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Martin HannanHerald Scotland |
When it was finally confirmed yesterday that Glasgow would indeed host ten sports at four venues for the Commonwealth Games in 2026, I was not...
Earlier this year I wrote about proposed law changes which World Rugby were experimenting with and now it has come to pass that the Executive Board...
One of my favourite characters in that brilliant sit-com Dad’s Army was Lance Corporal Jones played superbly by Clive Dunn. His catchphrase of...
Can clubs in different sports in Glasgow learn something from each other? I hope so. After Celtic won the European Cup in 1967, their legendary...
To get to play for Scotland at the highest level there used to be a fairly defined way of doing so, what is now called the pathway. Back then, and...
France 28, Fiji 7, rugby won. The French were truly magnifique in winning the Olympic Sevens in the Stade de France at the weekend and Antoine...
I have participated in, watched and written about sport all my life, and I have so many memorable sporting moments that I simply could not list them...
That’s the trouble with professional sport: you might achieve one aim but people always set you a new and higher target. Ask Gareth Southgate, a...
Any weekend in which Scotland’s men at full international level and at the under 20 age grade both notch easy wins has to be celebrated because they...
Glasgow Warriors, eh? Pure dead brilliant, as they say in my home city. What a pity their extraordinary success at the weekend was overshadowed by...
Last week I called on Glasgow Warriors to save our Scottish season by doing the illogical and beating the might of Munster at Thomond Park. This week...
Last week I wrote about the emergency of Scottish Rugby in regard to our many clubs that have dwindling memberships and resources. I am glad to say...
For our two professional clubs, it looked at one time that both Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh Rugby might end the season on a crescendo. Now thank...
It’s better late than never and there are still many more improvements to come, but with a series of announcements in recent days, World Rugby seem...
If you write about rugby long enough and make predictions now and again, the law of averages says you’re bound to get one right eventually. When...
In trying to sum up Scotland’s women’s overall performance in the Guinness Six Nations, several phrases came to mind. So near and yet so far, a...
After that historic first win in Italy, Scotland’s women take on Ireland in Belfast on Saturday with a huge prize at stake, namely qualification for...
Last Thursday was World Parkinson’s Day. Regular readers will know I have the disease, and that’s why I did not celebrate the Day so much as mark...
Just when you think there’s nothing that the rugby authorities can do any more that would truly surprise you, along comes the revelation that there...
Despite the loss to France at the weekend, Scottish women’s rugby is enjoying a bit of a boom period, with the national side putting together a...
Close finishes abounded in the men’s Guinness Six Nations, with Scotland involved in the best of them, and having survived that late conversion...
Lady Luck is a fickle mistress. Just when you need a couple of breaks to go your way, they go against you and your goose is well and truly cooked. In...
If it wasn’t for a duff decision by a TMO against France and a piece of unforgivable indiscipline by Pierre Schoeman in Rome, Scotland would be...
In days gone by, the fixture between Scotland and Italy was often seen as the decider for the Wooden Spoon in any year’s Six Nations tournament....
Back in the 1960s, an Argentinian football manager named Helenio Herrera devised a defensive system called ‘catenaccio’, Italian for door bolt,...
It was a try. No question. But it wasn’t a try. Was it? If like me, you have been following the many months of discord in Scottish football over...
It is a truism in life that you never really know how much something means to you until it’s not there anymore. So it was in 2020 and 2021 that I...
Most sports writers in Scotland will tell you tales of how readers often assail them with missives laced with vitriol. You have to develop a thick...
The announcement of the forthcoming departure of Mark Dodson from the job of chief executive of the SRU was greeted with a chorus of delight from his...
One of the few advantages of getting older is that whenever a sporting legend dies, you can reply ‘yes’ when people ask you if you saw the man...
Memory is the dodgiest of our mental faculties. You appreciate this fact as you get older and short-term memory becomes a trial and often disappears....
The FOSROC Super Series is now reaching the point where a mature consideration must be made about whether it should continue in its present form or...
The news that football’s English Premier League has signed a four-year deal with Sky and TNT worth £6.7 BILLION shows just why football is the...