Albion Rovers - Most popular for 2009
Viewing all posts which authors have tagged ‘Albion Rovers’.
You can also subscribe to this tag's feed.
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 ..?
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.
The second round of the League Cup, otherwise known as the Co-Operative Insurance Cup takes place
tonight and tomorrow.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.