The Twohundredpercent Play-off Jamboree: Albion Rovers 3-1 Annan Athletic
It’s not often anyone has all that much to say about Albion Rovers. So now that they’ve got quite a good side and – at the midway point of this...
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The Twohundredpercent Play-off Jamboree: Cowdenbeath 0-2 Brechin City (agg. 2-4)
We were here a year ago for the same fixture and for the same reason – the first division play-offs. Last year they met in the final rather than the...
The Twohundredpercent Play-off Jamboree: Annan Athletic 2-1 Alloa Athletic
Rarely have I watched a game between two teams with such differing levels of enthusiasm for being involved in the match at all. That’s inevitable, to a large extent, when...
Crunch Time In The Highland League
Buckie Thistle v Deveronvale, a straight head-to-head for the title .......
In Defence Of Sammy The Tammy
Cardboard tanks and floodlight failures - controversy in the Scottish first division....
Rangers: Walter Smith, Manager Of The Season?
Manager of the season? As per usual, Eddie Howe is a strong candidate; this year for establishing AFC Bournemouth in League One and for re-energising Burnley’s stuttering promotion play-off bid...
Celtic & Rangers: Old Firm, Old Enmity, New Century
Imagine different circumstances surrounding Manchester United’s defeat at Liverpool last Sunday. Leave aside Jamie Carragher’s nasty tackle on Nani, Nani’s ability to race to the referee before collapsing in an...
Craig Levein and Graeme Hogg: a classic punch-up
This week’s spat between Joe Jordan and Rino Gattuso prompted the usual sanctimonious outpourings about the disgraceful behaviour of footballers, as well as the usual counter-responses from fans that actually...
Dundee`s CVA Passes (For Now)
The first reaction, when the news broke that Dundee’s CVA had been passed at a creditors’ meeting on Tuesday, was relief. I’d never really thought there would be much danger...
Selflessness at Stirling Albion
Including a brief round-up of financial problems in the Scottish first division....
Terry Butcher: Man of the Moment
It’s taken a long time for Terry Butcher to make himself anything like as popular as a manager as he once was as a player, but this week the growing...
Doha, Dundee and David Goodwillie: some updates
So I’ve been out the loop for a couple of weeks or so, not so much that I haven’t been able to enjoy a few weeks of sometimes wonderful sport,...
Forty Years On: Remembering The Second Ibrox Disaster
Today marks the fortieth anniversary of what could, with justification, be described as British football’s forgotten tragedy. Whereas the disasters of Heysel and Hillsborough took place in front of the...
The Twohundredpercent Vault: Brian Potter – A Life In Professional Soccer
Twohundredpercent is on its Christmas holidays for a a few days so, until then, we’re keeping the site ticking over with some of the best from our almost five year...
(Mostly) Good News For Dundee
Dundee's future looks more secure - but their SFL appeal fails....
Scottish Match of the Week: Alloa 2-3 Airdrie
Central Scotland actually missed out, at least up to Saturday, on the latest snowfalls which have caused such problems to the north and to the south over the last few...
Video Of The Week: Only A Game, The Story Of Scottish Football, Part 4: The Game
We’re up to the fourth of our five episodes of the 1985 BBC Scotland documentary series, “Only a Game? The Story of Scottish Football”, this evening, and tonight’s episode is...
The SPL Plot A Power-Grab
After all the fuss about the refereeing crisis, it’s time for Scottish football to return to some semblance of normality and get back to what it does best and spends...
Aberdeen: McGhee out, Brown in
Eighteen months after Aberdeen last raided Motherwell for a manager, they've decided that one is not fit for the purpose, and have gone back to the same dealers to get...
Video Of The Week 2: Only A Game, The Story Of Scottish Football, Part 3: The Player
It’s time for another video, and tonight we return again to the 1985 BBC documentary series “Only A Game – The Story Of Scottish Football”. For the third part of...