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...

Who?

Hibernian defender Souleymane Bamba claims Liverpool are monitoring his progress in the SPL, along with French duo Lorient and Grenoble.

Rafael Benitez has already aquired the services of full back Glen Johnson, while Greek defender Sotiris Kyrgiakos has recently just put pen to paper on a 2 year contract, arriving from Greek club AEK Athens.

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Who?

Hibernian defender Souleymane Bamba claims Liverpool are monitoring his progress in the SPL, along with French duo Lorient and Grenoble.

Rafael Benitez has already aquired the services of full back Glen Johnson, while Greek defender Sotiris Kyrgiakos has recently just put pen to paper on a 2 year contract, arriving from Greek club AEK Athens.

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Souleymane 'Sol' Bamba appears to see his future away from Hibernian's Easter Road ground, and claims interest from some interesting names: French outfits Lorient and Grenoble, and also Premier League big guns Liverpool.
The 24-year-old former Paris Saint-Germain youngster first came to Scottish football with Dunfermline, before moving on to Hibs. Click to continue reading...

Colorado Rapids - The Rapids had the 3rd of their 4 bye weeks this season.
Queen of the South - On Saturday Queens traveled to Airdrie United for their first road league game of the season. This was somewhat of a surprise because as of 2 weeks ago this fixture was scheduled to be a trip to Livingston to face John Murphy's side. Click to continue reading...

Barnsley have completed the permanent signing of winger Adam Hammill after agreeing 'a significant six-figure deal' with Liverpool.
Hammill became a firm favourite at Oakwell after spending the final three months on loan last season and Tykes manager Simon Davey was keen to bring the 21-year-old back to South Yorkshire. Click to continue reading...

Continuing on the theme of departures from the list, Michael Aspin is already leaving it having returned from Nakhon Pathom of Thailand back to Northwich Victoria, where his comeback has been warmly received. Another departure from the list is that of Simon Wiles. The midfielder was on a short term contract at Dunfermline, with the [. Click to continue reading...

A number of new additions have cropped up in recent days too, primarily in Scotland as I have worked at ensuring the list is up-to-date for the four divisions north of the border. Someone who has not been mentioned yet is new Celtic manager Tony Mowbray. The former Middlesbrough and Celtic defender, who has previously [. Click to continue reading...

A few more additions to the list over the past few days while I continue to work on the definitive Les Rosbifs directory. Most of the activity has centred around Scotland, with the big money being spent by Celtic on Daniel Fox. The left-back was purchased from Coventry City for a fee of around £1.5million [. Click to continue reading...

While the rest of the UK is still fannying around in meaningless friendlies, up in Scotland the season has started for the clubs in the Scottish Football league, as this years Alba Challenge Cup kicked off. Click to continue reading...

On the day French striker Marc-Antoine Fortune (finally) signs at Celtic, Inside Left takes a look at another Celtic striker from days gone by - the great Jimmy McGrory.

In the days when football was considerably more physical than it is today, it's almost impossible to believe that a player who stood only 5ft 6in could be not only his clubs greatest ever goal scorer, but also - to this day - Britain's top goal scorer of all time.

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Most of the time, rather than letting player go on loan to gain experience it seems as if Liverpool are sending them out into the wilderness.
Take Craig Lindfield, the FA Youth Cup winner who never seems to manage to get a game no matter where - and it is usually in Division Two - he gets sent to. Click to continue reading...

The weather may have gotten the better of the Scottish Cup games at Forfar, Brechin and Inverurie, but there was plenty of action in the other fixtures taking place. We round up the Scottish Cup action with the reports from the various club sites (where possible) and some nice pictures. Click to continue reading...

The Second Round of the Alba Challenge Cup continues with ten of the sixteen sides left in the competition in action this evening. The second batch of games will take place tomorrow evening when East Fife play Airdrie and East Stirlingshire take on Morton. The final game of the round between holders Dunfermline and [. Click to continue reading...

Well its been all quiet for a while on halftimebovril and i think it's about time the blog seen some action so we'll start with the opening fixtures for the new season Saturday, 02 August 2008 Division 1 Clyde v Morton, 15:00 Partick v Dunfermline, 15:00 Queen of South v Airdrie Utd, 15:00 Ross County v Dundee, 15:00 St Johnstone v Livingston, [. Click to continue reading...

According to Dunfermline's player/manage Jim McIntyre, the Colorado Rapids and Tam McManus are close to agreeing on a deal that would bring McManus to Colorado for the 2008 MLS season. From Dunfermline's web site: "Tom's been on trial with Colorado Rapids since Monday and he'll sign subject to agreeing personal terms" Click to continue reading...