In another action-packed weekend of Scottish football, Aberdeen fail to capitalise on last week’s epic win against Rangers, Hamilton record a rare win but a tunnel fracas after their game with Hearts will keep the SFA busy this week. And it’s a sign that all is not well in Scottish football when only 16 goals are scored in the Highland League and Fort William win again. Strange days indeed…
Posts Tagged: Fort William
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Nov 09
Four to Follow Round-up
Jings. We really, really, really must stop doing this. Our predictions are pure gash folks! To wit: this week, we continue with what is fast becoming a tradition by getting none of our predictions right.
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Nov 09
Treading water in Lochaber
Fort William are in the news again. Two months after recording their first league win in 2 years, the Fort are in danger of being thrown out of the Highland League. Will the troubles ever cease for the Lochaber club, and how would their demise affect the goal difference of the other clubs in the division?
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Oct 09
Special Edition: Fort William win!
Regular readers of Inside Left will know of our fondness for Highland League outfit Fort William.
Easily, and we mean easily one of the worst sides ever to grace a football field, The Fort have not won a game since September 2007 in a 4-2 win over Rothes on the opening day of the 2006/2007 season. In the intervening times they’ve notched up an 11-0, several 7-0 and 6-0 defeats and even a 10-0 drubbing from Junior side Banks O’Dee in the Cup. Having scored just 3 goals (all away) and conceded 26 in only 7 games played so far, it looked like being another long, long season. Continue reading →
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Sep 09
Four to Follow Weekend Round-up
So there was Inside Left, sat down on Saturday afternoon in complete Aberdeen regalia to watch the fixture against Rangers on the computer.
There’s no substitute for actually sitting in the stand of course, but geography and economics meant that we’d have to make do with a wee 40cmx40cm screen and a poor network connection. At times watching the footage coming from Ibrox was not too dissimilar from playing 80’s computer game Manic Miner, i.e. very blocky and slow.
Mind you, given Aberdeen performances of late we thought it was probably better to see the horror unfolding in little blocky pixels rather than in full glorious Trounce-O-Vision.
In the end, Aberdeen did a lot better than we thought and hoped for and indeed could have won the game had McDonald put more pace on the header and McGregor not made a truly fantastic save. The opening 20 minutes was slightly scary but once Aberdeen survived the onslaught, the game opened up a lot more.
By no means the hard-tackling end-to-end viciousness that this game usually degenerates into, there wasn’t much in the way of controversy, other than Lee McCulloch’s assault on Paton which only got a yellow card.
Mark McGhee said afterwards he wasn’t happy with the point, but he should be. These days coming away with anything from Glasgow is a blessing. Walter Smith will probably be the unhappier of the two managers, his side now drawing three games in a row, failing to score in any of them. And with Celtic now leading the table by a massive 5 points, the pressure is on next week when Rangers welcome Celtic to Ibrox in the first Old Firm steamie of the season.
In the top game in the First Division, we had Ross County and Dundee drawing valiantly, based on Dundee being on a high after beating Aberdeen in mid-week and Ross County’s continuing good league form. As normal in these predictions, we where quite wrong of course. Two goals from Leigh Griffiths ensured a long sought-after victory for Jocky Scott. Ross County remain in second place, bumped off the top by Queen of the South who crushed Dunfermline 1-4.
Livingston made hard work of their 2-1 win over 10-man Queens Park. Barry Douglas put the Spiders ahead just after the half-hour, but goals from Liam Fox and former Dundee United and Aberdeen striker Robbie Winters won it for Livi.
In the last game on our Four to Follow coupon, we finally made some money. Auchinleck Talbot, the Real Madrid of the Juniors won 7-0 (as we predicted) against Fort William, the, well, Fort William of the Highland League. We’ve not seen the footage yet, but it was probably a total nightmare for the Lochaber outfit.
Just like every other Saturday then.
