Football

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  Brown defends Commons after Wotte queries 'desire'

  MARK WOTTE, the Scottish Football Association's performance director, has questioned Kris Commons' "pride, desire and ambitions" after the Celtic attacker retired from international football.

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  Former Hibernian manager compares Griffiths to Bale

  IF daft boyness is a particularly Scottish condition, then Leigh Griffiths isn't the first footballer to be afflicted with it.

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  Silent out of respect to Kilmarnock, Cammy Bell explains his reasons for making move to Rangers

  Among Cammy Bell's final acts as a Kilmarnock player was to visit the club's goalkeeping coach, Billy Thomson, and thank him for his support.

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  'Last season we'd have been beaten five or six'

  WHEN it's been the same old story for 110 years why should Hibernian fans believe it will be any different this time?

• Beck searches high and low for converts

  Mark Beck said yesterday that he has been doubling up as a Scotland recruitment officer as he reflected on his surprise call-up for this week's UEFA Elite Under-19 tournament in Belgium.

• Hearts shed assistant manager and member of board

  Edgaras Jankauskas, the Hearts assistant manager, is to leave the club along with Julija Goncaruk, the owner Vladimir Romanov's niece, who has resigned from her role as non-executive director.

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  Celtic captain has no intention of stumbling again

  SCOTT Brown sat in one of Hampden's corporate boxes and watched the team in green-and-white being torn apart in the Scottish Cup final.

• McCall to hold Sheffield United talks

  Motherwell manager Stuart McCall has cut short a holiday to open talks with Sheffield United, according to reports from the Press Association.