Caley Corner

Hear from the man himself as we start off by talking about Celtics victory this past weekend against Aberdeen in the Scottish Cup semi final. From there he takes us through every stage of his footballing career from the early days of winning player of the year and the Scottish Cup with Motherwell before, he went down to Chelsea, despite some interest from Brian Cloughs Nottingham Forrest team.  As...

Hear Alans story as he talks about joining the army and his journey from there, into competing and training people for Hyrox fitness events. He recalls a vivid dream/nightmare on the eve of his first deployment to Iraq and what life was like for a working class soldier. He takes us from there to Afghanistan where a convoy he was part of went over an Improvised Explosive Device. Hosted on Acast. Se...

Was a privilege to sit down and talk politics with a heavyweight from Scottish politics. Tommy's obviously a well known socialist and internationalist. There was good humor shared at times as well as more serious topics being discussed from Tommy's segway into Social Work, George Galloway getting elected, the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and Europe. Find out about why Tommy's keen to trace...

Clare is also in charge of both the Woman's and Girls academy at Ayr United as well as being a prolific striker for the woman's team. She's very passionate about promoting the woman's game and this forms one of the main subjects of this chat. We talked about her early life when there was no real presence of teams for girls in Ayrshire and then move onto her Kenny Milleresque journey to Kilmarnock,...

John's primary research interests are on poverty (with a particular interest on how this impacts children) and children’s play. He told us about his own research when he was a student on lone parents within Strathclyde. John gave a good background about his work at the University for common good, his early years and how his experiences growing up in Ayrshire sparked a love for the outdoors and the...

One for the MMA and wrestling fans out there. Finn is a catch wrestling World champion having recently won the belt down at the Snake Pit in Wigan. This seen him getting invited over to America to train with the legendary Josh Barnett the youngest ever UFC heavyweight champion and catch wrester aficionado. Finns also a BJJ purple belt with lots of talent and a very nice guy to boot. He talks about...

Don't listen - if you're not a football fan. Entertaining conversation with various tales from Seans world of both Scottish Junior (WOFSL) and amateur fitba. There's good humour shared throughout and the subject of mental health comes up again with a fateful story being told at the end of this weeks podcast. Sean also tells us a funny story about how he once tried to tap up the Loch Ness Drogba to...

Warning, whilst Rob is one of the funniest men in Scotland. There's a theme of trauma and mental health issues that are discussed at length throughout this conversation., that could be triggering for some, so please bear that in mind. Rob really opens up and there's loads of chat about a shared love of football, family & comedy. Robs a big Rangers fan and even though the host is a Celtic fan t...