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Aye aye all. Over the past 2 years or so I’ve spent a lot of time working on Inside Left, and while for the most part I’ve always enjoyed researching the articles and putting it on the site for your enjoyment, I’ve recently come to the conclusion...
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Never mind the World Cup final, the real season kicked off at East End Park yesterday, where Hibs comfortably disposed of Dunfermline 4-0 in a repeat of last year’s pre-season friendly. The Easter Road outfit, who took the field in their new mint gre...
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Deafened by the vuvuzela and with sofa sores on my behind, I sit remote control in hand decidedly underwhelmed. Don’t get me wrong; to me it is still the beautiful game. It has just started to sport a few wrinkles. I had a good, if somewhat childlike...
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So, at last it’s all over. Spain are worthy champions, the Netherlands are lucky to have finished the game with the amount of players they had left. In truth it was a shocking game, not one worthy of representing the end to the world’s premier ...
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GOD, I wish this bleedin’ World Cup would just end. Now that England are out (killing the “Anyone But England” campaign in one fell swoop, unless they come up with a “ahve telt ye” T-shirt instead) there’s really not...
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THE immortal phrase “they think it’s all over now” certainly passed my lips when Barry, at fault for the third goal, slipped up to allow Ozil to pass him on his way to the touchline. When the ball was fired across the area, Mueller wa...
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So England didn’t quite get off to the start that an expecting nation demanded. Capello’s team where cruising along quite happily from a fourth-minute Steven Gerrard goal, but a dreadful mistake by West Ham keeper Robert Green saw the USA e...
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RIGHT, I promised I wouldn’t do this, but we’re one game in and already I’m feeling sufficiently indignant to warrant venting my spleen on these pages. The first game of the tourney has kicked off, a rather lackluster and dull affair ...
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FUCKING hell. That’s all I can say. Who’d have thunk the off season would be this deadly dull. Seriously, I had more fun the last time I cut my toenails. There is nothing happening. Not a dicky bird. Lennon becoming Celtic manager finally b...
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ONLY a few more days to the World Cup. Yippie. Or not, in my case. I couldn’t care less for the World Cup, in much the same way that I don’t care much for international football, full stop. But still, it’s inevitable. Like death, tax ...
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THERE’S not many things that still make me laugh out loud about Scottish football these days. As I was saying to the auld jaikey that uses the entrance to our office car park as his bedsit, t’is a sad state of affairs, right enough. Thankfu...
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BEING a Scottish blog, I don’t have much time for anything to do with football outside of Scotland’s fair shores, but it didn’t completely escape my notice that last Saturdays rip-roaring Championship play-off final between Cardiff Ci...
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SO WE come to the end of another season, and it’s not been a vintage one. Another World Cup qualifying campaign ended in failure, and lame performances by our clubs in Europe did nothing to rehabilitate the reputation of Scottish football. At lea...
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IT IS POOR, I know. Sorry. It’s a headline designed to get you to click on this link where the only bit of useful info you’ll get is the possibility of Hull striker Jimmy Bullard joining up with Celtic on a loan deal, and thus becoming quit...
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THE Old Firm served up their usual two-horse title race, as least for a wee while. The usual suspects chasing Europe and escaping relegation. Memorable? Nah! Although I am a Rangers fan and I was delighted with them winning the league, I was more intri...
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SOME fans of the so-called established first division clubs will be looking back at the SPL season just past as one of missed opportunity. Had wee Jimmy not managed to pull off that inspired last match 0-0 draw, we could have been looking forward to th...
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WITH the season now finally over, it’s time to look back at the season just past. Inside Left asked his fellow Scottish football bloggers for their opinion on how the season was for them. The Scottish Football Blog gets us under way in the first ...
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RIGHT, that’s your season well and truly over thenoo! First off, congratulations go out to Forfar and Cowdenbeath, both of whom won their play-off games on Sunday. Forfar edged out local rivals Arbroath 2-0 with goals from Martyn Fotheringham and...
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At the start of the season, I would have been happy to be top six, or anywhere above Hearts. With Yogi in charge and a couple of new signings, I was confident that we would at least improve on the previous year under Mixu, but I never for one minute be...
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Three second-half goals saw a dominant Dundee United win the Scottish Cup with a convincing victory over Ross County. The first half was a fraught affair with no clear-cut chances until David Goodwillie set the SPL side on their way to victory with an incredible 30-metre lobbed shot to open the scoring in the...
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