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Score Prediction Bawbaggery

Inside Left 30 August @ 02:27 PM EST
Inside Left plumbs new depths of football prediction incorrectness, failing to pick so much as one winner in its Four To Follow. Is it time to get the ouija board out? Click to continue reading...

U2 hates your soccer field

The Beautiful Game (2) 25 August @ 06:28 AM EST
The music-making Irishmen have been on tour, and their concerts are ruining soccer fields.
A Saturday game between Queens Park and Albion Rovers was postponed after a pregame field inspection.
Nails and glass were found in Rotherham before a game against Rochdale, according to assistant manager David Flitcroft:
"We had a report done before the game at about 1320.
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Scottish League Cup 2nd Round Preview

Inside Left 25 August @ 04:07 AM EST
The second round of the League Cup, otherwise known as the Co-Operative Insurance Cup takes place tonight and tomorrow. Click to continue reading...

List of Preseason Friendlies In Scotland This Summer

Soccer City FC 16 June @ 01:08 AM EST
Of course this list could change at a moment's notice, but right now it looks like there will be some fantastic warm-up matches in July and August with several Premiership clubs coming north.
Saturday 4th July
Huntly v Ross County - 3.00pm, Christie Park
Vale of Leithen v Annan Athletic - 2. Click to continue reading...

By the numbers - the 2008/09 Scottish Football season

Some People are On The Pitch 03 June @ 04:44 PM EST
The Scottish football season finally came to a halt as Rangers win the Scottish Cup following their 1-0 victory over Falkirk last Saturday. The promotion and relegation fixtures have been played; St Johnstone, Raith Rovers, Ayr United, Stenhousemuir and Dumbarton are all preparing for life in a higher division following their promotions, while for Inverness Caley Thistle, Clyde, Airdrie United, Queens Park and Stranraer next season will mean having to adjust to life in a lower league. Click to continue reading...

By The Numbers: The Scottish Football Season

Inside Left 03 June @ 04:25 PM EST

The Scottish football season finally comes to a halt as Rangers win the Scottish Cup following their 1-0 win over Falkirk last Saturday. The promotion and relegation fixtures have been played; St Johnstone, Raith Rovers, Ayr United, Stenhousemuir and Dumbarton are all preparing for life in a higher division following their promotions, while for Inverness Caley, Clyde, Airdrie United, Queens Park and Stranraer, next season will mean having to adjust to life in a lower league.

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Scottish Fourth Level Champions

Scottish Football Archive 14 May @ 09:48 AM EST

Dumbarton's Third Division title this season means they become the first team in Scotland to have won league titles at all four professional league levels.

This also keeps alive the sequence of 15 different winners of the Third Division, since it's inception 15 seasons ago in 1994/95.

9 teams have won multiple promotions to the Second Division, but strangely no team has won the division twice - Forfar Athletic have won promotion three times - bizarrely winning promotion in three different positions (1st, 2nd and 3rd).

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A History of Scottish Cup Upsets

Inside Left 08 January @ 06:15 PM EST
As it's the Scottish Cup that takes over the league program north of the border, we thought we'd look back over some of the great Scottish Cup upsets over the years, beginning with a team that has caused it's fair share of heartache for one SPL side in particular. Can you guess who it is ..? Click to continue reading...

This Game Wasn't A Derby.... Was it?

Oldham Athletic Are The Real Latics 20 September @ 12:34 PM EST
Well it was hardly a 'derby' was it? If you were in Scotland today, right up North near Inverness on the Firth of Moray, did you take a trip to Elgin City FC and their game against Albion Rovers in the Third Division of the Scottish League? Click to continue reading...