Aidan Smith Journalist
  • Edinburgh
  • National World

Journalist with The Scotsman.

Published In

The Scotsman

Focus Areas

  • Sports

267 Articles
about 1 year ago
scotsman.com

It’s Gary Lineker 1, BBC 0 (and a red card for 'stop the boats') – Aidan Smith

I'm very interested in what footballers have to say for themselves. It's part of my job for this paper. And frankly t...

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about 1 year ago
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Aidan Smith's TV week: George Michael: Outed (Channel 4), Luther: The Fallen Sun (Netflix), The B...

At one of my old newspapers a four-day week operated and we thought we were pretty decadent. But this was topped down...

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about 1 year ago
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Glastonbury festival is a blokefest again, but women don't want tokenistic quotas – Aidan Smith

My wife is taking our two daughters, aged 14 and 11, to Harry Styles’ big Murrayfield show in May and I’m not sure wh...

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about 1 year ago
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Aidan Smith: Bold, flair-packed and exciting, Scotland are rugby’s great entertainers, so where’s...

Borrowing from a controversial directive for school sports ensuring that the Fotherington-Tomases don’t feel left out...

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about 1 year ago
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Motherwell' Stuart Kettlewell on saving Ross County millions, TV sacking, David de Gea and Neil L...

Lookalikes are a subjective thing. You may think you’ve spotted a dead-ringer but I might wonder if you need to book ...

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about 1 year ago
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Aidan Smith: Rangers v Celtic cup final showpiece should be available to all and Motty would sure...

John Motson said many things. Some 2,500 games’ worth, indeed, so a helluva lot. But it was a remark away from the co...

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about 1 year ago
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Aidan Smith: Rangers boss says St Johnstone is a cow field. Compared to those 70s gluepots and sn...

On a trip to London recently, the tour of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium was fascinating. My son and I were amazed tha...

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about 1 year ago
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Beatles vs Rolling Stones? There aren’t dinosaur rock bands anymore. The group is nearly extinct ...

It’s a bigger-sized team than normally plays there. When Bruce Springsteen strikes up the band at Murrayfield Stadium...

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about 1 year ago
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Rangers' Alfredo Morelos probably wakes up and spreads his toast provocatively but let him celebrate

It’s August 1997, the first Edinburgh derby of the season and Easter Road is jumping. Already Hibs have beaten Celtic...

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about 1 year ago
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Aidan Smith's TV week: Nolly (ITVX), Hotel Portofino (ITVX), Pamela, a Love Story (Netflix)

It was the original wobbly-walled, woodenly-acted soap opera and I loved it. Home from school, tea would be supplied ...

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about 1 year ago
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As Tories join celebrity land, celebrity supporters like Rod Stewart are turning against them – A...

“Where the hell do you think you’re going?” It’s a question Conservatives could reasonably ask celebrities right now....

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about 1 year ago
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Owen Coyle: The romance of Queen's Park, why he turned down Celtic and how he almost served Fergi...

Try as I might, your correspondent cannot get Owen Coyle to utter the p-word. That’s p for promotion. Also p for Prem...

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