Tony Mowbray admits ‘worst’ Celtic performance of the season

Tony Mowbray defended his decision to leave Scott McDonald on the bench yesterday but did concede that the performance was Celtic’s worst of the season.

Kenny Miller criticises Scotland fixture ‘shambles’

Kenny Miller has claimed that Scotland’s World Cup campaign was doomed from the start because the SFA agreed to a “shambles” of a fixture schedule.

Rangers’ Fleck and Wilson have teenage dreams disturbed by reality check

Danny Wilson and John Fleck may be taking their first, assured footsteps towards regular first-team football at Rangers but they are not allowed to get too big for their boots.

Falkirk 3 Celtic 3: Still top of the class but plenty of lessons to be learned

They say that every day is a school day and there were plenty of lessons here for Celtic and Falkirk to take on board.

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Has the time come for Rangers to refuse tickets for away European ties?

In the league table of Rangers’ hooligan incidents Romania wasn’t a patch on Manchester.

Aberdeen 2 St Johnstone 1: Referee in spotlight after Miller admits to soft penalty

Euan Norris’ ears will still be burning today as Mark McGhee and Derek McInnes, the respective managers of the teams who produced such a hugely entertaining game, continue to dissect its more controversial components.

Hamilton Acad 2 Motherwell 2: Beuzelin red-faced after derby dismissal

As a man with two months to make an impression, it was perhaps understandable that Guillaume Beuzelin was quick to offer his apologies.

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Old Firm would not be missed

Scottish football, as a few of us have sometimes said, does not revolve entirely around the Old Firm.

Wales assistant manager Dean Saunders is in no mood to repay George Burley’s act of kindness

A hospital ward in Cambridge was the unlikely venue for the first meeting between Dean Saunders and George Burley.

Save football: bring back Macaroon bars, Panini stickers and 20-a-side

THE negativity around Scottish football is as contagious as the winter vomiting bug.

English Football

Chelsea 1 Manchester Utd 0: Defence the best form of attack as John Terry grabs winner

All week long the debate had been about who was the best striker in the world.

Liam Brady reveals why ending French resistance would allow him to slam the door shut on the ghosts of World Cup finals past

Raymond Domenech has a track record for bluntness that Nikolas Sarkozy would admire, so it is hard to determine whether the French national coach was indulging in a little psychology when he claimed the Republic of Ireland squad is really England’s B team in disguise, or if he was merely talking out of his derriere.

A symbol of intent

It’s an age-old truism that title deciders aren’t played in November and it’s largely accurate.

Rugby Union

Ayr 21 Currie 7: Millbrae men back on title trail

Both sides had declared in advance that this wasn’t a championship decider, but the whoops of delight and unfettered celebrations from the Ayr players at the climax spoke volumes for the significance of this result in the wider Premiership picture.

Scotland’s Nathan Hines is on alert as Fiji seek revenge

THERE is a powerful argument that when Scotland head to a Rugby World Cup, they should hand out beta-blockers with the tickets.

Scotland coach Robinson hopes for more sunny days as first Test looms

SOMEWHERE in the heavens above St Andrews, the weather gods were smiling on Andy Robinson.

Golf

Mickelson has Tiger on his tail in Shanghai

A round of 67 saw Phil Mickelson overturn a two-shot deficit against Tiger Woods to take a two-shot lead into today’s final round of the HSBC Champions event in Shanghai.

From pats on the course to pats on the back . . . Kingarth doing fine, thank you

At the other end of the golfing scale from the Trump billions and Donald’s grand vision of building’s the world’s finest course on the north-east coast of Scotland is a nine-hole community facility on the island of Bute that is trying to be all it can be and doing very well, thank you.

Douglas Lowe on Tuesday – Why Andrew McArthur might go back to tour school despite already graduating

If there were an award for perseverance, a strong candidate would have to be Andrew McArthur, who has earned his European Tour card at his fourth attempt after three near misses at graduating through the University of Hard Knocks that is the Challenge Tour.

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England expects much of Trott on return to South Africa

Not a lot worries Jonathan Trott.

Jim Delahunt’s 12 to Follow

NEXT weekend’s three-day meeting at Cheltenham is a landmark fixture in the jumping calendar and with the Breeders’ Cup races now done and dusted, the hedge-hoppers can take centre stage for the next six months, barring the usual winter speculation surrounding the major Classic hopefuls.

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