Dundee News

Dundee United are sweating on the fitness of 4 players for tomorrow night's CIS Cup semi final with Aberdeen.

Dundee United have suffered a blow with the news Francisco Sandaza will miss the start of the season through injury.

St Johnstone have made a move for left-back Danny Grainger, who has been out of favour with their Scottish Premier League rivals Dundee United.

STIRLING Albion's players resumed training last night with the first pre-season friendly against Dunfermline at Forthbank just two weeks away.

FRANK Hadden last night formally severed his ties with the Scottish Rugby Union and described his reign as national coach as a "privilege". Dundee-born Hadden, 55, who led Scotland into four full Six Nations campaigns, also wished his successor Andy Robinson well and said he would take his time before deciding what to do next.

A special presentation ceremony was held at Forfar Academy last week to recognise the sports achievements of pupils throughout the school.

BOBBY WILLIAMSON is likely to remain at the helm for Hibsa match against Dundee on Saturday despite being interviewed for the vacant post of manager at Plymouth Argyle, the Evening News can reveal today.

New Hibernian manager John Hughes has backed Jackie McNamara and Neil McCann's bid to succeed him at Falkirk.

Alex Rae has revealed he would be interested in succeeding John Hughes as Falkirk manager.

Ian McCall, Alex Rae, Steven Pressley and Eddie May could all be vying for the vacant manager's job at Falkirk.

TAYPORT set up a Redwood Leisure Cup final against Glenrothes, by defeating old foes Lochee United, via a Canniepairt shoot-out, in the semi-finals on Monday.

Queen of the South have signed former Dundee goalkeeper Ludovic Roy and midfielder Rocco Quinn, who was released by Hamilton Accies.

SPRING is a time for new beginnings and that is certainly true at Angus College, with both a new chairman and vice-chairman now in place.

In the end it wasn't even close. After all the pre-match hype, the destiny of the SPL title was effectively decided after five minutes when Kyle Lafferty stabbed Kris Boyd's cross into the back of the net to give Rangers a 1-0 lead against Dundee United.

Rangers clinched their first Scottish Premier League title since 2005 with a comfortable victory over Dundee United at Tannadice.

Title deciders in Scottish football are a bit like Glasgow buses - one will always be along soon, although often much later than you were expecting.

HEARTS may have stumbled in recent weeks, but when it came to the crunch they put in one of their most surefooted displays of the season to claim third place in the SPL.

Georgios Samaras scored the winner against Dundee United to keep Celtic in touching distance of Rangers It was more frenetic than appeared likely at times but Celtic achieved at least three things with this win over Dundee United.

JOHN McGlynn has started the job of assembling a team capable of leading Raith Rovers into the First Division next season.

United came roaring back at Celtic Park and created enough chances to score more than once, but Celtic held on.