Aidan Smith Journalist
  • Edinburgh
  • National World

Journalist with The Scotsman.

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The Scotsman

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  • Sports

275 Articles
over 1 year ago
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Aidan Smith: Gareth Bale the greatest-ever British footballer? You're havin' a taff

They’re a very endearing race, the Welsh. The occasions when I haven’t enjoyed their company have been rare(bit).

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over 1 year ago
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Aidan Smith's TV week: Spector (Sky Documentaries), The Kardashians: Billion Dollar Dynasty (C4),...

Ronnie Spector, who passed away a year ago, sang one of the all-time great pop songs. In the words of the ditty, boys...

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over 1 year ago
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Spare: Harry, Prince of Privacy, appears to determined to reveal all his secrets with little rega...

Here in Scotland, where Prince Harry is the Earl of Dumbarton, “spare” is a far more resourceful word than in the res...

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over 1 year ago
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Aidan Smith: Lee Johnson has called out Hibs 'mediocrity'. He must hope this doesn’t come back to...

Let’s go back to the Edinburgh derby of January 2. No, not last Monday, I mean January 2, 2013 when Hibernian were ma...

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over 1 year ago
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Aidan Smith's TV week: The Rig (Amazon Prime), Stonehouse (ITV), Waterloo Road (BBC1)

No offence intended, I like the wee guy, but for recently it has seemed that the only way to escape Martin Compston’s...

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over 1 year ago
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Aidan Smith: Why it's Argentina for me - Acuna, De Paul, Romero, MacAllister of course and don’t ...

The most scared I’ve ever been at a football match? That’s easy - El Monumental, Buenos Aires, 10 February, 2002.

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over 1 year ago
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Aidan Smith's TV week: Litvinenko (ITVX), Strike (BBC1), Bad Education Reunion Special (BBC3)

There are three David Tennants in our house. Two on my 11-year-old daughter’s tablet - the Paisley-born star plays tw...

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over 1 year ago
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End of broadcast TV as we know it? Eric Morecambe would have just one thing to say about that – A...

They may have been beaten this year by Her Majesty, but Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise are still kings of the goggle-b...

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over 1 year ago
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Meghan and Harry documentary review: Why Netflix series is a tease and hasn't blown up the monarc...

Eight o’clock in the morning and it’s buffering. All I’m getting of Netflix’s biggest-ever show – bigger than The Cro...

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over 1 year ago
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After I'm a Celebrity, Matt Hancock is now feeding us wombat’s nether regions and it’s got to sto...

The last time I wrote about Matt Hancock on these pages, I thought it would be over quite quickly.

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over 1 year ago
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As mute as Qatar's figurehead David Beckham has been, so VAR has dominated the World Cup coinvers...

It was going to be the worst World Cup ever, remember? Terrible hosts, terrible location, terrible time of year to be...

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over 1 year ago
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I'm with Michael Sheen who says: "When the English come knocking on our door let's give them some...

Prince William has managed to upset Wales – well, chiefly Michael Sheen whose actory bellow can carry right across al...

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