The acquittal of
Patrick Sellar: ‘a verdict
satisfactory to the court’
The Cafe
Economics of dependence
When the judge is
your enemy, you have
nothing to lose
Michael Elcock
Bad words
The weekend edition of SR, normally published on Thursday, will be online on Friday. It will include an essay by Sophie Cooke on what it means to be a Scottish writer
Rear Window
Three men of sport (2)
From Bob Ferrier’s essay on Alan Morton of Rangers in the Scottish Biographical Dictionary (1999)
Only 5 feet 4 inches tall and seldom more than nine stones in weight, and throughout his career a part-time player, Morton was surprisingly strong and took the rough with the smooth against big unruly defenders without complaint. He had a quite powerful shot with either foot, but was a goalmaker rather than a goalscorer.
One bewildering facet of his play was the ‘floating lob’, a cross which seemed to stop and hang on the face of the crossbar, provoking indecision in the minds of goalkeepers.
In the famous ‘Wembley wizards’ match of 1928, in which Scotland beat England 5-1, each goal of the hat-trick scored by Alex Jackson, the outside right, came from Morton’s crosses. It was at this match that Ivan Sharpe, a prominent English critic of the day, dubbed Morton the ‘wee blue devil’.
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Islay McLeod
When I met Gary,
he asked me why
I was bothering with him
Six papers by young thinkers
2. Michelle Howard on care of offenders
Gary left prison with accommodation. However it didn’t work out the
first time. He was supported by no fewer than five organisations,
each with a focus on a specific need including housing, drug use, and statutory supervision.
Michelle Howard delivered this paper at a recent Young Thinker of the Year event organised by the Scottish Review team. She works in local government
