Hot Shot Hamish! Denis Law! Shelley Kerr!

It's time for a new edition of Nutmeg Magazine, our quarterly print-only spectacular

Hello Nutmegger,

Not long now until we’re going sleeveless to the match… Well, maybe. I hope you’re continuing to enjoy the stories we’re telling on Nutmeg FC. Thanks to those of you who’ve been able to sign up so far, and we hope more of you will join the club soon.

This digital offering runs alongside our print magazine, now in its ninth year. Some of you will already have luxuriated in its elegant pages. Others won’t, which matters not a jot – there is no continuing plotline to Nutmeg, other than deep affection for Scottish football.

In a couple of weeks, Issue 35 of the magazine will be plinking down from letterboxes and it is a beauty. There are across its finely-smelling pages more than 30 articles, many garnished with fine illustration and photography. If you’d like to give us a try or pick up where you left off a while ago, pre-orders are open here via our website [link].

And if you are already a reader: our deepest thanks. To help keep print alive is a class act indeed.

However you come to Nutmeg #35, among those articles you’ll find: a wide-ranging interview with Alan Rough by peerless profiler Teddy Jamieson (and yes, he asks him about the mince…); a touching tribute to Denis Law from Hugh MacDonald; a glorious Harry Pearson piece on France’s troubled 1966 stay in the Borders; a Nutmeg debut for Morbo’s Phil Ball, on a toothless childhood hero; the story behind the story of cartoon hero Hot Shot Hamish; and a barnstorming account of Jock Wallace and Ted McMinn’s unlikely time in Seville.

Don’t get the impression that we’re stuck in some state of nostalgic bliss, though. As ever, our pages are about the past, present and future of Scottish football. Beyond Rough, Law and the rest, you’ll also find Scott Fleming’s continuing series on Ayr United’s season from behind the scenes; a fascinating interview with new Hearts Technical Development Manager Shelley Kerr; a look inside Kelty Hearts’ noteworthy rise; Sam Wardrop’s YouTube career change; an argument for clubs to appoint set piece coaches, and oh so very much more…

Enjoy the rest of your season,

Dan
Editor, Nutmeg magazine.