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PARK LIFE

(Storytelling photos from a previous Nutmeg)

“The nights are fair drawing in” they tell you, words spoken with a sigh. But leaves falling and clocks going back are never doomy for a football fan – in autumn, the league table no longer lies and our season is truly underway. That goes from the park to the Premiership. Here, young lads of Leith kick and dream, their studs crunching on the trees' sprinklings.

Captured by Alan McCredie for a photo essay which appeared in Nutmeg Issue 14, published in December 2019.

PRINT NOTES

This is always an interesting time in the quarterly cycle of our print magazine. Our latest issue (#33) is out there and being enjoyed while we are busy assembling the next one. Every day three or four articles are submitted, each on a topic distant from the last but connected by the thread of being well-told, interesting stories about Scottish football.

It means our reading – to use the last few days as an example – goes on a mazy dribble taking in: a programme fair; a journey on the Spartans team bus; a statistical analysis of where in Scotland international players are most likely to come from; the significance of Paisley weaving heritage to St Mirren’s 2022 away kit; interviews with Lewis Morgan and Jackson Irvine; goalkeepers in the wrong shirts; the importance of an Italy versus Scotland game almost a century ago…

They – and thirty or so other articles – will now be sub-edited, designed into handsome pages and sculpted into a 194-page magazine which you can read from early December. If you’re already enjoying the inky delight that is Nutmeg magazine, then thank you. If not, give us a try and find escape in the stories we’ll be spreading.  

CUP TIED

We’re very excited to see our brand new photo essay book, Cup Tied, out in the world (order directly from us)! One hundred and fifty years after it was first contested, photographer Alan McCredie and Nutmeg editor and me, Daniel Gray, spent the 2023/24 football season seeking out the charms of the modern Scottish Cup. Travelling to matches from hamlet to Hampden, we found them in abundance.

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