Bill Leckie

SOPHIA scrubs and massages until my skin feels like it has been wrapped in silk. Ricardo pulls and pushes and eases and stretches until my concertina of a back starts to reach for the sky. Renata l…

SCOTTISH and German pundits have given their take on who will win the Euro 2024 final.

SCOTTISH and German pundits have given their take on who will win the Euro 2024 final. Scotland bowed out in the group stages of the tournament after failing to win a single game while hosts German…

IN Istanbul and Tbilisi, in Bratislava and Maribor, they’ll be talking about it for years. The thrilling highs, the moments when they dared to dream, even the crushing disappointment when it all pr…

IT was the moment when Gareth Southgate finally ran out of great escapes. John Stones leaps, Unai Simon parries, Marc Guehi nods the rebound goalwards – and up pops Dani Olmo to head clear from rig…

EVERY week across the US of A, they play a game that’s advertised as golf. It’s not, though. It’s more like high-stakes pitch ’n putt. The scoring tells you that. The last three tournaments before …

THEY were roared off the team bus by a black and white army of fans. They were cheered off the plastic pitch after a result that was 13,414 days in the making. But the Saints flew home knowing this…

THERE’S a step-up in class. And then there’s an express elevator ride to a whole new level. That’s what Stephen Robinson’s men took here – yet when the doors finally opened and they drew a mighty b…

WE have a government in Scotland who can’t get the bins emptied but who think they can solve the Gaza crisis. Which just about sums up why our country is crumbling to rubble that we won’t have the …

IT ISN’T Austin MacPhee this Scotland team needs in its corner. It’s Austin Powers. Because we’ve lost our mojo, baby. Whatever it was that once made us irresistible, it’s gone. Whatever mag…