Scottish football correspondent for The Times & The Sunday Times. Author of “Fergie Rises” on Alex Ferguson’s Aberdeen revolution. [email protected]
Joined November 2010
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Michael Grant retweeted
Major investigation from The Sunday Times - the Scottish state is paying a minimum of £27m a year to around 800 public sector workers, in the NHS, councils, police etc who do not have a job, but they cannot be made redundant owing to SNP policy
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Michael Grant retweeted
Celtic 7 Hearts 1
The last time Celtic beat Hearts it won them a league title. This time they roared their credentials to land another one, as an exhilarating attacking display overwhelmed Hearts, who suffered their heaviest competitive defeat at Parkhead | @MGrantScotland ✍️ thetimes.com/sport/scottish/…
Parkhead again, five months on. Hearts are back.
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Michael Grant retweeted
Graeme Souness: Look at my Liverpool team… dead, dead, dementia. I’m lucky thetimes.com/sport/football/…
Surprised the BBC showed this. Will only encourage other dogs to do it.
Every Scottish fan of a certain age remembers the 1980 England-Scotland schoolboy game. And they remember Ally Dick. Fans - and girls - loved him. He has the letters to prove it.
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Michael Grant retweeted
Recorded on Saturday but the pledge remains in place!
Gavin J and his partner Mathilde are running the Loch Ness Marathon this Sunday for Cancer Research UK, and Gav is offering up a further incentive for folks to donate... – at Cove Bay, Scotland
This beauty dropped through the letterbox. Honourable mentions for The Northern Light and The Absolute Game among many, many others. No-one better than Daniel Gray for this. 👏
Aberdeen always avoid relegation somehow.
More than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans', Anthropic researcher says bbc.in/4gVCHnk
Michael Grant retweeted
The rise of the balaclava at protests, football, funerals and public settings is fucking grim. A toxic symbol of bravado, cosplay, narcissism & moral cowardice.
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How Spurs icon killed by lightning became family’s dark, buried secret
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Michael Grant retweeted
Rangers and Celtic hit with full stadium closures after cup-tie violence
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He cracks jokes, he likes a cartoon, and he had 200 names of potential Scotland players in his head (for now).
Inside Sebastien Pocognoli’s first week at Hampden.
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