It’s been a while, but at last we’ve a full set of games on a Saturday. Send the kids to the neighbours, the wife down the shops and yourself down the stadium, as we look forward to another weekender full of top (well, ok-ish) footballing skills, thrills and dodgy refereeing decisions!
We’ve no time this week for our preview of Scottish Football League fixtures, so today’s weekender will be confined purely to the SPL. Beginning, in perfect alphabetical order with .. (more…)
About a week or so ago, I wrote two articles on this site about the perilous state the Scottish game finds itself in. Back then, I bemoaned the fact that the game north of the border was being haunted by events on and off the field, from financial troubles to crowd troubles, from declining standards to declining credibility, and from a lack of competition to a lack of crowds.
With another weekend of Scottish football nearly upon us, we bring you four of this weekends fixtures courtesy of a trawl through the archives on YouTube. Some classic games from the past to get you into the mood for the weekend.
Goalkeeper Alan Main makes his debut for Dundee United. That season, 1985/86, Dundee United managed to draw 1-1 with Rangers three times. United would finish the season in third place, three points behind Hearts and eventual league champions Celtic.
It’s October 1992 and Eoin Jess, Mixu Paatelainen and Scott Booth score the goals for Aberdeen, while Falkirk pulled on back through Scott Sloan. In one of the few season in which the Old Firm where split, it was Aberdeen who finished the league in second place between champions Rangers and Celtic. Falkirk where relegated, together with Airdrie.
The 1956 Scottish Cup final, featuring John Cumming, who sadly died earlier this month. The Hearts team on the day featured others legends such as Jimmy Wardhaugh (who played at inside left), Alex Young, Alfie Conn, Dave Mackay and Willie Bauld, the “King of Hearts”.
Russell Latapy, now with Falkirk scores twice to help Hibernian beat Hamilton 2-0 in April of 1999. Mixu Paatelainen, the current Hibs manager sets Latapy up for both goals. The win confirmed Hibernian’s promotion to the SPL, while Hamilton where relegated down to the Second division, from which they would be relegated to the Third division the following year.
The full fixture list for this weekend is:
Aberdeen v Falkirk Celtic v Hearts Dundee Utd v Rangers (12:30 KO) Hibernian v Hamilton St Mirren v Inverness CT
Motherwell take on Kilmarnock on Monday.
Cracking footie blog Left Back In The Changing Room has started putting together his greatest ever Scottish XI. Working in instalments, he’s started out with the goalkeeper and defense, with more to come I’m sure. Picking Leighton over Rough is good, not including Miller or McLeish is not …
And you thought the senior leagues had problems with the fixture backlog the winter-weather chaos brought. Spare a thought for the Highland League who have to slot in 119 fixtures in the nine weeks remaining in the season.
Two games aside, in todays 5th Round Scottish Cup games, the results pretty much went with our expectations. Ross County nearly reach double figures against Stirling Albion to reach the quarter finals. They´ll be joined there by Dundee, Dundee United, Hibernian and Kilmarnock.
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