Inside Left 16 November @ 08:31 AM EST
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 [.
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Inside Left 30 October @ 05:59 AM EST
We're always thankful it's Saturday at Inside Left, mainly because it means a return to the
terraces to enjoy watching the cream of our divisions tanning a ball around the park. This week
we're particularly glad that the weekend brings sense to bear, as this has not been a great seven
days for the game north [.
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Inside Left 23 October @ 03:53 AM EST
It's back to earth with a bump this week for the Old Firm as League action resumes. The Second
round of the Scottish Cup also takes place this weekend, so there's plenty to get our teeth into as
we pick the four games you should follow.
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Inside Left 03 October @ 05:30 PM EST
Fort William, the Highland League's perennial strugglers, win their first game since September
2007. Inside Left sheds a tear and opens a tin of Tennents Export to celebrate!
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Inside Left 02 October @ 08:58 AM EST
This weeks Four to Follow features two tasty derby's, a meeting of old versus new and a top versus
(almost) bottom.
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Inside Left 14 September @ 05:34 AM EST
Red cards, score draws and a dream about Wick Academy all feature in this week's quick (and we mean
quick) round-up of the weekend action across Scotland.
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Inside Left 03 September @ 06:48 AM EST
Inside Left avoids using tired old clichés about how Scotland need to win on Saturday by inventing
some completely new clichés. And in a quiet football weekend, we also look at games in the ALBA
Challenge Cup and the Highland League.
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Inside Left 28 August @ 06:54 AM EST
We preview four of the top games in Scotland this weekend and tip Hearts, Inverness, Cowdenbeath
and Livingston to pick up three points.
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When I wrote my recent article on comically bad soccer teams, I purposefully left out Fort William
FC – partly because the team is very, very obscure (Scottish Highland League, anyone?) but
also...
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Inside Left 19 August @ 10:00 AM EST
Jings, crivens, help ma boab, it's Wednesday already. Time for a quick and not very serious look at
the week so far.
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Inside Left 28 July @ 11:53 AM EST
That's us away for our holiday then. We leave you with a quick round-up of what's to come in the
next two weeks, and we give Aberdeen some much needed love.
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Inside Left 22 June @ 10:27 AM EST
There's been much talk of crisis' in Scottish football of late.
Clyde, relegated from the First Division last season have been forced to
release pretty much their entire squad last season as a cost cutting measure will today begin to
build a new squad for next season as John Brown and Dougie Bell invite over 60 players to the
Broadwood for a series of open trials.
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Inside Left 18 December @ 04:01 PM EST
Aye aye everyone. Just a quick note before we depart for foreign shores. The football might not
stop up in Scotland despite the weather or the time of year, but here at Inside Left we like to
take a break at this time of year to spend time recovering from our injuries and so on. Before we
go though, here's a quick round-up of all the things you can expect over the next few weeks while
we're gone.
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Inside Left 16 December @ 04:00 PM EST
It's Christmas, as the fully face-furnished Slade front-man Noddy Holder is keen to tell us. To get
into the spirit of the season, Inside Left brings you a Scottish Football themed '12 Days of
Christmas' type article.
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Inside Left 15 December @ 12:28 PM EST
Another weekend of football goodness goes by. There's no change at the top in the SPL , but both
Celtic and Rangers drop points, while Aberdeen go four home wins in a row. Hamilton remain bottom
of the league and Inverness and St. Mirren swap places. In the First, St. Johnston win again (if
only just) and a bad tempered game at the Broadwood stadium ends in Clyde's favour.
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Inside Left 05 December @ 09:02 AM EST
The weekend comes around again after another hectic week at the coalface. Thank goodness for that
we say, as we replace the sound of pick shovels against hard rock with that of leather against
expensive bespoke football booterie. Join us as we take a look at this weekends action.
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Inside Left 28 November @ 09:14 AM EST
There's another busy weekend of footballing goodness for you to enjoy this weekend. Join us as we
take a quick look at the fixture list.
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Inside Left 26 November @ 09:23 AM EST
As Fort William keeper Stewart Gray plucked the ball from out of the net for the sixth time before
the break, he must have been praying for the bad weather - that had caused three of the games in
the Highland League that weekend to be called off - to descend on Princess Royal Park and end the
misery.
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Inside Left 31 October @ 01:57 PM EST
Jings, it's November already. We're three months into the season, we've played three World Cup
qualifiers, the League Cup is at the semi-final stage, the Scottish Cup at the third round point
and we've already lost two managers - where the hell did the time go? The SPL league table is
taking on a familiar pattern.
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Inside Left 26 October @ 08:46 AM EST
It's been another gala day of football across Scotland. Plenty of goals, with lots of drama
and controversy. The second round of the Scottish Cup started today as well so it was another good
chance for the lower league sides to show us what they're made of. There where a few surprises in
the SPL, while [.
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Inside Left 22 October @ 05:49 PM EST
Aye aye all, it's Wednesday (if only just), so just time for a quick update. This week we have news
of another disastrous week of European football for the only Scottish team left in the Champions
League and the third managerial casualty of the season tries to make ends meet with his Giro. We
begin [.
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Inside Left 18 October @ 03:54 PM EST
We've had another exciting weekend of football across the country with action across all divisions.
In the SPL, Aberdeen finally win a game as Lee Miller's second half goal against Falkirk lifts the
Dons off the bottom of the table (0-1), and Celtic win in Inverness to consolidate their position
on top of the table [.
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Inside Left 17 October @ 05:20 PM EST
It seems like ages since we've done one of these match previews. Despite all the excitement and
talking points that the international break has brought, league football is really what we're into
here at Inside Left, so where glad to be talking about the action taking place across the country.
There's not that many games on [.
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Inside Left 30 September @ 05:31 PM EST
While Celtic where huffing and puffing their way to yet another away defeat in the Europe, Inside
Left decided to forsake the money and the glory of the Champions League, switch of the telly and go
in search of some proper football. At Princess Royal Park, Banff, the first of two preliminary
games in this years [.
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Inside Left 28 September @ 04:07 PM EST
Aye aye and welcome to another round-up of Scotland's football action. We've got a batch of SPL
games to get through, there is the action in the Scottish Football League to tell you about as well
as some interesting scores and stats from the First Round of the Scottish Cup. Fort William, a
regular name [.
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Inside Left 25 September @ 09:28 AM EST
Well, that's another exciting Scottish League Cup round out of the way, thank God. Note that
we're refusing to call it by it's proper name, the somewhat long-winded Co-Operative Insurance Cup,
because it sounds a little vague and doesn't convey any of the weight and gravitas that a domestic
Cup competition ought to bring with [.
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Inside Left 20 September @ 03:28 PM EST
Aye aye, and welcome to the round-up of the weekend's action across Scotland. It was low scores all
around the top division in Scotland today. Dundee United record their first win of the season away
at Aberdeen courtesy of a second half penalty (1-0), Hearts beat Inverness Caley with a single goal
in the first [.
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Inside Left 19 September @ 01:56 PM EST
It's another gala weekend of domestic football action across Scotland this weekend. We have the
first of this season's New Firm Derby's to look forward to, and Kilmarnock face the green half of
the Old Firm when Celtic travel down to Ayrshire. Can Kilmarnock keep up with Rangers at the top?
Down in the [.
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Inside Left 17 September @ 10:20 AM EST
Aye aye all, it's Wednesday and that means it's time for the midweek update! It has not been a
particularly busy week so far in the world of Scottish football, but that is about to change in the
next two days as several important games take place in European competitions, as well as a
potentially [..
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Inside Left 12 September @ 03:10 AM EST
After the break for the World Cup Qualifiers (which saw the national side play two games as they
began their World Cup qualification bid) it's back to league action for the four divisions in
Scottish domestic football. As always, this week sees the usual mix of interesting fixtures, not
least in Division Two and Three [.
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Inside Left 01 September @ 03:39 AM EST
We were saying in Friday's weekend-action preview that the Highland League let us all down last
week, what with the teams scoring a miserly 23 goals and only having two players sent off. This is
not the sort of thing we expect from one of the highest scoring leagues in the country: something
simply had [.
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Inside Left 30 August @ 02:04 PM EST
It's been another cracking day across all the leagues in Scotland. We have new league leaders in
all but one of the Scottish Divisions, while up in the Highland League, the call for more goals was
answered with a stunning 34 goals in the seven games played! In the Scottish Premier League, a
rather unique [.
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Inside Left 25 August @ 08:43 AM EST
This week we have another three candidates for "Performance of the Week" for you to chose
from. Simply vote for your candidate by leaving a comment at the bottom of the page. Fort William,
for scoring their second goal in all competitions in the Highland League this weekend. Michael
Gillespie's goal in Saturday's 3:1 defeat to [.
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Inside Left 23 August @ 12:28 PM EST
Another exciting day of football in Scotland comes to a close. A quick glance at the results tells
us that Hamilton messed up a chance to go top of the SPL, while St. Mirren defy the odds and score
a goal (but still lose). Dundee remain top of Division 1 and the pain continues for St. [...]
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