Rangers release Financial Report – Wheres the Rest?

We knew it was coming and we knew it wasn’t going to be pretty reading – especially if you are a Rangers supporter. But one thing that struck me when I was reading through the Financial report. It had only two pages – omitting both a balance sheet and cash flow statement and the first [...]

Scottish Football Fanzine out on Sunday 1st March

The Third Issue of the Scottish Football Fanzine ‘The 12th Man’ is out on Sunday 1st March and is available to everyone for FREE! There are several ways in which you can get a hold of your copy. First of all you can visit the site on the 1st March and via our Fanzine section [...]

SPL Statement in regards to Rangers singing controversy

After the recent Old Firm Derby match at Celtic Park, where it was alleged racist, sectarian and bigoted songs were being sung by the Rangers supporters – and that the Match Delegate would be putting it into his report. We waited for the report to become public or at least a statement from the SPL [...]

Last Day to Vote for Scotzine in the Football Fanzine Awards

Today is the last day to vote in The Football Pools Fanzine Awards 2009, and as you know Scotzine has been nominated in the Best Blog – Online category. With the voting about to finish, it will then go to a Judging Panel to then decide on who to decide as the winner. So Scotzine [...]

Honour for Rangers striker Sam English

The Rangers player involved in one of Scotland’s most tragic football accidents was honoured by his home town yesterday. Members of Sam English’s family travelled to Northern Ireland as guests of the Mayor of Coleraine, to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth. English was involved in a clash with Celtic goalkeeper John Thomson in [...]

Fir Park pitch harks back to good old days

There was something deliciously old school about Motherwell’s draw with Celtic last weekend. Bobbles, bumps, and ridges littered the Fir Park pitch and a short passing game virtually impossible. Instead it became a vintage battle of wills, resembling something you saw in the 70s and 80s, as well as in parks [...]

FIFA determines WCQ European Runners-Up Criteria

When the group phase of European Zone qualifying reaches its conclusion on 14 October 2009, the nine section winners will be guaranteed a place at the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. Thereafter, the eight best runners-up will compete in two-legged play-offs, with the continent’s four remaining tickets to the world finals at stake.
Scotland if [...]

Another Celtic Player voices his opinion of Gordon Strachan

After the reports of recent bust ups between Aiden McGeady & Gordon Strachan, former Celt Derek Riordan & Strachan and McGeady & Boruc – it seems that there is a consistent resentment within the dressing room and the manager is failing to control the situation. This time Italian midfielder Massimo Donati has voiced his opinion [...]

Police moved in to stop violence between St. Mirren & Motherwell Fans

It has been reported in the Wishaw Press, that Police were forced to intervene and stop trouble flaring after a group of Motherwell fans tried to create mayhem in Paisley town centre last Tuesday night following the Fir Park club’s Homecoming Scottish Cup replay defeat to St Mirren. Around 30 casuals attempted to attack Saints [...]

The SPL and Fir Park

This week’s football news seems to have been dominated by Motherwell’s rutted, muddy pitch, and it is starting to become very tiresome – so let’s make this the last word on the matter. It is amazing (yet utterly predictable) that it took one of the Old Firm to visit Fir Park and drop points for [...]

Celtic Transfer Speculation – Marc Janko, Shikabala and Eliseu

So after a very quiet January Transfer window for Celtic, it seems that with the rising discontent amongst the supporters with the lack of signings coupled with the failure to keep the lead at the top of the SPL – at one point 7 points clear of rivals Rangers – stories are surfacing in regards [...]

New Kit Deal for Motherwell

Motherwell have secured a new kit deal with Canterbury of New Zealand for the next four years. The deal will see the Company provide the Lanarkshire club with first-team kit and training apparel from the start of the 2009-10 season.
The new kit has yet to be revealed but manager Mark McGhee is confident the design [...]

Subscribe to our new Scottish Football Podcast – The Terrace

Scotzine.com has entered into partnership with The Terrace Radio to bring our readers a Brand New and exciting Scottish Football Podcast each week. Tackling issues ranging from the Big Two – Rangers & Celtic – down to the clubs battling it out in the Third Division. We will look at all the action in Scotland, [...]

The Terrace – Scottish Football Podcast Episode Three

On this week’s The Terrace: We look back on a weekend which saw Rangers and Celtic swap places at the summit of the SPL, and ask whether this is just a blip-n-the-swamp for Celtic or are Rangers finally turning the tables after 3 years?; we also look at the increasing crisis at Hibs as fans [...]

Hibs Fans calling for Mixu’s Head after another defeat

Football Fans are a ficcle bunch, it only takes a few bad results to turn their belief in a manager into a lynch mob calling for his head. And so this time it falls onto Mixu Paatelainean’s lap to be the next manager the fans turn on and demanding his sacking. The final nail on [...]

Is Richard Foster’s time at Aberdeen at an end after bust up with Calderwood

Richard Foster’s time at Pittodrie may be at an end after branding boss Jimmy Calderwood ‘Brainless.’ Foster was stripped of his place in Saturday’s squad after a furious training ground bust- up with Calderwood last Thursday. Now Calderwood has admitted his patience has snapped with the 23 year old and he is set to show [...]

SFA Chief Calls for Two Month Winter Break

Scottish Football Association Chief Executive Gordon Smith, wants to see the introduction of a winter break. The call came after pictures of Motherwell’s ‘excuse’ of a  pitch were broadcast around the world when they played Celtic at the weekend, he believes Scottish football needs to be reshaped. Smith would like to see a two-month shutdown [...]

Highland Outfit Cove Rangers blasts plans for Celtic B Team in SFL Third Division

Cove Rangers secretary Duncan Little was left stunned last night and insisted that it would be ‘grossly unfair’ for a Celtic B Team to be fast tracked to the Third Division. Little was shell shocked after being told that the SPL Champions had opened talks with SFL Chief David Longmuir in a bid to enter [...]

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