Bill Leckie

IT’LL cost taxpayers more than £250,000 to stage next Thursday’s by-election in Clacton. That’s enough to pay seven newly-qualified nurses for a year. To give 2,750 homeless souls a bed for the nig…

CAMILO DURAN’S grasp of English may be coming along at a snail’s pace. But he and Celtic’s adoring fans already understand each other perfectly. That’s the beauty of the language they call football…

SOME players kiss the badge — Colby Donovan lives and breathes it. He’s a Celtic-daft kid who went from ball boy to academy prospect to starring on a European night to remember. So when he says he’…

DEREK McINNES is right – he CAN’T hold a struggling player’s hand for 90 minutes. The worrying thing is that he even needs to say it out loud. You’d think a willingness to stand up and be counted w…

SO, at the last count, the SNP have: A former chief executive in jail for stealing party funds. His wife, an ex-First Minister, still under serious scrutiny over what she did or didn’t know about t…

BOTH have had decades to get their houses in order and bottled it time and again. So now, those houses are being shut down — and quite right too. Having spent forever calling for clubs to be held l…

If Andy Burnham cared where The North actually is, he could have filled his boots this summer. By filling the void of sheer complacency and contempt John Swinney and his cronies show for their duty…

SCOTLAND’S top clubs have been told they’re missing out on £40million every YEAR by ignoring homegrown talent. The stark warning came at a crisis summit on the domestic game’s future called in the …

FOR every pound Scottish football clubs invest in their academies, our game makes 7p profit. In Switzerland, that figure is £1.21. In Sweden, it’s £1.62. Norwegian clubs make £2.98, Belgian clubs £…

JOHN SWINNEY is an utterly hopeless First Minister. Sorry if that’s not the most politically astute opening to a column. But it’s just how it is. And it really, really needs to be said. It truly wa…