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Yes, good afternoon and welcome to the Results Show. The one we have | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
been saving for a rainy day. Lots of games are off but the show goes on. | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
If there were anymore postponements, we were going to call this show | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
Sportscene Result! The team are in the comfort of the studio, Michael | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
Stuart and Mark Wilson. Welcome, gentleman. And meanwhile, the | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
reporters from Dingwall to Dundee will keep us up-to-date on the games | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
that survived Storm Desmond, not including the Premiership matches, | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
they have been postponed. As have a number of other games in the SPL | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
division. So let's have a look at what is on and off. Here we go with | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
the Scottish Premiership. Three matches beating the weather. | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
The lunch time match at Dundee, finishing with a win for Aberdeen. | :01:15. | :01:24. | |
One match beating the weather in the Scottish championship. | :01:25. | :01:34. | |
One up for dumb bart on against Alloa. | :01:35. | :01:44. | |
And a survivor there, for Dunfermline v Brechin City. 3-1 to | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
Dunfermline. A few more matches in thewomen Hill | :01:52. | :02:01. | |
scup uh Scottish Cup. Arbroath against Cowdenbeath has been | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
abandoned. There is goes. Cover Rangers 3, 1 to Formartine | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
unite united. Now, time to catch up with the rain | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
men around the country. The first of which is Martin Dowden. He is in | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
Dingwall watching Ross County against St Johnstone. | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
St Johnstone looking like they could see this one out. David Wotherspoon | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
a double. He charged down. An attempted | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
clearance, the ball in the back of the net. David Wotherspoon curled it | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
into the net. Boyce with a close range going down. Then a header. It | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
bemused the reporters. No idea who put it in. But it is two each here | :02:57. | :03:04. | |
in Dingwall and very much game on. And to Rugby Park. John Barnes is | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
desperate to tell us what is going on there. | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
These sides serving up a cracking match. Chris Boyd body opening up | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
for the scoring in the fourth minute. But Dundee United equalised | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
with a goal scoring opportunity, for McKay. | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
Now to the championship. That match at the bottom of the table. Alloa | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
against Dumbarton. Brian is at the stadium. What is happening? Good | :03:40. | :03:48. | |
afternoon. It is Alloa, nil, and Dumbarton, one. Mark Docherty with a | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
corner kick. Evading everyone before ending up in the back of the net. It | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
is a basement battle in the championship. | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
Well, not much to talk about. Maybe we will get your egg nothing recipes | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
later. Christmas is coming up! Let's start with Dundee United. Kris body | :04:10. | :04:18. | |
is back in the team. Doing OK? I am surprised he has not had more starts | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
in the team. A disappointing start last season. | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
Not so many games at Rangers. I thought that Kilmarnock would be a | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
natural place for him. His home team. He has done well there. I | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
would have thought he would have done better and had more game time. | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
But good to see him back and scoring. | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
And Kelly? Obviously it has been a tough spell for them. | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
The fan there is have had to go through a bad bit. | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
The game today, by all accounts, the weather is not great. But with the | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
rain on the surface it could have made it a little better and the game | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
more pleasing on the eye. Mark, Dundee United, on paper it | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
looks like so far, so good for them. If they get anything out of that? | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
I'm not sure. Kelly were done to ten men earlier on in the game. After | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
the penalty, you would think that they could go on and control the | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
game. I'm sure that they will be disappointed not to take advantage. | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
You are a man that likes to make a precise prediction. How do you see | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
that one? Last night on the radio, I said 1-1. Here is hoping it stays | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
that way. Ross County and St Johnstone. A | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
classic. St Johnstone's away record is something to behold? A fantastic | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
record. When we find out who scored the second goal for Ross County, | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
that will help as well. Looking at the game in the week, it was tough. | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
Not muff between them. The fact that St Johnstone have a good away | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
record. I thought it would tip it in their favour. But no surprise. If | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
you are desperate to find out, it was Andrew Davis. The suspense was | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
killing us. An important player? Yes, | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
definitely, Doherty has got the players from south and got them up | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
with a really good signing, pushing them up the league. We did not | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
expect to see them. But they have kind of taken over Inverness. | :06:41. | :06:50. | |
I bumped into Roy McGregor in Edinburgh. He was full of praise for | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
Andrew Davis. Saying he has been an influential signing for them. Even | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
without the goal, he has a lot of praise for the chairman. | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
Well saved. Out of a hole there! Now, Dundee could be in the top six | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
if they could beat Aberdeen. The Dons at the top of the Premiership | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
to four points and could increase the advantage to first place. Now | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
here is the story of the match from Liam McLeod. | :07:26. | :07:34. | |
A victory for Dennis's Aberdeen. Paul Hartley's Dundee cannot buy a | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
win. A vibrant first half ensured back-to-back wins for the first time | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
since September, Niall McGinn opening up the scoring and the Dons | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
did not look back. Adam Rooney fired one in. | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
There should have been a penalty for a trip on low just outside of the | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
box. Stuart and Hemmings forced saves from the Dons keeper, Ward. | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
But, there were good chances missed up the other end. Seven without a | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
win for Dundee, the Dons move into four clear of third-placed Hearts | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
ahead of the team's Pittodrie clash next Saturday lunch time. Mark, | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
back-to-back wins for Aberdeen. The wheels back on the Dons team? Yes. | :08:28. | :08:36. | |
The players they have done so well with the eight victories in a row, | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
when they got a defeat it seemed to affect them so much. The pressure | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
built and you could not see where they were going to win. A poor start | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
against Ross County in the first half. The second they were better. | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
Kicked on again today. It could have been a tricky tie for Dundee. | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
And looking at the strength on the bench. | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
It was strong! . That is the thing about Aberdeen. They have strength | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
and depth. That surprised me so much when they were talking about the | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
spell that they went through it seemed that they could not get a | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
win. There are good players and a lot of experience on the side. I was | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
surprised it took them so long to get themselves out of the bad run. | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
But looking at it in the grand scheme of things, they are second in | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
the league. Four points off the top. They have Rooney scoring goals | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
again. That is 35, 36 goals, that is a return for a striker. | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
Let's have a look around the grounds. | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
We are going to Alloa. Home to Dumbarton and the championship. It | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
is back over to Brian. Dumbarton. Winning 2-0. Grant | :09:53. | :10:02. | |
Gallagher knocking the ball home. Following the opening by Mark | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
Docherty for Dumbarton and the corner deceived everyone ending up | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
in the back of the net. Two minutes left here at the stadium, formerly | :10:15. | :10:24. | |
known as Wreck creation Park. Remember, the games in the | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
Premiership are Firhill, Celtic Park, Tynecastle, they are all off. | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
But there are action at Victoria Park, and Dingwall. | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
This is a bizarre game. St Johnstone in control. County are struggling to | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
get emphasis but then they are right back in it. Boyce bringing it in, | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
and then Davies up there with a corner. Challenging with Murray | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
Davidson. Many seemed to think that Davidson got the last touch. A firm | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
header into his net. That made us think that it was day of Davies that | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
did it. But County are back in the game. Firing forward. | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
A chance for St Johnstone, they have cleared the ball away. But Tommy | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
Wright will be fuming on the touch line. Even though on course to | :11:21. | :11:29. | |
remain unbeaten in seven matches. Now, let's hear from John Barnes. He | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
is at Rugby Park. Eight minutes left. | :11:37. | :11:50. | |
Kilmarnock, one, Dundee United, one. United were level in the 24th minute | :11:51. | :11:59. | |
after Kris Boyd scored. He played it to Slater. He curled | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
the ball in. Then volleyed it into the back of the net. So, 1-1. United | :12:06. | :12:13. | |
trying to utilise the one man advantage. | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
They have had a couple wide. Up thor end Slater cracked a great | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
shot off the right-hand post, much to the relief of the Dundee United | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
goalkeeper. Then John Souter fired in a shot tipped around the post by | :12:31. | :12:38. | |
Jamie McDonald. Blustery conditions. But lots of entertaining football on | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
show. Thank you very much, John. Returning | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
now to the lunch time kick-off. Dundee, nil, Aberdeen, two. It has | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
finished as Dens Park. Let's hear from the manager, Derek McInnes. It | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
was tough. I thought with the energy that we | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
showed, the eagerness to get on with the game. The start of the game was | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
vital. That was evidence in getting the two goals. I thought that we | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
imposed ourselves on the game. We know that the day would mean a lot | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
of time playing the conditions, and also we still had to show quality. | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
But the two goals were excellent. We could have had one or two more but | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
you are never quite there at 2-0. We still had work to do. I think that | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
the players managed it, with the wind and the rain battering into | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
them. The pitch getting heavier. And I think that they managed the second | :13:45. | :13:46. | |
half very well. Well done. He did not flinch with | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
those boards. Aberdeen, a clean sheet. They started off the season | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
brilliantly at the back. Then conceded a lot of goal but back to a | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
clean sheet. That will please Derek a lot. | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
Especially after last week conceding again. They looked invincible when | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
they were not conceding it shows the importance of defending. They looked | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
through a run where it looked easy to score. Now they have fixed their | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
problem. They are going in the right direction. | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
A terrible autumn. Starting off the winter well. Next week it is against | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
Hearts, their former employers. It is a big game. Obviously Aberdeen | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
will be delighted that the Hearts game was called off. It means that | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
they have the 4-point gap. Where they to lose the game, they would be | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
a point ahead. But it gives them confidence. Especially at Pittodrie, | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
with seven points clear. Also, we have spoken about this | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
already but with them now picking up more form, if you are seven points | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
clear your nearest rival it adds to the momentum that they are moving in | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
the right direction. A confidence boost for the Dons. Not | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
so for done deed. They lost the match 2-0. Let's hear what their | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
manager had to say afterwards. I don't think that we started well | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
enough. I felt we did not perform. We were off the mark in terms of | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
defence and the team offence I will as a team. We did not pass or defend | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
well. We didn't stop the crossing coming in, and gave away set plays. | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
The next win is important. Not to look too far ahead. The players are | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
disappointed. We have to regroup and get them on to a better result next | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
week. Now to Victoria Park. | :15:50. | :16:01. | |
No doubt about this one, a free kick from 25 yards, Dave McKay calls it | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
over the wall and into the corner, this team are just unstoppable right | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
now. Sounds like a cracking match. Brian McLaughlin has been watching | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
Alloa Athletic against Dumbarton in the championship, it is all over? | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
Not good news if you are an Alloa Athletic fan, 2-0, the game played | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
in horrendous conditions. A driving wind throughout the 90 minutes, | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
Alloa Athletic had the perceived benefit of that in the first half | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
but there was only one real shot on target. They shot by Duffy on 38 | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
minutes, low to the goalkeeper 's left-hand side but he did well to | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
save it. Dumbarton have the wind and rain in the second half and they | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
capitalised, it was a freak goal, a needless corner given away by the | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
Alloa Athletic defence and Doherty swung in the corner and it of a did | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
everyone and went into the back of the net. Alloa Athletic tried hard | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
for the equaliser, Mark Brown in the Dumbarton golf dropped a cross but | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
although the ensuing effort was on target, it was scrambled away. With | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
a few minutes to go, Dumbarton scored a killer second goal, Gattaca | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
was there to not get it home for the second goal. -- Gallaher. They do | :17:27. | :17:34. | |
have a chance for revenge on Jews day night in the Scottish Cup. -- | :17:35. | :17:44. | |
Tuesday night. Just ignore that attendance at the top, it said | :17:45. | :17:53. | |
3229, another of your former teams, an important result for them. | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
Lifting them to seventh. A big incentive to widen the gap between | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
them and St Mirren in the not so good for Alloa Athletic but coming | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
off the back of the Rangers game in midweek, the pitch was very heavy | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
and they put in a tough shift but a great result away from home. We can | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
look and see how Dumbarton fared, you mentioned that game in midweek | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
against Rangers, a hammering, 4-0. It seemed that way but for much of | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
the first half, Dumbarton did OK, they defended their 18-yard box | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
well, there were a few opportunities, a good shout for a | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
penalty but Rangers came out in the second half rejuvenated and they | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
scored and you can just see the belief to rain from Dumbarton. | :18:52. | :19:02. | |
Rangers went on to a rout but it was not as one-sided as the score | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
suggests. When you set up tactics like Dumbarton did, when you lose | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
the first goal, it alters the game with time because you have the | :19:12. | :19:20. | |
change of tactics a little bit. When Rangers start to get themselves in | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
front like that it is a perfect combination to score more goals. | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
Even though I think it was flattering. Lhasa today, they were | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
keeping it tight and then they lost 4-0. That is what Rangers have two | :19:36. | :19:43. | |
expect, teams sitting at them and making it difficult. It has worked | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
for two weeks in a row that they have tired teams out and ended up | :19:49. | :19:56. | |
scoring four. Is there a plan B to counter that? We talked about this | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
the other night, they were trying to score the perfect score and try to | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
play through Dumbarton but plan B is to get it wide and get more crosses | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
into the box. It seemed Mark Warburton had the second -- same | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
idea because that is what they did in the second half. It amazes me how | :20:15. | :20:22. | |
many times you watch modern-day football and everyone tries to | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
channel it through the middle, it is unbelievable how you see so few | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
teams getting the ball wide and penetrating from the wide areas | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
especially when it is not happening through the middle, you have to get | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
wide and get behind teams because it is the only way to break them down. | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
We will head back to Dingwall, full-time between Ross County and St | :20:45. | :20:53. | |
Johnstone. Captain Dave McKay striking a magnificent free kick to | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
St Johnstone's seventh straightaway victory. They are now within a point | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
of Hearts in third place. There was a calamitous opener but then curling | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
in a beautiful second before half-time to put the visitors in | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
control. Ross County looked bereft of ideas but out of nowhere, Liam | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
Boyce slammed home from close range, then, a challenge to get on the end | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
of the corner with Davidson seemingly heading into his own net. | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
O'Halloran and a free kick and McKay stepped up and hit an absolute | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
beauty over the wall, the top three very much in sight. A question for | :21:38. | :21:45. | |
you, a star turned by the looks of things from David Wallace, what | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
about Michael O'Halloran, he did not get many mentions in the report. He | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
almost went straight through Davidson's tackle to only free kick | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
from which McKay scored the winner, not one of his most sparkling | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
performances, he has had many of those, earning Player of the Month | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
in November, he was more of a team player today and St Johnstone showed | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
they can dig out a result and keep the run going and a fantastic result | :22:16. | :22:24. | |
after losing a two goal lead. I am glad he did not mention Michael | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
O'Halloran was Player of the Month for November because he is receiving | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
the award. Raina Dandelion, that is nice play by O'Halloran. At the back | :22:36. | :22:44. | |
post, it is in and eventually, Davidson prods it home from close | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
range. A big chance, they must score, O'Halloran, 1-1. Michael | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
O'Halloran scores for the third consecutive game. At pace as well, | :22:59. | :23:11. | |
that is the equaliser. Again in the wide area, he set it up nicely. What | :23:12. | :23:19. | |
did you say? I could not wait to speak about him, he is terrific and | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
I have always liked the look of him. A year or two ago, he lacked | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
I have always liked the look of him. something, maybe it was confidence | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
but this season, he has been brilliant and scored some great | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
goals. Some great assists as well. We have seen it all come together at | :23:38. | :23:46. | |
Ibrox. Against Rangers in the League Cup. Exactly what St Johnstone | :23:47. | :23:55. | |
need. Very valuable with goals and assists. We need to know how the | :23:56. | :24:05. | |
management in Kilmarnock and Dundee United reacted. Had finished 1-1, I | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
do not think it is a result either side would want, they were both | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
looking for three points in blustery conditions at Rugby Park. Kilmarnock | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
off to a good start, Kris Boyd on the scoresheet after four minutes. | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
off to a good start, Kris Boyd on He tapped home from around three | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
yards. They could have gone further in front, a couple of shots, one | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
saved by the goalkeeper to his right hand side and then another effort | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
from a header and this time of the save was down at his left to turn it | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
away but midway through the first half, Kilmarnock were reduced to ten | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
men, Stuart Findlay sent off for denying a goal-scoring opportunity | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
as he tried to latch onto a billion McKay cross. McKay was the man who | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
stepped up and slotted away the penalty after Findlay was red | :25:02. | :25:11. | |
carded. The Kilmarnock goalkeeper stopped a one-on-one late in the | :25:12. | :25:19. | |
game. Dundee United were also denied by the goalkeeper. Early in the | :25:20. | :25:30. | |
second half, United felt they were due another penalty, they just got | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
in behind the Kilmarnock defence and seemed to be pulled back by the | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
Kilmarnock captain but the referee ignored the appeals for the penalty | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
and that did not please the manager in the Dundee United technical area. | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
There were chances at both ends, Dixon with a shot wide for United, | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
Craig Slater blasted one off the right-hand post for Kilmarnock as he | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
tried to find the winner then up the other end, Souter with a lovely shot | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
tipped away by MacDonald. In the end it finished 1-1. You talk about a | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
precious point for Dundee United, still stranded at the foot of the | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
table, six behind Motherwell. Can they scrambled their way out of | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
this? They can but as each week passes it looks more of a difficult | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
task. As they said before, playing against ten men, you have to try and | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
get your ambition is higher than taking a point, away from home you | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
could argue but I think you have to get your sights on picking up three | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
points and that is the only way to get closer in contact with the teams | :26:45. | :26:52. | |
above you. McKay is the only one who has scored in two months, and some | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
of those have been penalties. It is not something you would generally | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
say about Dundee United, their problem before was keeping them out | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
at the back. Now they are having a mixture of both which is why they | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
are bottom of the table. Billy McKay is doing his best. You have played | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
against him? I did when I was 15 or 16 and he was sensational, I think | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
he's got a hat-trick when I was sent back and he ended up getting a move | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
to Liverpool. They are playing their experienced players, Gavin Gunning | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
is there. I think he is a top signing for them again, he did score | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
an own goal last week but he will tighten things up, it is exactly | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
what they need, they have a lot of young boys but they need some | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
experience. Can they get off the bottom spot? I am not sure, when you | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
are playing for 75 minutes against ten men, you really need to get | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
three points, it is a struggle for Dundee United at the moment. We can | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
now go to this weeks classified results round-up, somewhat truncated | :28:10. | :28:10. | |
this week. At least the fourth official is nice | :28:11. | :28:23. | |
and dry, we start with the Premiership. | :28:24. | :28:55. | |
There are more in the Scottish Cup third round however. | :28:56. | :29:21. | |
In the Berkeley 's endless Premier League. | :29:22. | :33:16. | |
Right, then, as promised, we will dip our toes in the English Premier | :33:17. | :33:24. | |
League. Stoke City at home today, starting | :33:25. | :33:28. | |
at the leaders but they are not know. | :33:29. | :33:34. | |
Stoke City beat Manchester City thanks to a sewer Paddy Ashdown | :33:35. | :33:38. | |
first half display. Scored twice, by Marko Arnautovic. Created by the | :33:39. | :33:49. | |
skill fill Ziciri. And then saga with his first goal. | :33:50. | :33:57. | |
Manchester City struggled without the injured captain, Vincent | :33:58. | :34:03. | |
Kompany. As the conditions got more | :34:04. | :34:08. | |
difficult, a comeback from the visitors looked less likely. | :34:09. | :34:12. | |
Stoke City look like they are going places. | :34:13. | :34:16. | |
Leicester City going places, back to the top of the table. Here is how | :34:17. | :34:20. | |
they did it. Winning away to Swansea. The. Jamie Vardy, the | :34:21. | :34:34. | |
scoring run ends at 11 games. A hat-trick for Mahrez. | :34:35. | :34:39. | |
Jamie Vardy deserves credit for setting up up the third. | :34:40. | :34:49. | |
Swansea never really in this. They were bereft for confidence. How much | :34:50. | :34:54. | |
time does Garry Monk have to turn this around. But tonight, the Foxes | :34:55. | :34:59. | |
were flying. Let's find out how Manchester United | :35:00. | :35:02. | |
fared. The biggest surprise in this one is | :35:03. | :35:08. | |
that it stayed goaless, given the number of chances created by both. | :35:09. | :35:14. | |
West Ham feeling aggrieved, denied the post. | :35:15. | :35:38. | |
And twice a wide shot. When plots did increase the tempo, | :35:39. | :35:43. | |
they had no problem creating chances but the problem lied in taking them. | :35:44. | :35:51. | |
A disgruntled response and missing the chances of capitalising. | :35:52. | :35:59. | |
Arsenal capitalised on their rival's slip-ups, a win for them at home to | :36:00. | :36:03. | |
Sunderland. The final score, Arsenal, three, | :36:04. | :36:07. | |
Sunderland, one. So many players injured. | :36:08. | :36:12. | |
. Arsenal found their touch against a thoroughly game Sunderland side. | :36:13. | :36:23. | |
Arsenal's half-time team must have been laced with chilli powed. They | :36:24. | :36:32. | |
had pace, creativity, Ramsey's stoppage time goal at close range. | :36:33. | :36:40. | |
They will have to start fast per the mid-week, though. | :36:41. | :36:48. | |
Now from John Akers. Spurs equal the longest unbeaten run | :36:49. | :36:52. | |
in top flight football stretching back 30 years. A proper old | :36:53. | :36:59. | |
fashioned football match. Lots of tackles, lots of endeavour and two | :37:00. | :37:06. | |
good goals. Alli scoring for Tottenham. | :37:07. | :37:10. | |
Defendant as you like through the legs. West Brom were their match in | :37:11. | :37:18. | |
the first half. Equalising through James McClean's first goal. A | :37:19. | :37:23. | |
powerful header. Kane went close for Spurs in the | :37:24. | :37:28. | |
second half. But it finish, probably about right. 1-1. | :37:29. | :37:34. | |
Before we dwell on the matters per paining to the English Barclays | :37:35. | :37:37. | |
league, we have something to tell you. | :37:38. | :37:43. | |
The match between East Kilbride and Stenhousemuir. It went into extra | :37:44. | :37:50. | |
time but East Kilbride are 2-1 up. Sensational. | :37:51. | :37:56. | |
Now, would you like to move on to the English Barclays premiere? | :37:57. | :37:59. | |
Whatever you want. Well, they have done it again. | :38:00. | :38:04. | |
Another clean sheet, Michael, 0-0, you must be delighted. | :38:05. | :38:09. | |
I'm trying to keep myself awake! They keep missing opportunities | :38:10. | :38:12. | |
there. As they were talking about, the fact | :38:13. | :38:16. | |
that the rivals are slipping up. A game at home it is clear that the | :38:17. | :38:21. | |
fans are not happy with nil-nil. We are talking about it. Gone are | :38:22. | :38:26. | |
the days of watching Manchester United and being excited and edge of | :38:27. | :38:30. | |
your seat stuff. It is a bit of a bore. | :38:31. | :38:36. | |
Well, he was up on his feet. Walking about, recommend on straiting. But | :38:37. | :38:40. | |
you are only three points off the league? | :38:41. | :38:44. | |
I know. But I'm astonished. I can't for the life believe they are three | :38:45. | :38:49. | |
points off the top. I don't see them having the quality or the | :38:50. | :38:53. | |
excitement. It is a different era for the Manchester United fans. The | :38:54. | :38:58. | |
days he was there. That was so exciting. I would love watching | :38:59. | :39:02. | |
them. Now, I get bored watching them. But they are effective. | :39:03. | :39:08. | |
But you don't get bored watching Leicester city. They are 3-0 winners | :39:09. | :39:16. | |
to Swansea. Sickening that regard regard volunteered did not score. | :39:17. | :39:21. | |
But a remarkable story. We are waiting for the collapse. Thinking | :39:22. | :39:25. | |
that they can't keep to going. But they keep churning out results. Last | :39:26. | :39:29. | |
week impressive against Manchester United. Going away. With points. | :39:30. | :39:41. | |
It is a classic thing, you think you can do it but it is so difficult to | :39:42. | :39:45. | |
predict. In a league that is so competitive, | :39:46. | :39:50. | |
it is difficult. But every week you are expecting Leicester to slip up | :39:51. | :39:53. | |
but they don't. I still don't think that they will do it but the | :39:54. | :39:59. | |
Champions League qualification is a serious consideration. | :40:00. | :40:02. | |
And you know who has been slipping up, Arsenal. And there, Giroud | :40:03. | :40:07. | |
scoring. They are up to the second. | :40:08. | :40:11. | |
This could be the season for Arsenal. There has been noise how | :40:12. | :40:17. | |
they do well and fall away. But this season things are clicking. Going | :40:18. | :40:21. | |
forward they have a lot of attacking options in the scoring of goals. If | :40:22. | :40:25. | |
they keep it clean at the back. They could be there. | :40:26. | :40:31. | |
The problem for them is the fact that they could lose two important | :40:32. | :40:37. | |
players, one of them Sanchez. That could be a big miss. And Chelsea, | :40:38. | :40:42. | |
the biggest rival have disappeared from the start of the season. | :40:43. | :40:47. | |
As a United man you would not grudge Arsene Wenger a title at this stage | :40:48. | :40:51. | |
of his career. It would not bother me. I want to | :40:52. | :40:55. | |
see Manchester United playing more attractive football. Now to the | :40:56. | :41:01. | |
bottom half of the Premier League. Watford at home to Norwich. Let's | :41:02. | :41:04. | |
hear how it went. Yes, something is stirring down | :41:05. | :41:08. | |
these parts. That is a fourth win in six Premier League games. Watford | :41:09. | :41:13. | |
enjoying this spell in a winter that will no doubt get harder for them. | :41:14. | :41:18. | |
Enjoying as it heats. Deeney from the spot. After Tettey made a | :41:19. | :41:28. | |
mistake. It was a grind in the wind but Watford ground out better than | :41:29. | :41:34. | |
Norwich. They offered little. And in the end, Ighalo kept his cool in the | :41:35. | :41:41. | |
cold and sealed it for Watford, 2-0. And let's hear how Aston Villa | :41:42. | :41:45. | |
played against Southampton. 1-1. A six points for the season for | :41:46. | :41:53. | |
Villa. But came away with a draw. Lescott giving Villa the unlikely | :41:54. | :42:01. | |
lead. Then the rear guard for Remy's men continued. | :42:02. | :42:07. | |
The sub-Romeou scoring from the corner. | :42:08. | :42:14. | |
It finished 1-1. Three points outside much the bottom | :42:15. | :42:19. | |
for notch City. Worrying? It is. But he has to expect that, surely. He | :42:20. | :42:24. | |
has had a fairytale story so far. It would be difficult in the Premier | :42:25. | :42:27. | |
League. He must expect that it would be there or theres about. It is | :42:28. | :42:32. | |
about holding the nerve, can he escape the pressures of the | :42:33. | :42:35. | |
relegation battle. The pressure must be huge there. The finances are | :42:36. | :42:41. | |
dropping out of the league. It can ruin you. | :42:42. | :42:44. | |
And next season when the new television deal starts. There is | :42:45. | :42:49. | |
more money and more emphasis on making sure that they keep their | :42:50. | :42:52. | |
Premier League status this year. So there is a lot of pressure on it. | :42:53. | :42:56. | |
That will be a I cross the board. He has to manage that and ensure that | :42:57. | :43:03. | |
the players are relaxed as possible. And back to matters Scottish and the | :43:04. | :43:10. | |
Scottish rip. St Johnstone are a point behind Hearts? | :43:11. | :43:13. | |
When the league table came up, I noticed that. I thought that is a | :43:14. | :43:19. | |
really crucial thing for this game next week with Hearts and Aberdeen. | :43:20. | :43:22. | |
We were talking about how Aberdeen could go seven clear of Hearts. | :43:23. | :43:28. | |
Tough for the Saints. They are playing Celtic? But they are in good | :43:29. | :43:34. | |
form. Celtic are not as formidable as even a couple of years ago. So | :43:35. | :43:39. | |
for St Johnstone, full of confidence, with a good run of form. | :43:40. | :43:43. | |
With Hearts in their sights, this is nothing. | :43:44. | :43:51. | |
Craig Paterson was saying, look at St Johnstone, there is no one | :43:52. | :43:54. | |
individual. There are players that can score from almost everywhere. | :43:55. | :43:58. | |
They have been a unit for a council of years. The back four. There has | :43:59. | :44:04. | |
been one or two editions. But with a unit like that and you stay together | :44:05. | :44:08. | |
for a council of years, there is a real togetherness about that. You | :44:09. | :44:16. | |
can see that. That is how Tommy Wright has managed them. We did not | :44:17. | :44:23. | |
speak much about Dundee but they have hit the skids a bit. If you | :44:24. | :44:30. | |
look at the table, although in 7th, they are only five away from the | :44:31. | :44:35. | |
second bottom in the play-off spot. Are we in trouble? Or is that | :44:36. | :44:41. | |
over-egging it a wee bit? Possibly. I think that Paul Hartley will be | :44:42. | :44:46. | |
keen to turn it around. But you look at six draws, one defeat. So it is | :44:47. | :44:52. | |
not horrendous form if that is the bad spell, they will take that. | :44:53. | :44:56. | |
Coming up to Christmas. There are lots of games. It gives them an | :44:57. | :44:59. | |
opportunity to pick up points if they can turn the form a little. | :45:00. | :45:05. | |
The next game against Motherwell and then Hamilton. You expect them to | :45:06. | :45:09. | |
get something. Well, the Dundee fans would. | :45:10. | :45:13. | |
It is not a disaster as Michael said. There is so much attacking | :45:14. | :45:20. | |
flair going forward with the players that can score, Stuart Hemmings but | :45:21. | :45:24. | |
they cannot keep the doors closed at the back. That is how they are | :45:25. | :45:32. | |
sitting. Two big games coming up. Kilmarnock are 10th two points above | :45:33. | :45:38. | |
Motherwell, a point today. The home performances dire? From the start of | :45:39. | :45:42. | |
the season they flirted with the bottom of the table. You thought | :45:43. | :45:46. | |
that they were breaking away but then they go backwards. | :45:47. | :45:51. | |
But they played well against Celtic? But follow that up with losing five | :45:52. | :45:57. | |
at home! Then United, there for the taking, a team detached from the | :45:58. | :46:01. | |
bottom of the league. They would have fancied their chances. They | :46:02. | :46:06. | |
have to be careful. They are so inconsistent. You cannot | :46:07. | :46:12. | |
predict what is happening with them. With a side as unpredictable and | :46:13. | :46:17. | |
inconsistent as that, there is a danger that they are dragged into a | :46:18. | :46:22. | |
relegation battle. Too early to detect a pattern of who | :46:23. | :46:24. | |
is going down? I loved my time at Dundee United and | :46:25. | :46:37. | |
it is tough to see it happening to a club that has done so well over the | :46:38. | :46:42. | |
years. But it might be a difficult gap to claw back even with four | :46:43. | :46:48. | |
months of the season to go. Possibly the greatest goal in the history of | :46:49. | :46:54. | |
the world, it is scored by Neil Maclean of Inveraray locals against | :46:55. | :47:01. | |
Annan Athletic last week. Let me set the scene, they are for -3 down | :47:02. | :47:07. | |
after Annan Athletic scored a late goal, this is what happened straight | :47:08. | :47:12. | |
from the restart. Can you do some commentary on this golf? I am not | :47:13. | :47:18. | |
ready for that. It is tremendous skill but do not take anything | :47:19. | :47:24. | |
away, the tackle, he has seen that coming a mile away. I have seen that | :47:25. | :47:32. | |
a few times and I don't know, no way he has meant that. I hope he did. | :47:33. | :47:41. | |
Have you seen a better goal scored than that? Have you scored a better | :47:42. | :47:48. | |
one? Michael probably has, I only ever scored deflections. I have seen | :47:49. | :47:55. | |
a few, nap, ra's free kick against Manchester United in the Champions | :47:56. | :48:00. | |
League, that is one of the best goals I have seen when I was there. | :48:01. | :48:06. | |
It is such a difficult question. I don't know. Similar to what he was | :48:07. | :48:13. | |
saying, there was a goal Steven Gerrard scored against United that | :48:14. | :48:18. | |
was a screamer, the whole occasion of those games as well. A text here | :48:19. | :48:29. | |
saying "you are a terrible pundit. " It is from the goal-scorer. There | :48:30. | :48:34. | |
was another game postponed for Annan Athletic today, do you expect them | :48:35. | :48:42. | |
to go through? It is a great run for them, to get a goal like that late | :48:43. | :48:47. | |
on to get a replay, there will not be a lot between the teams. That is | :48:48. | :48:56. | |
it for a windswept but hopefully interesting results show. Look at | :48:57. | :49:02. | |
that, wins for Aberdeen and Sam Johnston. Just one match in the | :49:03. | :49:11. | |
championship, a 2-0 win for Dumbarton away at Alloa Athletic. | :49:12. | :49:14. | |
The highlight show is on tomorrow night. The results show will be back | :49:15. | :49:24. | |
next week on BBC One. We hope you can join us for that. | :49:25. | :49:37. | |
Get dialling please. Thank you to Mark Wilson and Michael Stewart. I | :49:38. | :49:49. | |
have a couple of gondolas to take them home, enjoy, enjoy the rest of | :49:50. | :49:52. | |
your evening and we will see you soon, good night. | :49:53. | :50:15. | |
celebrating 12 extraordinary months in music. | :50:16. | :50:20. |