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Sports How Steven Gerrard Reset Rangers and Put Them on Path to Title

How Steven Gerrard Reset Rangers and Put Them on Path to Title

It is the great Rangers unmentionable. Acrimony associated with curtailment of last season in Scotland was fixed, as is depressingly customary, on the Old Firm…

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Sports Ryan Gauld: 'Being Called Mini Messi Didn't Bother Me but People Expected More'

Ryan Gauld: 'Being Called Mini Messi Didn't Bother Me but People Expected More'

Ryan Gauld wasn’t short of suitors when seeking a transfer from Sporting Lisbon last summer, proving reputations such as his linger. The Scot dubbed “Mini…

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Sports Celtic's Hype Bubble Is Burst by Another Champions League Failure

Celtic's Hype Bubble Is Burst by Another Champions League Failure

If Celtic take delivery of the Scottish Premiership trophy for a 10th time in succession come May, you can guarantee a bloody nose at the hands of Ferencvaros…

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Sports Milan's Asmir Begovic: When I First Came back, Nobody was in the Streets

Milan's Asmir Begovic: When I First Came back, Nobody was in the Streets

Asmir Begovic was in the midst of a year less ordinary long before a pandemic brought football to a shuddering halt. “Unorthodox?” he asks with a laugh. “A…

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Sports Celtic's Scottish Title Triumph Should Not Be Diminished by Cold Climax

Celtic's Scottish Title Triumph Should Not Be Diminished by Cold Climax

It has seemed impossible to decouple bitterness relating to Celtic’s title win from the reality of it being a perfectly valid outcome. Perhaps that was a…

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Sports Future of Scottish Season Needs Clear Plan to Counter Squabbling

Future of Scottish Season Needs Clear Plan to Counter Squabbling

Scottish football doesn’t need fixtures to trigger warfare. Circumstances around Rangers’ financial implosion in 2012 were such that the security of…

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Sports VAR Seems as Far Away as Ever in Scotland Despite Rangers Weighing In

VAR Seems as Far Away as Ever in Scotland Despite Rangers Weighing In

The Scottish Professional Football League does an impressive job in creating a perception of wanting discussion over VAR to disappear. Speaking in September…

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Sports What Stoke Can Expect After Prising Michael O'Neill From Northern Ireland

What Stoke Can Expect After Prising Michael O'Neill From Northern Ireland

One of Michael O’Neill’s final acts as the Northern Ireland manager emphasises why the lure of club football was always going to prove too strong eventually. O…

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