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 [. Click to continue reading...

07/11/2009Hearts - Hibernian ore 13.30Aberdeen - St.Johnstone ore 16.00Hamilton - Motherwell ore 16.00Kilmarnock - Dundee ore 16.00Rangers - St.Mirren ore 16.0008/11/2009Falkirk - Celtic ore 13.45Iscriviti all'RSS per essere sempre aggiornato! Clicca sull'immagine sottostante per iscriverti! Click to continue reading...

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Tell us your background as a player in Scotland.
My footballing background goes back many years. I was a player in my younger days and I had a number of trials around some of the local teams, but never really made it onto the big stage. I was a big fan of football as well.

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A midweek prediction special as Scottish football's least revered competition reaches the quarter final stage.Dundee v RangersRangers rediscovered some vim on Saturday but, crucially, still couldn't overcome Hibs. This is a poor Rangers side further distracted by off the field disasters. Quite a contrast to Dundee who are flying high and luxuriating in new found riches. Click to continue reading...

The dust has only just settled on the weekend fixtures, but there's not much rest for some of the teams, as the Quarter Finals of the Scottish League Cup takes place over the next two days. We preview the upcoming fixtures. Dundee v Rangers Dundee currently lead the Scottish First division, having dropped just one point [. Click to continue reading...

24/10/2009Aberdeen - Dundee ore 16.00Hearts - Falkirk ore 16.00Kilmarnock - St.Johnstone ore 16.00Rangers - Hibernian ore 16.00St.Mirren - Motherwell ore 16.0025/10/2009Hamilton - Celtic ore 13.30Iscriviti all'RSS per essere sempre aggiornato! Clicca sull'immagine sottostante per iscriverti! Click to continue reading...

Is it ever a good idea to invite your boss to a social function? I guess since it was his wedding, Ryan Stevenson (above, left), a midfielder for Scottish First Division side Ayr United, was obligated to invite his manager, Brian Reid, but when the boss arrived, he immediately proved to be the worst wedding guest since your senile aunt Linda and her suffocated cat wrapped as a present by shutting down the bar.

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Not since Sean Dundee (joke) have us Liverpool fans been quite so enthusiastic to see a player get on the field of play wearing the beloved Reds jersey than with the belated anticipation of Alberto Aquilani finally being fit enough to kick a ball. Note the nifty trick he appears to have pulled off in the first image and the way he appears to be hypnotizing Martin Skrtel in the second.

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This weeks Four to Follow features two tasty derby's, a meeting of old versus new and a top versus (almost) bottom. Click to continue reading...

Rangers, Aberdeen, Dundee, Ross County, Livingston, Queens Park, Fort William and Auchinleck Talbot. Yes, this weeks Four to Follow features some household names, as well as some you might just want to go and Google. Click to continue reading...

Aberdeen are knocked out of the CIS Cup by Dundee. Your normally impartial editor is not fucking happy about it. What is it with Aberdeen and Cup competitions? Click to continue reading...

Colorado Rapids - Colorado's draw with San Jose kept them in a tie with Chivas for 4th in the West and 6th overall. Colorado still has a game in hand over most of the teams in front of them, but Chivas and New England are lurking right behind them with a game in hand over the Rapids. Colorado is tied with DC for the 2nd best offense (2 behind Dallas) and tied with FSL and Chicago for the 6th best defense with 5 games to play. Click to continue reading...

Falkirk 0-0 Aberdeen. The Dons keep their 3rd consecutive clean sheet. If only they could score at the other end ... Click to continue reading...

We preview four of the top games in Scotland this weekend and tip Hearts, Inverness, Cowdenbeath and Livingston to pick up three points. Click to continue reading...

The second round of the League Cup, otherwise known as the Co-Operative Insurance Cup takes place tonight and tomorrow. Click to continue reading...

Jings, crivens, help ma boab, it's Wednesday already. Time for a quick and not very serious look at the week so far. Click to continue reading...

Aye aye, and welcome to another season of Scottish football. There's a lot to look forward to this season, we hope, but given the national side's dismal display against Norway on Wednesday, it's safe to assume that none of us will be booking flights to South Africa anytime soon. Miracles do happen of course, but we're talking Walt Disney-esque miracles here, the ones involving fairies and rainbows and so on Click to continue reading...

So Scotland's lower leagues kicked off on Saturday.Dundee, powered by spending that is the envy of most SPL clubs, started with a win over Morton. The hope at Dens Park will be that they've done enough to buy promotion.But although the cash offers an advantage, money on its own is no guarantee of success. Click to continue reading...

So Scotland's lower leagues kicked off on Saturday.Dundee, powered by spending that is the envy of most SPL clubs, started with a win over Morton. The hope at Dens Park will be that they've done enough to buy promotion.But although the cash offers an advantage, money on its own is no guarantee of success. Click to continue reading...

With Philipp Degen continuing to challenge Istvan Kozma and Sean Dundee for the dubious honour of being Liverpool's worst ever foreign signing the position of back-up to Glen Johnson is certainly up for grabs.
The one player who has staked the most impressive claim for this understudy's role is teenage defender Martin Kelly who has been one of the Reds stand out performers during pre-season. Click to continue reading...

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It seems we overuse the word "crisis" here at Pitch Invasion in these daily Sweeper roundups, but it is appropriate in this case as a terrible summer for Scottish football got worse with Livingston's demotion from the first to the third division "for breaching insolvency rules.

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According to The Chronicle, Bassong has been fined two weeks wages for his failure to travel to Dundee for last weekend's friendly. Hughton had previously stated that Bassong wouldn't have featured in the game anyway because he's serving a ban for the West Brom trip and Hughton wanted to field a team against Dundee that [. Click to continue reading...

Continuing what we hope will be the most comprehensive pre-season previews of the season that you will be able to find anywhere on the net, we're heading north of the border tonight for the first of a gargantuan two-part look at what we can expect in Scotland. Gavin Saxton is your guide to the 2009-10 season in the SPL and the SFL Division One, with The SFL Divisions Two and Three to follow tomorrow.

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A scour of the Welsh Premier League has thrown up over 100 players and managers plying their trade over the border. Some have originated from English leagues lower down the pyramid, such as the West Cheshire League, while others come from professional backgrounds – some more interesting than others. Click to continue reading...

The Newcastle Evening Chronicle have revealed today that Sebastien Bassong has been fined two weeks wages by Newcastle United for refusing to travel to Dundee at the weekend. Sebastien Bassong fined 2 weeks wages Newcastle have imposed the maximum fine on their 23 year-old player because they were unhappy with his attitude. Click to continue reading...

The new Newcastle United Third Kit ( Shirt) for the 2009-10 Championship season has been revealed. The announcement of the third kit comes after the unveiling of the NUFC Home Strip 2009-10 and NUFC Away Strip 2009-10. The new NUFC Third Jersey was worn for the first time in a friendly against SPL side Dundee [. Click to continue reading...

The weekend has of course been largely given over to the sad death of Sir Bobby Robson and the rest of the news seems less important now. However I'm going to try and catch up a bit today. In our final pre-season friendly we managed a 1-1 draw with Dundee. Our goal came from Andy Carrol [...] Click to continue reading...

A few more players to say ‘Goodbye' to on Les Rosbifs, as the thorough sifting of the list continues unabated. The biggest one of these is the departure of former Manchester United and Manchester City winger Terry Cooke from Colorado Rapids of the MLS. Cooke was waived yesterday so that the Rapids English coach, Gary [. Click to continue reading...

Inside Left gives you a quick roundup of the various friendlies featuring Scottish teams taking place this evening. Click to continue reading...

There is something of a buzz walking into your rival team's stadium. Being in a small minority of a group of away supporters is surely part of it; you're outnumbered, but you're hungrier and louder as a response.� Everywhere around you is enemy territory. It's not home; it's unfamiliar, it's foreign, it doesn't belong to your club.

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Scottish media is reporting that Canadian International defender/midfielder Chris Pozniak has agreed to a deal with his club Dundee that paves the way for a return to Toronto FC when the transfer window opens.
The useful utility man was a solid worker bee on a poor TFC in year one. He was foolishly left unprotected and snapped up in the San Jose expansion draft. Click to continue reading...

Harmse out, Pozniak in...it's music to my ears. Reports out of Scotland are suggesting that Chris Pozniak is set to return rejoin Toronto FC for a second stint with us.
He played a pretty significant role in our first season as the ultimate utility man, playing just about everywhere in the defense and the midfield. Click to continue reading...

US Soccer is reporting that Maurice Edu will not be available for the US Men's National Team World Cup qualifiers this week due to a knee injury. Maurice Edu did not travel to Miami yesterday as scheduled and is remaining in Glasgow to receive further evaluation on the knee injury he suffered in Rangers final league match on May 24 against Dundee.

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With a busy week of World Cup qualifying ahead, I have a column to write for Tuesday summing up the competition so far and looking ahead to next year's tournament.

With that in mind, I'll keep things brief here, but wanted to note that:

*Fontana's Maurice Edu will not travel with the U.

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Maurice Edu will not travel to Miami today as scheduled, remaining in Glasgow to receive further evaluation on the knee injury he suffered in Rangers final league match on May 24 against Dundee. Edu will not be available for Wednesday's match against Costa Rica, and his status for the remaining games this summer will be determined based on the results of his examination. Click to continue reading...