This Sunday at Easter Road, Hibernian take on Celtic for the second time this season, no doubt hoping to avenge the 4-2 defeat back at the end of October. Nearly 36 years ago to the day, it was the turn of Hibernian to emerge as victors in this fixture, when the Hibees recorded a memorable 2-1 win over Celtic in the Scottish League Cup Final at Hampden Park. Click to continue reading...

Livingston's Roberto Landi becomes the fourth manager this season relieved of his duties following a recent poor run of results. With mounting debts, the future of the club is far from uncertain. So where now for a side that six years ago finished third in the SPL? Click to continue reading...

We said in our preview to this weekends SPL games that the league was effectively over for this year. Celtic and Rangers, runaway leaders at the top of the table would continue to maintain that lead over the rest of the league. But football is a funny old game as we all know .. Elsewhere, the Scottish Cup Third Round was played this weekend. Click to continue reading...

Inside Left has a go at being a referee at his daughters hockey game this morning. Surprisingly hard so it was, but it turned into a useful lesson that went a long way to understanding just how hard a referee's job truly is. Click to continue reading...

There's another busy weekend of footballing goodness for you to enjoy this weekend. Join us as we take a quick look at the fixture list. Click to continue reading...

Celtic's defeat in the Champions League at the hands of Aalborg on Wednesday ended any hopes the club had in competing in the Uefa Cup, and brought to an end Scottish participation in European football for this year. The meeting between six of the SPL managers scheduled for early next month to discuss the state of Scottish football hopes to address the issues affecting the game today, but this forum must be expanded to include all Scottish managers, as well as supporters associations, the SPL, the SFL and the SFA. Click to continue reading...

Adrian Mills of the band King of Spain puts the list of winners of the Scottish Football League to music. Basically it consists of someone saying "Rangers" and "Celtic" quite a lot. Mind now and cheer when Dumbarton get a mention! Click to continue reading...

As Fort William keeper Stewart Gray plucked the ball from out of the net for the sixth time before the break, he must have been praying for the bad weather - that had caused three of the games in the Highland League that weekend to be called off - to descend on Princess Royal Park and end the misery. Click to continue reading...

A quick round-up of the news around the leagues following this weekends action. We report on the troubles down at Motherwell, Hibs and Hearts both win while poor displays from Kilmarnock, Dundee United and Aberdeen have their respective managers moaning. Fort William lose another close game, while Neale Cooper cant understand why his game went ahead despite the winter-wonderland conditions. Click to continue reading...

It's Monday, which means Performance of the Week time. You know the deal - we like to recognize those teams, players and events in the week just passed that deserve a special mention for services rendered in the name of Scottish football. This week we have four more nominations for you to choose from, so without further waffling, here are the nominations, each one lovingly hand-picked by the staff of Inside Left. Click to continue reading...

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...

A while back we posted an article about the difficulties were where having keeping Inside Left going. We'd lost staff, we'd lost readers, we'd lost motivation and frankly, we'd lost a bit of interest. So over the weekend much soul searching was done. Should we keep going? Should we stop? In the end we decided that [. Click to continue reading...

Aye aye all, and fit like theday? It's Monday, which means it's Performance of the Week time. Now, normally we have three nominations for you, but today we only have one. That's not because there's not enough to nominate mind you. We could have mentioned St. Johnstone for their four wins during October which earned two [. 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...

Q: What is the difference between Hamilton Accies and Inside Left? A: Both started out well, but both are now going through a massive slump. Aye aye, apologies for the lack of updates. Things are hectic at the minute with work and life generally getting in the way of all things to do with Inside Left and [. Click to continue reading...