Aidan Smith Journalist
  • Edinburgh
  • National World

Journalist with The Scotsman.

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The Scotsman

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  • Sports

296 Articles
8 months ago
scotsman.com

Aidan Smith's TV week: The Long Shadow (ITV), Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins (C4), Who Killed Jill...

Normally the chrome bumpers, churning glam-rock chords and diagonally-striped kipper ties would stir woozy feelings o...

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9 months ago
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Rugby World Cup: Reviewed, refined, rewritten loads of times, yet still as clear as mud - Aidan S...

The fastest boy in the Broughton High School 2nd XV was Kenny Armstrong. The rest of us simply gave him the ball and ...

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9 months ago
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Aidan Smith: Yes, we lost, but when was the last time our football and rugby teams were both so v...

We insisted it wasn’t important, that it no longer bothered us. Yes, the fixture used to be yer actual raison d’etre ...

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9 months ago
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The world needs critics, not influencers with an eye out for freebies – Aidan Smith

As some influencers allow themselves to become part of the film industry’s advertising department, we need critics to...

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9 months ago
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Maybe Rishi Sunak has an ulterior motive behind supporters bus' climbdown - Aidan Smith

Is Rishi Sunak a football fan? I mean, he claims to support Southampton, having been born in the city, but he doesn’t...

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9 months ago
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Aidan Smith: Maybe Rishi Sunak has an ulterior motive behind supporters bus' climbdown

Is Rishi Sunak a football fan? I mean, he claims to support Southampton, having been born in the city, but he doesn’t...

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9 months ago
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Aidan Smith's TV week: Love & Death - prayers, volleyball and adultery in a little Texas town

David E. Kelley has made such a brilliant career out of spousal betrayal potboilers that it’s a disappointment to lea...

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9 months ago
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National service? Penny Mordaunt's support for its return doesn't impress my kids but there will ...

The prospect of national service prompts one reluctant potential recruit to say ‘I’ll tell you what it sounds like: c...

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9 months ago
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The Rangers and Scotland legend who just wishes his parents had seen his scoring spree

The very first time Scotland ventured to Cyprus for a football match, Colin Stein remembers their plane being tossed ...

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9 months ago
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A kiss is just a kiss? Oh no it’s not - Aidan Smith on Luis Rubiales controversy

If only Luis Rubiales, the man at the centre of Kissgate, had stayed a little longer at Hamilton Accies. He might not...

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10 months ago
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Aidan Smith: Gordon Banks, Martin Peters, Alan Mullery, you’re boys took a helluva beating (once ...

Funny the places your mind will wander when you’d rather be anywhere than watching your team being thumped. On Wednes...

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10 months ago
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The worst aspects of the men's game have entered women's football - Aidan Smith

“Why can’t a woman be more like a man?” sang Rex Harrison in the 1964 film version of My Fair Lady, blissfully unawar...

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