Scottish Premier League


May 30th, 2008

Scotland loses three goals; Gretna, three divisions

By: Ian Rose | Comments 2 Comments

A couple of pieces of news today. The first (and foremost) is that George Burley led Scotland for only the second time today, against Euro 2008 qualifiers the Czech Republic, and went down 3-1. The scoreline isn’t to my mind representative of the game, but the Czechs definitely deserved the win. The [...]



May 19th, 2008

Squeeky Bum Time in Scotland

By: Ian Rose | Comments 7 Comments

Like seemingly every other league in Europe in this fantastic May of football, the SPL will come down to the final day. Rangers just completed a makeup match victory over St. Mirren, 3-0, that brings them even on points with Celtic, at 86 apiece. But, like the Premier League down south, there is [...]

May 4th, 2008

Rangers: Live by the scoreless draw …

By: Ian Rose | Comments 3 Comments

You know the rest.
Just as Rangers held firm in defense and offered little in attack in Thursday’s penalty UEFA Cup semifinal win over Fiorentina, they were similarly held scoreless by Hibernian today. A fantastic defensive effort from Hibs kept all but two of Rangers’ eleven shots from even approaching Andrew McNeil’s goal, and while [...]

April 29th, 2008

Motherwell loses captain in bar “attack”

By: Ian Rose | Comments 5 Comments

Details are sketchy, but here’s an incident has popped up which might just have consequences all over the SPL. Paul Quinn, captain of Motherwell, is out for the rest of the season with a broken jaw after being attacked outside a nightclub in Wishaw, his hometown. No one seems to be [...]

April 21st, 2008

Here come the Accies, and other news

By: Ian Rose | Comments 1 Comment

This past week or so has featured a lot of blogging distraction for me, between losing my voice screaming for my new local side and spending Sunday on the Offside’s main page, not to mention the podcast. So, I apologize for completely dropping the ball on a couple of major news items having to [...]



April 14th, 2008

Rangers 2 - Celtic 1 (awards, that is)

By: Ian Rose | Comments 2 Comments

The annual awards in the SPL have been handed out, and no real surprises here, considering where the big teams are and why they are there. Walter Smith has his team ahead in the league with games in hand, alive in both the Scottish and UEFA Cups, and with their first hardware in three [...]

April 7th, 2008

Aberdeen makes top six, and award nominees announced

By: Ian Rose | Comments 1 Comment

A pretty big day of news in the SPL today. First, Aberdeen has succeeded in climbing out of their early funk to make the top half of the league on the last day before the split. For those of you not familiar with the peculiarities of Scottish football, here goes. The SPL [...]

April 4th, 2008

Barr wins Player of the Month

By: Ian Rose | Comments No Comments

Congratulations to Falkirk central defender Darren Barr on winning the Player of the Month award in the SPL for March. Much has been made this season of young Hearts captain Christophe Berra, but Barr is just as young and also captains an SPL side, one that happens to be a point ahead of Berra’s [...]

April 1st, 2008

SPL Month in Review: March 2008

By: Ian Rose | Comments No Comments

Well, another month is in the books for the Scottish Premier League, and it might well have been the decisive one in both the race for the SPL title and the race for UEFA Cup qualification. Here’s a look at the overall standings, and the league table for March alone:

The * next to Gretna’s [...]

March 28th, 2008

The Derby and the run in

By: Ian Rose | Comments 1 Comment

It’s that time again, time for the one Derby that really requires the capital D, the Old Firm Derby in Glasgow. Tomorrow marks the 378th time that Celtic have played Rangers in competitive matches, going back to 1888. Rangers hold the record in the series, with 150 wins to Celtic’s 135, but over [...]






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