Aye aye all, it's Wednesday (if only just), so just time for a quick update. This week we have news of another disastrous week of European football for the only Scottish team left in the Champions League and the third managerial casualty of the season tries to make ends meet with his Giro. We begin [. Click to continue reading...

We've had another exciting weekend of football across the country with action across all divisions. In the SPL, Aberdeen finally win a game as Lee Miller's second half goal against Falkirk lifts the Dons off the bottom of the table (0-1), and Celtic win in Inverness to consolidate their position on top of the table [. Click to continue reading...

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So here it is: A reasonably stylish black training jacket with a white stripe across the chest. It's a good fit...not too tight, so as to restrict movement, but not too loose so as to feel baggy. Click to continue reading...

While Celtic where huffing and puffing their way to yet another away defeat in the Europe, Inside Left decided to forsake the money and the glory of the Champions League, switch of the telly and go in search of some proper football. At Princess Royal Park, Banff, the first of two preliminary games in this years [. Click to continue reading...

When looking at the schedule of the 5th Giornata, all eyes had to be on Milan-Inter. The Derby was important not only for fans of those teams but for fans of other teams, as everyone had to hope Inter were stopped. And they were stopped, as the Rossoneri prevailed with a thunderous header from Ronaldinho, who scored his first goal in a Milan jersey.

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Aye aye and welcome to another round-up of Scotland's football action. We've got a batch of SPL games to get through, there is the action in the Scottish Football League to tell you about as well as some interesting scores and stats from the First Round of the Scottish Cup. Fort William, a regular name [. Click to continue reading...

Well, that's another exciting Scottish League Cup round out of the way, thank God.  Note that we're refusing to call it by it's proper name, the somewhat long-winded Co-Operative Insurance Cup, because it sounds a little vague and doesn't convey any of the weight and gravitas that a domestic Cup competition ought to bring with [. Click to continue reading...

Aye aye all, it's Wednesday and that means it's time for the midweek update! It has not been a particularly busy week so far in the world of Scottish football, but that is about to change in the next two days as several important games take place in European competitions, as well as a potentially [.. Click to continue reading...

We are just under a fifth of the way through the season and it's already been a rollercoaster ride. New manager Graham Westley was in his second spell in charge of the club and had assembled a strong squad. After a good pre-season, expections were high and the "buzz" was back at Broadhall Way.  That good feeling though [. Click to continue reading...

It may have started brightly and ended on somewhat of a sour note, but the facts stand for themselves: two goals, one from Kirk Broadfoot, the other from James McFadden where enough to give George Burley his first win in charge of the national side as the three puts Scotland's challenge for World Cup 2010 [. Click to continue reading...

As we head into the first of the league breaks while our national side start their World Cup qualification games, it's a good time to look back at the season so far. We've asked the Inside Left correspondents to give us their opinions on their team's performance so far. We begin though with a look at [. Click to continue reading...

We were saying in Friday's weekend-action preview that the Highland League let us all down last week, what with the teams scoring a miserly 23 goals and only having two players sent off. This is not the sort of thing we expect from one of the highest scoring leagues in the country: something simply had [. Click to continue reading...

Kenny Miller's controversial return to Parkhead ends with the former Celtic striker, now in his second spell at Rangers, scoring twice as he helps his new team beat Celtic 4-2, the first time Rangers have scored this many goals at Parkhead since 1894. Pedro Mendes added a third and Daniel Cousin, a surprise choice in [. Click to continue reading...

Another exciting day of football in Scotland comes to a close. A quick glance at the results tells us that Hamilton messed up a chance to go top of the SPL, while St. Mirren defy the odds and score a goal (but still lose). Dundee remain top of Division 1 and the pain continues for St. [...] Click to continue reading...

We are now 2/3rds the way in! Lets take a look at our last 10 games.

OVERALL: 7-6-7
LAST 10: 3-3-4

The Second Trimester (and Juan Carlos Osorio)

The Red Bulls took an nose dive in the early part of the last 10 games. Amounting only one win in the first 6 (which included two heartbreakers with a 4-1 loss to DC and an equally embarrassing 4-0 loss to Colorado), the 1-3-2 Red Bulls looked destined to collapse.

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A crowd of just over 28,000 watched Scotland play Northern Ireland at Hampden last night in a game that will quickly be consigned to the more forgettable games in our nations recent past. If you asked anyone from outside these Islands to imagine what a typical international between any of the four 'home nations' they'd probably [. Click to continue reading...

Dundee United have a terrible habit of losing opening day fixtures to teams that many would have the Arabs beat. There's the opening day defeat to Falkirk back in 2006 and Hibernian in 2003. Kilmarnock won 2-0 in August 1998 as that season got under way, and in 1994 United lost their first game [... Click to continue reading...

Just to remind you all, in case we forgot to tell you, that the Scottish Premier League Season starts again today. The season kicks off early, as 1230 to be exact, as Falkirk take on Rangers. The action continues later on in the afternoon up in Inverness as Caley take on Aberdeen while in [...] 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...

Following on from an earlier posting about some of the poor performances our top sides have been putting in against lower league opposition, we literally fell of the chair when this scoreline was SMS'd to us live from the away end at the Balmoor Stadium in Peterhead. There are bad results and there are embarrassing results. 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...

Aye aye, welcome to the Saturday weekender, Inside Left's look back at the week in Scottish football. Round-Up Fort William - Reality TV? Hibernian now have extra time to prepare for the start of the new season without having to worry about pesky European games. Yes, the Easter Road side tanked out of the Intertoto Cup this [. Click to continue reading...

Today Aberdeen take on Manchester United at Pittodrie in a game that marks the end of the celebrations to commemorate the north-east club's famous win against Real Madrid in 1983, some twenty-five years ago. Today is a time for looking back and celebrating arguably the finest moment in Aberdeen's history and though the game, and [. Click to continue reading...

At Inside Left our mission is to bring you the best that Scottish football has to offer and hopefully bring some much needed footballing love and attention to these shores. So to keep you busy over your lunch hour, here are five of the best Scottish football sites out there, lovingly hand-picked by Inside Left, [. Click to continue reading...

Over the next few weeks, Inside Left will be reviewing the 2007/08 season across all three divisions on a month per month basis. Today we start with the pre-season moves and the first month of the season - August 2007. Where did we leave off? In the top division, Celtic where champions again and would start the [. Click to continue reading...

Well, the title has gone to Celtic, and congratulations to them I say. The result of the night though is the mighty Aberdeen beating Rangers at Pittodrie. Much to Inside Left's surprise (and at the cost of another terrible round of predictions), Aberdeen win 2-0, Miller scoring with a glancing header on the 63 minutes and [. Click to continue reading...

So here we are at the end of 2007 (at least it is in the UK - if you live in Australia, New Zealand, Russia, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Thailand, China or Japan, it's now 2008). It's been a busy year for us and an eventful one for football generally. We'll bet a princely sum you've probably forgotten a lot about this year, so let us guide you gently by the hand down memory lane to remind you of all those things that happened while you had your back turned. Click to continue reading...

Good Friday to you all, I felt like starting the day out with this nugget that I wrote a while back. I waited around to post it due to all the trade talks this week. We all love looking at MLS player salaries and review them. I felt like today would be a nice day to [...] Click to continue reading...

I guess you could say I have had some time to let the 2007 season simmer on my plate here before I recapped everything. I thought about doing a team-by-team review like the guys over at the Center Holds It, but I didn't feel like going that extra mile, hat tip to them for it. [...] Click to continue reading...

If last week was relatively boring with a complete goal drought, this week has been one that bucks trends. First we had Schalke, not only playing in a three pointer, but losing to lowly Cottbus. Oh yeah, and Cottbus scored, which is an occurrence that rivals some rare diseases.

Next we have F.C. Bayern in their second straight nil-nil draw, only this time at the Allianz and against Frankfurt, whose last road trip resulted in a drubbing by Nurnberg. Click to continue reading...

I was in the process of writing up my preview for the FC Dallas - Houston game, and for some reason I thought it was a weekend game with the other playoff games (I know some think Friday night is the weekend kickoff but its still technically a weekday). But upon further review for my [...] Click to continue reading...

You know, sometimes breaking down series can be easy and sometimes not. The more I look at each series the more I believe the west is a little easier to understand and figure out, while the east seems like it could be easy but deep down it is not. So, what should we watch for in [...] Click to continue reading...

Bochum 2 – 1 Hamburg

B: Sestak (45) Imhof (83)
H: van der Vaart (pen 86)

Hamburg failed to finish their chances again. This time they were punished for their failure by a resolute Bochum side. While the tempo of the game was dictated by Hamburg, who owned possession at 61%, it was a late first half injury time goal from newcomer Stanslav Sestak, who mopped a poor challenge by Nigel de Jong, which opened the scoring in this affair. Click to continue reading...

You'd think given the hundreds of millions of people around the world who follow football that there'd be more movies on the subject, wouldn't you? Well thankfully there's one about to hit your cinema, and believe me it's well worth watching.

It's called In The Hands Of The Gods and it's a fly-on-the-wall documentary that follows five young football freestylers from England whose ambition is to meet one of the legends of the game - Diego Maradona. Click to continue reading...

I received a sample of an interesting instructional product to help soccer coaches run drills in practice this summer. While most 'how to coach soccer' products are books or DVDs with full illustrations and text, the CoachDeck for soccer is just that. A deck of cards, each with a different drill, broken up into four [...] Click to continue reading...