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The Journos · 21 October 2026
"It happens every week." Peter Martin, Gordon Parks and Hugh MacDonald on sectarian chants in Scottish football: why "it's a Scotland problem", not just a Celtic and Rangers one, how you police it, whether it's got worse, and why "everything is binary now". Then mental health in sport after Mark Allen's interview ("sport is absolutely brutal", and "when it's over, there's no parachute"), the SPFL's TV rights from 2029, PSG v Barcelona and the best coaches in the world, Celtic v Celta Vigo and Hearts at Trabzonspor, who's the best manager in the Premiership (Steven Pressley), Rangers and Derek McInnes, and the managers under pressure this weekend.
Can sectarian chanting ever be stamped out? Tell us below.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome: Peter Martin, Gordon Parks and Hugh MacDonald
1:36 Sectarian chants: "it's a Scotland problem"
5:42 "A greater education" and people's differences
6:15 Every ground in the country, and a son in the family section
8:00 Has it got worse?
10:14 Algorithms and the "Saturday afternoon bigot"
11:20 "Everything is binary now"
12:58 Why you'd protect your family
14:06 The good in Scottish football: Ardrossan Winton Rovers and Armadale
15:21 "I don't think it will ever change"
16:05 Mental health: Mark Allen's interview
17:36 "Sport is absolutely brutal"
19:19 Psychologists, chaplains and PFA Scotland
20:56 Cyriel Dessers and Kasper Høgh
22:01 "When it's over, there's no parachute"
26:06 Dukla Pumpherston's charity game
27:32 The SPFL's TV rights from 2029 and the BBC Scotland channel
30:25 Bite-sized football and the Premier League's falling figures
33:25 Newspapers then and now
36:29 PSG v Barcelona: "like a game of basketball"
37:51 Hansi Flick
39:30 Luis Enrique or Guardiola?
42:20 PSG or the great Barcelona?
46:13 Ancelotti and Klopp
48:44 Celtic v Celta Vigo: "I can't see them getting anything"
51:47 Hearts at Trabzonspor: save face?
52:45 Brendan Rodgers, Dortmund and Vrancken
54:03 8-0 at Gretna and 7-0 at Ibrox
55:23 Who's the best manager in the Premiership? Steven Pressley
56:41 Gordon Strachan at Dundee
59:37 Rangers: a bit more streetwise?
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