Stewart Fisher

Chief Sports Writer

I am a football obsessive and general utility man in the Sunday Herald and Herald's sports coverage since 2001. A failed amateur player, my journalism apprenticeship was served at the Press Association, the Sunday Times and the Daily Mail. I am passionate about the role sport has to play in Scottish life. Other interests include tennis, cycling, NFL, cricket, golf, snooker, and sports politics.

I am a football obsessive and general utility man in the Sunday Herald and Herald's sports coverage since 2001. A failed amateur player, my journalism apprenticeship was served at the Press Association, the Sunday Times and the Daily Mail. I am passionate about the role sport has to play in Scottish life. Other interests include tennis, cycling, NFL, cricket, golf, snooker, and sports politics.

Latest articles from Stewart Fisher

The David Smith Column: Christmas in Jamaica has the blood pumping again

THE plane touches down on the Kingston tarmac. The image of Usain Bolt leads the way through to passport control and baggage reclaim, although let’s just say the whole process takes rather longer than 9.58 seconds. The best part of two hours since I got off the plane, I get that same sense of relief that every cyclist feels when they discover that their bike has made it off safely too.

No more L-plates for Celtic's Jeremie Frimpong

THESE are heady days for Jeremie Frimpong. Just turned 19, this energetic little bundle of energy was discussing a consignment of early Christmas presents which had arrived addressed him to him at the training ground this week, featuring what has become known as his catchphrase. And they say entrepreneurship is dead in this country.

Griffiths is grafting his way back to his best

NEIL Lennon feels Leigh Griffiths is getting closer to his best every day – after impressing the Celtic manager by reporting for training this week when the rest of the squad were on a day off.

James Fowler: ‘There was no player revolt at Rugby Park’ as odds on Neil Warnock slashed for Kilmarnock post

JAMES Fowler insisted categorically last night that there was no player revolt at Rugby Park which brought the Angelo Alessio era to a close – as the odds shortened on Neil Warnock being Kilmarnock’s next permanent manager. The club’s director of football operations, only in post a matter of months, played his part in calling time on the Italian’s time at the club but he denied point black allegations that a full-scale dressing room mutiny was the cause of his dismissal.