Sport for All; Family Thoughts

Evening All. Apologies for missed blog yesterday, I bet you were all devastated about it! I was out last night to the Premier League Snooker, my dad's birthday present. A good night and great to get out with dad for the evening - it's only as you get older you appreciate your parents properly. It's scary how much I'm like him, appearance and personality wise. You really do morph into your parents eventually! I remember travelling all over Scotland in his lorry with him, praying he'd change the radio from Radio 2 to Radio 1........now guess who listens to Radio 2, along with Radio Scotland and Radio 4........oh god........!

The AECC in Aberdeen was full for this event. Sky come up here every year for their Premier League Snooker and Darts. Every time any decent sized national sporting event is brought to Aberdeen it's a great success. The Aberdeen public is generally starved of top notch sport so we lap it up when it comes here. The Seniors Open Golf at Royal Aberdeen is another example. As is every time the Scotland National Football team plays at Pittodrie. And that's at any age group. Take the Under 21s to Aberdeen you'll get 10,000+. Play it in Glasgow you'll get about 2,000 there.

So thanks Sky, keep coming up the road with the Darts and Snooker. There's no chance the SFA will follow suit with the football, they think Scotland ends at Cumbernauld. But there's surely room for a PGA European Tour golf event (Trump International perhaps, just to piss off Tilda Swinton, whoever she is), some more one day international cricket at Mannofield, a higher profile for the 10k run at Balmoral or even an Aberdeen Marathon. I can but hope.

Music tonight, I'm coming right up to date with a NEW RELEASE.....it's ok it's not as radical as you think, it's by everyone's favourite Hibs fans, the Proclaimers! Check out their new single, Three More Days, it's got everything you want from Auchterarder's 2nd biggest exports (after Jimmy Shand), unique harmonies, a key change, acoustic/electric guitars, and almost naive lyrics sung from the heart. One of Scotland's most underrated bands.