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. Click to continue reading...

Rangers, Aberdeen, Dundee, Ross County, Livingston, Queens Park, Fort William and Auchinleck Talbot. Yes, this weeks Four to Follow features some household names, as well as some you might just want to go and Google. Click to continue reading...

Aberdeen are knocked out of the CIS Cup by Dundee. Your normally impartial editor is not fucking happy about it. What is it with Aberdeen and Cup competitions? Click to continue reading...

Colorado Rapids - Colorado's draw with San Jose kept them in a tie with Chivas for 4th in the West and 6th overall. Colorado still has a game in hand over most of the teams in front of them, but Chivas and New England are lurking right behind them with a game in hand over the Rapids. Colorado is tied with DC for the 2nd best offense (2 behind Dallas) and tied with FSL and Chicago for the 6th best defense with 5 games to play. Click to continue reading...

Colorado Rapids - The Rapids loss in Toronto has dropped them to a tie with Chivas for 4th in the West and with DC for 6th overall. Colorado still has a game in hand over most of the teams in front of them, but Chivas and New England are lurking right behind them with a game in hand over the Rapids. Click to continue reading...

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. Click to continue reading...

Yeah, I missed last week. Since most teams were off over the weekend for the World Cup Qualifiers I'm not that far behind though.
Colorado Rapids - With their back to back home 1-0 wins the Rapids have given themselves a bit of breathing room. They are third in the West and tired for 5th overall with DC. 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...

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...

As the fallout from the Setanta collapse threatens to throw Scottish Football into turmoil, Rob Freeman takes a look at one of Scotland's franchise clubs, Livingston, who are close to collapse without this having happened.

The Scottish Franchise club, Livingston, is one step closer to going out of business after they admitted they are unlikely to pay their rent arrears of £280k by the end of the month.

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Of course this list could change at a moment's notice, but right now it looks like there will be some fantastic warm-up matches in July and August with several Premiership clubs coming north.
Saturday 4th July
Huntly v Ross County - 3.00pm, Christie Park
Vale of Leithen v Annan Athletic - 2. Click to continue reading...

"Uzbek football is on an upswing right now...I know I am in the right place at the right time."
Big Phil Scolari on landing his dream role as coach of Uzbekistan champions Bunyodkor.

"It's a bit like your wife saying to you that she's interested in another man and wants to go on a date. Click to continue reading...

Last month, we predicted the results for 5 First Division games - getting 0 scores correct and only 1 result correct - but this hasn't put us off, and with a slight tweak to the formula used, we have come up with predictions for the last round of games in the Irn Bru First Division today - all 3pm kick offs.

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Fulham are lining up a move for Liverpool starlet Gary MacKay-Steven, skysports.com understands.
MacKay-Steven is set to leave Liverpool in the summer when his contract expires.
The news has alerted a host of clubs to the availability of the highly-rated winger.
Liverpool beat a number of top clubs to MacKay-Steven's signature in 2007 from Ross County after he impressed on trial at Anfield. Click to continue reading...

Using the statistics in the archive, we decided to do some number crunching and come up with predictions for the games in the Irn Bru First Division today - all 3pm kick offs.

Analysis of the numbers is obviously something many people have tried before, and is not an exact science - since there would be many people making money out of it, if it was possible!

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Colorado Rapids - Back to back wins over LA have the Rapids on a 3 game win streak and into the next qualification round for the USOC. They are 3rd in the West and 5th overall in MLS. Colorado is second in goals scored but they are in a 6 way tie for the 8th spot in goals allowed. Everyone is still chasing Seattle who is first or tied for first in all categories. Click to continue reading...

This 'article' sure is something... Laura Williamson has apparently been keeping tabs on what British players have been doing in MLS. She works some 'subtle' jabs into what initially appeared to be an innocent "What are they up to now?" article. Here are the highlights:

Major League Soccer is on the verge of saying bye to Becks but it remains the resting home for a bunch of British 'talent'.

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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...

There's a pretty busy four days of football coming up in Scotland. The fourth round of the Scottish Cup takes place between Saturday and Tuesday and, as well as all that, there's some domestic league action down in the Second and Third divisions too. Up in the Highland League there are five games scheduled but, like all of the games planned, whether any or all of these go ahead depends very much on the weather. Click to continue reading...