Bill Leckie

WHISTLE-HAPPY ref Marco di Bello has said SORRY for disallowing the goal that could have sent Rangers into meltdown. The Italian blew for a foul when keeper Jack Butland was robbed inside two minut…

NO ONE asks anyone to throw their principles down the stank on Remembrance Sunday. All we’re asked to do is stand in silence for a minute. And to think. What we think about for those 60 seconds is …

BEN DOAK doesn’t see faces, just shapes in opposition shirts. He doesn’t see superstar price tags, just full-backs to be skinned. But one thing’s for sure. Josko Gvardiol will have be seeing that w…

SCOTTISH football was built on the shoulders of wee gallus guys. The ones short on stature but long on cheek. The ones whose feet danced, whose drop of the shoulder would make Elvis look stiff as a…

LET’S form a guard of honour for Andy Robertson as he reaches another milestone as Scotland skipper. Let’s take a moment to remember just how far he’s come, and just how hard he’s grafted to turn a…

JUST over half an hour gone and we’re pinging the ball around like we own the place. Billy Gilmour’s smashed one off the bar a few moments back, Scott McTominay’s about to have one tipped onto a po…

WHEN Brendan Rodgers talks football, I could listen to him all day. Ditto when he offers a peek under the hood at the mental side of winning trophies, as he did after Saturday’s 3-0 Premiership win…

IN a glitzy new-look tournament, a grimy old-school game. This was ramshackle football in tumbledown surroundings, 90 minutes as ugly as the damp-streaked concrete of the Maksimir’s unloved stands.…

TWO weeks ago it felt like all Celtic had to do was turn up and go through the motions. But all of a sudden, we now have a cup final. Because if Rangers can reproduce this level of performance, of …

IT WAS as unbelievable as it is unforgivable. We’re talking about a centre-forward being on the pitch for a cup final shootout – but leaving the fifth kick to his keeper. Even at the death knell of…