Smash hit

Rangers now mired in their own mediocrity

Exit from Europe has exposed the Ibrox club's shortcomings this season and put questionmarks over Walter Smith's future

Liverpool crash out of Champions League

Merseysiders beat Debrecen, but drop down to Europa League after Fiorentina's victory, while Arsenal win to top Group H

Smith: ‘Unirea defeat led to soul-searching’

Before facing Suttgart, Rangers manager expresses pleasure with his side’s reaction after humiliation at hands of Romanian side

Wilson benefits from Bougherra's tardiness

Rangers manager sticks with teenage defender for Champions League tie with Stuttgart after Algeria player returns late from international duty

Dods stoops to conquer as United see off Celtic

Dundee United 2 Celtic 1: Craig Levein’s side break ten-year hoodoo with late strikes from Jon Daly and Darren Dods

Ruddy marvellous to earn Motherwell a point

Motherwell 1 Aberdeen 1: Everton loanees Lukas Jutkiewicz and goalkeeper John Ruddy continue to impress for Jim Gannon’s side

Falkirk see light at end of the tunnel

Falkirk 2 Hamilton 0: manager Eddie May the happiest man in Scotland after his side win their first SPL match of the season

Rangers ease back to the SPL summit

Rangers 3 Kilmarnock 0: champions make light of the missing Awol Algerian defender Madjid Bougherra and coast to victory at Ibrox

Levein sparks Tannadice comeback

Manager’s substitutions ensure reward for Dundee United as Tony Mowbray feels the pressure after Celtic defeat

Mowbray needs an abrupt change in fortune

After eight defeats in 22 games it is little wonder increasing numbers of Celtic fans are starting to criticise their manager

Plucky Dundee rise to the challenge

Dundee 3 Inverness CT 2: trailing by two goals at half-time, victors mount spirited comeback to win Challenge Cup final

Smith rules himself out of Scotland job

Rangers manager does not want to return to international arena, leaving Craig Levein as favourite to succeed Craig Burley

Samaras savours role in Greece triumph

The striker has put on hold any celebration for reaching the World Cup because he wants to target success with Celtic

‘It is a difficult job but not impossible’

Gordon Smith, the SFA chief executive, explains the sacking of George Burley and the search for a new Scotland manager

Salary cap puts limit on Scotland search

Gordon Smith, the SFA chief executive, has admitted the money on offer will affect the pedigree of manager applicants

Smith ready to calm talk of Levein bias

The SFA chief is planning to rebut claims of a vendetta against the Dundee United manager after their series of spats

Jefferies emerges as contender for Scotland

With his name in the frame, the Kilmarnock manager has dismissed talk of the national job being a ‘poisoned chalice’

Scotland players 'too thick' to play for Burley

Craig Burley, the nephew of the former Scotland manager George, says the players are to blame for the national team's slump

Burley sacked as Scotland manager

The 53-year-old has his contract terminated by the SFA after winning just 3 of his 14 games in charge of the national side

Nicholas extends sympathy to outgoing manager

Former Celtic and Arsenal striker said neither players nor SFA regime had been left covered in glory during George Burley’s reign