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Apr 2 on The Scottish Football Blog
I've been a little neglectful of the blog of late. Real life stomped through the door uninvited, turned 2013 into a big bundle of rubbish and left even a little light blogging a stretch too far. Beyond turning up at Easter Road and groaning quite a lot...
Continue reading 'I'm a muppet and other tales of reconstruction'
Feb 15 on The Scottish Football Blog
Fifth in the league, a point better off after 26 games of this season than they were after the SPL had run it's course last season. Hibs fans, punch drunk from their annus horribilis, heard promises in the summer of a rebuilt side capable of making progr...
Continue reading 'SPL: Stuttering Hibs'
Jan 15 on The Scottish Football Blog
12 + 12 + 18 = 8 + 8 + 8 + 18 = 36 + 36 + 36 + 34. With such simple equations are Scottish football resurrections secured. If the SPL is about to die, the dictators of the ancien regime are going to get their way before the peasants storm the castle. 1...
Continue reading 'Scottish football: Reinventing the wheel'
Jan 9 on The Scottish Football Blog
Jim Traynor has spoken. We better all listen. His second blog as the supremo of communications at Ibrox - jolly decent it was of the Daily Record to give him his first Rangers blog as part of his valedictory message to their paying readers - hit every t...
Continue reading 'Rangers: Say no evil'
Jan 6 on The Scottish Football Blog
The SPL's winter leave of absence seems to have taken a few people by surprise. It is only a fortnight though and we're not supposed to have a winter break as such, so they've maybe been trying to keep it quiet. There also seems a reasonable chance that...
Continue reading 'SPL: Breaking bad?'
Nov 30, 2012 on The Scottish Football Blog
Book Week Scotland seems as good an excuse as any to have a rummage through the bookshelves. To mark this celebration of all things book related, I shut my eyes and picked out four football tomes at random. And a varied assortment it proved to be. From...
Continue reading 'Brought to book'
Nov 25, 2012 on The Scottish Football Blog
Whatever else it's done, Rangers new life in Division Three hasn't dented their ability to command column inches. This week it was the results of the First Tier Tribunal that dominated the media, old and new. The findings have been pored over. Lines...
Continue reading 'Rangers: A hollow win'
Nov 14, 2012 on The Scottish Football Blog
"The battle lines were drawn months ago and the main players have been digging the trenches. "But listen closely and you will hear the first volleys being fired as Scottish football edges closer, yet again, to civil war." So spake the BBC's Chris McLaug...
Continue reading 'Scottish football: Reconstruction rivals'
Oct 31, 2012 on The Scottish Football Blog
Is the Scottish Communities League Cup moving inexorably towards a Celtic v Rangers clash. Celtic progressed to the semi final with a minimum of fuss last night, thumping St Johnstone 5-0 at home. Rangers need to make history to join them, becoming the ...
Continue reading 'League Cup: History men?'
Oct 26, 2012 on The Scottish Football Blog
An acquaintance, for whom the glass is forever half empty, insisted to me last Sunday evening that Hibs would be in the bottom three of the SPL after the next three games. That is mathematically possible. And this particular lover of life had, unlike me,...
Continue reading 'SPL: Motherwell v Hibs'
Oct 23, 2012 on The Scottish Football Blog
Having finally cleared one long standing Champions League hurdle with their away win in Moscow, Celtic must topple giants this evening. Barcelona away is a fixture that makes most teams tremble. It looks a hopeless journey for our plucky Scottish champio...
Continue reading 'Barcelona v Celtic: An underdog's life'
Oct 22, 2012 on The Scottish Football Blog
Tomorrow night Celtic face the sternest test of the Champions League campaign with a trip to face Barcelona. Spanish football enthusiast Gary Linton, the Messi of Twitter @AlbaEspana, takes a look at a Barcelona side where attacking brilliance and a winni...
Continue reading 'Barcelona v Celtic: The magic men'
Oct 19, 2012 on The Scottish Football Blog
According to the encyclopedic @SPLstats Saturday will be the 87th time Dundee United have hosted Aberdeen in a league game at Tannadice. In the previous 86 matches there have been 29 home wins, 28 away win and 29 draws. The insperable New Firm. They've...
Continue reading 'SPL: Dundee United v Aberdeen'
Oct 19, 2012 on The Scottish Football Blog
What do Scottish football fans want? Ask 100 people. Get 99 different answers. We're not short of opinions. Events this summer showed that there are times when clubs are forced to listen. Too often though clubs feel able to ignore the paying punter. ...
Continue reading 'Your game needs you'
Oct 18, 2012 on The Scottish Football Blog
An unusual consensus has settled over Scottish football. The disastrous start to the 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign has made minds up: Craig Levein can't continue as Scotland manager. A few dissenting voices remain. Billy Dodds was one of them on...
Continue reading 'Scotland: Strachan SOS?'
Oct 17, 2012 on The Scottish Football Blog
Scotland's road to Rio. A dismal football journey. We got about as far as the five year old who runs away from home and sits down under the whirligig on the back green to wait for the bus. The five year old might have shown more sophistication. It's ha...
Continue reading 'Belgium v Scotland: Levein leaving?'
Oct 12, 2012 on The Scottish Football Blog
Rarely in his footballing life would Craig Levein have persuaded PG Wodehouse that he was wrong about Scotsmen and rays of sunshine. There's nothing wrong with that. A thrawn prickliness might even be a good thing in a job where expectation so often fin...
Continue reading 'Wales v Scotland: On a mission'
Oct 11, 2012 on The Scottish Football Blog
Hard as it is I must drag myself away from talk of banners, share issues and possible Scotland starting XIs to talk about "real" football. Grassroots football in fact. A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to again attend the 9th Scottish FA Grassroo...
Continue reading 'Celebrating Scotland's grassroots'
Oct 10, 2012 on The Scottish Football Blog
Day two of the second group stage of the Homeless World Cup ended in something of a struggle for Scotland's reigning champions. Group D always looked tough and so it has proved. In their first game of the day against Ireland the Scots recovered from 2-1...
Continue reading 'Homeless World Cup 2012: Samba beat'
Oct 10, 2012 on The Scottish Football Blog
Pies are close to my heart. So close in fact that I've fallen under the tyranny of healthy eating fascism to protect said heart. But all things in moderation. So the treat of a Scotch pie has become a rare and beguiling pleasure. One that I would ideal...
Continue reading 'Say aye tae a football pie'