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Article: Real difference between east and west; John Beattie looks ahead to Friday's match between Glasgow and Edinburgh at Hughenden
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- January 20, 2002
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There are lots of old jokes about the differences between Glasgow
and Edinburgh, and before we go any further, I am from Glasgow; two
cities in Scotland separated by an impenetrable bit of black stuff
feared by millions and responsible for a great deal of mental
malfunction called the M8. In Edinburgh, tables and chairs on the
pavement might be a cafe, in Glasgow, so the story goes, it's a
warrant sale.
An Edinburgh girl tells her Glasgow pal she doesn't know what
knickers to wear to a party, her Calvin Klein ones or her Marks and
Spencer ones. Her Glasgow pal just looks at her: "Knickers - to a
party?" is all she says. And then there's the fact that we think that
Edinburgh folk live in ...