30.11// The Week in Scottish Football

Inside Left previews another busy week ahead in Scottish football. Celtic are in European action, while closer to home, it could be all-change in the First division. There's also action in the Second and Third division, and hopefully there'll be no fog this time in the match between Clyde and Livingston.

30.11// Four to Follow Round-up

Jings. We really, really, really must stop doing this. Our predictions are pure gash folks! To wit: this week, we continue with what is fast becoming a tradition by getting none of our predictions right.

30.11// Scottish Fitba Four to Follow

Inside Left highlights the four games in this weekends Scottish fixture card that you need to keep your eye on. This week we feature a tough fixture for both teams at Pittodrie, a bottom-of-the-table clash in Granton, a mid-table affair in the First division and lastly, the pick of the Scottish Cup games taking place this weekend as Clyde take on Livingston.

Treading water in Lochaber

Fort William are in the news again. Two months after recording their first league win in 2 years, the Fort are in danger of being thrown out of the Highland League. Will the troubles ever cease for the Lochaber club, and how would their demise affect the goal difference of the other clubs in the division?

23.11// The Monday Ballbag

Phew, what a relief to have good 'ole regular football back at the weekends. I can't be doing with international breaks, which I put in the same category as a commercial break in a really good film - annoying and totally pointless.

But it's all business as usual as the Highland League need only three games to outscore the entire SPL in one day, George Burley is not the only manager to lose his job, and Dundee lift the first silverware of the season.

On Messrs McGregor, Ferguson and Boyd

There's very little that surprises us here at Inside Left Towers these days.

When we first heard SFA Chief Executive Gordon Smith blithely announce - only days after he sacked his national team manager - that those pariahs of the Scottish game, Allan McGregor, Barry Ferguson and Kris Boyd would be eligible for selection by any future Scotland manager, we shrugged our shoulders and moved on.

20.11 // SPL Weekend Preview

For some reason, it seems like ages since last had a round of club football, but we're sure happy that it's back on the agenda this weekend, because, well, this has been another particularly stressful week in the constantly varying Scottish football landscape.

The SFA and the search for the next manager of Scotland

Now that the bunting has been torn down from between the tenements and the houses and the last of the party revellers bundled into a taxi for the long ride home, the mandarins at the SFA find themselves in a situation that gets less unique with every tournament that passes Scottish football by.

Thank you Mr Burley. Send in the next man please ...

George Burley was finally removed from his post as manager of the Scotland national side this evening, bringing to an end the managerial run of a man who in the end "managed" to make even Berti Vogts look good, and whose dismal record in charge of the national squad is second only to the late John Prentice in 1966, who didn't even manage a single victory (although Prentice at least managed a 1-1 draw with Brazil).

The continuing saga of Scottish football

About a week or so ago, I wrote two articles on this site about the perilous state the Scottish game finds itself in. Back then, I bemoaned the fact that the game north of the border was being haunted by events on and off the field, from financial troubles to crowd troubles, from declining standards to declining credibility, and from a lack of competition to a lack of crowds.

Slightly cliché-strewn Rangers preview

Right. Let's just get it out of the way.

For Rangers, tonights Champions League Group G fixture against the Romanians from Unirea Urziceni is a make or break game. It's a gala day, a Cup final, the biggest fixture of the year and simply a must-win game.

A Dutch solution to a Scottish problem (Part I)

I completely missed every single game of football across the British Isles at the weekend.

I was too busy to turn on the radio for the Scottish games, and I fell asleep somewhere during the Arsenal-Spurs highlights on the Saturday evening. I was awake long enough to see van Persie scoring, but the next thing I remember is being woken by the familiar Match of the Day tune as the credits rolled by. A pity really, because it seems I missed a tremendous weekend of football.