SENIOR management at Hearts have accepted that Billy Brown will take his place in the dugout for the League Cup semi-final on 2 February, despite the fact that his contract runs out two days earlier.
For an hour yesterday lunch-time Graham Wallace spoke about the state of Rangers, how the club got to this point and how he intends to move it forward.
RANGERS chief executive Graham Wallace believes that his cost-cutting drive has “unanimous support” within Ibrox, and has vowed to continue his review of “each and every individual in the organisation”.
HIBERNIAN manager Terry Butcher insists he will accelerate his plans to recruit new players after conceding that injured defensive pair Paul Hanlon and Ryan McGivern are facing weeks on the sidelines.
BILEL Mohsni saved Rangers from another Station Park slip-up as he kick-started a 2-0 win against Forfar.
Tommy Wright will not appeal the red card keeper Alan Mannus picked up against Hearts on Saturday, leaving veteran Steve Banks to take over in goal for St Johnstone’s trip to Partick Thistle in the Scottish Premiership on Tuesday night.
CHRIS Erskine hopes his return to Partick Thistle results in the Jags’ first home Scottish Premiership win of the season against St Johnstone at Firhill on Tuesday night.
Whitehill Welfare avenged their League Cup defeat at Meadowbank with a deserved 4-0 win in the drizzle at Ferguson Park, but the story of the match might have been different if Edinburgh City had been able to convert some of their chances in the first hour. More...
Keith McLeod emerged from the substitutes’ bench to net a superb winner for Spartans in their 2-1 victory over Stirling University at Forthbank in a crunch Lowland League Cup Group B encounter. More...
Bo’ness remain on track for a fabulous double of East Super League and Scottish Junior Cup after beating St Andrews 2-1 in Fife with a last-minute header from man-of-the-match, Paul Murphy to reach the last 16. More...
ST Johnstone midfielder Murray Davidson, who sustained a serious knee injury in a fraught game against Hearts, will not play again this season.
NORWICH City winger Robert Snodgrass looks set to miss out on a move to Celtic this month as his club reiterated their desire to retain the Scotland midfielder.
WOLVES striker Leigh Griffiths has said he would “definitely consider” a move to Celtic as he addressed rumours of a move away from Molineux.
THE future of Paul Ince as manager of Blackpool was in serious doubt last night – with former Rangers and Scotland captain Barry Ferguson rumoured to be on the verge of replacing him as a player-manager.
Leigh Griffiths and Robert Snodgrass hint at Celtic interest; Georgios Samaras awaits Neil Lennon contract offer; Billy Brown to remain at Hearts after administrator U-turn, plus all the rest of today’s football news and gossip
TIM Sherwood saw his Tottenham side beat Swansea 3-1 to record a fifth win in six Premier League games, but knows his job will be on the line if he does not deliver Champions League qualification.
DESPITE being only 20 years old, Dale Carrick is prone to rating himself by the number of goals scored – like any forward. It was possible, therefore, to see the relief mixed with delight in his eyes as he spoke about “getting the monkey off my back” after his header on Saturday helped Hearts...
ST Mirren midfielder John McGinn has claimed that team-mate Jim Goodwin is being unfairly treated by opposing supporters and match officials. Goodwin was booked on Saturday after appearing to catch Hibernian’s Sam Stanton with an elbow, and was substituted soon after by manager Danny Lennon.
IT IS always the same when a team ­reverses the form guide to post a win: the victors hope it is the shape of things to come, the vanquished just a blip.
Chelsea inflicted a knockout blow on Manchester United’s hopes of making a successful defence of the Barclays Premier League and kept their title bid on track with a comprehensive victory at Stamford Bridge.
Former Wolves and England goal­keeper Bert Williams has died aged 93.
Most of the attention in the Championship was due to be at Dens Park where league leaders Dundee were due to host second-placed Hamilton before a flooded pitch saw the game called off 90 minutes before kick-off.
ANNOUNCING his resignation as Alloa Athletic manager on Saturday evening, Paul Hartley said he had “no future plans whatsoever” and would probably take a short break from football.
CHARLIE Mulgrew says there will be no attempt inside the Celtic dressing room to persuade Kris Commons to make a return to the Scotland squad.
TERRY Butcher was livid after this match, understandably so given Hibernian’s hapless capitulation in the first half. In time, however, he may just regard this performance as a blessing in disguise.
Rangers manager Ally McCoist says he is glad to have tonight’s clash at Forfar to focus on in the wake of yet ­another off-field Ibrox drama.
LAST season, Neil Lennon was left in a state of bemused fury when none of his players made it on to PFA Scotland’s shortlist for their Player of the Year award.
The sight of the outfield player anxiously pulling on an outsized goalkeeper jersey is too rarely seen in these days of substitute goalkeepers. But it was one of several thrilling moments for the neutral to savour at McDiarmid Park on Saturday.
Hearts assistant manager Billy Brown is to remain at the club for the duration of his contract.
Striker Christian Nade, who penned a short-term deal with Championship leaders Dundee earlier this week, is expected to play a key role in the side’s push for promotion to the Scottish Premiership.
Ally McCoist says previous regimes at Ibrox are to blame for current financial troubles; Celtic manager Neil Lennon denies Norwich job speculation; Paul Hartley quits Alloa after heavy defeat, plus all the rest of today’s football news and gossip
MIDWAY through a traumatic season in which Manchester United find themselves in the throes of a crisis far deeper than many expected, one of the few positives for their troubled supporters is the return from illness of Darren Fletcher.
WITH replies that raised many more questions than he answered, Rangers manager Ally McCoist has stealthily picked his way through the minefield that is the current financial ‘situation’ at the Ibrox club.
Neil Lennon played a straight bat to suggestions that he may be the subject of an approach from Norwich to become their manager should Chris Hughton, the incumbent, fail to turn things around at Carrow Road.
This match turned on a hectic ten-minute period at the beginning of the second half when Falkirk keeper Michael McGovern made three crucial stops and his outfield team-mates displayed some accurate finishing to push themselves to within three points of the league summit.
SCOTTISH football is forever sneered at for what it lacks. There are, however, a number of imports that would express gratitude for what it was able to sear into their game.
WHEN Steven Pressley meets up with Arsene Wenger on Friday, he will gift him a bottle of whisky. “I’m hoping he has a few too many swigs before the game!” he laughs, as he contemplates the magnitude of the task facing his Coventry City side as they travel to the Emirates Stadium on FA Cup fourth...
LAST summer, when Ally McCoist’s request for nine new players was granted by his then chief executive, Craig Mather, who was at fault? This was a club that had financial problems, that didn’t have the luxury of adding players to an already gob-smacking wage bill and yet added them anyway. Who was...
Spain midfielder Santi Cazorla struck twice in the second half as Arsenal beat Fulham 2-0 to stay one point ahead of Manchester City at the top of the Barclays Premier League.
IN APRIL last year, Motherwell beat Celtic 3-1 in an SPL match at Fir Park. In Stuart McCall’s team that day were Darren Randolph, Nicky Law, Michael Higdon, Henrik Ojamaa, Tom Hateley and Chris Humphrey – none of whom are still at the club.
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