InsideLeft’s day was made yesterday afternoon when we heard from those nice people at the Telegraph that we’d made the Telegraph List of Top 25 Football Websites.
Scottish football websites are a tiny wee part of the football Internet diaspora, so it’s nice to be recognized for what it is we’re trying to do, namely to tell the world about the Scottish game. These days writing about Scottish football has been the literary equivalent of having your prostate gland examined by a clumsy first year medical student - embarrassing and a total pain in the arse – but still, we struggle on, determined to get our message across.
Inside Left likes to see itself as a plucky Falkirk, writing silky articles that entertain without ever threatening the big boys. Like Aberdeen, we have limited funds but big dreams. All we need now are the willing volunteers to move us into the top half of the table.
What we really want to be is a Celtic or a Rangers, dominating completely all others in our wee corner of the web, but that wont happen without more people coming through the virtual turnstiles, telling us what you think of our rantings, suggesting topics for discussion or even making your own article contributions.
The Internet has given us all a chance to step out from behind the curtain of anonymity and enjoy our moment on this e-stage for however long it lasts until the fickle audience moves on down the information superhighway to the next stage and the next whining chunwit.
Blogging is narcissism at its most public, and some are better at it than others. We’re not saying this site is any better (and God knows there are other excellent Scottish football websites out there) but we hope to make it at least entertaining. And even though no one may ever visit here, it doesn’t matter and we don’t really care.
The narcissist after all needs no audience, just a mirror.
Phew. The games are coming thick and fast. We’ve only just recovered from Wednesday night and lo, here comes another batch of top-flight action. As I was saying to The Scottish Football Blog during their live-cast from the Motherwell-Rangers game on Wednesday, it was a strange evening altogether: Celtic picked up points, Rangers dropped them at time we didn’t think they would, United got pounded by a team at the bottom of the league and Aberdeen scored two goals. In the same game.
Yes. Much as we hate to 