I am in the debt of both Brian McNally of the Sunday Mirror and James MacMillan in the Daily Telegraph for acknowledging my role in the Dallas email story.
Month: November 2010
What is the strike for? A Grade One referee could not answer.
A senior official inside the SFA a few days ago challenged a Grade One referee about the impending strike.
This referee is considered one of the best in Scotland.
He is a white collar professional and is highly articulate.
Hugh Dallas offered to call off strike if his case dropped!
Exclusive.
Hugh Dallas and Stewart Regan had a blazing row on Monday at the SFA headquarters in Glasgow.
Hugh Dallas offered to call off the referees strike if his disciplinary hearing into the Pope email was called off.
Dallas disciplinary hearing tomorrow!
EXCLUSIVE.
Stewart Regan will carpet Hugh Dallas and other SFA staff tomorrow.
My sources tell me that the disciplinary hearing has been carefully choreographed with the agreement of Hugh Dallas.
Catholic church calls for Dallas to be sacked!
EXCLUSIVE
The Catholic Church in Scotland has officially written to SFA chief Stewart Regan and demanded that controversial Referee chief Hugh Dallas be sacked after he sent an email on the day of the Pope’s visit last September insinuating that His Holiness was a danger to children.
The letter was faxed and emailed to Hampden Park today, 24th November 2010. A scanned copy of the letter can be viewed on this site.
A parcel of rogues.
I write these words on a train that has just pulled out of Enniscorthy taking me to Dublin for an NUJ event.
Dublin is, of course, the seat of government here in Ireland.
It is where the IMF team have their hotel rooms.
A badge that divides.
I was reminded this week of a lesson that my old Professor at York, Laurie Taylor, used to try and impart into my twenty-something brain.
“Most things are socially constructed.” The sociology department’s eponymous “History Man” would hold forth.
It was part sociology lecture, part revival meet, and part stand-up routine just as Malcolm Bradbury would have imagined at his typewriter.
Interview with James MacMillan
An interview with James MacMillan, world renowned Scottish composer, on the controversy regarding Hugh Dallas’ email.
Dallas Email
For those who disbelieved the story I broke on this site on Saturday afternoon here is the evidence that the story was strong.
SFA. Sectarianism Fully Acceptable?
Charities dedicated to ridding Scotland of the scourge of sectarianism reacted swiftly to the shocking revelations, a story broken on this site, that Hugh Dallas, the chief of the Scottish Football Association’s refereeing department had, on the day of the Pope’s visit to the UK in September, sent an email “joke” intimating that His Holiness was a danger to children.
