Scottish Cup

May 30th, 2009

Rangers Collect Domestic Double on Novo Strike

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In the last match of the Scottish club season, Rangers collected their 33rd Scottish Cup on the strength of a brilliant dipping strike from Nacho Novo. Novo came on just a minute earlier for the exhausted Kris Boyd, who apparently needs to play in Sweden, since Scotland is just too bloody warm for him. [...]

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April 26th, 2009

The Bairns are headed to Europe

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The Scottish Cup semifinals are over (no extra time, no replays, and hurray for that). Rangers beat St. Mirren 3-0 in a match that featured former Scotland man Kris Boyd’s 100th Rangers goal. In the other semi, Dunfermline fell to Falkirk, currently last place in the SPL. Since Rangers are certain to [...]

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April 23rd, 2009

Scottish Cup Semis and the Dreaded Split

By: Ian Rose | Comments 1 Comment

This weekend sees a break from SPL action while we once again bask in the full glory of one of the most convoluted and confusing inventions in sport – the SPL split. For the uninitiated, here’s how it works. Most of the big leagues in Europe have 38 matches in a season, and [...]

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October 19th, 2008

The New Scottish Cup Sponsor Is … Scotland?

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That’s right – after a long stretch of sponsorlessness (word?), the Scottish Cup will now be sponsored by Scotland itself. As part of the Scottish government’s initiative to increase tourism in 2009 (Robbie Burns’ 250th birth year), they have taken over name rights to the tournament starting next year.
Before anyone complains about use of [...]

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April 12th, 2008

Dons crash out in 4-3 thriller

By: Ian Rose | Comments 2 Comments

We have one of our Scottish Cup finalists, and it’s a shocker to be placed right next to Cardiff City in that other Cup. Going into today’s semifinal between Aberdeen and Queen of the South, the Dons looked great to take a clinical victory and move on to a final where, if they faced [...]

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March 19th, 2008

Gutsy Partick force cup replay with Rangers

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It really has been the year of the cupset in Britain. First the English FA Cup goes into the semifinals without a big four side. Then Celtic is tossed from the Scottish Cup by Aberdeen. Now, it took a late Kris Boyd goal for Rangers to avoid a similar fate today, as [...]

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March 18th, 2008

Aberdeen might be Europe bound, after all

By: Ian Rose | Comments No Comments

It’s been a really remarkably weird season for Aberdeen Football Club. On one hand, they had a great run in Europe, their first good run in Europe in a long time. Getting to the knockout rounds of the UEFA Cup was no small accomplishment for a club of relatively modest financial means, and [...]

March 9th, 2008

Scottish Cup: Rangers advance, Celtic draw

By: Ian Rose | Comments 5 Comments

Both Old Firm sides were in action today as Rangers looked to stay alive in all four competitions, and Celtic continue their defense of the Scottish Cup. Rangers were hosting Hibernian, a tricky fixture given the Hibees’ recent form as well as the confidence they would bring to Ibrox, having won there earlier this [...]

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March 8th, 2008

Doonhamers book the first Cup semi spot

By: Ian Rose | Comments 1 Comment

If you were to ask me a few months back who would be the first guaranteed semifinalist in this year’s Scottish Cup, I would have named almost anyone before Queen of the South. The Doonhamers were then sitting near the bottom of the second tier of Scottish football, and looked like survival in the [...]

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March 7th, 2008

Scottish Cup weekend preview

By: Ian Rose | Comments No Comments

I would have said “Scottish Cup quarterfinal preview” … but it isn’t quite. See, Rangers and Hibs still have the small matter of their fifth round replay this weekend to determine the last of the quarterfinalists. So this weekend sees one team progress to the quarterfinals, and three teams progress to the semis. [...]

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