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Good afternoon at welcome to the results show. Earlier, longer and, | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
you never know, maybe more interesting than usual. On the day | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
Rangers complete their journey to the top division, we have an extra | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
chair so we have three guests for the price of two. Feast your eyes on | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
our mighty triumvirate, Craig Paterson, Gemma Fay, and Stuart | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
Cosgrove. Welcome one and all. Let's start with the Championship. If | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
Rangers win away g'day to Raith Rovers, they will be champions, but | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
only if Hibs don't win at St Mirren. Time to find out what is happening | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
at Stark spark. Quite a first half. The home side got a lead with a | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
tremendous drive. Harry Forrester quickly drew Rangers level. Another | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
long-range effort from James Craigen made it 2-2. We are just underway in | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
the second half. Let's find out what is happening in Paisley. St Mirren | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
against Hibernian. It is all happening here. Jason Cummings | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
kicked things off with some real quality after 27 minutes. A lovely | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
ball from John McGinn Cummings to be Langfield. Five minutes later, Rocco | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
Quinn silenced the way support with a slide in which a suspicion of off | :01:38. | :01:46. | |
suit. Never offside. Dundee against Ross County now. Let's welcome Brian | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
McLauchlin. A five goal thriller. And the 3, Ross County 2. Stuart | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
Hemmings giving the home side a two goal advantage, then Andrew Davies | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
pulling one back, before Rory Loy restored the advantage. Alex Schalk | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
scored one -- scored one for Ross County. St Johnstone against bottom | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
club Dundee United. Jonathan Sutherland. Dundee United have been | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
utterly dominant so far, and they have the lead. The Johnston | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
goalkeeper Alan Mannus going from hero to zero, as he fumbles in Ryan | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
Dow's shot, and united taking a lead. They have that lead at | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
half-time. Staying in the Premiership, we will head to | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
Inverness for Cally Thistle against Motherwell. Unfortunately, we are | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
the exception to the rule. Not so exciting here. Two teams going for | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
the top six but a bit nervous when they get near the edge of the | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
penalty areas. A lack of creativity from both sides. Kenny Crawford is | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
watching Partick Thistle against Kilmarnock. I am malnourished of | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
goals as well. It is dull less. The second half is about to get started. | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
Myles Addison had the best chance with a header of the post in the | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
fourth minute. Since then, most of the efforts have been mile off | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
target. We started with plenty of excitement and then we got a wee bit | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
boring towards the end. Goalless matches. Watching Raith Rovers | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
against Rangers, it is pretty exciting, isn't it? Intense, and I | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
expected that. Rangers have to win the game. Raith Rovers are in a | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
great run, five wins and a draw from the last six. They have the | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
play-offs to prepare for. It has been intense. Nobody has taken a | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
backward step. We have had four goals and the second half started | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
with that tempo. I don't think we have seen the last of the scoring. | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
St Mirren are doing their part. It will be a bit tense for Rangers? | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
They have to try and win it as soon as possible. They have another game | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
in midweek. It will happen at some point but they would like to show | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
today they can take on Raith and with it. Another goal has just come | :04:18. | :04:26. | |
in. Let's hear all about that. Kenny Miller has just put Rangers at it | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
again in this match. The ball played through the middle for the Rangers | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
striker and he took the first time and lasted past Kevin Cuthbert. The | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
Rangers fans rejoice in the main stand. Rangers are leading. Let's | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
change things. What do Rangers do now, get everybody on the ball? I | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
don't think they want to do that. They conceded three against Queen of | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
the South and Falkirk. The Rangers way is to get the ball down, play, | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
get the ball to the opposition. I don't expect them to change their | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
tactics. Visiting St Johnstone fans drew lots as to who would keep an | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
eye on their game. Gemma, you are watching the Dundee game. That is | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
quite exciting as well in the middle of the table. I have just started | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
watching it. I don't think I want to be commentating on it. Fantastic | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
second half just kicking off. The two games previously between these | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
two clubs have produced 13 bills, and it looks like this could do the | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
same in this match. Conforming to type. Yes. The 34 Dundee have been | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
fantastic up front this season, Hemmings, Stewart and Loy all | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
getting a goal. Ross County need to do something. They have struggled | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
since their cup win. A cliche, the League Cup win hangover? | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
Potentially, but we are talking about a seventh and sixth place | :05:59. | :05:59. | |
match. There is only three points about a seventh and sixth place | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
between them. If they could get something back and even push on for | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
a win, it would make it interesting. Stewart, I can feel you bristling | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
when Jonathan Sutherland described that match is fantastic. I am not | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
sure that is how you will see it. No, you could say it was one for the | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
connoisseurs. You wonder sometimes with St Johnstone which of their two | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
teams will turn up. Last week at Tynecastle, they were immense. I've | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
never seen a pressing game played at brutally. They pressed so high up | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
the park, leaving Hearts with nothing, scored three goals. Today, | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
they have allowed Dundee United to dominate in the first half and they | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
lost a very poor girl, which Alan Mannus, who, to be fair to him, had | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
a couple of good saves earlier in the game, and he then allowed the | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
ball to go through him. -- they'd lost a very poor goal. They go out | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
at half-time a goal down but there are 35 minutes to play. Let's go to | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
the title race in the Premiership. Celtic having the chance to end the | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
day seven points clear of Aberdeen, because Aberdeen play Hamilton | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
tomorrow. Easier said than done as the champions are at home to third | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
placed Hearts at lunchtime. This was a big step towards five titles in a | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
row for a Celtic side who had to have plenty of answers against a | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
Hearts team that went in front early on through Jamie Walker. That set | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
Celtic mind is racing at the Jam Tarts bossed things. Mackay-Steven | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
slammed home from the edge of the box. Ozturk it's the bar and | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
Oshaniwa had a great chance. Patrick Francis made them suffer with a | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
clever first for the club. Hearts still in it, but the second goal of | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
the game was from Roberts after lovely build-up play by Griffiths | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
and Johannson. It took the wind out of their sails and Oshaniwa was sent | :07:59. | :08:06. | |
off. Celtic will be difficult to reel in now. Jim, a defining moment, | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
another one in the title race? It is interesting, every time that Celtic | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
seem they are going to push on, they drop points. They dropped points | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
against Hamilton and Aberdeen failed to capitalise. An opportunity for | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
that debate. It would have been interesting if Scott Brown had been | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
sent off for that two-footed challenge. Should he have been? | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
Absolutely, a red card. Perhaps the referee didn't give it because he | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
didn't make contact with a player but, for me, a different red card. | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
Disappointing for Hearts because in the first half they had 57% of the | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
possession. Defensively, some of the goals they let in today, I think | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
they will be disappointed with that. They have been quite solid at the | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
back today. -- this year. What happened to Hearts? A great strike | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
from Jamie Walker but Celtic started to wear them down. At Mackay-Steven | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
equaliser, it went through the defender's legs, the goalkeeper had | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
no chance, then Patrick Roberts had a lovely chip. And Celtic were in | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
the lead, they started to knock the ball about and the advantage moved | :09:23. | :09:30. | |
to Celtic. There were chances but, over the piece, you would have | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
Celtic were that bit sharper and deserved to take the points. I want | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
is a bit of laxness has crept in. From Hearts' perspective, they have | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
been part of the title race for some time. But hunting down Aberdeen. But | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
they have a secure European place. Nobody is going to catch them. There | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
won't be an opportunity for St Johnstone. I don't know that they | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
have necessarily got the kind of... If things had been closer, two or | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
three points, I think you might have If things had been closer, two or | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
seen a different Hearts. When they went a goal up, you must have | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
thought this was the opportunity to get the first win at Celtic Park for | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
a long time. You would have thought so. You would have thought that | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
would be enough momentum for them. But they feel a slightly, I don't | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
want to say lazy, but a slightly more sluggish team than they were | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
earlier in the season. They were pummelled by St Johnstone last week. | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
Lets say goodbye to the Championship title race is going to kick all day. | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
It is Raith Rovers against Rangers. Rangers need to win here and hope | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
that Hibs drop points. It didn't look like Rangers' part of that was | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
on the cards initially when Louis Longridge opened the scoring with a | :10:53. | :10:53. | |
fantastic strike past Wes Longridge opened the scoring with a | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
Foderingham. But Rangers turned things round with Harry Forrester | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
heading them level. And then he set up James Tavern near for Rangers' | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
second, putting Rangers ahead. They were not paid for long because James | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
Craigen volleyed past. That was before half turn, -- half-time. | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
Since the break, Kenny Miller has put Rangers back in front. At the | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
moment, they are keeping up their side of the bargain. Connie is in | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
Paisley, where St Mirren are at home to Hibs. Any change? Know, 54 | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
Paisley, where St Mirren are at home minutes on the clock at the moment, | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
and there is a good bit of needle in this. A lot of bad blood, because | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
he's -- because Keith Watson has just come back on because he | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
suffered what appeared to be a burst nose. Some test the challenge is | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
going in in this match. Jason Cummings opened the scoring after 27 | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
minutes, a superb ball by John McGinn allowing him some space. He | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
was one on one with Langfield and hit a left foot strike into the back | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
of the net. Their lead only lasted five minutes and the ball was lofted | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
at the other end, finding Rocco Quinn. It looked as though it could | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
be offside. The Hibs defenders went crazy, but they were convinced that | :12:24. | :12:31. | |
Rocco Quinn was offside. The linesman thought otherwise. It | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
looked from where I was sitting like they might have a case. Craig, it | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
would be fitting if Kenny Miller were to be the person that scored | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
the goal which got Rangers back to the top flight. A few players this | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
season have contributed all the way through, and Kenny always does. He | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
comes off the bench, he adds to the attack, he will play off, he will | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
play wide, and now he's doing some coaching. This future is at the | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
club. If somebody is to score the coaching. This future is at the | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
winning goal, it would be nice if it were him. But that goal at the start | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
of the second half, Raith will have to go for it. They might be some | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
more goals. Let's go to Dens Park. Five goals already, Dundee against | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
Ross County. A real cracker here at Dens Park. It is still the same | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
score. All of the goals coming in the opening 45 minutes. Dundee | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
started in whirlwind fashion, two goals up inside ten minutes. Greg | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
Stewart with a wonderful solo effort, curling the ball in from his | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
left foot. Two minutes later, Kane Hemmings, top scorer for the season, | :13:40. | :13:48. | |
23, after he took advantage of slack defending at the back for Ross | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
County. Ross County got back into it, pulling one back after 16 | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
minutes. Captain Andrew Davies with a glancing header beyond the Dundee | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
keeper into the back of the net. Hemmings took a shot, then Loy with | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
a glancing header into the top corner. Just on 45 minutes, Alex | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
Schalk, the Dutchman, possessed one of the Dundee defenders and curled | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
the ball towards the goal. Although the keeper got his hand to it, the | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
ball crept over the line. Dundee have had numerous chances throughout | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
the afternoon, with Loy, Hemmings and Stewart, what a combination for | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
the home side, scoring a huge number of goals this season. The result is | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
very important at this time of the season. If it stays this way, Dundee | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
will leapfrog Ross County into sixth position, with just one week to go | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
before the top six for the final run-in is finalised. We have played | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
55 minutes here. Back to Paisley and the | :14:50. | :14:59. | |
Championship. It is a goal for St Mirren, have they just sealed this | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
title race? A superb effort, right footed strike. Back to the | :15:07. | :15:16. | |
Premiership and the match Jonathan Sutherland was describing as | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
fantastic. Any advance on that? It has been a fantastic match in Perth | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
this afternoon, especially if you are of a tangerine persuasion. | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
Dundee United have toiled so often this season and were fantastic from | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
the start and could have been ahead after 40 seconds. He teed Jon Ryan | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
kin but his touch let him down and the chance was gone. -- he teed up | :15:40. | :15:53. | |
John Rankin. Then after a shot McManus was the hero again for St | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
Johnstone, saving with his legs. Then it was from hero to zero as | :15:58. | :16:05. | |
Dundee United took the lead. The keeper somehow fumbled it over the | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
goal line. Dundee United have the lead. It will be a moment that Alan | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
Mannus will watch from behind the couch, that's for sure. A crazy way | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
for United to take the lead but on the balance of play they deserved | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
it. Rankin almost made it 2-0, the shot Canon ink off his shins as it | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
went just wide. St Johnstone did almost equalised just before | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
half-time, the shot was blocked by his own player on the line. In the | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
second half it has changed around a bit, St Johnstone far more lively, | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
putting a lot of pressure on the Dundee United goal but for the | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
moment Dundee United are still leading. 16 minutes into the show | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
before he plugged his own programme! Lets see if Scott Davis has got | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
anything worth viewing tomorrow evening. In the highlights show. It | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
will be a simple edit if it continues the way this game has been | :17:06. | :17:14. | |
going, Motherwell be away team -- the away team. Nearly at the hour | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
mark in the game. Both of these teams came in on the back of | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
impressive victories. Trying to secure a place in the top six. | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
Entertaining passing moves. A distinct lack of creativity, any | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
time they get near their respective goals. 24 minutes before either | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
goalkeeper was called into action. An easy save IEEE and the Motherwell | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
goal in the end. Liam Hughes the former Cambridge United is right | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
there getting a header looping towards goal. This time the cross to | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
the near post... towards goal. This time the cross to | :17:53. | :18:01. | |
Cut-off in his prime. 0-0, but he was still talking. Let's go to | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
Firhill. Crawford was complaining about being malnourished in terms of | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
goals, have you been feasting? Please hear me out, it is Dylan Mail | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
after the hour mark. The best chance fell to Addison. -- it is 0-0. After | :18:23. | :18:37. | |
four minutes he hit the post. A header from a free kick. He was the | :18:38. | :18:46. | |
bright spark during the first half. After the break Kris Boyd had a goal | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
disallowed. We have just had a great chance which was deflected over for | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
Partick Thistle. There are little chance which was deflected over for | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
happening there but an incident of note in Perth. A big moment in the | :19:00. | :19:09. | |
match as Dundee United go down to ten men, Donaldson is shown a | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
straight red card by the referee. Dragging down Chris Cain who was | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
haring in on goal. Was that a clear goal-scoring opportunity? You | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
probably have to say that it was, certainly want to watch on the | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
Reebok is. The big moment here as he looks pretty disconsolate. -- watch | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
on the replay is Would you be prepared to agree with | :19:32. | :19:40. | |
Jonathan? I thought it was a clear red card, partly because Chris | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
Cain's pace meant he was going to go in on goal. You remember him from | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
his fine days at Dumbarton where he was the top scorer couple of seasons | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
back when he was out on loan and he broke away. You can see that he had | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
beaten Donaldson for Pace who had turned around and pulled him back | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
and it was a straight red. I agree. It will be interesting to see what | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
they do now because St Johnstone are not looking particularly comfortable | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
at the back so does he guard this goal or does he still want to | :20:15. | :20:22. | |
counterattack? There is a goal. Scott, are you there? Inverness | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
against Motherwell. Motherwell are in such a good run of form, five | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
wins in six games, on their way to another. The substitute Lionel | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
Ainsworth really stirring the Motherwell fans from their torpor | :20:36. | :20:44. | |
behind the gold to our left. Owen Williams fumbled the ball, hooked | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
back towards goal and the backtracking keeper looked as though | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
he would get there and avoid danger but all he could do was help the | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
ball into his own net. Not particularly good afternoon for | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
Goalkeepers, Alan Mannus the Northern Ireland keeper hoping to go | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
to the Euros and Vaughan Williams hoping to go with not doing his case | :21:03. | :21:11. | |
much good. Back to the title race in the Premiership, Aberdeen now know | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
what they have to do tomorrow to narrow the Celtic lead to four | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
points, they had to beat Hamilton. That will require a better showing | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
than in their last encounter back in November. They shared a 1-1 draw. Do | :21:23. | :21:32. | |
you recall this far back? They got off to a flying start and they had | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
just started to find games a bit harder, those they were winning | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
earlier in the season. Teams were making it more difficult. Maclean | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
with a wonderful strike. Hamilton, at the start of the season, | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
especially on their own patch. Three wins at home, but haven't won a home | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
game since that. They are struggling. They will have to work | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
hard to beat them. Not a great result for the Dons but two weeks | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
ago it was even worse, losing against Motherwell despite going | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
ahead. Another game I was at and Aberdeen started well, there was a | :22:11. | :22:12. | |
shout for a foul on Motherwell player. It is a stick on penalty. He | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
decides to drive it down the middle. Motherwell are going well just now. | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
They picked up the mantle and kept going. Aberdeen, this was not like | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
them, they don't clear their lines. MacDonald nicks in for the | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
equaliser. Normally he would just see that out but the goalkeeper | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
comes and they are waiting for each other and it's into the back of the | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
net. They brought on Barry Robson to settle things down, and the | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
experienced midfielder throws an arm across and catches the face of Scott | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
McDonald. Down to ten men and Motherwell picked up the three | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
points. That's why Aberdeen have to win all seven to catch Celtic. Craig | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
mentioned Hamilton were in good form in November but their recent form | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
has been dire. Their most recent outing was defeat against Partick | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
Thistle. It has been that type of season, a good start which fell away | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
and then they picked up points, but it's their home form that has been | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
such a problem, their last home win was last September against | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
Motherwell. You thought this would be a real chance when they took the | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
lead but Partick Thistle are sturdy, they don't score many and they don't | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
give many away but having got the equaliser they kept going to get the | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
win. The big three points for Partick because they had lost their | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
previous three games. Kilmarnock can still catch Hamilton. Aberdeen need | :23:42. | :23:49. | |
to win. They have no option but to win, they have had opportunities and | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
as I said before they slipped up against Motherwell and St Johnstone | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
with a draw. And they slipped up against Hamilton and surprisingly | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
they have done that to Celtic as well this season but there are no | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
more excuses for Aberdeen, it's now or never. With Celtic getting over | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
the line today with the Hearts game which was tricky for them, they have | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
to put pressure back on Celtic by winning. Pressure on Hamilton as | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
well in a perilous position. Very much so. There is always that | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
reversal, the opposite of momentum. There has got to be a word for it | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
somewhere. There is a sense of which they have lost a lot of the spark | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
that they had, as we said, at the beginning of the season. What's | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
fascinating about it is that although we inevitably kind of work | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
hard wired to talk about the top of the league and the bottom couple of | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
places, the interesting action is in the middle because it does not seem | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
that with the exception of Motherwell if they win at Inverness, | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
or any team being able to put three wins together, so that is having a | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
real impact on top six and bottom six. It looks like Hamilton have | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
been dropping, not quite like a stone but not far off. Interesting, | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
because Scott Davies spoke about Inverness and their top six | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
aspirations, and I think they have to look up and down. They know they | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
have to win their last three games before the split and that means | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
winning today to give themselves any chance. A few teams in there today, | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
St Johnstone could cement their place in the top six, Motherwell | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
could do the same, and that is massive. Around about ?80,000 for | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
every place you can gain, if you know you're in the top half sixth is | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
the last place you are going to be in so you know how much is coming in | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
and possibly more and then you can start trying to attract players. | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
Hold onto your hats, we are going around the grounds again starting | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
with Alex alarm and -- Alistair Lamb and. | :25:59. | :26:00. | |
They haven't really tested Wes Foderingham since they went in for | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
the Kenny Miller goal. It looks like it might be the crucial one as they | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
try to wrap up the title party. Come back to me in a moment and I'll tell | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
you whether Raith Rovers can do anything with this free kick. | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
Luckily I can see the pictures. They misted! Let's move to Paisley for an | :26:23. | :26:24. | |
update. St Mirren look the more likely to | :26:25. | :26:34. | |
add to the lead rather than Hibs coming back into it. I suppose what | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
sort of questions does it raise for Hibs and their supporters? They have | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
been pretty poor apart from their goal. Second place of course was the | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
target for Hibs over the past couple of weeks but is it slipping out of | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
their grasp as Jamaat -- their grasp? 67 minutes gone at Dens Park. | :27:00. | :27:09. | |
Not as many goalmouth chances as there was in the opening period | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
although we have had a couple. Michael Gardyne was one of the | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
heroes for Ross County in the League Cup final and he should have done | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
better from 12 yards but blasted it over the crossbar. Kane Hemmings | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
came close to his second of the afternoon with a header which was | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
nodded back off the line by Ian McShane and then Hemmings again | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
fired it over the crossbar from eight yards out. Still very open | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
fired it over the crossbar from with both teams going for it with so | :27:38. | :27:39. | |
fired it over the crossbar from much at stake, a top six place, and | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
the winner would be in top position to claim that. Let's head back to | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
Inverness for an incident in that match. In the 70th minute it's a | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
penalty for Caley Thistle. Conceded by Keith Lasley who is distraught | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
down there. A good bit of work by Draper going into the penalty area | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
and lastly got there as quickly as he could but the tackle was late and | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
has conceded a penalty. The former Motherwell midfielder in his second | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
spell with Caley Thistle, Iain Vigurs, left footed, a little delay, | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
sends the keeper the wrong way, putting the ball in the bottom | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
right-hand corner of the net and it's all tied up, and explosion of | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
action in the second half at Inverness. Inverness are shaking off | :28:27. | :28:37. | |
their inertia. Inertia is the word. Let's shake off my inertia now and | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
had to Perth will stop no inertia here. -- Perth. Much more lively | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
from St Johnstone in the second half, no doubt where the big moment | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
was in the second half, the sending-off of Donaldson the Dundee | :28:52. | :28:57. | |
United defender. I think the much maligned referee got that spot-on. | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
St Johnstone almost immediately capitalise as Dundee are hanging on. | :29:03. | :29:08. | |
A shot cannon off the crossbar. They are still 1-0 down after a shot was | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
fumbled into the net by Alan Mannus. Dundee United are still trying to | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
make the great escape happened. Goals everywhere in the Premiership, | :29:18. | :29:20. | |
I wonder if there is any goal action at Firhill. Absolutely. -- | :29:21. | :29:37. | |
absolutely not. Kilmarnock want to get out of the relegation positions. | :29:38. | :29:40. | |
Neither is in a position to get the three points. Chris Dillon has just | :29:41. | :29:46. | |
come on for Partick Thistle, scoring half of his eight goals against | :29:47. | :29:50. | |
Kilmarnock this season. Now we can take a pause from the hurly-burly | :29:51. | :29:55. | |
from these titled tussles and survival scraps to bask in the glory | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
of international success. Indulge me just this once! I know they were | :30:01. | :30:04. | |
only friendlies but here is how they will be remembered in the annals of | :30:05. | :30:05. | |
football. Mighty results for the national | :30:06. | :30:18. | |
team. Fear not though, little danger of a national team manager blowing | :30:19. | :30:22. | |
these wins out of proportion. This is what he had to say about the | :30:23. | :30:24. | |
results. To win two games of football is | :30:25. | :30:34. | |
great. If you look at the other, the physical side of Denmark against us, | :30:35. | :30:37. | |
it was like heavyweight against middleweight. We went for that. Our | :30:38. | :30:43. | |
team spirit kept us in it, good defending, good goalkeeping. We had | :30:44. | :30:47. | |
a couple of chances in the second half, but basically they were | :30:48. | :30:50. | |
better. They are at the top of their game. What did we learn? I have a | :30:51. | :30:56. | |
wider spectrum of players I can pick from now. I have a couple of young | :30:57. | :31:00. | |
players coming through which we didn't have a couple of months ago. | :31:01. | :31:05. | |
A lot of bonuses. Our passing wasn't good. I think that comes from a lack | :31:06. | :31:09. | |
of fitness. You cannot pass the ball well unless you are at top fitness | :31:10. | :31:16. | |
level. It was a gamble we took. Well, well, Gordon Strachan... He | :31:17. | :31:24. | |
isn't getting carried away, is he? They are friendlies, good games to | :31:25. | :31:28. | |
have, you can introduce young players and see how they react. To | :31:29. | :31:32. | |
get results is great because it gives you momentum. We are trying to | :31:33. | :31:36. | |
build to go into the next qualifying campaign, but that is when business | :31:37. | :31:40. | |
is not real, when the players need to stand up and be counted. For the | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
likes of Kieran Tierney, John McGinn, great chances to show what | :31:46. | :31:49. | |
they can do. Hopefully more players at that age can start to develop. I | :31:50. | :31:54. | |
think the manager will know seven or eight of his team when the | :31:55. | :31:58. | |
qualifiers start. Somebody who can hit form at the right time, you can | :31:59. | :32:02. | |
certainly push yourself into his thoughts. Let's have a look at the | :32:03. | :32:08. | |
teams in Scotland's World Cup olivine group. -- qualifying group. | :32:09. | :32:16. | |
Stuart Cosgrove, you are getting your passport ready! I am slightly | :32:17. | :32:24. | |
worried in that group. I think most people who were sane would say that | :32:25. | :32:27. | |
England are going to be a very decent team. Gordon Strachan thinks | :32:28. | :32:35. | |
they can win the Euros. That might be taking it too far, but they will | :32:36. | :32:40. | |
do well in that section and they might win it. That leaves Scotland | :32:41. | :32:44. | |
obviously in a very familiar situation, where we have to play | :32:45. | :32:49. | |
teams like Slovenia and Slovakia, where we often haven't quite taken | :32:50. | :32:53. | |
them for granted but never really been able to see them off | :32:54. | :32:58. | |
convincingly. I think that has been Scotland's problem for a decade or | :32:59. | :33:01. | |
more, that smaller, independent nations in eastern Europe have given | :33:02. | :33:08. | |
us a tough, torrid time, and we need to be better. Surely we will have | :33:09. | :33:14. | |
learned those lessons. We don't necessarily have a problem when we | :33:15. | :33:18. | |
are the underdog, when we have to raise our standards. We saw against | :33:19. | :33:24. | |
Germany and Poland, we competed. We have a problem when we have to set | :33:25. | :33:28. | |
the standard and those teams have to beat us. As we saw against Georgia | :33:29. | :33:34. | |
and in previous campaigns... But there is young talent coming | :33:35. | :33:37. | |
through. The key thing is to keep that young talent playing at a high | :33:38. | :33:42. | |
level. We can't afford to lose kin and Jini. I think he should solidify | :33:43. | :33:47. | |
his place in Celtic. -- Kieran teeny. There are too many players | :33:48. | :33:55. | |
that go and see the bright players... Italy and France could | :33:56. | :33:59. | |
provide formidable opposition. Gemma is hoping that the youngsters who | :34:00. | :34:04. | |
are in this one will be in the squads. Will they be? May one or | :34:05. | :34:09. | |
two. I don't think a lot of them will be. Now it is building towards | :34:10. | :34:14. | |
big games. Now we are going up to the next league against the next two | :34:15. | :34:18. | |
sides. If we can do well and keep the momentum going, then we are | :34:19. | :34:23. | |
ready. You are asking a cynical old professional. He is never going to | :34:24. | :34:30. | |
concede it! There are more bright lights in Glasgow then there are in | :34:31. | :34:36. | |
Southampton, if you are watching, Kieran! It pains me to say that | :34:37. | :34:40. | |
Scotland will not be at the European Nations Championship final next year | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
but there is a chance we will be next year because the women's team | :34:45. | :34:49. | |
are looking good for a place in the finals in the Netherlands. They are | :34:50. | :34:51. | |
are looking good for a place in the top of their qualifying group and we | :34:52. | :34:58. | |
have the statistics to prove it. Played four, won four. A 100% | :34:59. | :35:03. | |
record. Iceland are in second place with a game in hand. The other three | :35:04. | :35:10. | |
teams are some distance behind. Gemma, your next game, coming up | :35:11. | :35:14. | |
this Friday, at home to Slovenia. You have already beaten them so you | :35:15. | :35:19. | |
must be confident. It is always tough to go away with your first | :35:20. | :35:25. | |
game of qualifying. We beat them over there. They are tricky. | :35:26. | :35:30. | |
Defensively, they are mobilised but maybe not as mobile or shop at our | :35:31. | :35:37. | |
forwards. But they have some of those individual players that can | :35:38. | :35:42. | |
change a game. We need to keep an eye on them. It is a big game for | :35:43. | :35:46. | |
us. If we can do the business at home and get three points, our next | :35:47. | :35:51. | |
trip is to Iceland. Three games left, win two of those and we will | :35:52. | :35:53. | |
qualify. You still have to play left, win two of those and we will | :35:54. | :35:59. | |
Iceland, your biggest opponents. The top seed, but we have played them | :36:00. | :36:03. | |
many times that we have beaten them. We are quite confident with this | :36:04. | :36:07. | |
group and we have come out and said that we will qualify. I obviously | :36:08. | :36:14. | |
want Scotland to do it, but you have to look at Iceland. Not only did | :36:15. | :36:18. | |
they jail their bankers, they have developed quite a phenomenal | :36:19. | :36:23. | |
footballing culture for such a small nation. Their men's team are in the | :36:24. | :36:27. | |
European Championships. They're U21 team is great. By all accounts, this | :36:28. | :36:33. | |
is what the challenge is in the women's group. You've got to respect | :36:34. | :36:40. | |
them. How about optimism? You have to respect a culture where 400 | :36:41. | :36:47. | |
400,000 people live. It is quite an achievement. There has to be | :36:48. | :36:52. | |
something we can learn. Let's go back to the Championship and | :36:53. | :36:56. | |
Nickleby. This is Raith Rovers against champions elect Rangers. The | :36:57. | :37:03. | |
score remains the same since that Kenny Miller goal. That looks like | :37:04. | :37:08. | |
it has taken Rangers to the brink of clinching the Championship title, | :37:09. | :37:14. | |
not really troubling Kevin Cuthbert in the Raith Rovers goal since then. | :37:15. | :37:19. | |
Likewise, Wes Foderingham hasn't had too much to do. They are going to | :37:20. | :37:26. | |
shore up the midfielders. Rangers looking to just hold onto the lead | :37:27. | :37:32. | |
that they have over Raith Rovers. The Rangers fans are all around us | :37:33. | :37:40. | |
in this stadium, very much preparing themselves for a title party. Let's | :37:41. | :37:44. | |
go back to Paisley for St Mirren against Hibs. Giggs have to win to | :37:45. | :37:56. | |
spoil Rangerss party. It is St Mirren 2, Hibs 1. St Mirren have | :37:57. | :38:00. | |
gone for what looks like another goal. They have changed things | :38:01. | :38:04. | |
around. Stevie Thompson is on for Rocco Quinn. Doing that, they are | :38:05. | :38:08. | |
stretching themselves at the back. Hibs had an opportunity because of | :38:09. | :38:13. | |
that through Anthony Stokes, but he forced a brilliant save from Jamie | :38:14. | :38:21. | |
Langfield. Back to the Premiership and Dundee, where the dark blues are | :38:22. | :38:23. | |
at home to Ross County. Is still the and Dundee, where the dark blues are | :38:24. | :38:31. | |
same score. Stewart and Hemmings giving Dundee a 2-goal advantage | :38:32. | :38:34. | |
inside ten minutes. Andrew Davies pulled one back before Rory Loy | :38:35. | :38:39. | |
restored the advantage for Dundee after 38 minutes. On the stroke of | :38:40. | :38:42. | |
half-time, Alex Schalk pulled another goal back for Ross County. | :38:43. | :38:48. | |
It has been entertained in the second half, and Kane Hemmings could | :38:49. | :38:52. | |
have had a hat-trick. A real break for County a few minutes ago, with | :38:53. | :38:56. | |
Hemmings getting a touch. But the ball trickled if you whinge is the | :38:57. | :38:59. | |
wrong side of the post for the Dundee striker. -- a few inches. St | :39:00. | :39:09. | |
Johnstone at home to Dundee United. They remain the same score. Just how | :39:10. | :39:15. | |
big a three points could this be for Dundee United, should it stay the | :39:16. | :39:18. | |
same? Dundee United are at the moment on course for their first | :39:19. | :39:24. | |
victory here in four years. But St Johnstone are knocking on the door. | :39:25. | :39:29. | |
Dundee United reduced to ten men after Coll Donaldson was sent off | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
for hauling down Chris came. But Dundee United are one in front. | :39:35. | :39:39. | |
Fumbled into the net by the St Johnstone goalkeeper Alan Mannus. | :39:40. | :39:45. | |
There was the most almighty skirmish in the box. It was unbelievable. You | :39:46. | :39:51. | |
have to see it on the highlights. Gavin Gunning eventually blazing his | :39:52. | :39:57. | |
shot high and wide, as United almost went into a 2-0 lead. We need a bell | :39:58. | :40:05. | |
to ring every time he does that. It was quite a skirmish, though. We | :40:06. | :40:10. | |
will be talking about it afterwards. I don't want to mention it again in | :40:11. | :40:15. | |
this show. Let's go back to Cally Thistle against Motherwell. The team | :40:16. | :40:21. | |
is still tied? Yes, one apiece, although the game has burst into | :40:22. | :40:26. | |
life in the second half Saint Lionel Ainsworth took advantage of a | :40:27. | :40:29. | |
blunder by Williams in the Cally Thistle goal to knock in his first | :40:30. | :40:33. | |
league goal of the season, is that goal since he scored against East | :40:34. | :40:38. | |
Fife in August in the League Cup. He lobbed it in as the goalkeeper could | :40:39. | :40:42. | |
only help it into the net. But invest have rallied. They | :40:43. | :40:44. | |
desperately need to get some points on the board. -- Inverness have | :40:45. | :40:51. | |
rallied. Iain Vigurs, the former Motherwell player, netted from the | :40:52. | :40:57. | |
penalty spot. Keith Lasley the offender, taking down Ross Drayton | :40:58. | :41:02. | |
in the penalty box. Since then, pretty much end to end. They Cally | :41:03. | :41:14. | |
Thistle player would ... The right that area for Motherwell has been a | :41:15. | :41:17. | |
problem all afternoon. Cally Thistle exploiting that. I wonder if Kenny | :41:18. | :41:23. | |
Crawford has any goal is to tell us about. Partick Thistle against | :41:24. | :41:29. | |
Kilmarnock. 83 minutes gone and it is still goalless. Kris Boyd should | :41:30. | :41:34. | |
have had Kilmarnock 1-0 ahead with a great chance from eight yards, but | :41:35. | :41:41. | |
he fired it over. Kilmarnock might be starting to get worried. An | :41:42. | :41:45. | |
interesting fact, Colombians, the Partick Thistle left-back has played | :41:46. | :41:50. | |
every competitive minute this season. Are there ever any | :41:51. | :41:55. | |
highlights of these Premiership games on the BBC? I can highlight | :41:56. | :42:02. | |
highlights of these Premiership Celtic's win over Hearts today. They | :42:03. | :42:09. | |
beat the Jambos at Celtic Park. We can hear what the managers thought | :42:10. | :42:14. | |
of it. I am very happy. It was an important game. It is tough to get | :42:15. | :42:20. | |
going again after the internationals. I think we grew | :42:21. | :42:27. | |
through the game and in the end we deserved to win. Did you feel the | :42:28. | :42:31. | |
worse after the opening goal? I felt deserved to win. Did you feel the | :42:32. | :42:37. | |
that we were a bit out of control and I didn't like that, but I think | :42:38. | :42:42. | |
we grew into the game and we had some individual performances that | :42:43. | :42:44. | |
were performed and -- that were important. The players are confident | :42:45. | :42:51. | |
in themselves and today can only help that. It was a defeat, but the | :42:52. | :42:55. | |
manner of it was pleasing. We dominated a lot of play, we pass the | :42:56. | :43:00. | |
ball well. We had the ability and the strength to take the ball in | :43:01. | :43:05. | |
tight areas. You believe this is a group of young players who are | :43:06. | :43:10. | |
learning all the time? John Souter, Sam Nicholson, they are all young. A | :43:11. | :43:15. | |
very young squad. To come here today and form that well is good. Ronny | :43:16. | :43:22. | |
Deila highlighting individual performances and not naming names, | :43:23. | :43:25. | |
but I will throw Patrick Roberts at you. Two goals and a further | :43:26. | :43:32. | |
strengthening of their squad. Celtic earlier in the season felt very kind | :43:33. | :43:36. | |
of hit and miss will stop it was the whole idea of, did they have the | :43:37. | :43:41. | |
kind of sustained effort to take the ball all the way through? It is now | :43:42. | :43:45. | |
starting to look very much like they would be almost impossible now for | :43:46. | :43:50. | |
Aberdeen to catch them. Aberdeen have let themselves down a bit in | :43:51. | :43:54. | |
the last couple of months, no doubt. The Championship, which we are on | :43:55. | :44:01. | |
the practice -- on the precipice of Rangers winning, Hibernian have let | :44:02. | :44:05. | |
themselves down. They are the teams who looked like they might put on a | :44:06. | :44:08. | |
serious challenge and they have both faded quite poorly. No goals for | :44:09. | :44:14. | |
Leigh Griffiths. Is he still in the limelight from the Celtic goal | :44:15. | :44:18. | |
machine? Ronny Deila will be happy they are not solely relying on him. | :44:19. | :44:25. | |
27 this season? If anything was to happen to him, you don't necessarily | :44:26. | :44:28. | |
have anybody who can step in and do that. It is good that more goals are | :44:29. | :44:33. | |
coming from across the team. For Celtic, there are some centre-half | :44:34. | :44:38. | |
positions, and they got one in recently, I am not sure it is the | :44:39. | :44:42. | |
answer. Before next season, they have to think, if they go on to win | :44:43. | :44:46. | |
the title, they need to invest in that position. Just happens we have | :44:47. | :44:52. | |
an expert in the art of central defending in the studio. What do you | :44:53. | :44:57. | |
make of the partnership they have? Is that an area which needs to be | :44:58. | :45:02. | |
improved for next season? I think they will have to improve in every | :45:03. | :45:06. | |
area. If Rangers will be back, that will be a challenge to Celtic. They | :45:07. | :45:11. | |
have to progress in the Champions League because of the money | :45:12. | :45:13. | |
involved. They will have to spend money to do that. They have a hard | :45:14. | :45:21. | |
act to follow. Can they get players of that quality on loan? Will they | :45:22. | :45:27. | |
spend money in it players they know can do it? There has been a goal at | :45:28. | :45:30. | |
Dens Park for Dundee and Ross County. It looks like the three | :45:31. | :45:37. | |
points are going to the home side. Came back off the defender and Craig | :45:38. | :45:40. | |
Wighton, just eight yards out, hammered the ball home. It looks as | :45:41. | :45:45. | |
if Ross County will be in the bottom half of the table. Dundee into sixth | :45:46. | :45:48. | |
place. Still four minutes left here. Drama there but probably even more | :45:49. | :45:59. | |
interesting at Stark 's Park. A late development. Into injury time and | :46:00. | :46:04. | |
would you believe it, Raith Rovers have a penalty. Halliday clicking | :46:05. | :46:12. | |
the heels of the substitute. It means Raith Rovers have a chance to | :46:13. | :46:14. | |
dent the Rangers hopes of clinching means Raith Rovers have a chance to | :46:15. | :46:21. | |
the league title this afternoon. He will step up himself with the spot | :46:22. | :46:25. | |
kick. Up against Wes Foderingham. It is saved! Rangers remain on course | :46:26. | :46:34. | |
to clinch the title. We will discuss that at length later. Let's head to | :46:35. | :46:42. | |
Paisley. It is a goal for Hibernian, they have drawn level. Rifled into | :46:43. | :46:50. | |
the back of the net has to Langfield. A goal for Hibs but it | :46:51. | :46:57. | |
won't be enough. We will talk about the penalty save at Raith Rovers. He | :46:58. | :47:03. | |
did not look comfortable stepping up to take that. He has never scored | :47:04. | :47:09. | |
for Raith Rovers. Not a great day for goalkeepers today so I'm glad | :47:10. | :47:13. | |
there is something good to talk about. Hibs have do throw everything | :47:14. | :47:19. | |
at them. I don't think they believe they can catch Rangers. There is | :47:20. | :47:22. | |
still a battle to catch Falkirk. Every point is vital for Hibs. It | :47:23. | :47:28. | |
doesn't start much more dramatic than that. There was a moment where | :47:29. | :47:34. | |
Raith Rovers could have been the party poopers but he looked really | :47:35. | :47:39. | |
nervous and the body language was in great, it was a decent save in the | :47:40. | :47:45. | |
end. Quite a lot of tension in the last few minutes of the game. The | :47:46. | :47:50. | |
end. Quite a lot of tension in the reality is that Rangers have easily | :47:51. | :47:54. | |
done enough across the season and it is their title. We will talk more | :47:55. | :48:01. | |
about that later. A terrible start to the season but since Alex has | :48:02. | :48:05. | |
come in they have done really well. Raith Rovers went on a run and | :48:06. | :48:10. | |
Falkirk, Hibs and Rangers were already there. They have run out of | :48:11. | :48:15. | |
time already. They would be almost impossible to catch even when they | :48:16. | :48:19. | |
won every single game. It's the Championship again next year. Alex | :48:20. | :48:23. | |
Rae has made a difference but can he do enough to make them real | :48:24. | :48:28. | |
challengers next year? I thought it could have been another penalty for | :48:29. | :48:32. | |
Raith Rovers but it's a corner. It's really exciting. I like a good bit | :48:33. | :48:37. | |
of Scottish football, there is nothing wrong with it. Nothing wrong | :48:38. | :48:43. | |
with the Dundee performance today, 4-2 winners at home to Ross County, | :48:44. | :48:49. | |
that will do them a world of good. Hold that thought. Incredible | :48:50. | :48:57. | |
scenes, in the fourth minute of injury time Raith Rovers having just | :48:58. | :49:01. | |
missed a penalty have somehow managed to claw themselves level | :49:02. | :49:05. | |
again. A complete ground ball in the six yard box. It's not clear, I have | :49:06. | :49:11. | |
to say, who has got the goal, looks like it might be the man who just | :49:12. | :49:15. | |
missed a penalty. He has his shirt off and has been booked but he | :49:16. | :49:21. | |
doesn't care. Rangers looked like they will have to wait until Tuesday | :49:22. | :49:25. | |
night to try to clinch the title. What a way to redeem yourself. It's | :49:26. | :49:31. | |
a good time to pop up and score, disappointing to miss that penalty | :49:32. | :49:34. | |
but they kept getting balls in the box. It has come off the post and | :49:35. | :49:39. | |
all he has to do is knock it over the line and it keeps Raith Rovers | :49:40. | :49:48. | |
going. If there is another goal in the game we are winning up after! | :49:49. | :49:52. | |
Exactly, hard-core fans want to win on the road and most Rangers fans | :49:53. | :49:56. | |
would have wanted to win today. Full-time in Coke D. As we can | :49:57. | :50:04. | |
probably see, can we see that? -- Kirkcaldy. He is a hero to Rangers | :50:05. | :50:11. | |
players, he's not happy, taking issue with the officials. Let's see | :50:12. | :50:17. | |
what Alistair has do say. It looks like Kenny Miller is remonstrating | :50:18. | :50:20. | |
with the referee because he had a goal chalked off a few minutes | :50:21. | :50:25. | |
before the end. It looked like it was for offside. And now of course | :50:26. | :50:30. | |
with that goal in the last few seconds of injury time, it was the | :50:31. | :50:35. | |
last act of the match, and he just missed a penalty to make it 3-3 but | :50:36. | :50:39. | |
somehow he scrambled the ball over the line to mean that the champagne | :50:40. | :50:43. | |
remains on ice in terms of title party. Rangers still of course | :50:44. | :50:48. | |
looking very good to clinch the title. There might be a better way | :50:49. | :50:58. | |
to do it, but they would have loved to do it this afternoon. Kenny | :50:59. | :51:02. | |
Miller put them 3-2 in front, and they looked as though they would do | :51:03. | :51:05. | |
it with Hibs losing points away to St Mirren, but popping up inside the | :51:06. | :51:13. | |
six yard box with seconds remaining, it is Raith Rovers 3-3 Rangers. And | :51:14. | :51:20. | |
the players are traipsing off in slightly less jubilant mood than | :51:21. | :51:26. | |
they were 30 seconds previous. Mark Roberts will be too happy with that, | :51:27. | :51:30. | |
just put it down to spirit and is an say, we can win the title at home | :51:31. | :51:34. | |
against Barton on Tuesday. That's true but another three goals that | :51:35. | :51:38. | |
Rangers have conceded. They know they will win the title and they are | :51:39. | :51:43. | |
building to a huge semifinal with Celtic. The drama continues. In the | :51:44. | :51:49. | |
Highlands, and it's for Scott Davie to describe. Inverness against | :51:50. | :51:54. | |
Motherwell, a late goal. A breakaway goal for Motherwell, their third | :51:55. | :51:59. | |
minute of stoppage time, Marvin Johnson and Caley Thistle had the | :52:00. | :52:03. | |
pressure on but they overcommitted. Motherwell won possession and played | :52:04. | :52:07. | |
it to Johnson in his own half but no one could catch him. Owain Fon | :52:08. | :52:13. | |
Williams was caught in two minds. He was caught in no man's land but it | :52:14. | :52:18. | |
was a composed finish from Marvin Johnson who slid it into the back of | :52:19. | :52:21. | |
the net and Motherwell are certain to continue the wonderful run they | :52:22. | :52:25. | |
have been on under Mark McGrath. Seconds away from the sixth win in | :52:26. | :52:29. | |
seven games since the middle of February. 2-1. I thought Dundee | :52:30. | :52:37. | |
against Ross County was finished but there has been another goal! It is | :52:38. | :52:45. | |
for the home side and what a goal it was coming from Craig Stewart. Left | :52:46. | :52:52. | |
foot into the bottom corner. What a crucial three points that will be | :52:53. | :53:00. | |
for the home side. It's all over in Paisley in the Championship match | :53:01. | :53:02. | |
between St Mirren and Hibernian, let's head to the Paisley Stadium | :53:03. | :53:10. | |
for the final thoughts. St Mirren did their part, but this game had no | :53:11. | :53:17. | |
bearing on the title race at the moment. Jason Cummings opened the | :53:18. | :53:22. | |
scoring on 27 minutes with a superb ball which allowed him space and he | :53:23. | :53:26. | |
was one-on-one with the keeper and he hit his left foot strike into the | :53:27. | :53:30. | |
back of the net. The lead only lasted five minutes as the ball was | :53:31. | :53:35. | |
lofted up the other end and it was slotted under Mark Oxley. There was | :53:36. | :53:42. | |
a hint of offside about the goal. From here it looked as though he | :53:43. | :53:46. | |
might have had a case. Into the second half and St Mirren's | :53:47. | :53:53. | |
Shankland found him on the right-hand side who made a great run | :53:54. | :53:56. | |
and rifled the ball low into the back of the net. A brilliant save, | :53:57. | :54:07. | |
held well. Hibs did manage to get the second goal with three minutes | :54:08. | :54:11. | |
to go. L allegory from three yards out. The want point is still | :54:12. | :54:17. | |
important for Hibernian in the hunt for second place, especially with a | :54:18. | :54:26. | |
draw for Falkirk. Important points for Dundee United this afternoon, | :54:27. | :54:34. | |
away to St Johnstone. Around 1700 Dundee United fans salute their | :54:35. | :54:38. | |
players here at McDiarmid Park. Dundee United have their first win | :54:39. | :54:43. | |
in Perth in four years. What a huge three points this could turn out to | :54:44. | :54:48. | |
be in the story of Dundee United's season. The big moment came in the | :54:49. | :54:50. | |
first half. A fairly tame shot at season. The big moment came in the | :54:51. | :54:55. | |
goal and it looks as though Alan Mannus saves it but somehow it | :54:56. | :54:59. | |
squirms out of his hands and across the line to give Dundee United a | :55:00. | :55:04. | |
huge 1-0 lead in the first half. A first half that Dundee United | :55:05. | :55:07. | |
deserve to leave because they played the better football and could have | :55:08. | :55:12. | |
had two or three more goals. Donaldson was sent off, the Dundee | :55:13. | :55:17. | |
United defender hauling down Chris Cain. An obvious goal-scoring | :55:18. | :55:22. | |
opportunity. Immediately the keeper brandished a red card and I think he | :55:23. | :55:25. | |
got that right. A shot came back off brandished a red card and I think he | :55:26. | :55:30. | |
the crossbar but St Johnstone are so often the bogey team but this time | :55:31. | :55:33. | |
they could not find their way through and it's Dundee United to | :55:34. | :55:38. | |
finish the match with a 1-0 victory as they narrow the gap at the | :55:39. | :55:45. | |
bottom, is the great escape on? A bit of a spoiler, he gave the result | :55:46. | :55:50. | |
away! Partick Thistle Kilmarnock? That was my only bit of news as | :55:51. | :55:56. | |
away! Partick Thistle Kilmarnock? well! The top six desires of Partick | :55:57. | :55:59. | |
Kilmarnock's title fears heightened. Kilmarnock's title fears heightened. | :56:00. | :56:06. | |
-- relegation fears. They came close with a header early on. And then | :56:07. | :56:14. | |
Kris Boyd had a goal called off for Kilmarnock and Mattias Pogba had one | :56:15. | :56:21. | |
chalked off for Partick Thistle. A great chance to seal the points | :56:22. | :56:25. | |
towards the end but it has finished 0-0. Dundee against Ross County. A | :56:26. | :56:36. | |
seven goal thriller at Dens Park. A really fantastic game of football, | :56:37. | :56:39. | |
and to end for the full 90 minutes plus stoppage time here. Dundee two | :56:40. | :56:49. | |
goals up. Before Davis pulled one back for Ross County after a | :56:50. | :56:52. | |
succession of corners, a glancing header into the corner. Just on the | :56:53. | :56:59. | |
stroke of half-time, the Dutch winger pulled one back. 3-2 at the | :57:00. | :57:04. | |
break, and to end in the second half but we had to wait until four | :57:05. | :57:11. | |
minutes before full-time before number four for Dundee. The ball was | :57:12. | :57:19. | |
blocked but then hammered home. A cultured left foot shot into the | :57:20. | :57:23. | |
bottom corner giving the Ross County keeper no chance. A huge win this | :57:24. | :57:27. | |
afternoon, leapfrogging Ross County into sixth in the table, crucially, | :57:28. | :57:34. | |
eight goals better off on goal difference, and they are now in pole | :57:35. | :57:35. | |
eight goals better off on goal position for a top six place. | :57:36. | :57:41. | |
Talking of securing spots in the top six I think Scott might have some | :57:42. | :57:48. | |
news. It's all over. I have been doing the arithmetic and it looks as | :57:49. | :57:51. | |
though Motherwell will be in the top six. Three minutes into stoppage | :57:52. | :57:58. | |
time, that makes it an incredible six wins in seven games since the | :57:59. | :58:02. | |
defeat against Kilmarnock. After that defeat at Fir Park in | :58:03. | :58:06. | |
mid-February they were a point below the Rugby Park side but now they are | :58:07. | :58:10. | |
well player. What a turnaround it has been under Mark McGhee. It | :58:11. | :58:14. | |
looked as though they might have to settle for a draw after Iain Vigurs | :58:15. | :58:19. | |
levelled it from the penalty spot. Keith Lasley brought down Draper in | :58:20. | :58:23. | |
the penalty box. The first hour of the game was played with some neat | :58:24. | :58:30. | |
football but not a lot of penetration but that changed on 62 | :58:31. | :58:34. | |
minutes with a disaster for the Welsh squad member Owain Fon | :58:35. | :58:37. | |
Williams, the goalkeeper of Caley Thistle. He made a mess of the cross | :58:38. | :58:43. | |
and it was rolled back into the path of Lionel Ainsworth who lobbed it | :58:44. | :58:46. | |
into the net from about 12 yards out. Making it his first league goal | :58:47. | :58:51. | |
of the season at a very opportune time. After the equaliser it was | :58:52. | :58:56. | |
pretty much end to end stuff, certainly a few moments of | :58:57. | :58:58. | |
misfortune for Caley Thistle who were looking to get the point is to | :58:59. | :59:02. | |
get into the top six or at least move themselves away from the second | :59:03. | :59:08. | |
bottom position. They paid the price for chasing the game too much. Three | :59:09. | :59:14. | |
minutes into stoppage time, loads of bodies forward, lost possession and | :59:15. | :59:19. | |
from inside his own half it was Johnson who are advanced and Owain | :59:20. | :59:22. | |
Fon Williams came to meet him but he slips it under the keeper to give | :59:23. | :59:25. | |
Motherwell a precious victory. At Inverness. A good day for Motherwell | :59:26. | :59:33. | |
but a dark day for Alloa in the Championship, away at Livingston | :59:34. | :59:36. | |
this afternoon. Charlie Mann will describe the details. Yes, the | :59:37. | :59:42. | |
Championship title race is very much alive but the relegation issue has | :59:43. | :59:46. | |
been settled. Alloa are the first team in Scotland to go down. He has | :59:47. | :59:56. | |
gone down as well! We will hear from Charlie later with the will of God. | :59:57. | :00:01. | |
Queen of the South against second-place Falkirk. Real drama at | :00:02. | :00:08. | |
the end in Dumfries. Ian Russell scored in injury time to rescue a | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
point from Queen of the South as they came back to level it. It | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
looked like a goalless first half but they were ahead on the stroke of | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
half-time after a long throw in. Early in the second-half Rodgers | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
pulled off a great save to stop Hilson's shot to keep them ahead. It | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
looked like game over when Baird drilled a shot into the bottom | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
corner but midway through the second half, the ball was not passed | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
Rodgers and it was game on and Queens pushed for the equaliser. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
Miller had a chance but it wasn't until the second minute of injury | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
time until they found the net again. A good move finished by Russell. | :00:50. | :00:59. | |
Alloa, they are down. They will be in League 1 next year. That takes me | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
nicely, or maybe not, to today's classified results round-up. | :01:08. | :05:37. | |
Time for us to dwell upon matters in England this afternoon. We will | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
start in the Premiership for the match between Aston Villa and | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
Chelsea. Details from John Watson. Aston Villa's demoralising dissent | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
into the Championship continues today, Chelsea comfortable winners | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
and the Villa fans again expressing thereon rest in the way this club | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
has been run. New owners here, new directors, to see how bad it is, and | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
this is how bad it was. Loftus-Cheek with a deflection off Lescott on 26 | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
minutes but Chelsea head. A penalty after a foul by Sissoko. That was | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
the first goal for Chelsea for him. Early in the second half, two goals | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
for Pedro, underlining how dominant Early in the second half, two goals | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
Chelsea were. No consolation for Aston Villa today. They looked | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
demoralised. A good win for a London club and also another, Arsenal at | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
home to Watford. Here is John acres. Arsenal move to within eight of | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
Leicester and three Spurs with arguably their best performance | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
this. Arsene Wenger stuck with Alex Iwobi after his goal at Everton and | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
he set up Alexis Sanchez. He swept home a second and for good measure | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
he smashed the bar in the second half. He was excellent. Theo Walcott | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
rounded things off the bench for a fourth goal. Watford offered little. | :07:05. | :07:16. | |
Or Man City were away to Bournemouth this afternoon. It was Tony Husband. | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
A stark reminder of the depth of Manchester City there, fine goals | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
sandwiched between an early Fernando Montiel day Sergio Aguero header. | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
sandwiched between an early Fernando 3-0 in 90 minutes, game over, but | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
sold rubbed into the wounds by Aleksandar Kolarov who blasted in a | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
fourth in stoppage time. Just the thing that City needed before | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
heading to Paris Shen 's -- heading to parish and Chaman. This point | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
will certainly suit Crystal Palace more than West Ham. They might still | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
be looking for that elusive Premier more than West Ham. They might still | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
League win this year but the Eagles have earned a well-deserved point. | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
Controversial, certainly, because of that second half red card for Boyett | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
say. A red card met with disapproval from the home supporters. They | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
followed the referee all the way down the tunnel. Palace in front | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
through Delaney's goal. Lanzini put hammers in front. And a big point | :08:24. | :08:32. | |
for Crystal Palace. A big three points for Norwich City in their | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
relegation battle at home to Newcastle united. Here is Ivan | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
Gaskell. Norwich have hung on. They had to win this Game three times, | :08:41. | :08:49. | |
first Klose, then Mitrovic levelling it. A stunning strike looked like it | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
might have won it for Norwich,, then Mitrovic from the penalty spot. And | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
then Martin Olsson had a wonderful strike, winning the game. It might | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
just have saved Norwich City's Premier League skins. Now to the | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
Britannia Stadium, home of Stoke City. They were visited by Swansea. | :09:12. | :09:23. | |
Stoke 2, Swansea 2. Afellay with the home side's first goal. Then a low | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
shot into the bottom right corner. A nervy final 20 minutes for Stoke but | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
it was thanks to Sigurdsson's goal. Wrong-footed, Sigurdsson bobbling | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
past him on the edge of the box. Hogarth beat him softly again after | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
the substitute's strike deflected in for the equaliser. Swansea surely | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
safe now. Sunderland are far from safe. They were at home to West | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
Bromwich Albion. Sunderland 517 shots at West Brom's goal but they | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
couldn't find a way past the shots at West Brom's goal but they | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
impenetrable fence. -- Sunderland fired 19 shots. First the | :10:11. | :10:20. | |
frustration as a penalty was denied. Sunderland to get the ball in the | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
net in the final minutes. They tend to celebrate just to see the offside | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
flag. It sums up Sunderland's day. West Brom offered little that they | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
have had another part to play in this very interesting relegation | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
battle. How big an opportunity missed was this for Sunderland? | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
Let's dwell upon the relegation battle. A massive win for Alex | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
Neil's Norwich City. They were struggling. They were in freefall | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
but they have picked up some points recently and given themselves a bit | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
of a gap. Seven points from the last three. Aston Villa away, two from | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
three. At the moment, it looks like the massive northern clubs, | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
Sunderland and Newcastle, both in the Championship. That doesn't bode | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
well. Newcastle are in serious problems. It looks like they might | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
not be able to be saved. Villa of the obvious ones today. These were | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
teams that in the past you would have considered to be the very top | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
of the English leagues. Sad and pathetic, the way these teams have | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
been run, the way they have been allowed to disintegrate. That is the | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
negative. For me, the positive is that there has been great football | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
in Scotland today. The last couple of minutes of the Rangers- Raith | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
Rovers game, you have to watch. Motherwell, my team of the day. I | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
don't want to dwell too much on teams in Birmingham. Let's talk | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
about Aston Villa and their demise. Do we have to? If I am an Aston | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
Villa fan, I am sat in my heart for Do we have to? If I am an Aston | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
what has happened to my club, because it seems it has been years | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
of mismanagement. They brought in Remi Garde, not the type of manager | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
that you need for a club like Aston Villa that didn't have a good season | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
last season or the year before. They need somebody who knows the Premier | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
League and English football and can bring through Youngblood because | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
their players are not cutting it. We are about to talk all things | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
Scottish. You skewed the agenda earlier. We will start with Craig. | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
What a dramatic day, as Stewart pointed out. You couldn't have hoped | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
for a more dramatic one. That middle area, the top six, people want to | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
avoid relegation, the play-off spots make it interesting. The top of the | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
Championship is still up for grabs. There are some nervy fixtures during | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
the week and next Saturday. Rangers have a chance on Tuesday to win the | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
Championship. Giggs back in action, six points Falkirk. -- Hibs are back | :13:10. | :13:18. | |
in action. Gemma, Dundee United are now five points behind Kilmarnock | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
with a game in hand. That great escape looks doable. It does, and a | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
few months ago I said they wouldn't do it. But they have started to show | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
flashes of that spirit. Even against St Johnstone. They looked like they | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
could score again. They have found something within them to bring them | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
through it. If I am Kilmarnock, I am seriously worried right now. I | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
scribbled down earlier, Stewart, but it seemed like Dundee are fighting | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
scribbled down earlier, Stewart, but for their lives. That if the | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
analysis. It seemed as if they needed the points more and maybe | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
that is true as well. St Johnstone still need to absolutely be certain | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
of their top six, but that feels closer. And they play Kilmarnock | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
next week, of all teams. There is a lot they are still to play. It shows | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
you that the authorities are absolutely right to bring in the | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
play-offs, to bring in this kind of second spot play-off and whatever. | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
The end of the season has been really good apart from, as I said, | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
the slight disappointment of Aberdeen and Hibernian running out | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
of steam. We have a darn good season. You were on the show and you | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
predicted that Rangers might run out of steam a wee bit. The thing here | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
is that I think Rangers will now comfortably go on and win the title, | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
no doubt, but Craig makes an important point -- an important | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
point. I think they are losing three goals per game. That isn't great, so | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
they are clearly vulnerable. With a big game coming up against Celtic in | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
the cup. I think they will go and have a real party at the Dumbarton | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
game. Ibrox will be one where they can even showboat a bit. And there | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
is the cup final as well. Stewart makes a valid point that these goals | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
is the cup final as well. Stewart given away, with that semifinal | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
coming up. That is what people look at. We know they can score goals, | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
but can they defence? They didn't manage it against St Johnstone early | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
on. They did it in the cup. People see this as a big test. They believe | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
that Rangers have the quality to go to Celtic and cause problems but | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
their back division is to be rock solid. They went through a phase of | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
scoring goals and they have a lot of clean sheets but the last three | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
games will worry the manager. David Weir, he isn't going to like seeing | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
it. I asked you earlier how many of your former clubs you thought would | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
it. I asked you earlier how many of be playing in the Premiership next | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
season. We will have to talk about Motherwell. Five wins on the spin | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
and now assured of a top six finish. A remarkable turnaround. Incredible. | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
They had a good run when he came and now it is six from the last seven | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
games. It is incredible what they have done, turning things around. | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
Being in the top six, they can enjoy a game against Celtic. A big crowds, | :16:17. | :16:25. | |
money coming in. The irony is, many people, the majority of football | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
fans earlier in the season were looking at Motherwell as a team who | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
could go down. But they are now in a European spot and could be looking | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
at their passports. Good luck to them. Dundee are not part of that | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
either. They have edged into the top six. -- not out of that. It is | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
interesting with Dundee, except the Motherwell, who have had a fantastic | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
run. In mid-February, they were a point behind Kilmarnock. The rest of | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
the teams have been so inconsistent. Tiny little purple patches but their | :16:59. | :17:00. | |
ability to win games back-to-back has been phenomenal in its lack in | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
the middle section. Celtic, it looks like their title. It looks | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
the middle section. Celtic, it looks that. Seven points ahead, seven | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
games to go. Aberdeen would have to win three and Celtic to lose three | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
to make the difference. I don't honestly see Celtic going into | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
reverse and that Aberdeen to finish the season with seven straight | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
victories would be difficult. To be honest, I think that result against | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
Hearts today makes Celtic the favourites. This show has whizzed | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
past and I'm afraid that is just about it. Before we go, let's have | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
another look at some of today's results, starting with the | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
Premiership. Celtic beat Hearts. A seven goal thriller for Dundee and | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
Ross County. A big win for Motherwell. The only goal this game | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
in the top division, Partick Thistle and Kilmarnock. A big win for Dundee | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
United. In the Championship, you don't see that every day. Every | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
match ending in a draw. It means Rangers, their title winning | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
champagne is on ice. A dramatic equaliser from Raith Rovers in that | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
game. You can see highlights of the weekend's SPFL goings-on at 10:30pm | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
tomorrow. We are back again next week, at 4pm on BBC One. It you | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
hunger for more Stuart Cosgrove, good news, he is ready to hotfoot it | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
along the corridor to present off the ball on the radio. Don't worry, | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
he has got ten minutes. It is good night from me and adios from the | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
three Amigos. Thank you from all of my guests. See you later. | :18:54. | :18:57. |