The United Nations of the Scottish Premier League

The Scottish game has seen an influx of foreign footballers arrive on our shores, and while it occurred beforehand the 1980s was the decade that foreigners felt that Scotland was the land of riches – even the English thought that as they turned their backs on Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United travelling north to play [...]

The Scottish Co-Efficient Problem

“Scottish Football is in Trouble!” How many times has this been said over the last five years, Celtic again can’t cure their away blues and are shown up by FC Utrecht, Dundee United’s valiant effort away in AEK Athens finished in elimination, and Motherwell for all their chances couldn’t find the goals at Fir Park [...]

Scottish Football Podcasts – Our Choices

With the rise of football podcasts on the net and the slow decline in opinion of phone-ins with so-called football experts on the radio, we thought that it would be a good idea to gather together a plethera of podcasts dedicated to Scottish Football. Scotzine produces its own podcast thanks to the talents of Craig, [...]

Scotland squad announced: Hartley and Weir back in the fold

Scotland manager Craig Levein has named his squad for the upcoming EURO 2012 qualifying double header against Lithuanian and Liechtenstein. And the squad sees a return to the international fold for veteran duo David Weir and Paul Hartley. “The thing about Davie is he is still playing at the highest level week in, week out,” [...]

Women’s Football – Scotland v Greece World Cup Qualifier

Scotland’s women take on Greece on Saturday in their penultimate World Cup Qualifying match. Kicking off at 2pm at the Strathclyde Homes Stadium in Dumbarton, the Scots must get 3 points to ensure a winner takes all showdown against Denmark four days later. Never having qualified for the World Cup before, Scotland’s women are on [...]

BBC to screen Scotland away EURO 2012 qualifiers

BBC Scotland have won the rights to broadcast the live television coverage of all of Scotland’s four away games in their European Championship qualifying campaign. Craig Levein’s competitive debut is away to Lithuania on 3 September and it will not be be shown live on BBC ONE Scotland. The matches against Czech Republic on 8 [...]

Blow for Scotland as Thomson out of Four EURO 2012 games after breaking leg

Middlesborough midfielder Kevin Thomson has been ruled out of Scotland’s first four EURO 2012 qualifiers after breaking his leg in Saturday’s 0-0 draw with Leicester City. The midfielder fractured his right fibula in only his second game for Boro since his £2million move from Rangers, after colliding with fellow Scot Steve Howard in the second [...]

Scotland youngsters battle out a 1-1 with Swedish Under 21 counterparts

Despite the Scotland first team battling it out with their Swedish counterparts in Stockholm, the SFA organised the Under 21 friendly between both teams for the very same night at St. Mirren Park, and Scotzine.com decided to pop along to cheer on the youngsters. And while it wasn’t close to being a full house, there [...]

Levein tastes international defeat for the first time as Scotland are beaten 3-0 by Sweden

Craig Levein has suffered his first defeat as Scotland manager after his side were beaten convincingly by Sweden 3-0 in Stockholm last night. Zlatan Ibrahimovic kicked off his return to the international set up with an early goal for the home side. Emir Bajrami added a second for Sweden on 39 minutes when he struck [...]

Levein warns Cardiff – play Marshall and his international career is over

Scotland manager Craig Levein who last week came out and played hardball with international call offs, has warned Cardiff City and manager Dave Jones not to play Scotland keeper David Marshall in the Carling Cup clash with Burton on Tuesday night or the keeper’s international career will be over. Last week, Cardiff manager Dave Jones [...]

Sweden v Scotland International Match Preview

Scotland could see the withdrawal of six squad members for Wednesday’s International friendly against Sweden. Injuries and illnesses look to deprive national manager Craig Levein, of the services of Lee McCulloch, Andy Webster and Alan Hutton before the team flies out to Stockholm tomorrow. Graham Dorrans, David Marshall and Scott Brown are also doubts and [...]

Billy Stark names latest Scotland U21 squad for Swedish friendly

Billy Stark has named his Under 21 squad to play Sweden in a friendly on the same night as the First Team tackle Sweden also on August 11th, kick off at 7.45pm. Stark will be looking for a positive result as his side build up to a double header in U21 UEFA European Championship qualifiers [...]

Levein to take a hard line approach to International call-offs

Scotland manager Craig Levein has stated his decision to adopt a hard line approach in regards to players being picked for duty with the international side. The Scotland boss named his squad for next Wednesday’s friendly against Sweden, and revealed that he had been asked to leave some players out due to club commitments. But [...]

McGregor recalled to Scotland squad for friendly with Sweden

Allan McGregor has been recalled to the Scotland squad for next Wednesday’s friendly clash with Sweden in Stockhlm. The keeper’s ban for his part in the ‘Boozegate’ scandal was overturned by new manager Craig Levein when he replaced George Burley in December. McGregor was left out of Levein’s first squad that faced the Czech Republic [...]

New Scotland Away Kit Launched! And its a belter!

The brand new Scotland Away kit has been officially launched this morning by the SFA boys. And in our opinion it is a quality piece of kit, we just hope now the players who don the kit can deliver on the park. The brand new kit deal with Adidas looks to have paid off dividends [...]

SFA turn to Booze once again as Carling link up with Scotland

The SFA announced on their official website a seven figure [yep I had to count it on my fingers] four year sponsorship agreement with Carling. Carling will be the first brand to support a wide range of commerical activities with the SFA. The Booze company will become the Official Beer of the Scotland National side [...]

Should Scotland adopt the 4-2-3-1 formation?

Tactical nous and quality players is all well and good, but if you do not have the world class players as England have [sniggers], the type of formation is important or arguably more important than those picked to have the hopes and dreams of a nation resting on their shoulders? Scottish Football fans have been [...]

Levein adds another coach to Scotland backroom staff

Scotland manager Craig Levein has snapped up former Airdrie boss Kenny Black to join the backroom staff of the national side. The former Rangers and Hearts midfielder, who worked under Levein at Leicester City, joins the Scotland setup ahead of the EURO 2012 qualifying campaign. Black who was sacked by Airdrie last month after they [...]

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