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Dec 28, 2011 on The Scottish Football Blog
The SPL works off the turkey and mince pies with a full Wednesday evening fixture. The eyes of the world upon us once more. Or at least the eyes of those Sky viewers not tempted by the tungsten superheroes at the Ally Pally. Celtic v Rangers Apparently r...
Continue reading 'SPL: Wednesday Wonders'
Dec 23, 2011 on The Scottish Football Blog
Day eleven. Guided by a star of wonder, the SPL Advent takes a trip to Perth. Perhaps we should all read a Christmas lesson from the good book of McDiarmid Park. St Johnstone have lost both a talented young manager and a steady, long-serving chairman th...
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Dec 22, 2011 on The Scottish Football Blog
Day ten of the SPL Advent. Rangers. Dreaming of a Whyte Christmas. Rangers offer another chance for one of these half season reviews to become more a work of financial reporting. I'll try to resist. We know the taxman cometh, we know Craig Whyte himself...
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Dec 21, 2011 on The Scottish Football Blog
Day nine of the SPL Advent. Motherwell, the success story of the season so far. What were we to expect from Motherwell this SPL season? Stuart McCall's arrival to replace Craig Brown raised more of a shrug of the shoulders than a cheer last season. But...
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Dec 20, 2011 on The Scottish Football Blog
We tend to be quick to condemn the managerial merry-go-round as propelled by the Largs mafia. But we're also too often suspicious of incomers who come into the SPL with their odd ways and their funny accents. We should embrace them. Especially if they'r...
Continue reading 'SPL Advent: Kilmarnock'
Dec 18, 2011 on The Scottish Football Blog
Hitting the halfway stage of the SPL Advent calendar. Another annus horribilis for Hibs. Even those well versed in the grimness of the SPL might have been taken aback by the sheer scale of the despair Hibs have engendered amongst the faithful this season...
Continue reading 'SPL Advent: Hibs'
Dec 17, 2011 on The Scottish Football Blog
Day five of our SPL Advent. Peace and goodwill to all me. It's a time for stout Hearts. Somebody suggested that I could fill every day of this SPL Advent writing about Hearts. And so I could. The stories just keep coming. On Thursday we got the news t...
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Dec 14, 2011 on The Scottish Football Blog
Day two of our Scottish football Advent calendar. Celtic lurk behind today's window. Was it really just a few weeks ago that all hope was lost and Neil Lennon's job prospects looked bleaker by the match? Celtic teetered as Rangers thrived, the SPL gap w...
Continue reading 'SPL Advent: Celtic'
Dec 13, 2011 on The Scottish Football Blog
In the run up to Christmas the Scottish Football Blog is taking a daily look at the season so far for the 12 SPL clubs. And what they might hope to find in their stockings. Alphabetically at least Aberdeen are number one. Woe seems to hang over Pittodr...
Continue reading 'An SPL Advent: Aberdeen'
Dec 10, 2011 on The Scottish Football Blog
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It seems like ages since I tickled the malnourished belly of the SPL with a wildly inaccurate prediction post. I think the last time I Nostradamus-ed the weekend action Rangers had won the title and Motherwell were about to take the Champion's League by ...
Continue reading 'East v West: The SPL Today'
Dec 2, 2011 on The Scottish Football Blog
Pat Fenlon finds himself in the Hibernian trenches for the first time this evening. Another SPL Friday night experiment as Hibs take a trip to Motherwell. Perhaps I'm guilty of misreading his intent but my impression was that Henry McLeish had suggested...
Continue reading 'Hibs: Friday Night Frights'
Nov 25, 2011 on The Scottish Football Blog
Are Hibs about to welcome Pat Fenlon as their new manager? His task, if he chooses to accept it, involves performing miracles with a squad of Highland dancers. He'd be the fifth non-Scottish manager of Hibs. Following in the footsteps of Mixu Paatelain...
Continue reading 'Hibs: When Irish eyes are smiling?'
Nov 25, 2011 on The Scottish Football Blog
Last weekend saw the Scottish Football Blog's 24 hour blogathon. 24 hours, 24 posts, 16665 words. And so far over £840 raised for Alzheimer Scotland and the Homeless World Cup. Time for some belated but heartfelt thanks. Sorry if I've missed anyone ou...
Continue reading 'Blogathon: Rounding things up'
Nov 24, 2011 on The Scottish Football Blog
80 million quid. Not be sniffed at. Five years of stability at a time of economic uncertainty. So well done to the SPL on the signing of their new TV deal? Not exactly. £16 million a season (that's the figure being widely reported) for 60 live games.
Continue reading 'SPL: Eighty million reasons to be cheerful'
Nov 20, 2011 on The Scottish Football Blog
The Homeless World Cup and Alzheimer Scotland. Two charities doing fantastic work. You know the donation drill. Penultimate post time. A suggestion from @theftblproject just minutes ago planted the seed for this post. His Tweet read: "In your very fir...
Continue reading 'Blogathon: Where's Vlad Going?'
Nov 20, 2011 on The Scottish Football Blog
Sort of feels like the final furlong. And who better to join us, at this early hour, than Stewart Weir? Stewart's seen it all in his long and distinguished career. And that includes some great Scottish footballing moments. And a fair few bad ones. His ...
Continue reading 'Blogathon: My First Hampden Date'
Nov 20, 2011 on The Scottish Football Blog
Occurs to me that anyone chancing across the blog might wonder what the Nora Batty is going on. Well, I'm rambling on about football and a few mates are joining me here and there. But we're doing it to help out Alzheimer Scotland and the Homeless World C...
Continue reading 'Blogathon: Goalden moments'
Nov 20, 2011 on The Scottish Football Blog
Earlier Scott Johnston and I debated the O** F*** leaving Scottish football. As a wee bonus here's Stewart Weir (@sweirz) with his take on the issue: It's usually an argument made by those who don't support the O** F***. But if Celtic and Rangers (i...
Continue reading 'Blogathon Bonus: O** F*** Out? Get Real'
Nov 20, 2011 on The Scottish Football Blog
The blogathon continues. Alzheimer Scotland and the Homeless World Cup still need your help. So if you've enjoyed any of this please give anything you can. It's a pleasure to say a massive hello to Jay Mansfield, also know as @leftmidfielder, for this ho...
Continue reading 'Blogathon: Where did all it go wrong?'
Nov 19, 2011 on The Scottish Football Blog
A perfect 10. Or an imperfect 10. But I hope you're enjoying this so far. So @sweirz has set me this challenge on Twitter: A Scotland international XI made up of players that have never played for the O** F***. And no Anglos. So Scotland players drawn ...
Continue reading 'Blogathon: An Alternate Scotland XI'