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If COP26 conference attendees get out and about, they might be heartened by Glasgows glorious green spaces, from the Botanic Gardens to a ghost football ground that went bust in the 60s...

ALL the mediocrity and fake virtue on which Scottish politics proceeds was on full public parade this week. Rarely has so much chicanery and…

© Staff On this day 58 years ago there were 40,000 spectators squeezed inside Dens Park as Bob Shankly’s Dundee booked their place in the European Cup semi-finals. The opponents were an Anderlecht side who had already seen off the mighty Real Madrid but had been humbled at Heisel by a rampant Dark Blues. Real had been in six of seven finals to that point, winning five, and still boasted the likes of Alfredo Di Stefano and Ferenc Puskas. Beating them had elevated the Belgians to the status of...

IN the middle of a pandemic that has killed more than 2.5 million people worldwide, it might seem obvious that jumping around in close proximity to…

BLETHER: Johan Cruyff and an audacious transfer pursuit, career of ex-Dundee striker Alex Harley and more Charleston housing scheme tales © Imago/BPI/Shutterstock The late great Johan Cruyff in action for the Netherlands. Who’d have thought Claudio Caniggia and Fabrizio Ravanelli would end up in Scotland playing for Dundee? Graeme Strachan, who is currently responsible for some great reminiscing stories in The Courier and Evening Telegraph mainstream pages, has forwarded some terrific tales ...