Opinion

It isn’t over. The message unfurled at Tynecastle the other night lambasting Brendan Rodgers as a “fraud” could be just the start. If Celtic don’t go on and do the treble Treble, he will be blamed for walking out on the club. If they don’t eventually win ten in a row he’ll cop it for that failure as well. All of which means bonanza-time for the banner industry.

He that is rich is wise. All men would be tyrants if they could. It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. Just some of the wise words spoken by Daniel Defoe in his lifetime.

Footballer in no-car shock! Man U’s 
ten million pound man stuck in suburb outrage! Fleet-footed winger judders to halt, others in club motors whizz by! “I’m not having a wheely good time here,” moans Wilfried Zaha.

Stop me if you’ve heard me say this before, but life was so much simpler when I was a lad. There was no sweatshop-produced sports footwear. There was no celebrity-endorsed sports footwear. There was no politically-contentious sports footwear.

Scotsman reader Alex Orr, from Edinburgh, shares his amusement over English football claims.

As Scotland goes for victory in Vegas, Jane Bradley tries her hand at what she mistakes for ‘glorified bowling on ice’.

Andy Harrow looks back on Hearts’ 1-1 draw with Ross County

Ratings out of ten in Ross County’s 1-1 draw with Hearts

The image of curling was transformed by Rhona Martin in the UK and The Simpsons in the US, writes John Harris.

Andy Harrow looks back on Celtic’s Scottish Cup fifth round victory over Partick Thistle.

Ratings out of ten in Celtic’s 3-2 victory over Partick Thistle

Ratings out of ten for every player in Kilmarnock’s 1-0 win over Celtic

The date for a much-needed
debate on the “future direction for golf in Scotland” may have been set, but the question which now needs to be asked is: should Eleanor Cannon, the chair of Scottish Golf, be the person in charge of that particular task?