Bill Leckie

IF ever a single performance summed up an entire season, it was surely Aberdeen’s at Pittodrie this weekend. All over the opposition in the first half. All over the shop in the second. Had they gon…

THERE’S a beautiful moment that kind of got washed away in the tsunami of emotion unleashed by Rory McIlroy’s win at the Masters late on Sunday night. It came as he walked off what should have been…

CYRIEL DESSERS pulled his shirt up over his face and shook his head in disbelief. Pity it wasn’t the one he’d been wearing at the start of the night — because then we could have looked through the …

THEY were born 50 years apart — but the place they hold in the hearts of countless fans is timeless. First came Bobby Lennox, then James Forrest. Two Ayrshire boys, weaving their way past countless…

IF you’re asked the same question five times and can’t give a straight answer, chances are you know it but are just too damn scared to say it. That’s certainly how it sounded in the case of John Sw…

THE very best aren’t driven by how good they were today. It’s about a gnawing hunger to be even better tomorrow. And you get the feeling that, even as they clinch the Premiership trophy yet a…

THIS time in 1975, Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols were plotting to smash the system. Half a century on, it’s Nigel Farage and Reform. Both loud, both aggressive, both sneering at The Estab…

THERE are many valid reasons for MSPs to vote against the Assisted Dying Bill today. They may worry that the decision to end a life could be taken in haste, and leave those who help harbouring terr…

THE people who run football can act as shocked as they like about what happened to Jack MacKenzie at Tannadice on Saturday. But if any of them dare tell us they were surprised, they shouldn’t let t…

ELEVEN Portuguese flags fluttered from the church’s balcony, one for each member of a football team the priest admitted he could name easier than he could the Apostles. We were there to say farewel…