City Senne hits the heights of Cumbernauld

I’ve been a bit lax lately on the old blog posting, for which I can only apologise.
I’ve actually been keeping myself busy with the ridiculous notion of actually working for a living in order to feed and clothe my son, Andrew who, at just five-months-old, seems to eat more than I do on a weekly [...]

Leith Athletic 3 v 1 West Kilbride

If a convincing win and performance on a Saturday afternoon always affords a more enjoyable Saturday evening, it’s safe to say the Leith Athletic players would have had a few sore heads on the Sunday morning.
A scintillating start to their sixth round Scottish Cup tie with West Kilbride saw the Edinburgh-side blow away the visitors [...]

Tough tackling Raff puts his foot in where it hurts

As I was waiting on the Leith Athletic team bus to take us across Middle Earth and into the dark reaches of Glasgow on Saturday a forcible kick from behind me landed square on my posterior.
As anyone who is well-schooled in the art of football dressing room antics will know, such schoolboy actions are commonplace [...]

Eastfield 2 v 4 Leith Athletic

It was a successful, if unspectacular, weekend for Leith Athletic as they emerged 4-2 victors over Cumbernauld outfit Eastfield AFC in the M&M Cup on Saturday.
It was a relief for the Leith team to finally have a game after poor weather had seen off all but one of their games since the turn of the [...]

Leith Athletic match postponed

This was supposed to be the first ever match report (following the Evening News’ error-strewn version last week) on this blog to follow the fortunes of the mighty Leith Athletic in the Foster’s Central Scottish AFL Premier League.
However, our match with Colville Park, from Motherwell, was called off on the Friday when a pitch inspection determined [...]

Seven-up for Leith but match report leaves Connor feeling Tango’d

It was a successful weekend for Leith Athletic after knocking in seven goals and reaching the last 32 of the Scottish Amateur Cup.
It was also a weekend of celebration for yours truly as one of those seven goals was knocked in by my own head – thus breaking 18 months of scoring heartache.
The demolition of [...]