Post by Ken Lightbody

Sir, Were You At The Game Who remembers James Sanderson the football radio commentator? My god, you'd think fitba' was about gladiators not Rio carnivals and good ball skills Sir, were you at the game? asked in a stentorian voice Actually, no, I was at Dumbarton Rock not a Sons of the Rock supporter just there to see scenic Scotland and the river Clyde cycled out from Glasgow along the Forth and Clyde canal I'm here to see if there is any chance of clinging on to my west of scotland life a red sandstone tenement at Bowling that would be nice, or why not cycle on to Helensburgh home of John Logie Baird and Deborah Kerr? Do I have enough points for a council house, should I get someone pregnant and jump the housing waiting list? I'll buy a fish supper in Dumbarton and pick up a new jacket in the charity shop, Skintland I saw Scotland called and yes I must admit we do have a poverty problem but Nicola Sturgeon is addressing it, right? Why do we keep getting Tory governments? because we won't vote for independence; Robert the Bruce would be perplexed and very angry. No, I wasn't at the game, sir I've no' been at a football game since wee Rab Scanlon lifted me over the turnstile to get me in for free - whit age were you then? 9 or 10