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. Click to continue reading...

It's Wednesday, which means there's only another few days until we get to swear and generally shout abuse at people we don't know from behind the safety of a thick line of polis and a great big fence. Ah, we can taste the meaty chunks in our half-time cup of tea already. Speaking of swearing, abuse [. Click to continue reading...

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 [. Click to continue reading...

Jings, listening to the news these days, you'd think the world has fallen in on itself. Banks are being nationalised (if they're not already bankrupt), inflation and unemployment are on the rise and even the Scottish Parliament is asking for a handout. We're not watching the news anymore at Inside Left HQ until something nice [. Click to continue reading...

Aye aye all, and fit like theday? It's Monday, which means it's Performance of the Week time. This week we have four nominations for you to choose from. You know the deal - we like to recognize those teams, players and events in the week just passed that deserve a special mention for services rendered [. Click to continue reading...

Aye aye, apologies for the lack of updates. A series of non-related issues have limited our time to update the site. We hope to be back in operation in the next few days. Tomorrow, Inside Left correspondent Garry Swan will preview the Scotland vs Norway game for you, so check back for that. And contrary to [. Click to continue reading...

Following on from yesterday's games which saw 13 goals scored in the SPL and a further 39 in the SPL, there where two more games in Scotland this afternoon to complete the weekend fixtures before we go on our international break. At Fir Park, Motherwell take on Falkirk, while in the early kick-off, St. Click to continue reading...

The Saturday action is over for another week. The scores are in, the points tallied up and the tables adjusted. On a weekend with lots of goals, there where big wins for Celtic and Queen of the South (undoubtedly the result of the day), St. Johnstone, Ross County, Dumbarton and Brechin. The only game without [. Click to continue reading...

It's another gala weekend of domestic football action across Scotland this weekend. With the teams recovered from their mid-week cup success (unless you're St. Mirren) they're all no doubt chomping at the bit to get back into the saddle as they jockey for position at the top of the table. Dispensing with the horse metaphors for [. Click to continue reading...

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 [. Click to continue reading...

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 [.. Click to continue reading...

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 [. Click to continue reading...

Aye aye all, just a quick update for you for a wee while. The powers that be have decided that in the absence of any league football in Scotland, now is the best time for Inside Left to go travelling. We'll be in Singapore until next Sunday so updates will be sporadic [...] Click to continue reading...

The Inside Left kiss-of-death continues. As soon as we say that a team are playing well, stringing the results together and generally impressing, they go and lose. So it was that Deveronvale, mentioned in yesterdays early season review lost to local rivals Huntly in the Aberdeenshire Cup. Goals from Mike Ewen sank 'Vale at Christie [. Click to continue reading...

WordPress, on which Inside Left is hosted, allows you to gather all sorts of meaningful statistics about who reads the blog, where they're from, which of our many articles are the most popular and so on.  But perhaps most interestingly, it tells you what people search for to end up at the site in the [. Click to continue reading...

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 [. Click to continue reading...

There are many great derby games in the world of football. Benfica and Sporting Lisbon. AS Roma and Lazio. Boca Juniors against River Plate and there's no love lost between Rio's Flamengo en Fluminense, or for that matter, between the two giants of Turkish football, Galatasaray and Fenerbahce. But it is in Glasgow that you'll [. Click to continue reading...

Sorry for the lack of posting yesterday - one of the Inside Left U-5 squad needed to go into hospital for something Holby-esque, but he's grand now. A few weeks in the reserves and he'll be right as rain. It's going to be a quick Off The Ball, our look at the news in [...] Click to continue reading...

Temuri Ketsbaia of the newly recognized (by Russia only) independent nation Abkhazia or, if you believe the rest of the world, from Georgia, has led a minion of European football into the CL. Anorthosis Famagusta are champions of Cyprus, a title they have won twice under Ketsbaia's leadership. Ketsbaia first joined them as a player in [. Click to continue reading...

A Derek Young goal in the last minute of the first half cancelled out a David Weir's 24th minute goal and has the sides going in level at half time. Rangers have definitely been on top with all the possession and the chances. Steven Davis and Pedro Mendes have been particularly tricky for the [...] Click to continue reading...

It's Friday and, as we've said before, Friday is hell for football blogs. This Friday is no exception as the weekend sees another bumper weekend of fixtures, with full cards across all three top divisions in Scotland, so without further ado lets get the ball rolling. As usual there's a few cracking fixtures coming up. Click to continue reading...

It's Friday and, as we've said before, Friday is hell for football blogs. This weekend sees another bumper weekend of fixtures, with full cards across all three top divisions in Scotland. As usual there's a few cracking fixtures coming up. For example, in the SPL, we've got a rematch of one of [.. Click to continue reading...

Another action packed weekend rumbles by for all those involved in the beautiful game. In todays Sottish football Barrel-Scrape-O-Thon we feature more contentious refereeing decisions involving Old Firm clubs or, more accurately, contentious refereeing decisions in favour of Old Firm clubs, the first "no, honestly, I pick the team" statement of the season emerges from [. Click to continue reading...

Inside Left's got Friday on it's mind, as the Easybeats once sang. For many it's the end of the week, a time to relax and enjoy the fruits of your labours. For football web sites however, Friday is hell. There's all those games to preview, there's news to round up, tricky predictions to make and [... Click to continue reading...

We're one game into the season and already the sparks are flying. Who'd have though that Scottish football could ever be this exciting? Well, we do of course, that's why we are here in the first place. From the seeming disintegration of Glasgow Rangers to the case of the 'Winking Referee', there's enough to keep [. Click to continue reading...

Ah, Monday, she swings around again like a cheap hoor on a roundabout. We hope you all enjoyed the games you where at, unless your team lost in which case we have some good news for you: it's only the first game of the season lads! Having said that, the chorus of boos that went [...] Click to continue reading...

Just to remind you all, in case we forgot to tell you, that the Scottish Premier League Season starts again today. The season kicks off early, as 1230 to be exact, as Falkirk take on Rangers. The action continues later on in the afternoon up in Inverness as Caley take on Aberdeen while in [...] Click to continue reading...

The eleventh Scottish Premier League season kicks off on Saturday. Defending champions Celtic are looking to make it four-in-a-row while the league welcomes a new team, Hamilton Academicals. Last season had an exciting finish, with Celtic and Rangers both needing wins on the final day - and results elsewhere - to help decide the [. Click to continue reading...

Aye aye all. Well, it's the morning after the night before. If you're a Rangers fan you've probably had as much hassle by Celtic fans and the national media as you can take. Criticising Rangers after their dismal performance is easy fodder for lazy bloggers, which is exactly the reason why Inside Left is going [. Click to continue reading...

A judging panel that included former Celt John Hartson and Rangers captain Barry Ferguson, as well as Sunsport writer Robert Grieve plus representatives from Setanta Sports, the SPL and competition sponsors Mitre chose Jim Hamilton's goal against Celtic back in January of 2006 as the SPL Goal of the Decade. Click to continue reading...

Aye aye all, fit like theday? Coming back through Amsterdam Airport the other day, Inside Left was surprised to see lots of people in Celtic strips crowding out the airport bar, their gentle singing and foul language reminding me of the last time Inside Left visited Parkhead, when Aberdeen lost 7-0 to Celtic. Click to continue reading...

Aye aye all, fit like theday? Today will be Inside Left's last update for a week or two while we go for a bit of craic agus ceol in Ireland, a wee pre-season tour if you like, before we return for the start of the footballing fun. We just wanted to take this opportunity for [...] Click to continue reading...

We cant put if off any longer. With only a few more weeks to go before the season kicks off in all it's wonderful footballing glory, the time has come to do what every football site has to do round about this time of the summer: we stick our necks out and try and predict [...] Click to continue reading...

Friendlies are always something of a slippery banana. As manager, you select a series of opponents, ideally beginning with a few teams you'd probably beat relatively convincingly on any given Saturday, then slowly get the confidence up as the teams you play get better and better. So, like Dundee United and Hibernian, you start off [. Click to continue reading...

It's getting late and we really should be in bed with a cup of milky tea and a well thumbed copy of the Wee Red Book, but we simply had to tell you about the fixtures taking place across Scotland this evening. So, here's some pre-season action to keep you and the wife entertained just [...] Click to continue reading...