Steve Finan
Contributor at The Courier and Evening Telegraph (Dundee)
Authored 12 In The Black & White Era photo-led sports nostalgia books. Columnist in Courier and Tele. Football stadiums enthusiast. Lifted Over The Turnstiles.
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1 week ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Steve Finan
Dundee City Council has a tried and tested way of dealing with difficult stuff. They ignore it. When they should give information they clam up, lay low, and hope no one notices. Some of the time, this tactic works. Because it’s difficult for news reporters to keep a subject at the forefront of attention when there’s nothing new to report. But columnists make comment when they think it is needed. And choose for themselves what to comment about. So I won’t let silence put me off.
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2 weeks ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Steve Finan
Terrible though this is to say, I now don’t think Dundee FC’s Camperdown Stadium will happen. The roads changes we now know are required have killed it. And, let’s be clear, that is a disaster not just for Dundee Football Club but for the city of Dundee as a whole. The traffic access problem looks to be insoluble on cost grounds.
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3 weeks ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Steve Finan
Arbroath’s Place for Everyone cycle path has now been a year in construction. The emerging result of the £14 million work shows a plain fact – this is a ridiculous misuse of money. Angus Council, hang your heads in embarrassment. Being a councillor means making responsible decisions. It means spending public money wisely. Your vanity project has failed miserably to do that. If a £14m cycle path was desperately needed, that’s one thing. But this wasn’t needed.
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1 month ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Steve Finan
Dundee city councillors of all parties, the defining issue during the lifetime of this council has arrived. The Raac problem affecting nearly 900 Dundee houses. How you handle this and how you conduct yourselves in the coming months will be what you are remembered for. It’s time to step up to the mark. It’s time to claim your place in Dundee’s history. We can all do the sums. We know it would be difficult for the council to fix all the problems.
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1 month ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Steve Finan
With the Dundee derby coming up again on Sunday, there is something that needs said about Scottish football. Ultras ruin games. And I don’t only mean the drum volume, it’s the way these children have taken over the job of generating atmosphere – and aren’t doing it very well – I don’t like. Being an ultra, as far as I can see, means to keep chanting and drumming the full 90, no matter what is happening. This has changed the soundtrack of football.
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RT @C_ENicolson: @SteveFinan1 spot on with this. It reflects well on nobody that the saga has dragged for this long when the traffic issue…
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