Rangers sign Bougherra from Charlton

Madjid Bougherra will join Algerian international team-mate Brahim Hemdani at Ibrox after sealing a £3m move to Rangers FC from Charlton Athletic FC.
The 25-year-old centre-back and sometimes holding midfielder has signed a four-year deal with Rangers despite interest from West Bromwich Albion FC and Real Betis.
Born in France, Bougherra started his career at FC Gueugnon [...]

SFA President called to resign over Youth Row

Dunfermline Chairman John Yorkston has demanded the resignation of SFA President George Peat (Picture: far right) over the escalating row over Youth Football. The Pars, Ross County and Dundee have reacted angrily to the way they have been axed from Youth Football’s top flight with the SFA expelling the trio over registration and coaching issues.
Yorkston [...]

Celtic close to Double Swoop

Celtic are closing in on the signatures of Barcelona midfielder Marc Crosas and the on off transfer of Auxerre defender Gabriel Tamas.
Barcelona have confirmed that they have opened talks with Celtic about the £2.5 million rated midfielder. With the Bhoys keen to land the 20-year-old with initial talks being over a season-long deal. But a [...]

EURO Sweat for Rangers

Rangers go into tomorrow’s draw for the 3rd Round of Champions League Qualifiers knowing that they could land several tough opponents, if they manage to overcome FBK Kaunas over in Lithuania.
With the Second Round of Qualifiers at Half Time anything could happen, but there are some real heavyweight opponents in the non-seeded section of the [...]

Tommy Burns’ widow to Fly the Flag

Celtic Chairman and hate figure for a sizeable majority of the Celtic support, John Reid has announced that he is to break with traditions and have Tommy Burns’ widow Rosemary Burns unfurl the League Championship Flag at Celtic Park on the 10th August before they kick off the new campaign against St. Mirren.
“It’s a huge [...]

Mad Vlad vows not to interfere with Laszlo

Over the years we have seen managers and players come and go at Hearts because of Mad Vlad’s interference and ego. But now the Tynecastle dictator has vowed to leave football matters to new coach Csaba Laszlo and to stop interferring.
He said, “My target is to get involved in the business of the team less [...]

Rangers blow it against FBK Kaunas

Last Year Rangers went all the way to the UEFA Cup Final where they lost to Russian side Zenith St. Petersburg. Thereafter they blew the title and rivals Celtic won the league on the last day. So tonight they had a chance to open their season in style against Lithuanian champions FBK Kaunas in the [...]

SFL Referee Appointments 02/08/08

The Scottish Football League have announced the Referee Appointments for the very first game of the season for the First, Second and Third Division matches.

Bloggy Award Review Scotzine.com

Scotzine.com has been reviewed by the website Bloggy Award and has scored high in all FIVE sections of the site’s judging criteria. However there is always room for improvement and we will strive to better the site year in year out to make Scotzine.com the best it can be.
In Visual Aesthetics we scored a 9, [...]

FIFA demand Clubs release players for the Olympics

World Football governing body FIFA has demanded that clubs must release any players Under 23 selected for next month’d Beijing Olympics after rejecting a protest from three German and Spanish teams.
In a statement issued to the clubs and the media, FIFA said Players’ Status Committee member Slim Aloulou had ruled as a single judge that [...]

Caption Competition No.1

Scotzine are today officially launching its Caption Competition feature, although you won’t be winning any prizes at this moment in time we have always found it funny and downright weird at times with people’s comments on photographs. So get your caption comments in now for the photograph above taken at this year’s Swamp World Cup.

South of the Border- Motson, Barton, Ronaldo & Barry

Well it is about time we turned our attentions to our neighbours down south in England – only for a wee bit though. While we have been focusing on the wheelings and dealings in Scotland and other news items, we have somewhat lost touch of the goings on with oor Auld Enemy. We discuss the [...]

Walter Smith hits back at the Rangers Boo Boys

Rangers manager Walter Smith has slammed the Rangers fans who are harbouring serious resentment against Kenny Miller because he played for rivals Celtic. The Scotland International will tonight hope to make his official debut (for the second time) against Hearts feeder club FBK Kaunas in the Champions League Second Qualifying Roundat Ibrox.
However Smith has issued [...]

Back to Normal Service

Scotzine suffered a wee gliche last night with our hosting package, thankfully though everything has resumed back to normal service, hope that we didn’t cause much inconvenience to all our readers.
Remember our Season 2008-2009 Preview Issue of The 12th Man is coming out soon – this will be the very last issue that will be [...]

Rangers Champions League Qualifier Preview

Rangers have a series of injury worries to contend with although manager Walter Smith is hopeful that midfielders Lee McCulloch and Kevin Thomson can win their fit to be fit to face Hearts feeder club FBK Kaunas in their Champions League Qualifier.
However the Ibrox side will miss the influential pair of Captain Barry Ferguson and [...]

Latest Transfer News & Rumours

With little coming out of Celtic Park in the way of signings or talk about potential targets, the National Rag hacks have been busy trying to put two and two together. Sno has rejected a more lucrative offer from Spanish side Osasuna, while Villa are chasing after Naylor with Sunderland keeping an eye on proceedings. [...]

Bob Crampsey 1930 – 2008

Bob Crampsey, the Voice and the Authority on Scottish Football has died aged 78, after battling Parkinson’s Disease. Crampsey was one of the most respected commentators and journalists in Scotland. With his death we have lost the one man who was trusted by all sides, the one man who brought balance and perspective to every [...]

SFL Challenge Cup First Round Results

The Scottish Football season kicked off a bit early today with the clubs playing in the Scottish Football Leagues Division One, Two and Three participating in the annual Challenge Cup Competition. The North West and the South West sections battled it out between one another in the First Round proper.

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