In todays Meat Pie, our regular look at interesting but generally meaningless statistics, Inside Left takes the anorak out of it's protective carrier bag and gets his teeth stuck in to archives as he picks out five of the best first-day-of-the-season fixtures in Scotland's rich footballing history. Scottish Division One, Season 1938/39 Division One started out, [. Click to continue reading...

Football is falling out of our every orifice as the new season arrives, but Chris Taylor suggests you delve in to the murky, anorak wearing world of the non-leagues. Click to continue reading...

Well, where were we then? The Eleven Devils School for Luckless, Brutal and Unskilled Defenders has been quiet indeed during the dog-days lull. Basically, I haven't been watching any football and thus found very little to say as August smoldered away, authoritarian Olympic glories and all. I don't know why the European leagues insist on starting up in August, when it would clearly behoove them to wait until September when I am ready to focus, see. Click to continue reading...