AS FIRST games in a new job go Dundee’s new manager, Paul Hartley, had a cracker, as his side defeated promotion rivals Hamilton Accies 1-0 to move back to the top of the Championship table.
A CONSUMER complaint is made in Scotland every 18 seconds according to a new report which found that householders are far more likely to take action over problems relating to issues such as energy and retail than they would have been 12 months ago. More...
It WAS always tempting to wonder whether the football club bearing the city’s name could lift off in the way Aberdeen has during a second oil boom. The signs were not always promising.
THEY had gone five games without getting a goal but, against Hibs, it took Raith Rovers just six minutes to end the drought and kickstart their season with the kind of triumph that will bolster confidence as they face up to big games ahead.
HALF empty or half full? You could apply either description to Celtic Park on Saturday which, with the top tier closed, was operating at just over 50 per cent capacity.
ABERDEEN have been rewarded for their victory over Celtic with a home tie in the last eight of the Scottish Cup against Championship side Dumbarton.
DUNDEE United progressed to the quarter-final of the William Hill Scottish Cup with a deserved win over St Mirren at Tannadice in their televised last-16 tie.
CELTIC defender Efe Ambrose reveals desire to play in England, Adam Matthews on Joe Ledley’s departure, Lennon demands more from team and Butcher vows to drop cup flops.
THE date was 26 June, 2003, the venue Stade de Gerland in Lyon. Eric Djemba-Djemba can remember everything about the match between Cameroon and Colombia, a Confederations Cup semi-final in which his friend and team-mate, Marc-Vivien Foe, collapsed with a fatal heart condition.
CELTIC manager Neil Lennon admitted his team had gone against type and club traditions with a feckless display that puts yet one more black mark on the Irishman’s cup record at the helm.
BRENDAN Rodgers insisted that Liverpool are still not in the title race despite their 5-1 demolition of deposed leaders Arsenal at Anfield.
TRANSITION is a football buzzword. If your group – the buzzword for team – cannot do transition then you’re way out of date, although if you’ve always been able to move the ball quickly from defence to attack you should be fine because that’s all transition really is.
ON a day of shocks elsewhere in the Scottish Cup, a victory for either of these teams would not have added to the surprises, but it was Dumbarton who booked their place in today’s quarter-final draw, harbouring dreams of yet more progress in the coveted competition.
ST JOHNSTONE were hurting after their semi-final exit from the Scottish League Cup last weekend, but a convincing victory in the country’s other major knockout competition yesterday started the healing process.
WHEN Albion Rovers started their Scottish Cup campaign they went into the second-round clash with Spartans having failed to win any of their last 12 ties in any cup competition.
QUEENS burst into the title race when they closed the gap to just five points on Falkirk with two goals in the last ten minutes from substitute Gavin Reilly.
PAUL Hartley’s debut in the managerial dugout at Dens Park packed in a fair number of ingredients – hope, frustration and bafflement among them.
IT IS the Champions League that keeps Neil Lennon engaged – often in the face of the ill-treatment meted out to him – and keeps him striving in his post as Celtic manager.
Billy McKay headed a 74th-minute equaliser to prevent Inverness falling to a William Hill Scottish Cup upset at Stranraer on the 14th anniversary of their famous shock win over Celtic.
RAITH Rovers inflicted more Scottish Cup agony on Hibernian as they emerged with a shock victory over the top-fight club to reach the quarter-finals.
Celtic have lost 2 - 1 to Aberdeen in the fifth round of the Scottish Cup.
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An extra-time winner sent Hutchison Vale under-16s through to the last-four of the Trans World Soccer Scottish Cup, with the age-group aiming to make it three national cup wins in a row. More...
Manager Alan Miller is hoping Newtongrange Star’s new state-of-the-art training pitch can help the Midlothian club change the East Region’s pecking order this season. More...
CELTIC chief executive Peter Lawwell described the club as being in “arguably the best financial state we’ve ever been in” after announcing pre-tax profits of £21.3m in the half-year accounts published yesterday.
LEWIS Stevenson was in short trousers when he saw Raith Rovers lift the Coca Cola League Cup in 1994. Sadly, no Hibernian supporter still alive is able to make even this claim with regard to their team’s last Scottish Cup success.
ALLY McCoist believes Rangers will be a match for anyone in the quarter-finals of the Scottish Cup if they reproduce the standard of play which saw the League 1 leaders defeat Dunfermline 4-0 at Ibrox in the fifth round last night.
WHEN Terry Butcher arrives at his newly-adopted local, a couple of doors down from his home in North Berwick, East Lothian, he finds your correspondent reading about Manuel Pellegrini. “Ah the engineer,” says Butcher.
Rangers ease through their Scottish Cup fifth round encounter with Dunfermline at Ibrox thanks to a Dean Shiels hat-trick and a goal by David Templeton.
CELTIC chief executive Peter Lawwell claimed the club had no specified limit on a single transfer fee as they reported pre-tax six-month profits of £21.3million.
WITH the news that ex-Manchester United star Eric Djemba-Djemba has signed for St Mirren, Chris Marshall takes a look at some of Scottish football’s most fondly-remembered African imports
CELTIC manager Neil Lennon has expressed bafflement at his villain status and insisted he had done nothing to warrant the litany of abuse he has suffered.
ITALIAN soccer has been hit by another scandal, this time involving a team that scored eight own goals in the last 10 minutes of a regional cup match on their way to a 14-3 defeat.
Dundee United have secured a deal to wipe out their bank debt of more than £3 million.
It is no secret that Edinburgh City have had a disappointing season languishing around the lower reaches of the Lowland League. More...
Newtongrange Star defender Scott Swaney admits this will be his club’s best-ever season in the Super League – even if they don’t win the title. More...
Civil Service Strollers will look to salvage a miserable cup campaign by gaining three points from their visit to Eyemouth – and revive an outside chance of qualification for the Central Taxis East of Scotland League Cup. More...
Mark Bradley admits champions Linlithgow desperately need to build on last weekend’s win over Lochee if they are to have a chance of retaining their Super League title. More...
FORMER Hibernian, Celtic and Scotland midfielder John Collins has signed for his home town club in Galashiels at the ripe old age of 46.
JOHN Hughes last night hailed Josh Meekings’ cup final reprieve as a victory for commonsense – then asked the football authorities to deliver another massive one in Caley Thistle’s favour.
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