Football Archive

HEARTS have made securing their manager, Paulo Sergio, on an extended contract their top priority, according to Sergejus Fedotovas, the Tynecastle club's director.

KENNY Shiels became manager of Kilmarnock only 11 months ago, but he already seems so inextricably linked to the place it's difficult to imagine it without him.

Pat Fenlon, the Hibernian manager, will have talks with Tim Clancy in a bid to finalise a deal for the defender.

John McGlynn, the Raith Rovers manager, has been appointed head of youth development at the club on a permanent basis.

Paul Lambert, the Norwich City manager, believes his former Celtic team-mate Neil Lennon deserves the chance to manage in the Champions League next season as reward for the job he has done at the Parkhead club.

THE news that two Scotland internationalists have been reluctant to take up with Team GB may have sent a collective sigh of relief sweeping through Hampden, but Craig Levein was not inclined to even part his lips.

RANGERS are considering whether to seek a Judicial Review of the SFA's decision to impose a year-long transfer embargo on the club.

WHEN Anna Signeul arrived in Glasgow from her native Sweden in 2005 she expected to be in Scotland for four years.

A GENTLE request to the Scottish Football Association staff currently putting Barry Robson through his latest coaching course: don't be too hard on him if he seems to be daydreaming or not paying attention during lessons.

n Tony Watt is hopeful Celtic can secure the services of top scorer Gary Hooper on a new long-term deal this summer, even though that will reduce his chances of first-team football.

It is a mere five days since Matt Phillips endured the crushing disappointment of losing to West Ham United in the Championship play-off final but the Blackpool winger is already adopting a philosophical approach to what happens next.

In less than a week, Chris Hegarty will be without a contract.

What will happen next at Rangers?

THERE is a new gang of gunslingers in town.