Scotland

I have been writing for By Far The Greatest Team for months now, and during that time I have written about some pretty impressive teams, both nationally and internationally. During that time, I have never written about the team that I consider to be the greatest. Dundee United’s Scottish Cup winning side from the 2009/10 […]

I won’t lie, St Mirren’s magnificent 2-3 comeback win against a tricky Queen of the South team thoroughly deserves to be the number one game on this week’s review, but I managed to get myself down to Tannadice Park today, to watch Dundee United batter a strong Livingston team 3-0, therefore that will be where […]

69 games undefeated domestically is a stunning record. Scottish football gets a lot of flack, and it is not my place to say whether this is fair or not. It gets branded as a “tin-pot league” by many, especially south of the border. No matter what country and what league you are discussing, 69 games […]

Well, what a weekend this has been. The icy Scottish winter continues to decimate the fixture list with Falkirk’s match against Brechin being called off, along with Livingston’s home tie against Morton. The real talking point of the afternoon occurred down in Dumfries, where Dundee United’s visit of Queen of the South was started, only […]

The big freeze hitting Scotland this week did for two matches this weekend. Livingston missed their second game in a row as their visit to Dumbarton was called off with a frozen pitch. The same fate befell Falkirk, who had their trip to Inverness cancelled for the same reason. Inverness aim to have the game […]

It has been forty-six days since Pedro Caixinha was dismissed as Rangers manager, yet they seem no closer to appointing a replacement for the Portuguese manager who was a questionable choice, to begin with. Since Caixinha was sacked, Rangers have flirted with Aberdeen gaffer Derek McInnes before he rejected their advances, Caixinha has taken a […]

Only four Championship games took place on Saturday December 2nd, with Falkirk’s trip to Livingston being postponed due to a frozen pitch. There were a midweek set of fixtures, with the scores which are as follows: Dumbarton 2-2 Queen of the South.Inverness 4-0 Brechin. St Mirren 3-1 Livingsto. Of the four games which went ahead, […]

The Scottish Championship returned this week after a two week break, in which the Irn Bru Cup and Scottish Cup saw some of Scotland’s second string teams do battle. A couple of league matches did take place during this period, which means some teams have played 14 games, others having completed 13, which from a […]

Sunday 19 November and I am in Edinburgh to watch Heart of Midlothian’s first home league game of the season. Heart of Midlothian, the club that most assume was named after the famous novel written by Sir Walter Scott as part of his Waverley trilogy. The truth is much simpler although far less romantic . […]

League action takes a hiatus this weekend, with the lower league and non league sides all doing battle in the third round of the Scottish Cup. Some Championship sides did well, such as St Mirren scoring 7 (seven) goals, while others, like Queen of the South, managed only a 0-0 draw away to Montrose. Inverness, […]

Eight teams have made it through to the quarter finals of the fizzy pop cup, one Northern Irish side, a Welsh team and six from Scotland, five from the Championship and one from league one. By the end of the weekend, four remained. Crusaders, Inverness, Dumbarton and TNS all saw off their rivals to make […]

Managerless Dundee United stormed to an impressive 2-1 victory against league leaders St Mirren at Tannadice Park this weekend. This result, coupled with both Livingston and Dunfermline dropping points , saw Dundee United rise to second, only off top spot on account of their miserably low goal difference. At the other end of the table […]

Hibs overtake Motherwell as the league’s form team and sneak up to third following their extra match. Bad news for St.Johnstone, who are on a run so cold, it would make brass monkeys wince. Despite that they somehow remain in the top half – for now. More shenanigans at Ibrox, but we’re so used to […]

Week 11 of the Scottish Championship saw managerless Dundee United win in the face of adversity, Brechin do their usual play quite well then lose anyway, and Falkirk end their three game clean sheet streak in magnificent form, by shipping four goals away to Queen of the South. The weekend saw the ten teams share […]

It was another all-action affair this weekend in the Scottish Championship, with many an intriguing result. Inverness toppling the turbulent Terrors at Tannadice was a standout, Queen of the South edged past Brechin City in a fiery affair at Glebe Park, and Falkirk played out another not-so-scintillating 0-0 draw with St Mirren. Our week ten […]

 It sounds like the plot for a TV forensic crime drama, but it’s not. In fact, genetics, fraud and paranoia were all in the Scottish football news this week. The Premiership returned from its hiatus after Scotland’s hopes of qualifying for the World Cup in Russia were finally extinguished. In the wake of the tepid […]

What can I say about this weekend’s Scottish Championship action? It was poor, it was really f*****g poor. Five matches, ten teams and a grand total of five goals. This included two 0-0 draws. Of the ten teams in action, only three scores. Props to you, Morton, Livingston and St Mirren, I applaud you. The […]

Scottish attentions are now focused on qualifying for the 2020 European Championships after an unexpected late surge brought about a narrowly heartbreaking fall at the last hurdle in Slovenia. It seemed unlikely just over a year ago, though, with a defeat at Wembley to the Auld Enemy leaving us with a mountain to climb. The […]

‘This Time’ was the Scottish FA’s slogan for the qualifying campaign on the road to Russia 2018. But here we are – the morning after the night before. Another hangover accompanies another Scotland disappointment. The over-riding feeling is not of misery or despair. We, as a nation, are not feeling sorry for ourselves after this […]

The Scottish Championship may have taken a break over the international break, but the teams certainly didn’t. This weekend saw Dumbarton, Falkirk, Dunfermline, Inverness, Queen of the South, St Mirren and Dundee United fight for their place in the next round of the cup. The big guns, which they apparently are in this minnow cup, […]