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Scottish Sun
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Clarke's men drained the enthusiasm of every Scotland fan with a catalogue of calamities vs Iceland writes Bill Leckie
SON'S OF APATHY Clarke's men drained the enthusiasm of every Scotland fan with a catalogue of calamities vs Iceland writes Bill Leckie RIGHT behind Steve Clarke's dugout, punters craned their necks for a look at a star of the hit TV show Sons Of Anarchy. The rest of Hampden? Advertisement 3 It was a nightmare debut for Cieran Slicker Credit: PA 3 Steve Clarke reacts during the disappointing friendly at Hampden Credit: Kenny Ramsay 3 SunSport's Bill Leckie has given his take on the clash Credit: John Kirkby - The Sun Glasgow It was swamped in tons of apathy. Little wonder. Because this was a night to drain the enthusiasm out of the most optimistic Tartan Army footsoldier on earth. Advertisement What was billed as the chance to roar Steve Clarke's men towards a make-or-break autumn schedule turned into 90 minutes of moans and groans and boos – and of cringe-making agony at the performance of rookie keeper Cieran Slicker. Behind his blackout sunglasses, Easterhouse-born actor Tommy Flanagan, scarfaced Chibs Telford to the eight million who watched the motorcycle gang drama for eight seasons, sat shaking his head with the rest of us. And, like most the 32,000-plus who'd forked out hard cash for this sorry Friday night, he'd exited stage left long before the end. How young Slicker must have wished he could have done the same. The kid with 21 on his back, three times the number of senior games he's played at the age of 22, had a horrible, horrible night from the moment his first clearance went straight to an Icelandic shirt and led to the opening goal minutes after he'd come on for the crocked Angus Gunn. Advertisement But this defeat wasn't his doing; far from it, given that in front of him were ten outfield players who will be pretty close to our first picks for that World Cup qualifying cavalry charge of six ties in 74 days. We had Scott McTominay and Billy Gilmour, fresh from winning Serie A with Napoli. We had Andy Robertson, off the back of his second English title with Liverpool. Tartan Army fan who walked to Germany embarking on new challenge for the World Cup We had John McGinn, skipper of the Aston Villa side who stormed to the last eight of the Champions League. We had Lewis Ferguson, who led Bologna to their first Italian silverware in half a century. Advertisement We had Kieran Tierney, ready for a hero's return to Celtic. Along with Austrian league champion Max Johnston and English League One winner Grant Hanley, they were all applauded to the rafters pre-match when the big screens hailed their individual achievements. Sadly, as a collective they weren't so much champs as chumps. Clarke had said it himself – this was no time for experimentation. It was a night for his tried and tested stalwarts to step up one last time for the season in front of the Tartan Army and give them a shot in the arm of optimism that would last right through the summer, a right good dose of footballing Vitamin D. Instead, this was like touching down in Majorca to find it's peeing down and the hotel's only half-built. Advertisement It started badly when Angus Gunn landed awkwardly taking his first catch of the night with only a couple of minutes on the clock. Still, at least he can say that everything he was asked to do while he was on the pitch, he did flawlessly. The rest? Wow. Where do we start. How they rated Angus Gunn - Came for a cross in the first minute but crumpled with an ankle problem so was unable to continue. Terrible timing given he is without a club having left Norwich. 1 Max Johnston - Given his chance on the right hand side and made a positive impact. Will be disappointed he didn't make more of a back post chance to score. A decent start. 6 John Souttar - Showed great strength inside the box to hold off his marker and head home Max Johnston's wicked corner. Will be furious at the goals Scotland lost. 5 Grant Hanley - Tried to show Andri Gudjohnsen inside after Cieran Slicker's poor kick but ended up with egg on his face as he whipped it into the top corner from 25 yards. Grim night. 4 Kieran Tierney - 50th cap and a poor occasion to hit that milestone. Matched Albert Gudmindsson's runs all night before going off for debut man Lennon Miller in the closing stages. 5 Andy Robertson - Bombed up and down the left flank as he usually does but final balls were lacking the precision to really hurt Iceland. Skipper has to drag Scotland's defence out of this rot. 5 John McGinn - Patrolled the middle of the park as he usually does but nothing really came off for him high up the pitch. Scotland will need him refreshed and flying in September. 5 Billy Gilmour - Did precisely what you expect from him now. Kept possession and the ball ticking over as the link man all over the pitch. Below his best like so many. 5 Lewis Ferguson - Didn't know much about it at the own goal which put Iceland back in front. Unlucky as a comedy pinball moment saw the ball crack off him and squirm past Cieran Slicker. 5 Scott McTominay - Started on the left of midfield, tasked with supporting George Hirst. Few flashes of what he can do but a big game player so he keeps the real heroics for when it counts. 5 George Hirst - Missed an early header then denied his first Scotland goal by two great saves from the Iceland goalie then an offside call after scoring. Showed he's got some promise. 6 Subs: Cieran Slicker (Gunn 6) - Debut didn't go to plan, that's for sure. Poor kick for the opener, flailing at the second, even worse at the third. Difficult not to feel sorry for him at times. 2 Lennon Miller (Tierney 67) - First cap. 3 Scott McKenna (Hanley 67) - Shored it up a bit late on. 3 Che Adams (Hirst 67) - No chances. 3 Nathan Patterson (Johnston 79) - Replaced Johnston. 2 Tommy Conway (McTominay 79) - On for McTominay. 2 There was George Hirst's header over an empty net from three yards out. There was the catalogue of calamities that saw John Souttar and Ferguson combine to deflect the second Icelandic past the floundering Slicker. There was a countless number of slack passes. There was a tempo that rarely got above jogging pace. There was a total lack of the togetherness that had pulled us back from that terrible start to the Nations League and very nearly kept us in the elite group – replaced, worryingly, by so much more of the disjointed, disorganised nonsense we'd shown in THAT Hampden hammering by the Greeks on the night we were eventually relegated. It was woeful. It was hugely worrying with those fast-improving Greeks to face along with Denmark if we want to make it to the top table across the Pond next summer. Advertisement And, as much as I'm a huge fan of the guy, it's another bad night on Clarke's CV as his record extends to just four wins from his last 21. Again, I've backed him through thick and thin, but it has to be said that previous gaffers have been hunted out the door with better records than that. He has a massive rebuilding job to do on this squad's confidence before Copenhagen on September 5 – and, yes, I know we're in Liechtenstein on Monday night, but what that will tell us about ourselves goodness along knows. Except maybe which players have the character not to pull out by the time you read this. As for young Slicker? He doesn't need anyone to tell him he had a nightmare. He's already a joke pub quiz question about the only guy to win two caps on the same night: His first and his last. Advertisement It wasn't his fault, though. He's played nine minutes of first team football this season for Ipswich Town, he's played six first team games in total for them and Rochdale and he's never played one single minute of top flight league action. How do you end up playing international football with that little experience? Answers on the back of a postcard from Vaduz. Keep up to date with ALL the latest news and transfers at the Scottish Sun football page
Scotsman
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
The White Buffalo is coming to Glasgow in August 2025
American singer-songwriter-guitarist Jake Smith aka: The White Buffalo, is coming to the UK for a special three-date tour which stops off at the O2 Academy in Glasgow on the 26th August. Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... A powerful and prolific storyteller through his songcraft, Jake Smith, aka The White Buffalo's body of work includes prominent song and soundtrack placements in the worlds of TV and Film including the TV series Sons Of Anarchy, This Is Us, Californication, The Punisher, The Terminal List, and the films Shelter, Safe Havenand West of Memphis. The White Buffalo'sdark blues and light Americana-roots-tinged folk provided a soundtrack of tunes for the entire seven-season run of the FX original series Sons of Anarchy, which included 11 songs overall. The last song in the series finale for SOA 'Come Join The Murder,' earned The White Buffalo his first-ever Emmy-Award Nomination. NPR's 'All Songs Considered' hailed The White Buffalo as an'amazing storyteller,'the Los Angeles Times added 'Smith's baritone echoes with villains and misfits, drunks, and philistines,' while Classic Rock magazine declared TWB 'America's darkest country/blues export…imagine a blue collar Tom Waits, or Nick Cave pumping gas in a station just off the highway.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad September 2024 saw the release of his first-ever live album, 'A Fright Train Through The Night'. Smith describes the record as: 'This album spans my entire career, over 20-plus years of writing and performing songs. With more than a hundred songs to choose from, some of these tracks I wrote in my 20s, and others were born just years ago. We selected crowd favourites and some deep cuts to give them a new life.' The White Buffalo He adds: 'We also did a completely reworked adaptation of the song 'House of the Rising Sun.' I wanted to establish a definitive version that was all our own, and representative of our sound, giving a fresh alternative to the original 'Sons of Anarchy' show version.
Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Suspended Writers Guild West Member Reacts to Strike Discipline Vote: 'This Was Never, Ever a Clear-Cut Case'
On Friday, the results of a Writers Guild of America West vote over discipline for members accused of breaking strike rules signaled a divided union, at least on this issue. In the cases of three writers, disciplinary measures initially decided by the union's board were upheld, but by tight margins (between 52 and nearly 55 percent). A fourth writer's 'public censure' sentence over a Facebook post considered offensive was overturned in favor of an alternative action, months after the union publicly admonished the member, with 62 percent voting to throw out the punishment. More from The Hollywood Reporter Trump Finds His Class War Wedge Issue in Hollywood: Movie Tariffs What Donald Trump Is Really After With Movie Tariffs Teamsters Cheer Trump's Movie Tariffs, Rip Studios For "Fleeing" America Julie Bush, a union member for roughly 15 years since she got her card through Sons of Anarchy, was one of the members whose discipline was confirmed by the proceedings on Friday. On May 22, weeks after the 2023 writers' strike began, Bush sent a non-signatory company a revision of a pilot she had written. Writers are forbidden by the union's Working Rule 8 from working with non-signatory companies, but Bush says the company had promised it would eventually become a signatory and she was working with the union to make that happen. Once the work stoppage began, strike rules dictated that union members couldn't work for struck companies, which the company wasn't at that point. Bush has said she 'deeply regret[s]' sending the script, which created 'confusion and hurt regarding guild rules;' the union called it 'scab writing.' Eventually, a five-member trial committee and the union's board didn't find Bush guilty of breaking strike rules. Instead, Bush was disciplined for engaging in conduct 'prejudicial to the welfare of the guild' (an infringement of an article in the union's constitution) and of writing for a non-signatory company. She was sentenced by the board to a suspension until 2026 and was permanently forbidden for holding non-elected office in the union, a harsher punishment than the one that the trial committee initially recommended. Now, members have voted to ratify that temporary exile. In an interview, Bush discussed why she decided to file an appeal in the first place, her feelings about the close results and why she's planning on reporting recent proceedings to the Department of Labor and National Labor Relations Board. The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to the WGA West for comment. What is your initial reaction to today's results? I'm obviously disappointed. The guild [has been] my main community since I first got to L.A. with a dream, and I continue to love these people and the guild. I had received so many wonderful messages that I guess I sort of fooled myself into thinking that I would prevail. So I'm pretty upset right now, I'll be honest. And I'm surprised and upset and disappointed. But the way that the Guild has evolved in recent years, they've sort of become this kind of top-down, authoritarian structure where no dissent will be brooked. Everybody has to march one way. And so in a way, I shouldn't be surprised at all. I really do feel like that's what this is all about, and I feel like that's what drove this outcome. I'm wondering if you can respond to the vote tally that the Writers Guild provided, because in your case and others the results were close. In my case, the actual vote was 745 in favor of upholding and 686 in favor of restoring the trial committee's decision. That's the difference of just 59 votes. I have never in all my years in the guild — that's 10 years as a full, current, active member — seen a guild vote come in at less than 90 percent one direction. This is almost a literal 50-50 tie. So I just told Van Robichaux, who was the wonderful guild member who represented me through this entire ordeal for free, in an act of incredible solidarity, 'I hope that you are very proud of what you have done here.' Because this is a great act of David and Goliath here that he and I undertook. So I believe that this marks a turning point. I believe that guild members are ready for a change, and I think that that's what this vote is signaling. Why did you decided to appeal the ruling in your case — what thinking went into that? When they were first making noise about charging me, I couldn't believe it because I knew that it was questionable, very debatable whether I had broken any rules. I knew from the start that I had not broken any strike rules, and that was actually confirmed by the trial committee, and I knew that it was debatable and questionable whether I had even broken Working Rule 8. And so the fact that the SRCC [Strike Rules Compliance Committee] even indicted me to the board, that the board recommended me to the trial committee, at each step, I was surprised because I didn't think I had broken any rules and I honestly believe that each of those groups didn't understand the rules clearly. I think that this was a case of these groups being just so eager to find any scapegoat so that they could take somebody to the membership to be like, 'See, see, we got somebody.' This was just never, ever a clear-cut case of me doing anything wrong, ever. Can you explain the 'alternative action' that you proposed as your punishment and why you felt that was appropriate? What the board came up with in their new appeals process that they completely invented, which was not part of the [guild] constitution, they said to me, 'You need to propose your own alternative action that the members will vote on.' And so I said, okay, so I'm going to participate in this new imaginary, made-up process, under protest, because I was afraid that if I didn't participate that I would then waive my right to appeal. So I submitted the specific language of my alternative action. I was very careful with how I worded it because as writer, we understand that the wording of language, particularly in something this heated, is very important. In my memory, the way I worded it was something like, 'Restore the decision of the trial committee: A private letter of censure and three-year ban from serving as a captain.' That was the exact punishment that the trial committee handed down to me. The problem is that when I actually saw the ballot that the election department submitted to the membership to vote on, they stripped that important context from the language of my alternative action [that this was the original punishment proposed by the trial committee]. So then they just had it saying, 'Julie Bush's alternative action is private letter of censure and three-year ban on serving as captain.' And then I actually saw members debating it in the private WGA Facebook group, and they were actually saying, 'Why did she want to be a captain so badly if she doesn't even understand the rules?' And the entire point is that's not the punishment I made up for myself; that's the punishment the trial committee assigned for me. So the election department stripping away that language, it actually makes a big difference. Has your view on the guild changed since undergoing this process? Yes, definitely. I used to be one of those people that completely 100 percent backs the board, whatever the board says, I'm your soldier. And I just don't feel that way anymore. I've just really come to realize that they don't necessarily know what they're doing and that they don't even know the rules that well, and that while they purport to be experts in these matters, they're just not, and they don't even know the laws that well. What are your next steps following today's result? We're going directly to the Department of Labor and the NLRB. I'm going to send them everything I have and sort of let them determine exactly what to call what's happened here. Anything else you'd like to add? The message I just want to convey is I have wanted to be a writer my entire life; this is my identity. This experience has been absolutely devastating for me. Getting into the guild was one of the best things that happened to me my entire life, and I can't believe this has happened to me. It's been absolutely devastating, horrifying, crushing. It will take me years to get over this, if ever. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. 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Yahoo
29-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson is releasing a comic book compilation with soil from William Blake's grave
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Bruce Dickinson is releasing a comic book box set that contains dirt from the grave of William Blake. The Iron Maiden singer announced today (March 27) that he's compiling the first four issues of his graphic novel series The Mandrake Project and releasing them in a deluxe set. The package comes with a medallion, interviews from the vocalist and the team behind the comic, and a foreword from Sons Of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter. Most striking, though, is the fact that the comic book collection was printed using ink mixed with soil from the resting place of Blake, an 18th-century poet and painter. Promotional materials declare: 'Collecting the individual issues of the acclaimed comic series, this deluxe edition contains actual soil from the grave of William Blake.' The set, full title The Mandrake Project: Year One, will come out on August 5 via Z2 Comics. See pre-order options now via the Z2 website. Blake is best-known for his book The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell and his painting The Great Red Dragon And The Woman Clothed With Sun. Dickinson, an avid fan of his work, used the renaissance man as inspiration for themes on his 2024 solo album The Mandrake Project, which is the basis of the comic book series of the same name. He previously used one of Blake's paintings as the cover of his 1998 record The Chemical Wedding. Last year, the singer became a patron of the William Blake Cottage Trust, which owns and preserves William Blake's only surviving house, 'The Cottage' in Felpham, West Sussex. He comments: 'William Blake has given me so much over the years and I want to repay the debt by helping to restore The Cottage. Despite his impact on the world, there is no centre for Blake, nowhere people can visit to see where he actually lived and worked during a key part of his life. I want to change this.' Blake's work has inspired multiple projects across pop culture. Thomas Harris' novel Red Dragon, featuring the serial killer Hannibal Lecter, and its adaptations feature The Great Red Dragon… as a major plot point. Norwegian black metal band Ulver released an album called Themes From William Blake's The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell in 1998. Dickinson will tour North America with his solo band in August and September. See dates and details via his website. He'll also tour Europe with Iron Maiden this summer.
