Articles tagged with "spl"
It's (un)official - Scotland Wins.
By Ian Rose | March 24th, 2007On the strength of an 88th-minute laser from Craig Beattie's left foot, Scotland has just beaten Georgia 2-1 and regained the unofficial world championship of ...
Mr. Gordon goes to the Premiership?
By Ian Rose | March 23rd, 2007On the eve of his start in goal against Georgia, Scotland keeper Craig Gordon's club future is very much in doubt. Arguably the best ...
Say it ain't so, Charlie
By Ian Rose | March 21st, 2007An open letter to Charlie Christie (Manager, Inverness Caley Thistle): Charlie, I have heard the rumors about your comments after the loss to ...
Hearts lose another gaffer
By Ian Rose | March 20th, 2007Hearts coach Valdas Ivanauskas has left the club "by mutual consent", which is about the kindest euphemism possible for a squad that has lost 4 ...
Who's next?
By Craig | January 17th, 2007Glasgow Science Tower come in, your time as the dominating force in Clydeside loftiness is up! Celtic are threatening to unleash no less than 'the ...
Well, at least Berti's ruled out...
By Craig | January 16th, 2007A national team in crisis. Outrage from the terraces. Witless administrators. Qualifying hopes tarnished. Yep, Berti Vogts' appointment as Nigeria manager was always going to ...
Good Weekend/Bad Weekend
By Craig | January 15th, 2007Good weekend for... Steven Pressley - Elvis' former devotees turned deviant, welcoming him onto the pitch and proceeding to boo him from the first kick onwards. ...
The Top Flight Tussle - Hearts v Celtic
By Craig | January 12th, 2007Guess who's back? It seems that, in football, inserted in the contracts of every controversial transfer is the clause that the player must return for ...
He's on loan, so he won't be deer
By Craig | January 11th, 2007Red Nose Day is still a couple of months away, but Falkirk are warming up nicely with the signing from Man City of Kaspar Schmeichel, ...
Happy homecoming for Uncle Walt?
By Craig | January 5th, 2007Needless to say, all sorts of rumours flying around this morning surrounding a certain managerial vacancy. Walter Smith and Ally McCoist - the sorcerer and ...
Le guillotine falls for unlucky 13
By Craig | January 4th, 2007Well, something had to give but not many will have seen this coming. While all eyes were on the next steps of his former captain, ...
Unlikely scenarios #753
By Craig | January 3rd, 2007Still difficult what to make of the Bazza situation so far. With his agent flying in from Dubai for crisis talks today, there appears to ...
Scottish clubs braced for number one hits
By Craig | December 20th, 2006Jens Lehmann is one of those characters we all love in football: big, aggressive and stark raving bonkers. The fact that he's a German only ...
Gorgie Gossip
By Craig | December 20th, 2006It's official: Vladimir Romanov is at war with Hearts' supporters. The Hearts Supporters Trust drafted an open letter today and, well, let's just say it ...
Good Weekend/Bad Weekend
By Craig | December 18th, 2006Good weekend for... Rangers - The Gers will be happy to have surrendered second place for a performance that shows they can at least give the ...
The Top Flight Tussle - Rangers v Celtic
By Craig | December 15th, 2006Well, what were you expecting? OK, so there might be the small matter of 16 points between the two, but Sunday lunchtime's fixture remains the ...
Gorgie Gossip
By Craig | December 5th, 2006Right, that's it. The final straw. I gotta hand it to you. Mr Romanov, you clearly manned your boat by these fair isles with one ...
By 'Eck, Elgin are rock-bottom
By Craig | December 1st, 2006For a while there, he must have been one of the most satisfied men in Scotland. As Celtic compounded Alex McLeish's misery with a 1-0 ...
The Top Flight Tussle - St Mirren v Hearts
By Craig | December 1st, 2006Any game the Jambos play at Love Street is bound to be a headline writer's delight. But tomorrow ain't the 14th of February and these ...
The Big Macs forgot about McDonald
By Craig | November 30th, 2006After a relatively long sleep, the elephant in the room has re-awoken, doubtless much to the annoyance of everyone else in the room. Yes, it's ...
Wantaways take note
By Craig | November 29th, 2006Three years ago, it's fair to say things were looking up for Stephen Pearson. Man-of-the-match performances for Motherwell, a recent Scotland call-up and boyhood heroes ...
Two-hit wonder
By Craig | November 29th, 2006He's hardly the first. Great artists as varied as JD Salinger, The Las and, er, Vanilla Ice were his forebears. All it takes is one ...
The Top Flight Tussle - Hearts v Rangers
By Craig | November 17th, 2006The title may be all but wrapped up (a win over Inverness this weekend will mean Celtic have beaten every SPL side this season already) ...
Only 45 shopping days left till the transfer window...
By Craig | November 16th, 2006Young? Fresh-faced? Talented? Dreaming of that move to more exotic climes (or Glasgow)? Then come one, come all, to Leith! These days, you know that the ...
Derek Disney care who gives him a game
By Craig | November 14th, 2006If you're a Scottish footballer, moving to an Old Firm club is a bit like buying one of those Big Bertha drivers - nice club, ...
Last No. 1 for Elvis?
By Craig | November 14th, 2006I've not even been part of this motley rabble for a month and I'm beginning to think it really is high time someone got a ...
The Top Flight Tussle - Rangers v Dunfermline
By Craig | November 10th, 2006With the last seven days plunging Paul Le Guen and Rangers FC into chaos unparallelled since a Mr A.T. Hun decided he was in the ...
Hearts manager update #473
By Craig | November 7th, 2006A Mysterious Lithuanian (copyright Heart of Midlothian Football Club) has been spotted at Riccarton, prompting speculation that Valdas Ivanauskas - the current occupier of the ...
Good Weekend/Bad Weekend
By Craig | November 6th, 2006Good weekend for... Anthony Stokes - the first-ever man in the SPL's (relatively short) history to bag two hat-tricks in two consecutive weekends, albeit against the ...
The Top Flight Tussle
By Craig | November 3rd, 2006A difficult choice this weekend, with three matches being contested between sides just a position away from one another. Kilmarnock travel to Edinburgh hoping to ...
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