So it's 8pm. And I'm still going strongish. Big kicks this hour to all my mates at the Hibs Club for the support - financial and alcoholic - they've given this venture. More than just a club and going strong since 1955.
This suggestion came in from @thecoldend in the last hour.
Does Scottish football need a pyramid system?

How was the Friday night experiment for you? Partick Thistle fan Tom Hogg has his doubts:
According to the papers, the Scottish Football League will examine the attendance at the Partick Thistle v Greenock Morton match in its trial slot of Friday evening, against last season's equivalent Saturday fixture as a measure of whether to extend Friday night football to other matches.

With this week's focus properly set to the non-league game, it seems appropriate to also delve into Scottish non-league football. Perhaps unfairly at times, the Scottish game generates comparisons in several footballing matters to that of the game conducted in England. It must be said, though, that often those comparisons originate from the nation's own prominent football authorities, with success or failure being approximated in English measurements.

The Swiss Football League (SFL) will now receive SFr28 million ($34 million) per season over the next five years – a hike of SFr13 million from the previous television and marketing rights contract.

Football fixtures day.
The day the SPL fixture list for 2011/12 is announced. The SFL schedule is coming out as well.
Who'll try to party poop as Rangers, Dunfermline, Livingston and Arbroath unfurl their championship flags?
When will the derbies of Edinburgh and Glasgow be scheduled?

Franchise or Brave New World? It's now sixteen years since Livingston moved from the Meadowbank Stadium, changed their name and their town. Alasdair Sim writes on a rollercoaster ride.

The ‘death knell' for Livingston Football Club was due to be heralded in 2009 shortly after the team were demoted to the Siberia-esque echelons of the Scottish Football League.

"There was an overwhelming desire to follow and be led. There was a real desire among the members for someone to take the game by the scruff of the neck and say 'let's change'.
"There was a recognition that we needed to do things differently and there was a real frustration and dissatisfaction with how we were.

With little other than a couple of play-off spots still to be settled in the Scottish Football League, keep an eye out this afternoon for the big game of the day on this side of the border the Buckie Thistle v Deveronvale title decider in the Highland League. It's come down to top v second in the final game, with two points separating them.

A difficult Saturday afternoon for Cowdenbeath, shipping three goals and losing their derby with Raith inside the first half hour.
There have been better times though.
As Daniel Gray writes in Stramash:

"Central Park is a relic that binds. If its pensionable walls could speak, they would talk of 1920s glory days and mention the first team of miners that won promotion in 1924 and the following season finished fifth in Division One.

The SPL sales drive for their shiny new double decker continues. Ten up. Twelve down.
The Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser reported yesterday:

Neil Doncaster will today meet with all 30 SFL clubs as the push for league reconstruction continues.
The SPL chief executive is to lay out his organisation's proposals for change at the SFL quarterly meeting of clubs at Hampden.

Would you be happy if you were going to a Scottish football match this evening?
There is a suggestion that the SPL might be looking at playing games on Fridays as part of their backlog clearing plans.
The talk seems to be of the April holiday Fridays, although as these are both after the split I'm not sure what the need is.

.. in which I step out of the shower to find myself, seven months later, dripping wet, 5 kilos heavier and still supporting the finest team north of the river Tay? New managers, new controversies, a fixture backlog and Hearts in third place. You can't say Scottish football is dull. So, what has been going on while Inside Left has been away?

Ayr, Alloa, Cowdenbeath, Coatbridge, Montrose, Kirkcaldy, Greenock, Arbroath, Dingwall, Cumbernauld, Dumfries and Elgin.
Twelve towns offering a fair snapshot of Scotland's social and industrial history in the last century.
And twelve towns that keep the ever threatened flames of lower league football in Scotland just about alight.