Aidan Smith Journalist
  • Edinburgh
  • National World

Journalist with The Scotsman.

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  • Sports

267 Articles
over 2 years ago
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Charlie Mulgrew on blowing his first chance at Celtic, seizing the second and why he's not given ...

There must be a couple of hundred at least. Boys and girls, different ages, crowded on the verges, some in trees, and...

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over 2 years ago
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Olympics 2020: Jemma Reekie’s medal hopes dashed on the line in Tokyo

They were billed almost as superheroes - three women who were going to “save” Team GB after an underwhelming showing ...

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over 2 years ago
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The X Factor was the reason a generation of kids, asked what they wanted to be when they grew up,...

They could be a boyband with their hunky looks, tattooed arms and obsession with gold and silver discs. And the quart...

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over 2 years ago
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Rangers: If estate agents can charge for viewings, why not the Big Hoose for interviews?

Earlier this year, after the third or fourth stunning team goal in almost as many weeks, I wrote a column in praise o...

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over 2 years ago
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James McPake: ‘Dundee are back in the big time and I just wish my dad could have seen it’

What joy to be travelling to Dundee in long trousers. To be casting off the lockdown slobbers and heading out the doo...

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over 2 years ago
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"I am playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order."

Too bulky to store. The tape could be reused. Union rules restricting repeats. Subjective selection of what should be...

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almost 3 years ago
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David Wilkie on Olympic glory, his ‘pal’ Elton John, blaming Warrender for losing his hair and Du...

Because so much sport now seems to commence at primetime for TV, it’s politics nerds who get to boast about going all...

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almost 3 years ago
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Aidam Smith: Who knew glasnost would give us Gold Diggers, my new favourite schlock show?

Back in the bad old days of the Cold War, Mikhail Gorbachev visited Edinburgh and I was among the newshounds put on h...

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almost 3 years ago
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Tokyo Olympics 2020 opening ceremony: Why Hazel Irvine was the real star

The situation was desperate. Sport’s greatest show on earth was in peril. With 48 hours to go, there was still a risk...

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almost 3 years ago
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Novak Djokovic: I was nervous because of what was at stake in this final - history was on the line"

Very few tennis players - and maybe only Novak Djokovic - would come away from the opening set of the Wimbledon final...

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almost 3 years ago
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Wimbledon 2021: Novak Djokovic outguns Matteo Berrettini to become a six-shooter

At Wimbledon yesterday, a man who thinks he’s the star of his own spaghetti western went hunting a wolf which thinks ...

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almost 3 years ago
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Ashleigh Barty wins a nervy-jangling, topsy-turvy, grenade-for-a-ball final to become Wimbledon c...

In what everyone had been calling the most open women’s championship for years, neither finalist wanted to win it. Fo...

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