Aidan Smith Journalist
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  • National World

Journalist with The Scotsman.

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The Scotsman

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  • Sports

267 Articles
8 months ago
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Aidan Smith: Maybe Rishi Sunak has an ulterior motive behind supporters bus' climbdown

Is Rishi Sunak a football fan? I mean, he claims to support Southampton, having been born in the city, but he doesn’t...

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8 months ago
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Aidan Smith's TV week: Love & Death - prayers, volleyball and adultery in a little Texas town

David E. Kelley has made such a brilliant career out of spousal betrayal potboilers that it’s a disappointment to lea...

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8 months ago
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National service? Penny Mordaunt's support for its return doesn't impress my kids but there will ...

The prospect of national service prompts one reluctant potential recruit to say ‘I’ll tell you what it sounds like: c...

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8 months ago
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The Rangers and Scotland legend who just wishes his parents had seen his scoring spree

The very first time Scotland ventured to Cyprus for a football match, Colin Stein remembers their plane being tossed ...

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8 months ago
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A kiss is just a kiss? Oh no it’s not - Aidan Smith on Luis Rubiales controversy

If only Luis Rubiales, the man at the centre of Kissgate, had stayed a little longer at Hamilton Accies. He might not...

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8 months ago
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Aidan Smith: Gordon Banks, Martin Peters, Alan Mullery, you’re boys took a helluva beating (once ...

Funny the places your mind will wander when you’d rather be anywhere than watching your team being thumped. On Wednes...

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8 months ago
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The worst aspects of the men's game have entered women's football - Aidan Smith

“Why can’t a woman be more like a man?” sang Rex Harrison in the 1964 film version of My Fair Lady, blissfully unawar...

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8 months ago
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John McGinn's return to Easter Road: 'What a backside,' the Hibs fans will sigh wistfully, 'it us...

I remember it well. A cold winter’s day, the snow falling. And all around the ground the fans were truly inspired.

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8 months ago
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Stephen Robinson on life at St Mirren, time at Motherwell and court case that 'scarred him for life'

Stephen Robinson is a “nightmare”. Who says so? The man himself. St Mirren’s Northern Irish manager takes his work ho...

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9 months ago
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Book review: Different Times: A History of British Comedy, by David Stubbs

There are some beautifully crafted pen-portraits of humour’s high-water marks in this history of British mirth-making...

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9 months ago
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Aidan Smith: Is Boydy about to be Monster Munched by Chris Sutton? Bring it on ...

This is a big season for Kris Boyd and you might even call it epochal. That’s epochal as in defining. In case you’ve ...

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9 months ago
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Malky Mackay reveals his Elton John text, play-off WhatsApp group and life at Ross County ahead o...

It was almost 2am and Malky Mackay was still trying to take in what had just happened. In a nightclub his son, a Ross...

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