Strachan claims he left Mowbray a Top Team! Boro gaffer delusional

New Middlesborough manager Gordon Strachan has launched into Tony Mowbray over the Celtic manager’s claims that his Celtic players lack quality. Strachan insists that Mowbray has inherited a team of top stars.
Strachan said, “I was so lucky to have so many good players to work with there. There are some terrific players at that club. [...]

Football Club has a 50-50 chance of survival

The chairman of Highland Football League outfit Clachnacuddin has said that the club’s chances of survival were ‘50-50′ after they went into administration. The Inverness club faces legal action if it does not repay £46,534 to the Highland Council.
Chairman David Dowling said there remained a hope of finding a new buyer. He said, “We’ve been [...]

Scottish League Cup: Dundee v Rangers Live Coverage

Join Scotzine.com for our live coverage of the League Cup match between Division One big spenders Dundee and Financially stricken SPL reigning champions Rangers.

Whats the story in Balamory….oops Ibrox?

Since Walter Smith’s damning indictment of the situation at Rangers on Saturday afternoon, the papers have been filled with claims and counter-claims.
Lloyds Bank have claimed that they do not run company’s that they are banked with them. Rangers then release a statement that state the bank is fully supportive of the club, its board, the [...]

Burley wants Government funding to help Scotland National side

Scotland manager George Burley has called on the Scottish Executive to provide more funding to help Scotland qualify for major championships in the future. He argues that the Government should be providing more facilities and schemes to encourage youngsters to improve their skills.
“We haven’t got the facilities, we haven’t got the backing from the government,” [...]

Why Allan Moore is due a bigger job

Morton have now been without a permanent manager for over a month – now they’ve finally made their move for a replacement in Allan Moore.
Of all the managers that deserve a chance at a higher level, the Stirling Albion boss stands out and after over seven years in charge at Forthbank Stadium, the former Hearts [...]

Well its Official!! Rangers are being run by Bankers

Well as we suspected all along since the resignation of Murray as Chairman, the bank is now running Rangers Football Club. Its Official! However lets all await Walter Smith getting a slap on the wrist for stepping out of the party-line at Ibrox, or possibly the lack of a contract on offer in January after failing [...]

Issue 11 of Celtic fanzine ‘Welcome to Paradise’ Out Now

On the back of selling our very own football fanzine, Scotzine.com is now branching out to sell fanzines from clubs across Scotland. The first fanzine available to buy through Scotzine comes from the Celtic supporters group, the Jungle Bhoys, called Welcome to Paradise.
The fanzine as expected, from a Celtic fan publication, is dedicated to all [...]

Live First Division football through BBC Alba?

A deal to show Scottish Football League games could be on the cards in a new agreement with BBC Alba, the Scots Gaelic channel. Senior figures within BBC Alba are discussing the possibility of increased coverage of first division matches in the latter half of the current season, and possibly more regularly in season 2010-11.

Pathetic: The Scottish Game truly awful

Scottish football has taken, to use Scots slang ‘a hiding’ both on and off the pitch this year. Sadly though, its not really a case of just a bad year for the Scottish game either. Whilst the Scottish national team has not qualified for an International tournament since France 1998 and missed out once again [...]

Latest English sponsorship deal puts Scottish game into Perspective

The latest sponsorship deal of the English Premier League with Barclays Bank certainly has put the SPL sponsorship deal with Clydesdale Bank into perspective. The English top flight’s latest deal sees Barclays renew their sponsorship deal for another three years and worth £82.25 million.
Barclays have sponsored the Premier League since 2004 and their current three-year [...]

Europa League: Celtic v Hamburg – Bhoys go from bad to worse

After the shocking performance against Motherwell on Saturday afternoon, Celtic managed to better that performance in the worst way possible. Once again chances were missed and defensive errors once again played a huge part in proceedings.

Barcelona v Real Madrid! Two top-tier tickets, flights & accommodation – would you like to be there?

Live the dream – A long weekend for you and a friend, or partner of your choice, in the home of world football – Barcelona.
We have two tickets to the Camp Nou, tier one or two, available for auction now – you could be watching Messi, Henry, and Ibrahimovic take on Ronaldo, Kaka and Benzema.
This [...]

The Long Ball: Strachan for Boro, Rangers injury blow & Ross signs on as a Don

Strachan the favourite to replace Southgate at Middlesborough, Rangers dealt a double injury blow, Maurice Ross signs on at Pittodrie, Balde signs on at French side and the short ball excerpts.

Maurice Edu claims Rangers fans ‘racially abused’ him

Well we have stated it before that there is an underlying problem amongst Rangers fans, in the minority of course. After recent songs and chants about Jock Stein and the Famine Song, it now seems that one of their own cannot escape their attentions either.
Only weeks after Kyle Lafferty’s cars were damaged by drunken Rangers [...]

Champions League: Unirea humiliate Rangers – is this worse than Kaunas debacle?

Rangers European adventure turned into a nightmare, after they were humiliated by Unirea Urziceni, 4-1. Unirea are actually the smallest clubs to ever play in the Champions League and this must be one of the worst ever defeats in European history for the Ibrox side, it certainly beats the debacle that surrounded the Kaunas games [...]

Champions League preview: Rangers v Unirea Urziceni – Boyd & Bougherra miss out

After a 1-1 draw in their first game of their Champions League campaign against Stuttgart and a 4-1 thumping from La Liga side Sevilla, Rangers sit bottom of Group G and face Romanian minnows Unirea Urziceni tonight at Ibrox looking to kick start their campaign.

Pre-order Issue 9 of The 12th Man Now: Rangers in Crisis, Hughie Gallacher & Jim Leighton

Issue Nine of The 12th Man Scottish football fanzine is out at the start of November. However you can pre-order your issue now so that you are one of the first to get your hands on it. Once again it will be packed full of articles and profiles looking at Scottish Football from International level [...]

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