I was seven when Rangers won their first league title of my lifetime.
Up until that point Celtic had won three championships. Aberdeen had matched them. And Dundee United had slipped in with their solitary league win. I seem to just about remember Jim McLean smiling that day.
There's not been much for us non-Old Firm fans to smile about since.

Got this mailshot for MP Tom Watson
Ed Miliband calls really early. Too early. These days I have to set my alarm for 6am in order to be fully awake before he starts chasing me.
Before Ed's calls, I listen to the depressing daily news on the Today programme. Unemployment sky rocketing, the economy flat-lining, more arrests at News International.

Abraham Lincoln, one of our countries greatest Presidents - if not the state of illinois unemployment rate of the state of illinois unemployment insurance in the vintage marketplace simply because of the Illinois state legislature has also recently enacted a statute preventing medical malpractice lawsuits drive up insurance premiums which are then passed on to patients.

When you're a Brazilian club of the third division and you're starved for hits on your website, there are only two possible options:

i. Hire a spammer.
ii. Porn.

Brasiliense has opted for choice number two, decking out their club website with adult-oriented imagery of females in various states of undress.

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By Eric Beard

A newspaper, a café con leche or an espresso, a café, and a cigarette. Maybe a croissant as well. It's the stereotypical Spanish breakfast. Substitute a few tapas for the croissant and you more or less have lunch covered as well. But on the 1st of January, 2011, a newly enforced law in Spain interrupted the daily routine of millions.

Why Torres is the real loser in football's game of truth and dare

In the real world, unemployment is beginning to bite. Winter fuel bills are a looming nightmare. A visit to the supermarket puts life's luxuries like a ticket for a football match beyond reach. You don't need an ­economics degree to ­understand why Chelsea supporters are planning to boycott the Champions League tie against Genk.

Interesting article on the two economists, Keynes & Hayek. Obviously as a socialist I'd be on the Keynesian Economics side of the debate :
As their economies contracted, governments responded to their mounting budget deficits by raising taxes and cutting spending.
The Great Depression bottomed out at the end of 1932, with British unemployment having reached 20%, American unemployment even higher.

This morning, Terek Grozny, the Chechnyan football club attempting to make waves in the football world, released one of the best official website statements in recent memory, torpedoing their coach in no uncertain terms, declaring if he does not win this afternoon's game, he'll find unemployment.

And because that coach is Ruud Gullit, it makes it all the better.

More than just caffeine Argentina legend Diego Maradona claims he and the rest of the squad were involved in doping ahead a crucial World Cup qualifier in 1993. The newly-appointed Al-Wasl coach managed to keep tight-lipped about the scandal throughout his recent unemployment, but the information has now burst out.

Welcome to international Scandinavians Behaving Badly Day.

Above is Ove Christenson, current coach of Randers, future winner of a suspension, fine and/or unemployment. As Randers teeters on the brink of relegation, they lost 4-0 to Brondby, so Ove teetered on the ledge of patience and then fell off.

ALGIERS, Algeria – The national soccer league in Algeria has canceled matches scheduled for Friday and Saturday after riots in the capital and elsewhere this week. The Algerian National Football League announced the cancellations in Al Watan, a local newspaper. The matches were canceled in an effort to prevent large groups of young people from [.

I suppose the bizarre part of this story is the fact that a large haul of cannabis was found stuffed inside a painting of a famous footballer. That's large enough to make front page, headline news for its oddity and on a day where Adrian Mutu is making headlines for abandoning ship, no less (fancy that).