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Levein dumps friendlies to restore Scottish pride

• New Scotland manager has a big rebuilding job• Friendly matches will be kept to a minimumOn the basis that managerial positions only fall vacant because a team is in trouble, remedial work is invariably the first duty of the new appointee. Few teams are as troubled as Scotland at...

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AIDEN McGeady has admitted he's haunted by Celtic's title failures during his time with the club.

Celtic 2 - 0 Hamilton: Controversy proves to be academical

IT WAS an illustration of just how fragile Celtic's lead was. Less than ten minutes left and Flavio Paixao drilled a shot into the net.

Falkirk 0 - 1 Hearts: Hearts show their mettle

HEARTS displayed their mettle on a freezing afternoon in Falkirk to record an away victory that hints at better things to come in 2010.

Dundee United 0 - 0 Kilmarnock: Bruising scuffle marks a new dawn for post-Levein United

HIS column was still in the match programme, his players were still on the pitch, and his assistant was dutifully patrolling the technical area, but yesterday was DundeeUnited

Motherwell 1 - 3 St Johnstone: Return of the Mac earns vital points for Saints and has Gannon 'juggling soot'

EIGHT years to the day after his last SPL goal – which came against the same opponents at the same venue and produced the same outcome – Peter MacDonald became the first St Jo

Exiled Scotland trio deserve to come in from cold, says Walter Smith

WHEN IT comes to crime and punishment, there is little that Walter Smith could learn from Fyodor Dostoevsky.

John Hughes is good enough to manage in English Premier League, says admiring Nacho Novo

THE rise of Hibernian this season has not come as a shock to Nacho Novo. Indeed, the Rangers striker claims to have predicted that this would happen when it was announced tha