Stephen McGowan

GAME OVER #3: YouTuber. Barista. Prison Guard. How footballers can build a second career

🗣️ “You might not miss football as much as you feared.” PFA Scotland are helping to build an off-ramp for players approaching their endgame

3 hrs ago

GAME OVER #2: 🗣️ 'Nothing will ever match playing football. You are never going to find the same adrenaline or reach the same heights'

Three ex-pros — Rory Loy, Lee Mair and Mark Reilly — state it can be EXTREMELY hard to transition… but you can make it if you try

Aug 28

GAME OVER #1: Bankruptcy, mental health crashes and marital strains... what happens to footballers when the whistle blows on their career

🗣️"When you go from earning 100 grand a year to 20 grand a year, it puts a big financial strain on the family"

Aug 27

THE SCOTTISH CUP DIVIDEND #2: 🗣️"When Mitov saved that penalty, grown men wept"

A superfan and a business leader quantify the energising and unifying effects of May’s unexpected and long-awaited glory for the Granite City and fans…

Jul 29

THE SCOTTISH CUP DIVIDEND #1: The lowdown from football director Gunn

Hampden glory has had tangible benefits for Aberdeen: record shirt and season ticket sales plus a pull factor for this summer's recruitment drive

Jul 28

AMERICAN OWNERS #3: 🗣️ "I got the asset-stripping accusations... but I left Ayr in an improved state"

Lachlan Cameron, the first foreign owner of a Scottish club, explains how the Old Firm stranglehold inhibits our game... but beneficial US investment…

Jun 27

AMERICAN OWNERS #2: The glory and the dream — two investors tell all

Adam Webb has just endured St Johnstone (and Cambridge) being relegated — but he still loves it. Calvin Ford's Livingston gave instant joy with their…

Jun 26

🇺🇸 AMERICAN OWNERS #1: 🗣️"Bill Miller would've been great at Ibrox… he'd have won over the fans"

Rangers are the latest of six Premiership clubs to be fully or part-owned by Americans. Did they miss a trick back in 2012?

Jun 25

PLASTIC PITCHES #3: Can Livingston charm, convince and cajole the sceptics?

Turf quality control wasn’t a high enough priority in West Lothian — now the Lions may need to lay two new surfaces in a single year

May 30

PLASTIC PITCHES #2: 🗣️ “Playing on a good astro is better than playing on a crappy grass pitch"

In Norway, the quality of the artificial surfaces mean quality, attacking football is possible

May 29

PLASTIC PITCHES #1: 🗣️ "Fans, pundits, players, managers will come here and talk about that being a really good pitch"

With a quarter of next season's Premiership clubs set to play on synthetic grass, Falkirk CEO Jamie Swinney goes on the offensive

May 28

RECONSTRUCTION #3: The fan who said what everyone else was thinking

🎥 How Kieran Hennigan's viral video kickstarted a league reconstrution debate in Scottish football's corridors of power 🎥

Apr 30

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