modern day association rules football, the English national team has a prestige and it is the manager’s job to protect this; to ensure that England remains at the top (or at least…
The Trouble With Rangers
It seems that whenever I write an article for this site it’s about one of two things; Scottish football’s decline or uprising. No prizes for guessing which one this falls under, with the issues surrounding that of Rangers dominating the back pages north of the border for most of the past few weeks. We’ve known…
Can Celtic Overcome ‘Breathtaking’ Arsenal?
In the aftermath of Arsenal’s perhaps suprising but fully deserved 6-1 victory over Everton in the Premier League’s opening weekend, the confidence mustered by many of the Celtic fans following the Champions’ League qualifying draw may have just evaporated away. Arsenal were simply breathtaking. They looked like scoring almost every time they went forward, and…
Saving Soccer in a Football World
Trolling the site for some interesting articles to read recently, I came across Ahmed’s article from the fourth of July of last year (side note, probably not the best day to write the article, Ahmed!). Having read the responses to the article I can see that most were negative, and so I decided to do…
Axed Scottish Pair Shame The Nation
What Scotland needed least of all following a morale-boosting victory over Iceland was a nightmare scenario which sees both the nation’s captain and a promising goalkeeper banned from ever playing for Scotland again. It was bad enough that Barry Ferguson and Allan McGregor were drinking in the hotel after the defeat to Holland, mind you…
Scotland vs. Argentina: The Scottish View
A historic night at Hampden tomorrow will see Diego Maradona’s first match in charge of Argentina. Both his appointment and the arranging of this glamour friendly were rather controversial (with ticket prices going as high as £35), but it should be an enjoyable night for all involved. Lionel Messi will be missing from the game…
Country on a downer?
As Scotland slid down 10 places from 16th to 26th in the latest round of FIFA’s world rankings, is it possible that the country’s hysteria over the exploits at both club and country level last term has finally died down? Consider the evidence; Rangers fell at the first hurdle as they were dumped out of…
Why Celtic and Rangers should stay in the SPL
The recent debate over whether or not Welsh FA members Cardiff City should be allowed to compete in the UEFA Cup should they win the (English) FA Cup should have at least the one positive side-effect. On and off for several years the debate has raged on as to whether or not Rangers and Celtic…
Beeb’s Boob: Bayern v Aberdeen or Panathinaikos v Rangers?
BBC Scotland unimpressed with their recent decision regarding the broadcast of this week’s UEFA Cup matches. As some will know, Rangers take on Panathinaikos in Greece on Thursday and Bayern Munich play Aberdeen at the Allianz Arena in Germany that same day. But unfortunately for non-travelling fans, both matches are contested at roughly the same…
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