David Obua, the Hearts midfielder, has announced his retirement from international football, citing his expulsion from the Uganda camp during the Africa Cup of Nations qualifying for doing so.
A SMALL electrical fire in the south stand put paid to the previous attempt to get this match played back in December, but last night it was Motherwell's hopes of playing Champions League football which could not be extinguished.
Neil Lennon heaped praise on his Celtic players last night, stressing that it was a fantastic achievement that they would be 10 points ahead of Rangers even if the Ibrox club hadn't been penalised for going into administration.
NATIONS rise and fall with regularity in the volatile common marketplace of European football, but it still seems remarkable that the age of English exceptionalism appears to have shuddered to a halt.
DUNDEE UNITED have tended to excel in the second half of their matches of late and so it proved again as they dispatched Kilmarnock to enhance their European aspirations.
When Celtic were moving towards the brink of bankruptcy in the mid-1990s, the challenge to the families who owned the club was inspired by Brian Dempsey.
THERE is still a sense of disbelief in the air at Motherwell, an outright refusal to accept the altered landscape in which the club finds itself following Rangers' collapse into administration.
JEERS quickly turned to cheers as Carl Finnigan, the Dundee forward, came back to haunt Falkirk with a late equaliser to hand Ross County a major advantage in the race for promotion.
22 February 2012
22 February 2012
