Kenneth Ward

2 months ago | heraldscotland.com | Kenneth Ward

Brendan Rodgers with the League Cup, Premiership Trophy & The Scottish Cup (Image: SNS Group) News that some local councils were planning to double their tax bill on second properties last month was probably a rare occasion when Brendan Rodgers has felt any real domestic pressure this season, such is the Northern Irishman’s success rate at Hampden Park. During his two stints in charge of Celtic, after all, he has made the national stadium a home from home.

2 months ago | heraldscotland.com | Kenneth Ward

Anthony Ralston in action for St Johnstone (Image: SNS) Turn the channel to the BBC this afternoon and chances are you will be greeted with a white ball careering over beautiful green pastures towards a bulging net. “Where’s the cue ball going?” bellows the celebrated refrain from John Virgo.

Jul 25, 2024 | heraldscotland.com | Kenneth Ward

RANGERS are dead. There’s no such thing as the Old Firm. There’s a pretty wide bandwidth to tune into if you want to hear these refrains ring out around football grounds, pubs, playgrounds and workplaces all across the country. Normally, they’re spouted with a kind of sleekit glee which anticipates a cross response and rehearsed riposte about the machinations of limited companies and unbroken sporting lineages.

Jul 4, 2024 | heraldscotland.com | Kenneth Ward

Referee Alan Muir checks a pitchside monitor at Pittodrie (Image: SNS) THE polls are closed. We have a new government. Armed with a two-inch pencil, we each hammered home our collective message from the nation. I marked that X so fervently inside the box next to candidate Y they almost fused together to make a male chromosome. How the keyboard warriors on either side of the gender debate would have coped with that detail I don’t know. A vote for change? A vote for more of the same?

Jul 13, 2023 | thenational.scot | Kenneth Ward