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Top 10 posts, 24th-30th June 2012

Posted on July 01, 2012 by

The most-read WingsLand posts of the last seven days, for the thousands of new readers who joined us during a record-breaking week. (More on that tomorrow.)

The lead parachute
Tackling the crazy SFL reconstruction proposals

A stitch-up for Frankenstein FC?
…and the reasons why they’ll never be enacted.

Revealed at last: the positive case
Analysing the Better Together website’s case for the U***n.

Savaged by a poodle
Willie Rennie attempts to extract political capital from dead soldiers.

Better Together leaked posters #6
…with an astonishingly hypocritical reaction to this.

Dumbing doon
Sitting through Better Together – The Movie.

Better Together leaked posters #8
Another in our popular series.

The end of the day
Why there’s no way back for Rangers this time.

Eyes wide shut
Joy over a sinner repenteth.

Weekend essay: the Janus-faced Olympics
Yesterday’s Scott Minto piece crashes straight into the top division.

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Appleby

You’ve been doing well. It’s clearly been getting busy and you are ruffling feathers on the unionist side. Highly entertaining to boot. You deserve a pet on the back now and then.


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