Big giant killing, Stenhousemuir beating Motherwell.
Stenhousemuir’s Norwegian fan club will have to make the trip over for the next round - or perhaps they were there at Ochilview today?
The return of the free Broomie?
I’m reading that Jim Goodwin is coming under serious pressure at Tannadice after a dismal start to the season and defeat yesterday in the City of Discovery derby.
Focus on how good Elvis has been
Dundee level with Glasgow Celtic on points at the top of the table. They haven’t known days like this at Dens Park since Bob Shankly was in his pomp.
He looks like a history teacher
What a wonderful win for my beloved Jambos tonight against Rapid Vienna, the traditional powerhouse of Austrian football. That will do wonders for the League of Scotland coefficient after the Glasgow Celtic capitulation last night.
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New manager Wouter Vrancken started off with:
A 4-0 away defeat by Sturm Graz at the Arnold Schwarzenegger stadium
A 2-0 home defeat by Sturm Graz
A 2-1 defeat by Cup Winners Cup winners Aberdeen at Pittodrie
A 6-1 defeat by the the mighty Benfica at the Stadium Of Light
Since then, the record has been:
A 4-0 win over European Cup semi-finalists Dundee United
A creditable 1-1 draw in the return leg against Eusebio’s men
A 6-2 Skol Cup thrashing of Inverness Caledonian Thistle
Two 2-2 draws against the mighty Rapid Vienna, who lead the Austrian Bundesliga
A statement away penalty competition victory
There are signs there that Wouter could be about to silence the doubters. Big next two matches for the new boss.
St. Johnstone at Tynecastle Park on Saturday looks like a great opportunity to get another win and build more confidence. Then it’s on to the cauldron of Easter Road for what should a blockbuster first derby of the season on Thursday September 3rd.
Coach Wouter beat Anderlecht by 10 points in the Belgian league last season when he was managing a pub team, so it’s possible he might know something about football.
There’s a great tradition in Scottish football of managers who go on to be successful getting off to disastrous starts.
Graeme Souness was humiliatingly sent off in a 2-1 defeat at the Easter Road cauldron in August 1986 in his first match as player-manager of Rangers.
Wim Jansen lost his first two league matches in charge of Celtic and lost to Derry City.
Gordon Strachan’s first match in charge of Celtic was the 5-0 humiliation by Artmedia Bratislava.
Brendan Rodgers’ first match as Celtic manager was a defeat by Gibraltar’s domestic kingpins Lincoln Red Imps.
And famously Jock Stein’s first match as Celtic manager was a 7-1 defeat by Fourth Lanark Thirds at Cathkin Park.
Sturm Graz respond to the Hearts tweet last night.
I must say I quite enjoyed Hearts twitter admin having a dig at Celtic. That’s what it’s all about to be fair. The football is absolutely shit for the most part, mediocre at best, so we rely on the spats, violence, cheating & outright sectarianism to make us feel alive.
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Rangers need John Terry
Great comeback from Hibs. 2.1
Jaysus disaster for Hibs
Huns grind out a 1-0 win thanks to a DISGUSTING performance by the man in the middle Matthew McDermid.
Hun with a whistle rings out across Pittodrie.
No big move for the chubby Amish lad by the looks of things.
McInnes said earlier that they have now surrendered to even accepting a loan to buy for Raskin and it looks like similar for Raskin.
Must put them under serious financial pressure.
£9m striker in for the Huns and a guy on loan with an option for £15m.
The huns have outspent us in total by £10m and then outspend us in a net spend of around £35m.
Hearts leading 3-1 against 10-man Hibs at Easter Road. The new Hearts manager has stabilised things quite well, that Conference League qualifier win in Austria last week was a real fillip.
A 1-3 victory for Heart Of Midlothian in the Edinburgh derby. A very confident display indeed from what I saw which was from 81 minutes on with the sound down.
I’m becoming increasingly convinced this Wouter Vrancken might know something about football and about managing football teams.
What a night to be a Jambo. We properly put those Hibees to the sword on their patch.