by Martin Taylor | Apr 16, 2021 | 2020-21, Opinion, Writing
It’s a somewhat embarrassing reality that season 2020/21 was the second season HMFC have spent in the second tier in the past six years. The outcome is ultimately the same – league champions with games to spare – but this season could not feel any...
by Iain Lobban | Nov 26, 2016 | 2016-17, Opinion, Writing
Greetings everyone. After a lengthier-than-planned absence from writing, largely due to the combination of a flat purchase, decoration of said flat, a stag-do and a wedding (for which I had to prepare a best man speech) it’s nice to get back to penning my...
by Iain Lobban | Aug 29, 2016 | 2016-17, Opinion, Writing
Greetings all! The international break is looming, which for some of us means a two-week wait for football we actually care about to re-commence. It’s not that I’m anti-Scotland or in any way unpatriotic, it’s just that Gordon Strachan has done little to reduce my...
by Iain Lobban | Jul 3, 2016 | 2016-17, Europe, Writing
Happy Sunday folks! Despite my gut feeling that Thursday night’s game wasn’t going to be the “walk in the park against an Eastern European pub team” that many of my fellow Jambos were anticipating, it didn’t stop me from popping into the bookies en route to Tynecastle...
by Iain Lobban | Jun 27, 2016 | 2015-16, Opinion, Writing
Having taken a fairly lethargic end-of-season, ‘already-on-the-beach’ approach to my writing over the past couple of months, I figured it was probably too late to compose a standalone review of the campaign that just ended, especially when the new season...