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Don’t blame Saint Mirren & Ross Country: the SPL was doomed long before
Plans to introduce a new 12-12-18 set up into Scottish football under one league structure were shot down in flames when Saint Mirren chairman Stewart Gilmour and Ross County chairman Roy MacGregor both voted no. Both chairmen appear to have listened...read more »
Why Rangers need to start pushing their brand:
Rangers CEO Charles Green is once again pushing for Rangers to be allowed to play football in the English leagues. He claims that both Rangers and Celtic will be playing competitive matches down south within the next five years. Green claims...read more »
Are we witnessing the death of Scottish football?
Alex Salmond must have cut a frustrated figure on Tuesday night. With a tartan scarf around his neck the First Minister must have been hoping that the national team would have somehow earned a precious win in Serbia. This would have...read more »
Why is nobody asking more questions of Ranger’s Sir David Murray?
The silence of the succulent lamb. It is now over a year since Rangers went into administration. In that year a lot has happened to the club both on and off the pitch. As the anniversary came around it seemed...read more »
McFadden and Boyd: Why Craig Levein was right all along:
Tuesday September 7 2010 and Craig Levein is an angry man. The Scotland coach is angry that his side is struggling to turn around a 1-0 deficit against international whipping boys Liechtenstein. He’s angry the team he selected are failing to follow...read more »
Gordon Strachan CAN bring overdue success to Scotland:
While England were playing some of their most progressive football for over 16 years, Gareth Bale was adding to his season’s collection of wonder goals, and Wes Hoolahan was making a mockery of Giovanni Trapattoni’s exclusion of him from so...read more »
Why do Scottish Footballing authorities continue to discriminate against Rangers?
It seems that the Scottish football authorities do indeed want to treat Rangers differently from the rest of Scottish football. With the announcement that if Rangers win the third division they will be denied promotion due to the forced and panic...read more »
Can Gordon Strachan bring the passion back to Scottish International football?
The appointment of Gordon Strachan as the new Scotland boss was hardly met with a wave of enthusiasm and hope by the nation. Strachan comes to the job when Scottish football is at its lowest ebb. Scotland is now languishing...read more »
A new dawn for Scotland: Strach the dark Blue touchpaper as little Gord gets the gig
So the worst kept secret in football is now public news, Gordon Strachan is the latest man bestowed with the somewhat ominous task of leading Scotland back from the international wilderness. The managerial fortunes of the fifty-capped former Aberdeen and Manchester...read more »
Scotland’s games rulers talk the talk but will they ever walk the walk?
12 – 10 – 10 - 10. 16 – 14 – 12. 14 – 14 - 14. No not the latest scores for the Z-list ‘personalities’ who have cha-cha'd their way onto Strictly Come Dancing, but the various permutations presented to the Scottish...read more »