■ I reckoned Fort William Football Club players were doing the ‘Haka’ at Claggan Park before Saturday’s match. They certainly put on a complicated centre-circle synchronised routine. I was put right by Stewart Leitch, however. ‘It’s not a Haka – it’s a Clagga,’ he explained knowledgably. Whatever it was, it didn’t work!
■ The ultimate Scotsman’s number plate – ‘J1MMY’ – went under the hammer in Glasgow on Monday, selling for £35,000 to – an Englishman called George! George explained: ‘I bought it in memory of my late father. His name was Jimmy.’ As if that wasn’t enough, Andrew Mearns from Edinburgh – a Hearts supporter – paid £3,200 for the licence plate ‘H1BBS’! He said it was for a friend – a Hibs fanatic. And I see Fort William local Ally Cameron, an avid Aberdeen fan, is the latest recruit to the personal plates phenomenon. Ally has A11CAM on his motor.
■ Pasha kept up his record of getting ‘wounded’ at the Cameron Highlanders Reunion. Last year, you’ll remember, Pasha hurt his leg in the Town Park. He was on the way home from the ‘do’ and attempted an action replay, with his trusty left foot, of one of his Argyll Rovers goalscoring feats. Much earlier on he had been presented with a match ball. At this latest get together, an old comrade, who hadn’t seen Pasha for years, came up to him and, for some unknown reason, clapped him on his gammy knee, rather than on his back. So Pasha was crocked again.