Articles tagged with "scotland-premier"
Caley makes it five from five; Celtic draw
By Ian Rose | December 22nd, 2007I know this is supposed to be a blog about Scottish football in general, and I'd like to think that I don't bias it too ...
SPL Matchday 18 Preview
By Ian Rose | December 21st, 2007Another weekend is here, and all twelve SPL sides are in action as some battle for the lead, some for the top 6, and some ...
Caley shock Celtic!
By Ian Rose | December 16th, 2007Those of us that support small clubs have a very different experience than the supporters of the big ones. We can't look back at ...
SPL Matchday 17 Preview
By Ian Rose | December 14th, 2007Here are the matches for the seventeenth week of the Scottish Premier League. The race for third is heating up, with three in the ...
Old Firm losses jeopardize SPL's place in Europe
By Ian Rose | December 12th, 2007The dust is settling from today's Rangers loss to Lyon, and I'd like to take a moment to reflect on what this means for Scotland. ...
Hibs' highland curse continues, Celtic falter
By Ian Rose | December 8th, 2007That's why I don't bet on football, especially Scottish football. Over the course of a season, as everyone knows, a bet on one of ...
SPL Matchday 16 Preview
By Ian Rose | December 7th, 2007Thanks to the SPL's decisions to postpone matches first for both Celtic and Rangers before the national team's match with Italy, and for Rangers before ...
Rangers make up ground, Caley wins at Dundee
By Ian Rose | December 1st, 2007It's been an interesting day in Scottish football. As JT at the Celtic Offside predicted, his Bhoys only managed a draw away at Hearts ...
SPL Matchday 15 Preview
By Ian Rose | November 30th, 2007As unbelievable as it may seem, we are creeping up on the halfway point in the SPL season. The fifteenth week (of 38) features ...
Another week in Europe for the SPL
By Ian Rose | November 26th, 2007It seems like only yesterday that Rangers, Celtic and Aberdeen were playing their respective European matches, and here we are again. Three days in ...
SPL Matchday 14 Preview
By Ian Rose | November 23rd, 2007The seemingly month-long international break is over, and club football returns to Scotland this weekend, with all twelve SPL sides in action. Celtic and ...
Are Pars fans unhappy or spoiled rotten?
By Ian Rose | November 21st, 2007It's been an interesting few years for the fans of Dunfermline Athletic Football Club. Always a dangerous cup team, they went all the way ...
SPL Saturday: The second tier keeps pace
By Ian Rose | November 10th, 2007Everyone knows that there is a top tier in Scottish football, and that the Old Firm is it. Celtic and Rangers are the two ...
SPL Matchday 13: The Old Firm gets a snow day
By Ian Rose | November 9th, 2007That's right. It's Scottish football, without all that pesky money and international interest. As part of Alex McLeish's plan for next weekend's Scotland-Italy ...
Three days of European football ahead for SPL sides
By Ian Rose | November 5th, 2007I have to admit that my mind is beginning to wander to November 17th. Scotland v. Italy at Hampden. But before that glorious ...
SPL Matchday 12: Old Firm win, United falter
By Ian Rose | November 4th, 2007We are through twelve matches of the 2007-08 SPL campaign, with a few shakeups in the league table. Celtic and Rangers both won (over ...
Craig Levein for Manager of the Month
By Ian Rose | October 31st, 2007Just a short note. Even though it will probably be a week or so until the announcement is made by the SFA, I would ...
SPL Matchday 11: Celtic back on top
By Ian Rose | October 28th, 2007We are 11 matches and one quarter of the way into the SPL campaign, and it turned out to be the perfect weekend, at least ...
SPL Matchday 11 Preview
By Ian Rose | October 26th, 2007We're one-quarter of the way through the 38-match SPL season, and we have some interesting matches this weekend. Here's a preview of the action ...
Aberdeen gets spanked in Greece, 3-0
By Ian Rose | October 25th, 2007This match week in Europe has gone a bit less positively than the last for the three SPL sides left in continental play. Rangers ...
Setanta relieves Old Firm tensions with a good throat-slashing
By Ian Rose | October 23rd, 2007I just thought I would pass this along, in case it didn't make the media outside of Scotland. Apparently, during Setanta's coverage of last ...
Rangers draw with Barca, with a little help
By Ian Rose | October 23rd, 2007Barcelona is one of those teams against which a draw is a pretty decent result, even at home. Rangers' scoreless draw with Barca today ...
Another big European week for SPL sides
By Ian Rose | October 22nd, 2007This time of year, there's not much time for a Scotland fan (or blogger) to breathe. One weekend, we've got Euro 2008, the next, ...
SPL Matchday 10: Hibs falter, Old Firm tied for lead
By Ian Rose | October 21st, 2007After Rangers took it to Celtic 3-0 in the Old Firm derby on Saturday, surprising Hibernian had a chance to go on top of the ...
Dunfermline look down to stay after 5-0 drumming
By Ian Rose | October 20th, 2007This is the last season (finally) that the loser of the Scottish Cup can represent Scotland in European competition. Last year, Dunfermline had a ...
SPL Matchday 10: The derby cometh
By Ian Rose | October 19th, 2007Well, it's here, the first Old Firm derby of the season. No one outside of the great land of Scotland may care much, but ...
Making it hard on ourselves: Georgia 2-0 Scotland
By Ian Rose | October 17th, 2007Scottish fans have greeted this long run of wins with a combination of joy and worry. Obviously, we've been pleased with our position on ...
Scotland takes depleted roster to Georgia
By Ian Rose | October 16th, 2007It really is amazing what the Scottish national team has accomplished. 2 wins over France. A record of 8-2 in our first 10 ...
Young Firm derby ends in a frustrating draw
By Ian Rose | October 14th, 2007As we count down the days to perhaps the oldest and greatest rivalry game in sport, the Old Firm derby between Rangers and Celtic, another ...
Scotland 3-1 Ukraine: Two matches to go
By Ian Rose | October 13th, 2007Well, even a broken clock is right twice a day. I predicted a 3-1 win for the Scots at home to Ukraine, and a ...
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