A new play about former Rangers and Liverpool great Graeme Souness will be a “serious piece of theatre about a serious man”, its writer claimed
Playwright and novelist Alan Bissett hopes his new work will appeal to both football fans as well as arts lovers.
His play, Souness, is due to be performed on stage in 2016, to mark the 30th anniversary of the footballer’s appointment as the player manager of Glasgow Rangers FC.
Souness, who won more than 50 caps for Scotland in his international career, spent five years at Rangers leading them to three Scottish titles before going on to manage the English club Liverpool, where as a player he lifted three three European Cups.
Y-fronts celebrate 80th birthday
The Y-front is set to celebrate its 80-year history which has seen it go from a hurriedly-removed window display in a Chicago store to underwear staple for men the world over.
Arthur Kneibler’s Jockey briefs first went on sale on January 19, 1935 at the Marshall Field & Co department store, placed on show in the window during one of the worst blizzards of the winter.
The store’s managers promptly demanded the display be removed, thinking it ridiculous to flaunt such a skimpy design in the middle of winter.
Oscar hopes for Imitation Game
The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing has become an early frontrunner for Oscar success after it received a top international film award.
The biopic, which depicts how the British mathematician cracked the Germans’ Enigma code, was named Best Picture at the Capri, International Film Festival in Italy.