Celtic manager Neil Lennon lifts the Scottish Premier League trophy

There was a picture in The Scotsman newspaper this morning with Charles Green, the new Rangers owner, addressing a feverish hack pack. A caption underneath explained that "Charles Kennedy was announced as Rangers' new owner on Sunday..." As far as one knows, Charles Kennedy has not been fronting anything beyond a bottle of Glenlivet since he departed his role as Liberal Democrat leader in 2006, but it is fair to say he remains a face well worn in public life.

Charles Green, the bloke leading a consortium that has purchased Rangers FC, does not. With the Yorkshire businessman/venture

Ronnie O'Sullivan with his fourth world title

There have been some glorious choices to be discovered on the box for the unsuspecting viewer over the past few days.

The semi-final stage of Britain's Got Talent last night boasted a team of French stuntmen, a dance troupe, an opera singing duo, a ballroom dancing act and a bloke playing an organ. This is all well and good, but could they make a 92 on a snooker table with the pink and black out of commission, most of the colours buried away from their natural homes and the lovable Willie Thorne baldly predicting that "he'd do well to get above 20 here"? That is true creativity.

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Stephen Hendry during his final match as a professional player.

Time, tide and titles wait for no man. It is difficult to believe that it is 26 years since the teenage Stephen Hendry - described in his formative years as "The Wonder Bairn" - lost to snooker's self-styled Mr Maximum Willie Thorne on his first visit to the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. While Thorne reserved his maximum breaks for the privacy of practice, Hendry got on quite splendidly with his business before millions. With three 147s rolled in at the World Championship over the past 26 years, he is a true Mr Maximum.

News of Hendry's retirement came after a 13-2 drubbing by Stephen

John Higgins and family celebrate a fourth world title

A 50kg German bomb once penetrated the terrace roof of London's Royal Automobile Clubhouse - the upholstered scene for the press launch of this year's World Snooker Championship - during World War II, causing a fire that took hours to extinguish.

It was a £261k News of the World stink bomb that splintered the whiter-than-white shell of the sport's world champion John Higgins two years ago. It sparked a fire that the player himself concedes has yet to be fully doused.

Like the slightly snooty committee room of the RAC club in Pall Mall where we are standing, Higgins has lived to tell the tale,

The Scottish Premier League cannot afford to lose fans

One of the constants in an ever-changing world, or at least in the somewhat ravaged constituency of Scottish football, is the sight of those darned buses departing towns up and down the land bound for Celtic Park and/or Ibrox Stadium every week. It remains one of the great legends of Scottish football, probably up there with Ally MacLeod's vision of lifting the 1978 World Cup as the national team's manager in Argentina.

Such a notion was being trotted out long before the days when Alex Ferguson was posted in Aberdeen. Astonishingly, Ferguson remains the last manager working away from Glasgow

Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond during a speech

The issue of sectarianism and its effects on the general populace are never far from bubbling away at the surface in the main thoroughfare of everyday Scottish life. Politics, law, religion and football remain four strands of the country's unique culture and history that divide opinion and provoke debate like nothing else out there. In some people's minds, they remain inextricably intertwined.

These are certainly topics best avoided at your average dinner party in Scotland's Central Belt, especially when the drinks are flowing. When the drink is in, the wit is out. Over the past few days, the

Referee Willie Collum shows Adil Rami the red card

A few days before the much-maligned Willie Collum oversaw a rousing Scottish League Cup final between Celtic and Kilmarnock on Sunday, the young Scottish referee could be found officiating a Europa League match between PSV Eindhoven and Valencia in the Netherlands.

Compared to a contest that wound up with Collum being singled out as the man who had sabotaged Celtic's push for a first domestic treble since 2001, the more liberal environs of the Philips Stadion probably seemed like a straightforward assignment. Valencia won the match - a 1-1 draw carried them through to the last eight 5-3 on

Celtic manager Neil Lennon speaks to player Victor Wanyama

Neil Lennon seems to be forever surrounded by loaded devices in Glasgow. They range from the homemade letter bombs addressed to the Celtic manager that wound up with him giving evidence in Glasgow High Court yesterday to the questions he has to handle on a weekly basis from a smattering of dazed hacks struggling to digest what is going on elsewhere in the city.

The story of the day in Scottish football has nothing to do with Lennon nor his employers, but there remains an astonishing thirst to attach Celtic to items relating to Rangers, whether or not it is in the public interest.

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