Champions League football returns to the Scottish league. Rangers take on VfB Stuttgart in the opening game of this years group stages. We present a quick preview. Click to continue reading...

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. 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...

Ahead of Hearts' first foray back into Europe tonight, we look ahead to tonights game and present a quick run-down of all their previous fixtures in European competition. Click to continue reading...

Ahead of tonight's (excuse the cliché) Battle of Britain between Celtic and Arsenal (the first time these sides have met), in the abscence of any indepth review of the game, here's three reasons why Celtic not only have to win tonight, but will win tonight! 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...

We preview Scotland's upcoming make-or-break game against Norway. A win would push us a long way to qualification, providing other teams do us a favour. A familiar story, no? 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...

Both� FALKIRK and� MOTHERWELL face surprisingly tricky fixtures this evening as they hope to progress to the next round of the Europa League tonight. Falkirk travel to the Liechtenstein capital Vaduz to take on FC VADUZ. The Bairns are leading the tie 1-0 and basically just need to hold on to that lead to progress. 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...

It seems like an eternity since we walked out of the ground back in May, but the wait is almost over. Inside Left looks ahead to the week in pre-season friendly football. Click to continue reading...

As we get ready for the start of the 2009/10 season (now a little over a month away), we take a quick look back at last season. Click to continue reading...

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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The Scottish domestic season might be over, but the qualification campaign for World Cup 2010 goes on. Scotland are not action until August - a home game against Norway - but on the 6th and 10th June, Scotland's fellow Group 9 hopefuls will be wanting to edge a few points closer to making the finals.

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We had the much awaited friendly with Argentina on Wednesday of course, a game which ended in a 1-0 win for the visitors. It's wasn't a great game, truth be told, though the goal by Maxi Rodriguez was a cracker. The score line surprised us; we had feared the scoreline would have reflected the South American's dominance in the game, but like we said earlier on in the week, Argentina ain't all that and a bag of chips. Click to continue reading...

It's another action packed weekend of football in Scotland. In the SPL we've passed the magic "11th game barrier, meaning that all the sides have now played each other once already this season. For some teams it's a chance to extract revenge, for some a chance to get some more easy points on the board. Click to continue reading...

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 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 [. 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...

The magic of the cup sometimes throws up some interesting fixtures. With only SPL and First Division teams remaining in the competition, there's many a senior team that looks upon a game against lower league opposition with some trepidation. Witness for example Hibs and Hearts' exit in the last round, or Aberdeen's exit on penalties to [. Click to continue reading...

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 [. Click to continue reading...

George Burley will get another chance tonight to record his first victory since taking over from Alex McLeish as Scotland manager and, more importantly, his first victory in the World Cup qualifying campaign when his Scotland side take on Iceland in Reykjavik. Normally we'd have inserted the word 'minnows'  in front of 'Iceland', but, despite Scotland's [. Click to continue reading...

Scotland take on the FYR Macedonia tomorrow in Skopje, looking for their first win under George Burley. It's a win that could not come at a more important time, as this is not just another friendly but the first in a series of two games the national side will play in their campaign to qualify [...] 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...

Tonight at Hampden, Scotland take on Northern Ireland in the last friendly game for both sides as they prepare for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers (against Macedonia and Slovakia respectively) in September.  For manager George Burley, it's his third game in charge of the national side and the fixture will give him a chance to [. Click to continue reading...

As European qualifying round fixtures go, the one taking place in Airdrie tonight features two of the more obscure teams generally found at this stage of the competition - you could almost hear the collective "who?" coming from the board rooms down in Dumfries and over in Farum as the names where drawn out of [. Click to continue reading...

Just a few fixtures for you to put in your diary for this week.  Tonight, Hamilton Accies get the season off to a start when the play Dundee United. Kick-off in that game is at 19:45.  A preview of that game can be found at Arab Blog. On Tuesday, the second round of the SFL Challenge [...] 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...

Tonight at Recreation Park, Alloa Athletic take on Elgin City in the first round of the Scottish League Cup. In today's Match Programme, we take a look at tonight's fixture. The River Forth meanders across the country from it's source at Loch Ard, flowing eastwards past Aberfoyle, Garunnock and the ancient town of Stirling [. Click to continue reading...