Scottish Premier League Blog

*that was until the papers hit the shelves this morning After Celtic’s 2-0 defeat at the hands of Hearts in November, I proceeded to rant about Neil Lennon on a well known social networking site. In it I claimed that Lennon should stop pointing to match officials to explain his side’s inept performances and instead [...]

‘Messi and Ronaldo are excellent but I’d love to see them do that on the Fir Park pitch on wet and windy Wednesday night – One player that did manage to cope with being “bashed about” by a Motherwell defence that remained solid for most of the evening was, David Silva. No not the Manchester [...]

A decent performance from Calderwood’s youthful side but over ten hours without a goal and twelve matches without a win leaves Hibs in a desperate position. Their 4-4-2 formation matched Dundee United man for man and included a central midfield pairing of new signings Victor Palsson and Martin Scott. David Wotherspoon, who found himself in [...]

Skim over their starting elevens for the past six matches and it could be argued that Hibernian need an entire new team.  Prior to the 2-0 defeat to Rangers on Wednesday night, the Easter Road side were on a demoralising run of eleven matches without a win, the last five of which they have not [...]

A recent survey by the Scotsman newspaper showed that 88 per cent of Scottish football supporters oppose a return to ten team top flight, a move recently recommended by the McLeish Report and backed by a majority of SPL clubs. It has been reported that after Tuesday’s meeting of SPL clubs that extending the top [...]

Hibernian closed out the inaugural weekend of the Scottish Premier League (SPL) season with a 3-2 win against Motherwell at Fir Park today. Despite taking the lead through John Sutton early Motherwell surrendered their lead in first half extra time via Anthony Stokes. In the second half Paul Hanlon and Liam Miller put Hibs 3-1 [...]

Celtic slumped to a miserable 3-0 defeat to Braga of Portugal in the opening game of Champions League qualifying campaign yesterday. Osorio Alan opened the scoring with a first half penalty after Ki Sung-Yeung was harshly, penalised for using his hand.Uwa Echiejile doubled the home teams advantage in the second half and Nascimento Matheus curled [...]

“It’s a challenge” said Celtic manager Gordon Strachan after his side’s 0-0 draw at home to supposed group ‘whipping boys’ Aalborg. An uphill struggle, more like. Celtic will travel to Spain to take on a very strong Villarreal outfit, which finished second in La Liga and, even though they probably won’t repeat their feats of [...]

It has been a rather indifferent start to the league campaign for the Dons. This time last season they were in the same position, eighth, but were two points worse off. After looking as though they would finish the season in the bottom half of the table they managed to sneak past Falkirk and Hearts [...]

Scotland tonight swap the blistering heat of Macedonia for the more familiar cold and wet weather of Iceland. However criticism of the manager, rather than the build up to the match, has dominated the headlines over the last few days. After only one competitive match, George Burley has been subject to a media campaign, which [...]