Matthew Johnston

📍Saturday, May 10th.

A @heraldscotland.bsky.social ‘pink sheet’ tribute to the footballing link between Scotland and Italy.

An 8 page broadsheet special.

David Martindale up for Celtic and Rangers sacrifice to achieve 16-team Premiership PRINT out the document and it runs to six pages of A4 paper. The front page trumpets ‘opportunity and progression as the key drivers for…

'It's been in my head for years, so I thought 'let's get what I'm feeling down on paper'

🆕 David Martindale takes Stephen McGowan through his personal blueprint for an expanded Premiership with a six-page PowerPoint presentation for @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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PFA Scotland chief predicts SFA and SPFL ‘fudge’, calls for overhaul of governance IT is nearly nine years ago now since Fraser Wishart, the chief executive of footballer’s union PFA Scotland, was called through to Holyrood to…

'We have clubs investigating clubs, clubs setting the rules for the clubs. Nobody is asking awkward questions'

🆕 PFA Scotland chief Fraser Wishart explains to
@mattlindsayht.bsky.social why Scottish football is due an overhaul for @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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SPFL reconstruction debate ignores an inconvenient truth Why there is no realistic hope of finding a solution which suits Celtic and Rangers as well as East Fife and Stenhousemuir.

'There is no realistic hope of finding a solution which suits Celtic and Rangers as well as East Fife and Stenhousemuir'

Stephen McGowan for @heraldscotland.bsky.social on why clubs must stop torturing themselves over league reconstruction👇
www.heraldscotland.com/sport/250682...

Multi-award-winning football writer Stephen McGowan has joined The Herald's sports team

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Victor Wanyama set to join Dunfermline amid Neil Lennon reunion Exclusive - Victor Wanyama set to join Dunfermline amid Neil Lennon reunion.

Victor Wanyama set to join Dunfermline as Neil Lennon reunites with former Celtic midfielder

✒️ Exclusive @ewanpaton22.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social

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Haven’t read the comments section quite yet but assuming these have been met with the usual bonhomie and friendly jousting 🫡 @heraldscotland.bsky.social

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For it's a grand old team to Follow Follow - why football fans have the right to roam Is it acceptable for a Celtic fan to go and watch Rangers play? Can a Rangers follower attend a Celtic game? Do supporters have a right to roam?

Watching his Celtic-supporting son go to watch games at Motherwell, Hamilton, Partick Thistle, Falkirk and even Rangers raised a question for @mattlindsayht.bsky.social

Why shouldn’t football fans have the right to roam?

In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

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stumbled across this on tuesday and surely one of scotland’s greatest football pitches: canty bay near north berwick

presence: what a world we live in that steven soderbergh is beholden to no one. if he wants to make a film where the camera is a ghost, they give him money, if he wants to bring out a fassbender spy film like three weeks later, they give him more money. long may it continue.

red rooms: there was a point in this when i caught myself rooting for a clear sociopath to win enough bitcoin in online poker to buy a snuff film on a dark web auction

captain america brave new world: see at their best i loved these films but the only enjoyment i get from them now is trying to figure out whether actors were in the same room for their scenes and it all makes you feel like an eejit for ever actually liking any of it before.

one of them days/you’re cordially invited: listen they’re nae masterpieces but it’s few and far between for decent comedies in the year of our lord 2025 and i’m thankful for any time with keke palmer or will ferrell. laughed all the way through both.

A look at the new man in Motherwell's dugout

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the gorge: bad valentine’s day flick trojan horsed as a bad sci-fi with SPLOSIONS and MONSTERS so you can convince the boyfriend who didnae bother booking dinner to turn off fortnite for two hours and share his doritos with you. pish.

I sat through deadline day on Sky Sports News, the bubble has officially burst Sky Sports News on transfer deadline day used to be must-watch TV, but does it still hold the same appeal for football fans? We watched to find…

'Did I really once guffaw as a loitering member of the public assailed a poor reporter’s ear with a plastic purple phallus outside a training ground?'

@graememcgarry.bsky.social on why the Transfer Deadline Day bubble has burst for @heraldscotland.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/sport/249072...

Bonnyrigg Rose waging spirited pitch battle for survival as SPFL slope deadline looms Bonnyrigg Rose must show the SPFL they have the funding and plan in place to level their New Dundas Park pitch by tomorrow - or face relegation.

Deadline day looms for Bonnyrigg Rose as they bid to raise the money to level their sloped pitch.

The League 2 club have raised over £50,000 through crowdfunding but need to find the rest.

@mattlindsayht.bsky.social for @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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Premiership at 'closed shop' risk if Scotland's top clubs refuse to share UEFA wealth The Premiership will become a "closed shop" if Scotland's elite clubs withhold UEFA money from their Championship counterparts, it has…

Championship teams face a nervy wait with many expecting the top tier to vote selfishly - one club official I spoke to called this the start of a ‘Scottish Super League’.

@mattlindsayht.bsky.social with the scoop for @heraldscotland.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/sport/248959...

Why Kettlewell's shameful exit could put Motherwell's 40 year top flight stay at risk The Motherwell fans who hounded Stuart Kettlewell out of Fir Park could find his shock departure puts their 40 year stay in the Scottish top flight…

'He could ultimately be shown to be a miracle worker who overachieved with the limited resources he had at his disposal'

The Motherwell fans who drove Stuart Kettlewell out of Fir Park could rue what they wished for come May.

In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

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anora: only sean baker could make a film with so much gary barlow rip so hard. sugar rush first half, brutal after hours-style second, gut-punch end, funny all the way through. well worthy if it ends up nicking best picture imho (apologies to hot frosty).

Only MSPs can stop rise in pyro use as ultras groups turn to ‘high-powered’ lawyers Nobody saw the abject display which Celtic produced against Dundee at Dens Park coming. Sadly, the coordinated and large-scale pyrotechnic display…

Club chiefs are frustrated their attempts to discipline ultras for misdemeanours have been thwarted by 'high-powered legal representation'.

@mattlindsayht.bsky.social investigates a development in Scotland's struggle with pyro for @heraldscotland.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/sport/248654...

Liam Scales or Auston Trusty? Who should start for Celtic in the Champions League? Liam Scales or Auston Trusty? Who should start at centre-half for Celtic in their massive Champions League match with Young Boys?

🇺🇸 The £6m man muscled off the ball at Dens Park
🇮🇪 The Ireland cap who's had to make do on the bench

Neither Celtic defender is perfect, but who's the man for the job against Young Boys? @mattlindsayht.bsky.social investigates for @heraldscotland.bsky.social

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Why St Johnstone should stick with Simo Valakari even if they go down St Johnstone may have to take one step back to take two steps forward, but they should stick with Simo Valakari and allow him to build a team in his…

'It’s a sort of Poundland (or Temu, these days, I suppose) version of the debate that swirls around Ange Postecoglou'

The Thursday @heraldscotland.bsky.social column from @graememcgarry.bsky.social on why St Johnstone should persevere with Simo Valakari...👇

www.heraldscotland.com/sport/248600...

If you fancy reading my entries they're all here:
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But really thanks to everyone @heraldscotland.bsky.social and especially the sports desk across the board and @nutmegmagazine.bsky.social, my troop of bosses
@jonnymcfarlane.bsky.social, Callum Baird, Catherine Salmond, Ally Palmer and Davie Moyes for inspiring my approach to trophy winning

Herald's Matthew Johnston wins prestigious Jim Rodger Memorial Award Sports writer Matthew Johnston and The Herald have won this year’s prestigious Jim Rodger Memorial Award.

Absolutely bowled over to win the Jim Rodger Memorial Award for best young sports writer in Scotland.

Many thanks to the small team of freelance anthropologists the panel hired to verify that I am indeed under 35.
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Sports writer Matthew Johnston and The Herald have won this year’s prestigious Jim Rodger Memorial Award.

It is the second year in a row that The Herald has won the most keenly-contested prize in sports journalism for young writers.

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2486040...

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the order: they don’t make em like this anymore (but this time they did). the cut from nicholas hoult at the aryan nations rally to jude law at the kid’s birthday party - that’s cinema to me 🤌

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Good (if painful) read for Aberdeen fans here - Thelin surely still the man for the job with plenty of mitigating circumstances but their collapse has been jaw-dropping.