Bill Leckie

HALF a century ago, the Nats broke through at the polls under the slogan: It’s Scotland’s Oil. A piece of marketing genius, this. Three little words that dangled countless possibilities before our …

IT’S time for a national referendum on assisted dying. A chance for every one of us to have a legally-binding say on how we wish to be treated when illness robs us of our dignity. Why? Because none…

SCOTLAND needs a Labour government. Then again, Scotland also needs year-round sunshine, midges to become extinct and prospectors to strike a bottomless seam of gold beneath the Campsies. And we’re…

YOU never saw such a difference in a team from one half to the next. You never heard a crowd lift itself from such depths of despair to such heights of ecstasy. Hearts were being over-run. They wer…

CLAUDIO BRAGA reckons there’s only only team who can stop Hearts winning the title — THEMSELVES. The PFA Scotland Player of the Year has refused to rule out the chances of Celtic or Rangers topping…

A TITLE race this fantastic deserves to be decided by a split-second’s thinking that creates a lasting image of brilliance. Not some drawn-out fiasco that will forever reek of incompetence. Sadly, …

HEARTS deserved all the respect in the world on Saturday. Instead, they were treated like the dog dirt on Scottish football’s shoe. Jostled, abused, tormented. Cameras and middle fingers shoved in …

WHEN Celtic’s winter of discontent was at its darkest, you couldn’t get a bet on their skipper jetting off to the sunshine. Callum McGregor was weary of a club tearing itself apart and was heading …

THE solution to the kind of shameful scenes that scarred Scottish football yet again on Saturday has been staring us in the face for decades. Make it illegal for spectators to set foot on the playi…

MARTIN O’NEILL deserves a statue for his exploits in guiding Celtic to a remarkable league and cup double – but that doesn’t mean he is the right man to land the Hoops job on a pe…