Scottish Premiership

Lashed home from four yards out to make it 3-0 to Hearts, and they march on in the League Cup.

Wayne Rankin has steered them to the Conference League, towards the top of the Premiership in the early stages, and now a League Cup semifinal, having just been in the door for a few months.

His side are now nine games unbeaten in all competitions.

Stenhousemuir's fairytale run comes to an end.

The rumors and the reporting around, uh, roundabout seem to indicate potentially up to five nights at Celtic Park next May, between May 22nd and May 29th.

Now, that's a week after the end of the Scottish Premiership, but May 22nd's actually the date of the Scottish Cup Final as well, so, um, there might be a wee bit logistically to sort out in Glasgow on that day.

Tony, I, I know you're a big music fan.

I am, too.

Um, there's an element of that as well where you're, you're wanting to knock Rangers directly out of a tournament.

It's, it adds a, a certain flavor to the match on the day.

Um, but I- I'm definitely looking at that game, the league game, the Scottish Premiership game, as, as probably more important of the two.

That's not to say I'm kind of looking past Sunday at all, but maybe with this cup game, is there, is there a feeling that, you know, we're gonna see these teams kind of go at each other? It was very stodgy at times between the two teams last year, Tony.

The rumors and the reporting around, uh, roundabout seem to indicate potentially up to five nights at Celtic Park next May, between May 22nd and May 29th.

Now, that's a week after the end of the Scottish Premiership, but May 22nd's actually the date of the Scottish Cup Final as well, so, um, there might be a wee bit logistically to sort out in Glasgow on that day.

Tony, I, I know you're a big music fan.

I am, too.

Um, there's an element of that as well where you're, you're wanting to knock Rangers directly out of a tournament.

It's, it adds a, a certain flavor to the match on the day.

Um, but I, I'm definitely looking at that game, the league game, the Scottish Premiership game, as, as probably more important of the two.

That's not to say I'm kind of looking past Sunday at all, but maybe with this cup game, is there, is there a feeling that, you know, we're going to see these teams kind of go at each other? It was very stodgy at times between the two teams last year, Tony.

Mm-hmm.

Like I lost my father-in-law to ALS, and he grew up playing soccer in Scotland, and his brother Pat played in the Scottish Premier League.

Like he-- There's a-- He grew up playing like youth levels in, in Scotland, and so like the amount of times that he must have headed the ball, right?

Mm-hmm.

He should have gone somewhere where the aspiration was top half as opposed to clinging on to bottom half.

I think in angles, they've done really well because it's a bit of an old-fashioned ploy, isn't it? But you can go to the top of the Scottish Premier League if you're an aspirational League One side, let alone Championship, and Nick some quality.

And I think we have done in him.

And although he's not started every game yet, another big deal for West Ham is Lewis Alford coming through.

And then two match days have gone by.

Well, like one and a half match days in the Scottish Premiership.

Celtic have managed in maybe not... bombastic fashion, but have managed a couple wins since the last time we recorded, and we'll look ahead to this weekend where we have the first Glasgow Derby of this season, but in the League Cup quarterfinals, not the Premiership.

So we'll look forward to that as we head into the week of uh, next week.

Yeah.

Yeah, so two separate competitions is why that happened.

This was last weekend in the Scottish Premiership.

This is a League Cup weekend, so we're down to the last eight in the League Cup.

Right.

You ready? So in May 1999, Rangers beat Celtic 3-0 at Celtic Park to clinch the Scottish League title.

Which Rangers manager was in charge? Charlie.

Advocate.

And they had a big-time outbound transfer, Kevin Kelsey, who was having a career year up in Stumptown.

Heads to Rangers FC of the Scottish Premiership.

$13 million on the transfer fee.

That's a new record for Portland on the outbound.

So I think, you know, right across the globe, so many people will be remembering, uh, 9/11 with great sadness.

Um, to football, uh, and in midweek there were two games in the Scottish Premiership.

Rangers, in the end, narrowly won it by a goal to nil, which was ideal preparation, I think, Roughie, for their home match-

Mm