Treasurer’s call for congestion charge slammed

HERE we go again another stupid idea from the council – a congestion charge. So, if I was just dropping someone off I’ve got to pay? It’s not the driver’s fault.

It would help if they didn’t spend money on stupid ideas like cycle lanes that no- one uses.

Glasgow is becoming a ghost town with extortionate parking charges. No- one will go into the city if this plan is introduced. Robert Cadden

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I KNEW before reading your article that Glasgow Council would open their book of lame excuses.

We spend x amount of money gritting footpaths and pavements as per our plan.

I doubt as a resident of Kinning Park there was not as much of a teaspoon laid. I half expected to see them out today [ Monday] after the thaw as usual.

J Young

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WITH Argentina winning the World Cup for the third time, under superstar captain Lionel Messi, let us not forget the key role that Scots played in this success.

Beyond current Argentine player,

Alexis MacAllister, whose ancestry can be traced back to Fife, it was two Scots, Alexander Watson Hutton and Alex Lamont, who were responsible for developing the game in the country. Indeed, Watson Hutton is considered “The Father of Argentine football”.

Born in the Gorbals in 1853, he emigrated to Argentina in 1882 where he taught at St Andrew’s Scots School in Buenos Aires and then went on to found the Buenos Aires English School.

In 1891, the Association Argentine Football League was established by another Scot, Alex Lamont, who was headteacher at St Andrew’s school and is recognised as the first football league in the country, as well as outside the British Isles. It lasted only one season and was won by a team of Scots from St Andrew’s.

Two years later Watson Hutton, established the Argentine Association Football League and restarted the tournament. In 1898 his school formed a football team which went on to become the most decorated team in Argentine football until its dissolution in 1911.

So, when one witnesses the ecstatic scenes in Argentina, spare a thought for the pivotal role played by Scots in that nation’s footballing success.

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