Scottish Football Monitor (SFM)

This time, John speaks with England's king of soccer gossip Alan Nixon about his hopes and ambitions for his beloved Partick Thistle, and about the Scottish game relative to the English one.

David Moyes, Brendan Rodgers and Dave King all feature, as does the refereeing and disciplinary explosion which ignited on Sunday.

John also looks back over the career of the incomparable Jim Cruickshank of Hearts and Scotland.