[1] Spiers grew up in Edinburgh, Fife and Glasgow,[2] and attended the University of St Andrews.
He also appeared frequently on Clyde 1's football show Super ScoreBoard, and Setanta Sports' Press Box.
[4] In September 2008, Spiers wrote "For years now Celtic Park – unlike Ibrox – has been largely free of sectarian or racist chanting.
"[9] In the aftermath of the 2008 UEFA Cup final riots, Spiers called Rangers "a club with poison at its core.
The club were demanding an apology from The Herald, for whom Spiers wrote a column, while the writer himself maintained that what he had written was accurate.