Nigel Duncan

Robbie Muirhead calmed nerves with a cool finish as Livingston edged promotion rivals, Dunfermline, in a bruising battle at The Home of the Set Fare Arena. It was a rare moment of quality in a match which was graced by warm sunshine and was not a festival of football. Rather, it was more of a […]

Charlotte Watson latched on to a cross from the right, took one touch, moved her feet into position and fired for goal. The ball thundered into a high point in the net to cue wild celebrations from Scotland’s women’s hockey team. The Dundonian, who was in Great Britain’s Olympic squad in Paris, showed real quality […]

Glenn Whelan felt the 2-0 win over Dunfermline was a good three points, but told the club’s TV: “There are aspects we can improve on.” Livingston’s head coach was also happy with the clean sheet but argued that it is the first time that some of the players have been on the pitch in a […]

Grant Wilson is the men’s champion at Balerno Bowling Club for the fifth time having beaten two-time winner, Steven Watson, in the final. He won 21-15 in the two-hour match which was close early on with peels at ten, then Watson went 13-10 ahead only for Wilson to rally and move to 18-13. The pair […]

Scotland’s women face New Zealand in a crunch clash in the classification round of the FIH Hockey World Cup, four years on from a controversial call in the meeting between the sides in the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The Kiwis were 1-0 ahead against the Tartan Hearts when Scotland were awarded a penalty corner. The […]

Former Berwick Bandits speedway racer Leon Flint has been named in Great Britain’s World Cup Final team along with Robert Lambert, Charles Wright, Adam Ellis and Tom Brennan. They face a tough task in Warsaw’s PGE Narodowy Stadium where a crowd of 50,000 will watch them take on Poland, Denmark and Australia. The Poles, led […]

The Allied Vehicles Tigers booked their place in the top four of the table, and a slot in the Cab Direct Championship play-offs, and now the focus is about finishing as high up the table as possible. Glasgow travel to Plymouth Gladiators on Tuesday (7pm) and visit Redcar on Friday before a final home meeting […]

Scotland’s women’s hockey squad headed for Amsterdam on Tuesday as they continued their odyssey in the World Cup boosted by confirmation that they are now 11th in the world, their highest ever position, and sixth in Europe, those positions having been confirmed overnight. Both are significant. Coach Chris Duncan targeted a top ten slot for […]

Wouter Vrancken has spoken about an ideal size for this squad, around 26 or 27. Well, Hearts have just added another new player, American striker JJ Williams, creating more competition for a place up-front. The 28-year-old arrives from USL Championship side Rhode Island FC for an undisclosed fee and has agreed a two-year deal at […]

Angler wins major event but bears the scars from dogfish fight