As the dust settles on the 2015/16 Scottish football season, we can sit back, pour a small libation and reflect on the main talking points of what turned out to be a surprisingly eventful campaign...
Let's start with the elephant in the room, and immediately address the incredible goal-scoring record of Ronaldo at Real Madrid. I scoured various sources for the official statistics and found it difficult to find 2 exact matches, but the eventual consensus was that in 344 appearances, Ronaldo has scored 360 goals! Needless to say this is a phenomenal record, one that puts him above any other player in the history of the club, and you have to imagine that without him in the team, Los Merengues would never have matched that volume of goals over the last 7 years. Yet despite this achievement, I think it's fair to say that, so far, Ronaldo's time at Real Madrid has been a failure.
Amid the euphoria that has engulfed the blue half of Glasgow since Rangers’ unexpected Scottish Cup semi-final victory against Celtic last weekend, a number of burning questions have slowly but surely emerged.
This summer’s International Champions Cup (ICC) has recently been trumpeted by the great and the good of world football, which is fine and well, but we are entitled to ask: what exactly is the point of the ICC? Come to think of it, what is it anyway?
Just when you thought it was safe to yawn your way through the remaining Scottish football fixtures until the close season, Celtic and Rangers were paired in the semi-final of the Scottish Cup.
In the simple act of two balls being removed from a bag, the season has unexpectedly sprung to life, and sports journalists north of the border will be wringing their hands with glee, with ridiculously excessive column inches devoted to next month’s clash all but guaranteed.