Posts Tagged ‘Jim Jefferies’

That’s your Jim Jefferies back in a job then ..

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Barely two weeks ago we posted a piece on Inside Left about the sacking of Jim Jefferies from Kilmarnock. At the time we made a correct prediction about who would succeed him at Rugby Park but we failed to even imagine where Jefferies would end up. Now, in light of recent events, it all seems so obvious – the third worst job in Scottish football. (more…)

That’s your Jim Jefferies gone then ..

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Ring in the changes.

We’re barely three games in to the new year and already we’ve got three teams without a manager. To paraphrase, this is supposed to be a football competition, not the Burma Railway .. (more…)

On Messrs McGregor, Ferguson and Boyd

Friday, November 20th, 2009

There’s very little that surprises us here at Inside Left Towers these days.

When we first heard SFA Chief Executive Gordon Smith blithely announce – only days after he sacked his national team manager – that those pariahs of the Scottish game, Allan McGregor, Barry Ferguson and Kris Boyd would be eligible for selection by any future Scotland manager, we shrugged our shoulders and moved on.

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The SFA and the search for the next manager of Scotland

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Now that the bunting has been torn down from between the tenements and the houses and the last of the party revellers bundled into a taxi for the long ride home, the mandarins at the SFA find themselves in a situation that gets less unique with every tournament that passes Scottish football by.

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