The Old Firm. Detested opponents. The Lisbon Lions, the first British club to be European champions. what's that you say? 1-0 Celtic. King the clue is in the name. And he was a Rangers fan! Mo nah. 2-0 Celtic. Scottish Premier League champions. couple of promotions to go, eh? 3-0 Celtic. You get the picture. But there are two sides to every story. founded 1873. 1888. That'll be 15 years later! 1-0 Rangers. League champions? 54 beats 45, whichever way you turn it around. 2-0 Rangers. Record transfer fee received - £6.5 million for Stilian Petrov. Oops! £9 million for Alan Hutton. Result! 3-0 Rangers. You decide.
Tim has been writing professionally since 1985, when he became a wide-eyed journalist on a music magazine. He went on to work for various consumer magazines, including More, Auto Express, Top Gear and Match of the Day, which he launched as editor in 1996. He wrote his first book, A Game of Two Halves - Football Yesterday and Today, in 2002 and has since written over 30 non-fiction titles on everything from football to the English language. In 2018 he self-published Word of the Week: Volume One, his first foray into self-publishing.