The Old Firm’s Little Brother Throws a Tantrum: Celtic vs Hibernian as Global Metaphor By “Wee Davie” McAllister, International Correspondent-at-Large Somewhere above Edinburgh’s slate rooftops, a satellite the size of a Fiat Panda beams 1080p images of Celtic versus Hibernian to a Mumbai sports bar, a Perth (Australia) betting shop, and a silent dorm room…
**Rangers vs Aberdeen: A Scottish Football Derby for the Apocalypse** The world burns, markets crater, and glaciers commit suicide in real-time, yet on a frigid Saturday in Glasgow, 50,000 Scots will still gather to scream themselves hoarse over eleven millionaires in shorts kicking a ball. Rangers versus Aberdeen—ancient grudge match, Protestant pride versus the granite…
From the vantage point of a rented flat in Lisbon—where the only thing louder than the seagulls is the neighbor rehearsing fado at 3 a.m.—the appointment of Russell Martin as the new manager of Rangers feels less like a routine football hire and more like another plot twist in humanity’s ongoing tragicomedy. Somewhere between the…
From the balmy banks of the Clyde to the fluorescent glare of Turf Moor, Greg Taylor has evolved from a boyhood Celtic fan into a walking referendum on the state of modern football—complete with all the contradictions, neuroses, and transfer-mark-to-market arbitrage that entails. While most of the planet sorts out inflation, war, and whether to…
