On the pitch and among the fans, Celtic and Rangers may be the fiercest of football rivals.� When it comes to the business end of things, namely the mission to maximize their financial potential by fleeing the Scottish Premier League, the Old Firm pair are partners in crime.� Like any good rivalry, Celtic and Rangers need each other.

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On the 30th May 2004 (before Benitez was appointed), I wrote a post on ThisIsAnfield.com arguing that Martin O Neill should get the Manager's job ahead of Benitez and Jose Mourinho. Five years later and O'Neill is apparently one of the favourites to become the next Liverpool manager. Well, my opinion has not changed: For me, O'neill is the only man for the job. Click to continue reading...

So Toronto FC fired their interim manager Chris Cummins today, on the heels of a 5-0 meltdown in a must-win match against woeful New York. That's a reasonable move, and one that I suspect most TFC fans welcome. But whichever English or Scottish league washout that Mo recruits (and you can bet your bottom dollar that it'll be a Brit), will face the same problem that Cummins and his predecessor John Carver faced. Click to continue reading...

Queen of the South 2 Dundee 0 - Scottish Football League, Division One
Dumfries is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland and is situated close to the Solway Firth, near the mouth of the River Nith. Dumfries was the county town of the former county of Dumfriesshire. Click to continue reading...

As a footballing metropolis, Glasgow and its environs more or less have it all. � There is Celtic, Rangers, Partick Thistle, Hampden Park and Hamilton Crescent, where the first ever international match was played. Not far away are clubs like Motherwell, St.Mirren and Hamilton Academical. � Glasgow has had its European champions, its fan tragedies, glories and financial disasters and, as we'll look at today, clubs who have come, gone and returned again such as Clydebank FC.

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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...

The Hull City Tigers have all the odds against them.� This off-season they discovered that most players with the talent to play for the club would prefer to be role players for more historically successful clubs.� Take Michael Owen for example.� He spurned the Tigers for a sub spot on Manchester United.

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Two years My Football Club came into being where for £35, you could buy a stake into a Football Club of their choice and have a chance to voice your opinions - from kits, team selection - in fact own a share of the club.
The club My Football Club chose was Ebbsfleet United from the Blue Square conference. Click to continue reading...

The Weekend Roundup is back early because QoS got an early start to the season with Cup games the last two weekends
Colorado Rapids - After the loss to Columbus, Colorado has fallen into a tie with Chivas for 4th place in the West and with Toronto for 7th place overall. Due to the games in hand the Rapids have the edge over Toronto and DC for the next-to-last playoff spot. Click to continue reading...

Glasgow Rangers manager Walter Smith was full of praise for Arsene Wenger and his team after the Gunners beat Rangers 3-0 in the final day of the 2009 Emirates Cup.

Smith said:

It is not very often we come up against a team who play in a manner in which Arsene Wenger has them playing.

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This year Rangers stole back the Scottish League title from Celtic on the last day of the season. Many Premiership fans will recognise the regulars in the Rangers side from the 2008-09 season which saw Rangers restore pride to the blue side of Glasgow. David Weir, Steven Davis, Pedro Mendes, Madjid Bougherra and Kenny Miller all player major roles for Rangers last season.

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It's time, yet again, for your weekly dose of Shit Shot Mungo, and this week's episode is the last episode from the "Holiday Special" series. Next week, we will be joining The Clackers as they start their pre-season regime ahead of next year's Scottish League. This series is brought to you by Ted "The Neck" Carter, and a bigger version of this week's Mungo is available here, should you want such a thing.

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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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Newly promoted Birmingham City are apparently in the transfer market for experienced former Scotland midfielder Barry Ferguson. The 31 year old Rangers star has been the talk and indeed target of a large number of clubs south of the border including relegated West Bromwich Albion - especially following the controversial moments that occurred for the player earlier in the season. Click to continue reading...

According to the London Times, Tony Mowbray will be installed as the new manager of Glasgow Celtic. He leaves behind a relegated West Bromwich Albion, but this is a good move for both Celtic and Mowbray. Tony did a great job getting WBA promoted in the first place. He also didn't receive a lot of financial support to buy new players once the team were promoted. Click to continue reading...

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Maurice Edu played a key role in helping Glasgow Rangers catch Celtic and win its first Scottish League title in four years, but the race to that title might keep him from playing in some very important upcoming matches.

Edu is questionable for Rangers' Scottish Cup final vs. Falkirk on Saturday with a thigh injury suffered in the team's season-ending and league-clinching victory vs.

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Maurice Edu played a key role in helping Glasgow Rangers catch Celtic and win its first Scottish League title in four years, but the race to that title might keep him from playing in some very important upcoming matches.

Edu is questionable for Rangers' Scottish Cup final vs. Falkirk on Saturday with a thigh injury suffered in the team's season-ending and league-clinching victory vs.

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Did you here what those cheeky Rangers fans did? Not the militant ones that attack and kill people.
Well not only did their team win the Scottish league title, but on the last day of the season the clever Rangers fans texted misinformation about a goal that wasn't to their Celtic-supporting friends -- which then mistakingly believed they had a chance at the championship. Click to continue reading...

Congrats Rangers on winning the Scottish league title. Thats all the praise you get, because your fans are out of control.
Turns out a group of em, referred to in this story as "militant Protestant supporters" drove into a Catholic area of town and attacked some Celtic fans -- killing one. Click to continue reading...

We find it hard to concentrate on Cristiano Ronaldo's love life when he shows us thighs like this. But for those who can focus, he's now dating Luana Belletti, sister to Chelsea's Juliano Belletti.
Burnley's going to the Premier League. Certainly this is an occasion for novelty pants and short tents?

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We find it hard to concentrate on Cristiano Ronaldo's love life when he shows us thighs like this. But for those who can focus, he's now dating Luana Belletti, sister to Chelsea's Juliano Belletti.
Burnley's going to the Premier League. Certainly this is an occasion for novelty pants and short tents?

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Oguchi Onyewu won his second Belgian League title when his Standard Liege side defeated Anderlecht 1-0 in the second leg of the championship playoff. Onyewu also cost his side the championship when he conceded a penalty in the final minute of the final game, but this time it was time for another CONCACAF player to be the goat. Click to continue reading...

It's the end of the Scottish League season, and Heart of Clackmannannshire are stranded near the bottom of the table. Controversial player-manager Mungo McCrackas has some "innovative" ideas ahead of their next match, though it seems that the answer to their problems might be more obvious than anyone realises.

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This afternoon's Old Firm derby game between Rangers and Celtic is the 292nd League meeting between the two sides - obviously the most played game in Scottish football, and the only game to be played in every season in Scottish league history.

Both teams have the better of each other at home, Rangers with 70 wins, 41 draws and 34 loses at home - Celtic with 61 wins, 42 draws and 43 loses at home.

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by GIANFRANCO PANIZO

While this weekend's slate of games� contains several Americans in action, the two most intriguing fixtures� involving Americans Abroad� come on Saturday when Carlos Bocanegra and Maurice Edu play in� what will arguably be� the biggest matches of their club careers.

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Tonight's game between St Mirren and Rangers is the 218th league clash between the two sides.

This game is one of the oldest league meetings, since both teams were founder members of the Scottish League back in 1890 - only these two, Celtic and Hearts are in the top flight, with Dumbarton being the other team still in existence, all 5 others are gone.

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Mariners only conceded 5 at home...it could have been more!
Haven't seen many teams as outclassed as the Central Coast Mariners for many years. Haven't seen a home coach get it so wrong either.
And can the Central Coast Mariners hierarchy or fans except that?
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Well it was hardly a 'derby' was it? If you were in Scotland today, right up North near Inverness on the Firth of Moray, did you take a trip to Elgin City FC and their game against Albion Rovers in the Third Division of the Scottish League? Click to continue reading...

Last week in Scotland Gretna's short and ultimately sorry place in the Scottish league's history finally came to an end when they were replaced by Annan Athletic. But south of the border, there were shades of the ill-fated demise of Gretna when Conference North side Burscough announced immediate financial restructuring in light of a [. Click to continue reading...

Such is the dominance of Rangers and Celtic in Scottish football that in the 111 years that the Scottish League has existed, there have only been 19 occasions where neither Celtic nor Rangers won the league and only one season where neither of the Old Firm finished in the top three. In today's look at Scottish football [. Click to continue reading...

Real Salt Lake has been looking for a marvelous striker and they think they found one in a Scottish doctor.
Kenny Deuchar has decided to leave his Scottish club Gretna for the wide-open spaces of Utah. Deuchar can be a bit of a scoring machine as shown by his 6 goals in 10 matches while loaned out to St. Click to continue reading...