Today MLS Rumors put it up its much hyped "investigation" into to US Soccer. To call it laughable is an insult to humor. To call it stupid is an insult to stupid people. To even give this much attention is probably a mistake on my part, but I simply cannot let it go by. This is one of the single-most offensive, stupid pieces I've ever seen written on American soccer and additionally it includes outright racist sentiments. Click to continue reading...

Inside Left has been busy putting together a wee list of our hopes and dreams for the season yet to come. � In no particular order, here are some of the things we'd like to see happen in the next season.

1. Our teams to progress a bit further in Europe than last season.

Last season was utter mince for our sides in Europe.

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The inaugural season of the SPL season ended 10 years ago. Rangers won the title again and Celtic finished second. Funny how things don't change eh?

In this weeks Meat Pie we round up all the players who played in that first season and who are still in playing in the SPL 10 years later ...

Aberdeen:
Jim Hamilton (St Mirren), Dennis Wyness (St Mirren), Derek Young (Aberdeen)

Celtic:
Jackie McNamara (Falkirk)

Dundee:
Jamie Langfield (Aberdeen)

Dundee United:
Alan Combe (Kilmarnock)

Dunfermline:
Colin Nish (Hibernian)

Hearts:
Jim Hamilton (St Mirren), Gary Locke (Kilmarnock), Grant Murray (Kilmarnock), Neil McCann (Falkirk), Scott Severin (Aberdeen), David Weir (Rangers)

Motherwell:
Stephen Craigan (Motherwell), Lee McCulloch (Rangers)

Rangers:
Barry Ferguson (Rangers), Neil McCann (Falkirk)

St Johnstone:
Darren Dods (Dundee United)

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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. Click to continue reading...

With the heavy defeat dished out by Rangers at Ibrox against Hamilton today, we bring you the biggest SPL scoreline in the last 10 years courtesy of our Meat Pie - a juicy statistic to get your teeth into. Click to continue reading...

One of the things that always has the team here at Inside Left HQ scratching it's head is the fact that the most popular article on the site - by a country mile - is one we wrote way back in the early days of Inside Left and one which, bizarrely, has nothing to do [...] Click to continue reading...

This evenings Champions League tie between Manchester United and AaB Aalborg has certain Scottish connections: Alex Ferguson, Bruce Rioch and Darren Fletcher. While reading up about the game, Inside Left noticed that both Darren Fletcher and Bruce Rioch are (and where) Scotland internationals, yet neither has ever played for a Scottish team. 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 about time we did another Meat Pie feature about the best team in Scotland. Now, we know that statement should come with a standard disclaimer, but as we exclusively revealed in an earlier Meat Pie article a few weeks back, had it not been for the Old Firm last season the mighty Aberdeen FC [... Click to continue reading...

While it's probably not going to help enormously, fans of Glasgow Rangers should contend themselves with the knowledge that pretty much every SPL team has had to suffer the indignity of going out in the first round of a European competition. In todays Meat Pie, we try to ease the pain of the Rangers following [. Click to continue reading...

Following on from our look at how we think the top half of the league will finish, we conclude our Scottish Premier League season predictions with the lower half of the league (there are images in this post, but there's something up with the WordPress servers, so use your imagination). Hearts Hearts finished eighth last year, [. 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...

In todays Meat Pie, our regular look at interesting but generally meaningless statistics, Inside Left takes the anorak out of it's protective carrier bag and gets his teeth stuck in to archives as he picks out five of the best first-day-of-the-season fixtures in Scotland's rich footballing history. Scottish Division One, Season 1938/39 Division One started out, [. Click to continue reading...

The new season is now only thirty-two days away.  With most clubs returning from their summer break and getting back into pre-season training, Inside Left looks at the teams promoted from the Scottish Football Leagues and assesses their fortunes for the 2008/09 season.  We start today with Hamilton, Airdrie United and Ross County, and conclude [. Click to continue reading...

On our way back in the car from seeing "Lord of The Dance" this afternoon, I remarked to Mrs Inside Left how amazing it was to be able to stand in an auditorium and sing an Aberdeen FC terrace favourite at full belt without getting turfed out by the stewards. Incredulous at Inside Left's ability [... Click to continue reading...

The football fixtures for next season where announced on Monday, and with the promotions and relegations from last season come a new series of games where old rivals are reunited. Inside Left has scoured the fixture list to bring you the low-down on this season's derby games across all four divisions in Scotland. Click to continue reading...

As football fans we always want to go to every game our team plays. And what better way to show your love for your side then to travel to an away game. But hang on a minute, we live in Scotland. And Scotland is a big country. A very big country.  This week in the Meat [...] Click to continue reading...