Michael Grant
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Scottish football correspondent for The Times. Books: The Management and Fergie Rises. Email michael.grant @thetimes .co.uk
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TV pundits now saying the polar opposite of what they were saying pre-match and even at half-time.
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Celtic fans banner on Rodgers: "You traded immortality for mediocrity. Never a Celt. Always a Fraud."
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Celtic’s attempt to land Eddie Howe is off after negotiations broke down. Club sources confirm.
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Not a word on a Celtic-Aberdeen cup final on Football Focus. Mercifully they didn't cut the essential Maidstone and Slough features.
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Jim Goodwin talks politics, music and hard graft as a van driver.
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Let fans drink at football – ban is outdated and unnecessary
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Football rule number 1: only a special team beats Real Madrid in a European final.
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Neale Cooper's heart attack: "I thought I had a minute to live. I thought 'I'm the first Gothenburg boy to go'."
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Pumped on Thursday night, then a noon Sunday kick-off 3 hours away, and still 1100 Aberdeen fans go to Fir Park. Fifa should do fans’ awards
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GMS hasn’t looked this happy since he was hauled out of the Kelvin.
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Aberdeen's 4000+ at Livingston must have been comfortably the biggest away support of the day.
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SFA and Scottish Government agree terms for emergency loans to Premiership clubs. Zero interest, 20-year repayment term and nothing to pay until next year. More in tomorrow’s
@thetimes
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England’s worst home defeat since a 5-1 against, of course, Scotland.
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23.6m viewers for ITV’s coverage last night. Despite ITV’s coverage last night.
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Dons in for Christie permanent deal £500,000 (Celtic get big sell-on clause), not dependent on Hayes deal. Maloney/AFC talks continue too.
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The same ref should do both semis too, just for a laugh.
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‘We were the best in Europe. Real? Bayern? It was Aberdeen. No doubt’
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Five years ago today Aberdeen won the League Cup. The whole of Scotland was delighted.
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Andy Murray: awkward, a bit geeky, dry, sarcastic, and the most impressive sportsman Scotland’s ever had. Good lad.
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Get this lady a ticket for Hampden.
2️⃣ A woman who lives near Inverness has a rare genetic mutation that means she can’t feel pain.
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Puzzled that it's Willie Miller's birthday yet it doesn't appear to be a national holiday.
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Eoin Jess: David’s death has changed me - this walk is about following in his footsteps
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Celtic, Rangers and Aberdeen arriving there in the coming days should help calm things down.
Scots tourists 'should leave Dubai immediately after killing of Iran general'
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A reminder that Celtic and Rangers have "preferred" ends at neutral Hampden, and always get them.
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Ronaldo on Aberdeen:
"Since Sir Alex Ferguson left I saw no evolution in the club, the progress was zero."
Don't miss Piers Morgan's 90 Minutes with Ronaldo. Wednesday and Thursday at 8pm on TalkTV.
@cristiano
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@piersmorgan
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@TalkTV
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#PMU
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Aberdeen have the biggest home and away wins by any team in the Premiership this season, 7-2 & 7-0.
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If this is where we’re at, we’re fucked.
Ex-Scotland striker insists players should watch Braveheart to get fired up for England clash
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4 years ago today: League Cup final Aberdeen 0-0 Caley Thistle (4-2 on pens). Widely regarded as the finest cup final in living memory.
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Jonny Hewitt, 55 today. Scored European final winner v Real Madrid aged 20.
Scotland caps: erm, none.
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Hibs & Aberdeen denied more tickets for Ibrox & Parkhead when the stadiums will have 20,000+ empty seats. Ridiculous.
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15 Feb: Accies v Aberdeen. Goal not given cos it “hadn’t crossed the line”. Stop dithering Dons, get a letter in!!
http://t.co/hA4T0YQ9h5
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Interview with Aberdeen director Dave Cormack in The Times.
* “Scottish football has been too scared to take risks”
* Shaking up the SFA & SPFL
* Stewart Milne building on Pittodrie
@thetimes
@CormackDavie
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Re Aberdeen director Duncan Skinner being charged with betting on games: likely outcome is £1000-£2000 fine, towards the lower end of sanctions. Of 589 bets one was on Dons to lose (they did, 1-0 at Parkhead in Feb). Biggest punishment is the embarrassment.
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Not entirely convinced Mark Lawrenson overburdens himself with research.
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Refuse to believe this unless it’s confirmed by Willie Miller himself.
'I have threesomes with God – it's the best sex of my life & improves orgasms'
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Barca fans raise Catalan flags in "political" display. Inevitable fine will pay for a Uefa staff night out.
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The SPFL will owe £10m to Sky and BT: can Neil Doncaster sweet-talk a way out of it?
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@AgentScotland
Andrew Davies had Craig Levein’s comments in his mind midway through a Ross County game at Parkhead?
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Aberdeen have not had a £7m bid from Stoke from McKenna.
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Well well well...
BREAKING NEWS | Aberdeen FC is pleased to confirm that Derek McInnes and Tony Docherty have elected to remain at Pittodrie
#StandFree
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Is oxygen useful?
RT if you agree…
Alex Ferguson's
#Aberdeen
. The best Scottish side of the 80's? RT if you agree.
http://t.co/ZW426vLiDv
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Caixinha’s had more arrival times than Heathrow Airport.
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12,000 were in Glasgow for a midday kick-off to watch his “performance”…
Anthony O'Connor appears to slam Aberdeen fans as 'the worst for getting behind their team' after Scottish Cup exit
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Still, if Aberdeen-Rangers goes to 26-25 on pens there’ll be 100,000 watching.
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Could really do with at least one and ideally four clubs being publicly up in arms about this, soon.
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ScotRail statement: “We already make an arse of things on a daily basis, imagine the mess we’ll make of this.”
ScotRail criticises SPFL over handling of semi-finals decision
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Now we’re talking.
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@AberdeenFC
legend Peter Weir on:
•Giving up greenkeeping for football
•Why he loved the Dons
•Feeling nervous at being chosen for Scotland
•Slaying Mick Mills
•”Nobody understood my injury”
•Rejection by Ian Porterfield
My interview in The Times tomorrow
@TimesSport
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“
@Groundtastic
: The old Beach End at Aberdeen's Pittodrie, as seen in 1981. Pic by Bob Lilliman.
http://t.co/YhaZkeMAxM”
Magnificent.
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The last justifiable guard of honour in Scottish football...
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The Scottish manager with a back story like no other. David Martindale interview in
@thetimes
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This is a long and very hard read, but an essential one.
Hillsborough: South Yorkshire police's deadly failures & decades of hard-faced lies. My long read from the inquests
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35 years of going to Pittodrie must count for something here.
Bizarre new trend sees people FREEZING their genitals to boost their sex lives
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Use of EBTs was not illegal but it finally broke Rangers
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Henderson: contact under his chin, goes down holding his forehead.
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McInnes release clause raised to £90m.
Sunderland's £93.5m for finishing LAST in the Premier League is more than Juventus, Bayern or Monaco get for WINNING Serie A, BL, Ligue 1.
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Not heard the Calderon this noisy since Atletico scraped past Aberdeen in '07.
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This nails it.
Why is it so hard for Rangers & Hibs to say "nobody should have been on that park being mindlessly violent - we'll ban our own offenders"?
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Belated happy birthday to Yaya Toure. Eight years old last week.
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This.
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Robbie Shepherd’s “Up The Dons” on Radio Scotland this morning. Should be blasted out as a 7am wake up siren every day, North Korea style.
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Good on them. Proper supporters.
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What a run by Celtic. Incredible consistency. But results like today’s breathe life into Scottish football. Very well done Hearts.
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The national manager losing his job in disgrace after 67 days and one game is so fucking absurd it’s amazing it didn’t happen in Scotland.
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Why would a national clinical director involve himself in this?
Professor Jason Leitch says he will "ask the guys to look at" possibility of hospitality staying open beyond 10pm - should Scotland v Israel go to penalties next week
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Current Aberdeen FC position: everything fine. 'Tis but a scratch.
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@TheAwayEnd
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http://t.co/VnBzlOJX48”
This has to be watched.,.
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Elderly Germans reduced to crossing roads on their own since Scotland fans went home.
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All eggs no longer in one basket. Search for eggs starts now. And basket.
SFA insist there is NO leading candidate for the Scotland job as Walter Smith rules himself out
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Was tempted to do that too.
"I named my son after Anton Rogan!" 👶
Brendan Rodgers speaks about the former
#CelticFC
full-back who signed
#OnThisDay
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Another Scotland post mortem? For the love of God, spare us.
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Big name.
EXCLUSIVE: Poland's 2022 World Cup manager Czeslaw Michniewicz wants Aberdeen job
���Czeslaw is someone who wants to meet and discuss this."
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Stray football fan bought a pint.
Announcements around Murrayfield that all the bars have had to be closed "due to extreme circumstances". It's....not gone down well.
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Celtic will win the league, but for Aberdeen to be only 5 points off them in April is remarkable. One league defeat since early November.
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By John Hartson's logic Martin O'Neill - in detailed talks with Leeds in 2003 - wanted out of Celtic in his last two seasons at Parkhead.
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Staggering Craig Thomson decision on penalty today. Beyond belief.
Celtic's 5th was sublime: a rabona, then a backheel, then the goal.
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