Articles tagged with "scotland-premier"
Three to go: Preview of Scotland v. Ukraine
By Ian Rose | October 12th, 2007For the first time in a long time, everyone is talking about Scottish football. As far as the national team goes, that newfound respect ...
Collins, McDonald get monthly awards
By Ian Rose | October 11th, 2007At the end of August, with Rangers on top of the league and Celtic having a few minor struggles, the SPL's monthly awards were reflective ...
Matchday 9: Hibees rise to the challenge
By Ian Rose | October 7th, 2007That's nine weeks in the bag for the SPL, and things have been shuffled throughout the league. With their Saturday victory over Rangers, Hibernian ...
Hibs on top of SPL ... for another 22 hours
By Ian Rose | October 6th, 2007Hibernian Football Club is now, right now, at the top of the Scottish Premier League table, after beating Rangers today 1-0 at Ibrox. Rangers ...
Testing 1,2,3 - Preview of SPL Matchday 9
By Ian Rose | October 5th, 2007The ninth week of SPL action is upon us, and with it, a serious test of the current top three. Celtic, Rangers, and the ...
Aberdeen sneaks through to UEFA Cup group stages
By Ian Rose | October 4th, 2007While Rangers, and to some extent Celtic, rip through the Champions League, my attention has been much more focused on Scotland's one remaining team in ...
Celtic completes matchday sweep for Scotland
By Ian Rose | October 3rd, 2007With a 90th minute strike, recent hero Scott McDonald has put Celtic up 2-1 over AC Milan at Celtic Park, and that is how the ...
More French hospitality: Lyon 0-3 Rangers
By Ian Rose | October 2nd, 2007Can the Scots play the French more often? It really is becoming quite a streak. First, the two Euro 2008 wins (admittedly both ...
Matchday 8 in the SPL
By Ian Rose | October 1st, 2007The eighth week of the SPL is over. There were a few changes, a few surprises, and a few confirmations of what we already ...
Scotland-Italy rugby a preview of Euro 2008?
By Ian Rose | September 29th, 2007Scotland v. Italy. Winner goes to the next round. Sound familiar? Today, it wasn't Euro 2008 qualifying, but the Rugby World Cup, and Scotland ...
Will Gretna '08 be the SPL's worst ever?
By Ian Rose | September 29th, 2007We are now through eight weeks of SPL action, except for the St. Mirren-Hearts match tomorrow, and with Caley Thistle's win today and Gretna's loss, ...
SPL Matchday 8 Preview
By Ian Rose | September 28th, 2007We are seven matches into the 2007-08 SPL campaign, and things are looking a little more familiar. The Old Firm are in the top ...
Scotland could be 2 seed at WC qualies
By Ian Rose | September 27th, 2007After being drawn as the four-seed in the group of death in Euro 2008 qualifying, Scotland was understandably concerned. But now, after two wins ...
CIS Cup: Holders Hibs, Fifers fall
By Ian Rose | September 26th, 2007The third round of the CIS Insurance Cup (aka Scotland's league cup) is over, and we have our eight quarter-finalists. As was to be ...
CIS Cup: Caley over Gretna, Hamilton survives
By Ian Rose | September 25th, 2007Today's four CIS Cup matches are over, and 3 more SPL teams have been eliminated from the competition, with one surprise from the lower divisions ...
League Cup fixtures, tonight and tomorrow
By Ian Rose | September 25th, 2007The third round of the CIS Cup is upon us, with four matches tonight and four tomorrow. There are 16 teams left in Scotland's ...
Old Firm swap places as Boruc falters
By Ian Rose | September 23rd, 2007We knew it was going to be a dangerous weekend for Celtic. Coming off of the 2-0 loss at Shakhtar Donetsk that got their ...
Gretna and Caley get first wins of the season
By Ian Rose | September 22nd, 2007There were two surprising results in today's SPL action. First (and to me, foremost), Caley Thistle notched their first win of the season, 2-1 ...
Aberdeen accepts scoreless draw to open UEFA Cup
By Ian Rose | September 21st, 2007When Aberdeen manager Jimmy Calderwood saw his draw in the first round proper of the UEFA Cup, he could be forgiven for a bit of ...
Scotland is FIFA's #14
By Ian Rose | September 19th, 2007After our brilliant return to Euro 2008 qualifying, with wins over Lithuania and France, Scotland has risen to its highest position ever in the FIFA ...
SPL Words of the Week: Caley Thistle fans
By Ian Rose | September 18th, 2007No brilliant quips from SPL managers this week. Well, there might be, but I haven't read them. Instead, I look to my fellow ...
Cup losers no longer qualify for Europe
By Ian Rose | September 16th, 2007In what I think is a great move, the Scottish Football Association has removed one of the back-door ways of getting into European competition. ...
France 0-1 Scotland ... so sweet, we won it twice
By Ian Rose | September 14th, 2007Hey everybody. First, my sincere apologies for not posting earlier. As JT correctly surmised, I have been in a fog of beer and ...
Scotland 3-1 Lithuania
By Ian Rose | September 8th, 2007After a scary period created by a rubbish penalty call, Scotland took care of the job at hand today, finishing Lithuania 3-1 at Hampden. ...
Hearts win marred by racist chants
By Ian Rose | September 4th, 2007Struggling Hearts, described by many in the Scottish media as a "crisis team", got an invaluable win yesterday, their first of the campaign, 2-0 away ...
Franco Miranda gets a rare trifecta
By Ian Rose | September 2nd, 2007Celtic got just about what they expected from their trip to St. Mirren today, beating the Buddies to the tune of 5-1, and keeping up ...
Hail the Fifers!
By Ian Rose | September 1st, 2007Ladies and Gentlemen of world soccer fandom, I would like to introduce East Fife F.C. Though I've slacked a bit on my "Know Your ...
Old Firm active in last day of transfers
By Ian Rose | September 1st, 2007Celtic got rid of some extra baggage and Rangers brought in some new blood, as the Old Firm made their final moves before the transfer ...
Ugliest shirts in SPL history
By Ian Rose | August 31st, 2007Yeah, I know. It's an overdone blogging subject, but I am celebrating my triumphant return to the interwebs today and I figured I would ...
3 remaining Scot sides get their European Draws
By Ian Rose | August 31st, 2007Well, Pars are out thanks to a pair of lackluster (to put it kindly) matches against Hacken, but three Scottish sides remain in European competition, ...
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