A periodical - but massive - thank you to everyone who have bought, borrowed and pinched any of my novels over the years and then went on to tell their mates, shared on social media and have left reviews on Amazon / Goodreads.
You are all absolute heroes. Each and every one ❤️
Read a few articles today on Cryuff’s ‘spite season’ at Feyenoord when he went there to troll Ajax.
Ended up down the rabbit hole that took me to the day they won the league away at Willem II.
Looked absolutely chaotic.
Early 90’s and with no mobiles, email etc you kept in contact with some of the mates you made at raves, by actual post.
I found this last night from back in 92. Some lads, them.
A wee Friday night story about Ukrainians, if you’re bored.
Back in 2005 Dundee United reached the Scottish Cup final and I fancied getting myself a top for it, but wasn’t feeling the United shirt with the strange as fuck neck that season so thinking of an alternative I
Been typing this thread for so long now I’m no longer sure what the moral of the story was but the main takeaway from it is that Ukrainians are sound as fuck in my book.
🇺🇦
Other half got the old ‘go back to your own country’ shite today.
These racist dickheads really can take themselves as far away to fuck as possible.
I’ll literally drive them if they need a lift.
This is the Ibiza I’ll always try and hang on to and remember
No one standing taking videos while only taking them to put on social media to show they were there ‘having a good time’ no VIP bottle service, no performative bollocks from deejays.
Just unadulterated partying.
@xathrya
@KrangTNelson
And who can forget the time where he was asked to play football and realised that he didn’t know how to so thought he’d get away with just playing rugby.
@SethAbramson
I’m Scottish so forgive me if I seem a little confused here but for days I’ve seen this whole thing blamed on the opposing party but if he can sign that order today doesn’t that mean that ...
Forget it. I’ll leave you to it. Just don’t let him nuke us because we did this to him
Got a DM today from a woman telling me about her husbands mental health issues and how they’d been advised that reading could help him. She found my books, bought them and messaged me to say thank you because of how they’ve helped him.
Worth a million times any royalty 🙏
Imagine being the manager of an unfashionable Scottish fitba side and managing to have the fans of the Italian champions on absolute strings.
I loved him.
@allisonpearson
@s8mb
I know truth doesn’t really mean much to newspapers but I’ve got to admit. I’m intrigued to see how you trying to pretend you never wrote all of that stuff plays out.
Until Lionel Messi single handedly wins his country a World Cup, moves to an unfashionable side like Napoli and wins them their first ever league championship all while consuming more ching than Tony Montana.
*Then* he will be considered as an equal to Maradona.
My other half and I just had to verbally ruin some guy who had a problem with us being a mixed race couple.
I’m not sure he’ll be as quick to do it again but ffs it’s sickening that you even need to share the same oxygen as horrible bastards like that.
@TheNorthCurve
This.
The iconic Boca colours.
The limbs.
The mini celebration of the two players.
Batistuta looking like a zombie who has just turned and has been chained to the fence.
Got a DM from a lad today saying that he had been suffering from a bit of depression, he loves reading but for the past few years couldn’t concentrate on books but is now halfway through Ninety and absolutely buzzing about it and wanted to let me know.
Day made.
Yesterday I lost the woman that brought me up as a kid. One of the most kind, loving and genuine person you could ever meet in your life.
(The woman I also based Zico’s auntie on in Ninety)
Sleep well, Auntie Anna
Rest in peace x
Win a signed copy of *one* out of my first 4 novels (you choose which one) along with a bookmark and sticker pack.
RT & 🧡 this tweet to enter and I’ll pick someone at the end of the weekend for shipping early next week.
@LSwitlyk
And here’s a beautiful wild goat I saw up in the Isle of Skye earlier this year. Mental how we both managed to go our separate ways without me killing it though.
Would Sir care for some
#CANS
to get him through the ordeal of his Dundee United match today perhaps?
No, thank you. I will proceed directly to the intravenous injection of hard drugs, please.
#matchday
(Absolutely shit at this stuff as I was meant to post a week ago)
With Ibiza season almost ready and my second novel ‘Ninety Six’ set on the white isle I’m giving away a free copy and one of the repackaged version of ‘Ninety.’
Like and retweet to enter etc
Drawn May 1st
A lot of us started supporting Dundee United as kids with Jim McLean as manager and the outlandish ride that he took us all on for a team of our size.
Tonight’s news is a really hard one to take. We lost a legend in every sense of the word.
RIP Jim McLean 🧡
Full Scottish Premier League card tonight in what’s been the most competitive opening 1/4 of a season in memory. So, naturally, Sky Sports will be showing Liverpool reserves live.
What even is the point of Neil Doncaster?
Remember that time the Inter ultras stole a scooter off an Atlanta fan, smuggled it into the San Siro and then threw it off the top tier?!
Mad bastards.
Quite possibly biased here like but on the drive home from Dundee I’ve managed to convince myself that I witnessed the greatest cross in the history of football today.
I’m extremely happy to announce my upcoming novel ‘Muirhouse.’
437 pages
166k words
11 radges
Official release December in all the usual places but please DM me directly to support the independents and pre order your copy to get it by launch day.
@itvnews
That self made business magnate, Prince Andrew?
I’ll be honest. Brexit was scaring the living shit out of me but now that such a voice of reason has now spoken I’m sleeping well tonight.
He kicked Scott Brown in the head.
Took a bite out of a Dundee player in the derby.
Was accused of trying to strangle a linesman.
Celebrated scoring at Ibrox. Before he’d actually scored.
An absolute shitehouse of a player. Fucking loved the man ❤️
@RonFilipkowski
Because nothing screams ‘not entertaining the haters’ by taking the time to tell the haters that you’re not entertaining them.
Pretty inception-esque.
@GaryLineker
Meh. When my kid’s struggling for her insulin for her diabetes I’m just going to inject her with some of that good old war time British spirit. That’ll fix her out.
And so on.
Moments in Champions League history.
Paul Bosvelt scores Feyenoord’s second against Marseille at De Kuip and grabs the pitch side mic, leaving you with expectations of some heat of the moment expletive filled tirade or an earth shattering scream.
Instead …
I used to be more chilled about walking over the bridge of doom when visiting Hibs than I am about going food shopping these days.
*I definitely was never chilled walking over the bridge of doom.
Unrivalled.
I know the main part is that a goal was scored, and missed, but the defender picking the ball up and handing it to his keeper - and it not be a penalty - truly fries my brain.
Somehow, that 4.75lb kid who - back in 2004 - was way too impatient to hang around and, instead, decided to enter the world 6 weeks early … is Eighteen!
There’s not a day goes by where I’m not reminded by her over how proud she makes me
Happy birthday, Leia xxx
Muirhouse is a story of the fortunes of Joe 'Strings' Carson.
Midfield general for the infamous amateur football team 'Muirhouse Violet' on a Sunday and petty criminal every other day of the week.
Out December ...
@IAPonomarenko
It’s because of social media and these videos shared with the world that I’ve not been able to play Call of Duty over recent months.
This literally looks like a team death match from COD, only it’s not on any X Box or PlayStation.
@PickardJE
Record amount of foodbanks in Britain while they’re spending tax payers money on embarrassing gimmicks which ironically would help feed people that don’t have anything. Brilliant.
There’s been things this past twelve months that I’ve discovered I can live without.
And then there’s the things that you think of every single day and miss more than ever.
If there’s a video that sums up a city where, on the same night, one of its teams qualified for Europe while the other was relegated, it’s probably this.
I miss seeing someone doing this walking up the East Stand stairs with their pie and bovril in their hand.
And the wee cheer it brings from anyone who clocks it.
To this day those AS Roma players won’t realise how lucky they were that Walter Smith and Jim McLean were the bigger men that afternoon.
They’d have destroyed the whole of the Stadio Olimpico with their sharp tongue and patter alone.
@guardian
I’m not some Tarantino fanboy but ffs Uma Thurman on her own murders almost the population of Papa New Guinea over the two Kill Bills. Bit of a weird take / article.
@GoodLawProject
I can’t decide if the press will give him the exact same treatment as they would to someone in Scotland or if it’ll be time for another round of Harry and Meghan stories instead.
Imagine being 69 years old with a bit of money in your pocket and being arsed with starting wars with other countries instead of sitting in the boozer and bookies all day?
I just wanted to tweet a heartfelt thank you to
@nhsfife
for taking care of my daughter this weekend and for the fast working and decisiveness they showed in caring for her.
It really is unimaginable for us to not have an NHS
Thank you ❤️