Stewart Weir: Laura Montgomery 1 Gordon Parks 0

IT’S probably best to put the result of last night’s debate about women’s sport on STV’s ever-improving Scotland Tonight in a context easiest understood by some.

However, the outcome could have been couched in other ways: straight sets, 6&5 or by a distance. You might get the picture.

Daily Record sports journalist, Gordon Parks, had ruffled some well-groomed feathers, and had others searching for their ‘shinnies’, with his assertion that £1.2million was being wasted on women’s football in Scotland.

If that wasn’t all, he also said that most folks couldn’t name a ‘single female tartan talent’. Really?

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