Scotland know their EURO 2012 qualifying fate

Scotland and Craig Levein now know who they will face in the qualifying campaign for the European Championships of 2012. They have been drawn in Group I with Spain, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Liechtenstein.

Scotland manager Craig Levein, welcomed the opportunity to face Spain and is relishing the battle on the pitch with the reigning European Champions.
“I [...]

Live Coverage EURO 2012 Qualifying Draw

Scotland await their fate in the European Championship 2012 qualifying draw. Craig Levein will look on to see who he will face in his first campaign as Scotland manager. Will we get Italy and France again or will we face the Auld Enemy, England like we did in Euro 1996.
Follow the draw with Scotzine.com from [...]

Levein in Warsaw for EURO 2012 Qualifying draw

Craig Levein awaits Scotland’s fate in the European Championship 2012 draw, and will know who he will face in his first campaign as Scotland manager. The draw takes place at 11am UK time tomorrow and Scotzine will bring you all the coverage. We will kick off the festivities at 10.45am.
Scotland have been selected in Pot [...]

Gets bad to worse for Scotland as they are third seeds for Euro 2012 qualifiers

After the dismal performance of Scotland in the World Cup qualifiers, things are going from bad to worse for Scotland as it has been revealed that the Scots will be drawn from Pot three for the 2012 European Championship qualifiers.
Scotland have plummeted down the FIFA rankings and are now ranked 26th in Europe. When the [...]

Europa League: Hapoel Tel Aviv v Celtic – Live Text Commentary + Line-ups

Celtic have travelled to Israel to face hosts Hapoel Tel Aviv, in their first game of the Europa Leagu group stage aftr being knocked out of the Champions League by Arsenal. Celtic finally broke their away day hoodoo in Moscow in August, can they get over the defeat to Arsenal to bring all three points [...]

Champions League: Stuttgart 1-1 Rangers – Bougherra goes from villain to hero

After hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons at the weekend, Madjid Bougherra will wake up tomorrow on the back covers for all the right reasons, after giving Rangers a share of the spoils in Stuttgart. After a shaky start to the match and going a goal behind after a mistake from full back [...]

Champions League: Stuttgart v Rangers – Line-ups & Latest News

Both teams for tonight’s Champions League group clash between Rangers and Stuttgart have been announced with some major news from both camps. For Rangers, Captain David Weir will miss out on tonight’s clash due to injury. He picked up the injury following an incident in Saturday’s 0-0 draw with Motherwell at Fir Park. In his [...]

UEFA chicken out of Eduardo two match ban – money does talk after all!

UEFA have surprisingly accepted the appeal lodged by Arsenal against the two match ban handed to striker Eduardo. According to their press release, “Following examination of all the evidence, notably the declarations of both the referee and the referees’ assessor, as well as the various video footage, it was not established to the panel’s satisfaction [...]

Arsenal’s Eduardo given a two match ban by UEFA over dive against Celtic

The UEFA Control and Disciplinary Body met today to examine the case of Arsenal player Eduardo “for deceiving the referee” during the UEFA Champions League play-off second leg match on 26 August against Celtic FC. They have taken the decision that he was guilty of the charge and has suspended the player for two UEFA [...]

Celtic find out their Europa League fate – Hamburg, Rapid Wien & H. Tel Aviv

After being knocked out of the Champions League on Wednesday night by Arsenal, Celtic were awaiting the draw for the Group stages of the Europa League to see who they will face in Europe’s second Club competition. The draw took place in Monaco just moments ago and Celtic were seeded in Pot 2 and they [...]

Eduardo charged with diving by UEFA

Eduardo has been charged with “deceiving the referee” in Arsenal’s clash with Celtic on Wednesday. The Croatia international has been widely criticised for the manner in which he went about winning a penalty at Emirates Stadium in the UEFA Champions League qualifier.
The striker fell under a challenge from Hoops keeper Artur Boruc. The referee immediately [...]

The Long Ball: Latest Transfer News, Ins and Outs at Celtic, SFA demand Eduardo action & UEFA to review incident

In another installment of The Long Ball, Celtic look to the Far East once again as they snap up a South Korean midfielder, the Parkhead side send two of their youngsters out on loan and Massimo Donati looks set to swap Glasgow for Bari. The SFA have entered into the debate over that Eduardo dive [...]

Europa League Qualifiers: Motherwell & Falkirk Preview

Motherwell and Falkirk are in action tonight in the Europa League Second Qualifying Phase. Both sides are hoping to progress into the next round, but they had mixed fortunes in the first leg. Falkirk are in pole position to progress after a 1-0 win at home last week against Vaduz, while Motherwell have a fight [...]

Europa League Second Qualifying Round: Falkirk 1-0 FC Vaduz

In their first ever match in Europe, Falkirk took one step closer to qualifying for the next round of the Europa League, after on loan Liverpool youngster Ryan Flynn gave the Bairns a 1-0 victory. It was also new manager Eddie May’s first win in his first competitive match, after he was promoted from coaching [...]

Europa League Second Round Qualifying Round: Flamuratri 1-0 Motherwell

Motherwell travelled to Albania to face hosts Flamurtari in the Europa League Second Qualifying Round and will travel back to Scotland with another European headache as they lost 1-0.
After a scoreless first half, Motherwell were awarded a penalty early on in the second half when John Sutton was fouled by Bledion Guga. Sutton converted the [...]

Poll Question: Which Scottish club will be more successful in Europe?

With the new season fast approaching and Motherwell already having faced European opponents and progressed, we ask you the readers – Which Scottish club will be more successful in Europe?
Scotland will have six representatives in europe this year – Motherwell have already progressed passed Welsh part timers Llanelli and face Albanian side – in the [...]

UEFA give referees power to abandon games over Racist chanting

UEFA have approved new guidelines for match officials to deal with racist chants or other behaviour in stadiums which includes stopping the game. The new rules would allow the referee to first stop a match and issue a warning over the public address system requesting that the racist behaviour cease. If this did not work, [...]

Scotland wins Fair Play European spot

Scotland will have a sixth team in Europe next season after UEFA confirmed that a Fair Play spot will go to an SPL side. Motherwell are currently the side with the best disciplinary record of the sides not assured of a European place already.
Norway, Denmark and Scotland will all receive an extra place in the [...]

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