Match Programme


12
Mar 10

The Weekender

With only 3 SPL games this weekend and a pretty decimated Division One card, I was planning a proper meaty weekender – a real Ashvale Jumbo fish supper of a preview if you will – full of witty and razor sharp insights, hints of social commentary and one positively littered with the words that no football pundit can do without, namely “crisis”, “gash”, “it’s all over”, “maybe Rangers should consider joining the Belgian Jupiler Pro League” and “Christ, what’s the point of it all”.

At any rate, that was the plan until my suspicions at the lack of league action got the better of me and I suddenly find out that the Scottish Cup is on this weekend which means like, loads more games and stuff for me to have to write about. Marvellous. Continue reading →


19
Feb 10

Scottish Football Weekender

Oh Jesus, here we go again.

Another weekend of anguished scanning of the Sky Sports website while I’m pushing the kids around IKEA. At the risk of going on about it, can Aberdeen get back to winning ways? The omens don’t look good as Falkirk, their opponents tomorrow are – if not already, then certainly come May – a lower division side, meaning it’s going to be another afternoon of clenched buttocks for all associated with the Granite City.

Another team with problems all their own are Celtic who, in keeping with the tradition of these previews starts off our tour of the Scottish football fixtures across all four divisions. Alphabet-tastic! Continue reading →


12
Feb 10

The Scottish Football Weekender (13 Feb)

Phew. The games are coming thick and fast. We’ve only just recovered from Wednesday night and lo, here comes another batch of top-flight action. As I was saying to The Scottish Football Blog during their live-cast from the Motherwell-Rangers game on Wednesday, it was a strange evening altogether: Celtic picked up points, Rangers dropped them at time we didn’t think they would, United got pounded by a team at the bottom of the league and Aberdeen scored two goals. In the same game.

It’s really quite remarkable, as David Coleman used to say.

But hey, we’re not the backward looking types here: we look forward. Forward to another weekend of action, beginning with…. Continue reading →


10
Feb 10

Scottish Football Midweek Preview

There’s another full card of SPL action tonight as the League tries to ease the pressure on the fixture list following a somewhat harrowing winter. We preview the games, try our hand at predicting some scores and look forward to another evening of top-drawer football in the Highlands, as two teams who between them have conceded 112 goals all season meet up to send another generation of  Highland children straight to their nearest shinty club.

We begin, as ever, in the SPL and in perfect alphabetical order. Step forward Messrs Mowbray and Jefferies. Continue reading →


10
Feb 10

Update: Scottish Cup Quarter Final draw

As most of you probably already know, the draw for the quarter finals of the Scottish Cup takes place at Hampden this afternoon, quite possibly behind closed doors, and right in the middle of Bargain Hunt.

With only eight teams left in the competition – including a healthy smattering of First division sides – the ‘Big Boys’ of Scottish football will be hoping to avoid a tricky away-day to some far-flung corner of the empire, where the chances of things going horribly wrong make for an exciting evening in front of the wireless. Continue reading →