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planning your Saturday afternoon
By: j |There are five great matches today this afternoon in the Scottish Premier League.
Inverness CT at Falkirk (preview)
It’s been a dreary start to the campaign for Falkirk, yet they won’t be getting any breaks from Caley Thistle manager Craig Brewster who will tighten the noose.
Hearts visit the Hamilton Accies at New Douglas Park
Both clubs are locked [...]
week 3 summary
By: j |It was a great weekend in the Scottish Premier League and I hope you were able to catch some of the exciting action. Of the many great matches, certainly one of the highlights is Greek International Georgios Samaras brace for Celtic and the return of Shaun Maloney on a celebratory day for the legendary Billy [...]
break-up the Accies!
By: j |The SPL is packed with six great matches this weekend, none more interesting than Hamilton Accies visit to Kilmarnock. Billy Reid’s Accies have got off to an incredible start this season and face Kilmarnock, who have played with a stubborn resolve in the first two matches of the campaign. The Accies have shown a remarkable [...]
not for your prawn sandwich set
By: j |While the lil’ darlings get ready for tomorrow’s opening day matches and get all in a tizzy of what to wear and wonder if the hospitality suite will be serving those cute prawn sandwiches again, the real Football action tomorrow is in, you guessed-it, beautiful Scotland. Of course the big-news is that our SPL family [...]
only 20 years ago
By: j |Twenty years seems like whisper away now. As I think back to 1988 so many moments resonate in my life and its difficult to think of them so long ago.
Within the Scottish Football community it also marked the debut of a nineteen year-old midfielder by the name of Billy McKinlay. A splendid player for [...]
All your first-day scores
By: Ian Rose |Here are all of the scores from the first day in the SPL and SFL:
Scottish Premier League
Falkirk 0 – 1 Rangers
Aberdeen 0 – 2 Inverness C.T. (first ever win for Caley over Aberdeen!)
Hearts 3 – 2 Motherwell (Brace for Clarkson)
Kilmarnock 1 – 0 Hibernian
First Division
Airdrie 0 – 1 Partick Thistle
Dunfermline 2 – 1 [...]
Help Wanted, and a First for the Caley
By: Ian Rose |So, here’s the deal. I woke up at 6:30 this fine Saturday morning to watch my beloved Caley Thistle travel to Aberdeen for a fixture they have never, in their past four seasons in the SPL, won. As I did so, I realized that though I love the Scottish game, I’ve been neglecting [...]
League Cup and Thursday Mashup
By: Ian Rose |I find myself apologizing as often as anything else on these blogs lately, mostly for the fact that I’m so rarely here. Unfortunately, moving to a new city and starting a new job has taken its toll on my blogging schedule, but I’m setting a new rule for myself of at least one post [...]






