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Hamilton and Ireland u21 midfielder James McCarthy has agreed a four-year contract to join
Wigan Athletic for a fee of about £1.2m rising to £3m depending on appearances.
Wigan's English top-flight rivals Wolves also had an offer accepted by the Scottish Premier League
club.
Dame Vere: Gawd Lurve 'ErLiverpool and Chelsea - inevitably. Manchester United and Villareal -
possibly. The Scottish Football Blog and my devoted reader(s) - finally!It's been too long. And
like the best laid plans my lofty ambitions for this blog have gang agley. Apologies but being both
man and mouse what do you expect from me?
Things are not looking good for Irish sports broadcaster, Setanta, after it emerged the company
are in debt to the Premier League, by £30 million, meaning inevitably they are now trying to
escape the desperate clutches of administration.
As well as it's debt to the English PL, Setanta have also failed to pay the Scottish Premier
League £3 million in television rights money.
If something amazing happens in tonight's England match will people remember where they were?"When
Rooney stabbed the referee? I remember it well. I was sat in my study, on my own. I remember
Skypeing my best mate to talk about it but he wasn't online.""Of course I remember where I was when
Capello punched John Terry.
Well, I'm on a roll so why not.If a country gets the TV it deserves then we are a very bad bunch
here in Scotland.Let's leave BBC Scotland out of this for just now (although a lot could be said,
right Chick?) and concentrate on the excuse for a modern broadcaster that is STV.With terrible
programmes and terrible presenters (I wouldn't wish an hour with Stephen Jardine on my worst enemy)
the
But the Japanese fans would have come along even if the away side was Swaziland instead of
Scotland, such is their fervour for their national team.
Many of them took their seats as much as two hours before kick-off - a phenomenon almost unheard
of in our country where we like to keep the waiting around to an absolute minimum.
