While we’re waiting for another Robbie, let’s find a Lafferty

Billy Connolly’s love of football, like a slick passing move from one penalty box to another, can be traced back through the length of his long career, writes Brendan O'Brien

He lampooned the violence that wrapped itself around the Old Firm rivalry between Rangers and his beloved Celtic, bemoaned the consistent failings of his national team — “Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace” — and quipped once that he thought another Glasgow club’s name was actually Partick Thistle Nil.

That last jibe sprung to mind last Tuesday.