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Tiago Coimbra

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Coimbra explains to the Swedish press how it’s the Halifax in Nova Scotia and not the Halifax in England. Source.

Arbroath travel to Cappielow. Arbroath are third in the division with 47 points, Morton eighth with 33. Despite their respective positions Morton have handled Arbroath pretty well so far with a win and two draws.

Seventeen Morton players have scored this season, league and cup. Forty-four players have scored on Morton, league and cup. St Johnstone’s Jamie Gullan leads all others with four anti-Ton goals.

There are six matches left in the schedule, including today’s. Are Morton safe from relegation? No. But in order for Morton to finish ninth Ross County must earn two more wins than them in the final six fixtures, and for Morton to finish tenth Ross County and Airdrie must both win two more games than them. Ross County and Airdrie each have only one win from their previous six league matches.

Morton have been fined for bad fan behaviour at the Scottish Cup Round Four match against Stenhousemuir January 17th.

[Morton win 2 – 1 on goals by Moffat and Main. (Sounds like a street corner.)]

The other Championship matches:
Raith Rovers (7th) 0 – 2 Partick Thistle (2nd) (March 24)
Partick Thistle (2nd) 3 – 1 Ross County (9th) (yesterday)
Raith Rovers (7th) 3 – 0 Ayr United (5th) (yesterday)
St Johnstone (1st) [1 – 1] Queen’s Park (6th)

Other matches:
Wick Academy 1 – 3 Forres Mechanics (March 25)
Largs Thistle 1 – 3 Auchinleck Talbot (March 25)
Golspie Sutherland 1 – 2 Thurso (March 25)
Yokogawa Musashino [0 – 1] ReinMeer Aomori
Tłuchovia Tłuchowo 3 – 1 Lipno Stęszew (yesterday)
Sanfrecce Hiroshima [1 – 0] Elfen Saitama
Turriff United [0 – 1] Wick Academy
Albion Rovers [0 – 1] Clydebank
Glenafton Athletic [0 – 3] Largs Thistle
Greenock [0 – 4] Blantyre Victoria
Port Glasgow [2 – 1] Knightswood
Golspie Sutherland [0 – 4] Inverness Thistle
Dryburgh Athletic [1 – 1] Morton Women (tomorrow)

South Challenge Cup final (tomorrow):
Cumnock [2 – 0] University of Stirling

Cumnock’s path to the final:
2025/9/13 Irvine Meadow XI 1 – 3 Cumnock (R2)
2025/10/11 Cumnock 1 – 0 Glasgow University (R3)
2025/11/15 Kilwinning Rangers 1 – 1 Cumnock (Cumnock won on PK) (R4)
2025/12/20 Cumnock 3 – 0 Neilston (R5)
2026/1/31 Tranent 0 – 1 Cumnock (QF)
2026/2/28 Cumnock 5 – 1 Vale of Clyde (SF)

West of Scotland League Cup, QF:
Auchinleck Talbot [3 – 1] Johnstone Burgh

J1 100 Year Vision League East:
Machida Zelvia (3rd) [1 – 1] Kawasaki Frontale (6th) [Zelvia win on PK]

International friendlies:
Scotland [0 – 1] Japan
Canada [2 – 2] Iceland [2 goals for Jonathan David]

HFX Wanderers played Leiknir Reykjavik of the Icelandic second tier last weekend in Spain. 0 – 0. Video. Prior to leaving they played both Dal and St FX indoors and beat them both 5 – 0, though to be fair the university soccer season is at the other end of the year. Thursday they beat Mons Calpe of the Gibraltar league 3 – 1. Rampersad and Telfer have been called up by the Trinidad and Tobago national team. Former HFX Wanderer Wesley Timoteo has signed with Ottawa.

Dario Zanatta, who has played for Hearts, Queen’s Park, Raith Rovers, Alloa Athletic, Partick Thistle, Ayr United, Hamilton Academical and most recently Pacific FC, signed with Tormenta FC of the USL League One in January, and in February the club folded.

Former HFX Wanderer Tiago Coimbra has signed with IFK Göteborg, so let’s follow them. They play in the Swedish Allsvenkan, which is a summer league, but they’ve already played plenty of matches.

Friendlies:
2026/1/23 Öster 1 – 3 Göteborg
2026/2/14 Göteborg 4 – 2 Stabaek
2026/2/15 Häcken 2 – 1 Göteborg
2026/2/24 Ljungskile 4 – 2 Göteborg
2026/3/4 Utsikten 0 – 6 Göteborg
2026/3/23 Göteborg 2 – 1 Oddevold
2026/3/27 Vålerenga 3 – 3 Göteborg

Atlantic Cup:
2026/2/2 Rosenborg 0 – 1 Göteborg
2026/2/6 Göteborg 3 – 1 Artis Brno

Svenska Cupen:
2026/2/21 Göteborg 0 – 0 Östersund
2026/2/28 Trelleborg 0 – 4 Göteborg
2026/3/8 Göteborg 3 – 1 Dererfors
2026/3/15 (QF) Sirius 1 – 0 Göteborg

Historical matches:
1891/3/28 Morton 2 – 0 Rutherglen
1931/3/28 Cowdenbeath 3 – 0 Morton
1953/3/28 Albion Rovers 4 – 1 Morton
1981/3/28 Partick Thistle 3 – 1 Morton

SFL results 1890-91:
1891/3/28 Dumbarton 5 – 1 Third Lanark
1891/3/28 Hearts 1 – 1 Abercorn
1891/3/28 St Mirren 2 – 3 Cambuslang
1891/3/28 Cowlairs 0 – 2 Rangers

2026 University Women’s Hockey Championships

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Waterloo and Guelph both play in the OUA West. Source.

March 19:
QF #1: Manitoba Bisons 1 – 3 Concordia Stingers
QF #2: Guelph Gryphons 2 – 0 Waterloo Warriors

March 20:
QF #3: Montreal Carabins 4 – 3 UBC Thunderbirds
QF #4: Ottawa Gee-Gees 1 – 2 UNB Reds

March 21:
Consolation #1: Manitoba Bisons 0 – 2 Waterloo Warriors
Consolation #2: UBC Thunderbirds 2 – 0 Ottawa Gee-Gees
SF #1: Concordia Stingers 2 – 1 Guelph Gryphons
SF #2: Montreal Carabins 5 – 1 UNB Reds

March 22:
Fifth-place game: Waterloo Warriors [2 – 7] UBC Thunderbirds
Bronze-medal game: Guelph Gryphons [1 – 2] UNB Reds
Championship: Concordia Stingers [2 – 5] Montreal Carabins

Meanwhile, the NCAA Division 1 women’s championship is going on.

Round One, March 12:
Minnesota Duluth 0 – 1 Yale
Princeton 1 – 4 UConn
Franklin Pierce 0 – 4 Quinnipiac

QF, March 14:
Yale 1 – 6 Ohio State
Northeastern 4 – 2 Minnesota
UConn 0 – 3 Penn State
Quinnipiac 0 – 6 Wisconsin

SF, March 20:
Ohio State 5 – 0 Northeastern
Penn State 3 – 4 Wisconsin

Final, March 22:
Wisconsin [3 – 2] Ohio State

Thomas Garvine

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Thomas Garvine was born in Ayr in 1690, travelled to Russia and thence to China where he served as physician to the Kangxi Emperor before returning to Scotland where he served fourteen terms as provost of Ayr. Source.

Morton visit Ayr United. Ayr sit fifth in the Championship with 35 points. Morton are eighth with 30 points. Morton have lost four in a row, their worst streak of 2025-26, and cannot finish first or second in the division.

Morton have a loss and two draws against Ayr so far this season.

Morton finished 2000-01 and 2001-02 with 35 points and were relegated both times.

This is Ayr’s eighth consecutive season in the Championship. In that time they have finished 4th, 4th, 8th, 8th, 2nd, 7th and 3rd.

Ayr’s top scorer is Mark McKenzie with 7 goals. Morton’s is Eamonn Brophy with 6.

Mark Kelly is Morton’s new General Manager.

Check out the giraffes at the Ayr United website.

[Morton win 0 – 1 on a goal by Comrie.]

The other Championship matches:
Partick Thistle (2nd) 0 – 0 St Johnstone (1st) (yesterday)
This was the 2025-26 Plenty of Nothing Championship League Cup final. [Partick win on the yellow card rule.]
Arbroath (3rd) [1 – 0] Queen’s Park (6th)
Raith Rovers (7th) [3 – 1] Airdrieonians (9th)
Ross County (10th) [2 – 2] Dunfermline Athletic (4th)

J1 100 Year Vision League East, matchday 7 (March 18):
Mito HollyHock (8th) 1 – 0 Yokohama F Marinos (7th)
JEF United Chiba (9th) 1 – 2 FC Tokyo (3rd)
Tokyo Verdy (4th) 0 – 2 Kawasaki Frontale (6th)
Machida Zelvia (2nd) 0 – 3 Kashima Antlers (1st)
Urawa Red Diamonds (5th) 1 – 1 Kashiwa Reysol (10th) (Reysol won on PK)

J1 100 Year Vision League East, matchday 8 (tomorrow):
Tokyo Verdy (5th) [0 – 0] FC Tokyo (2nd) [Verdy won on PK]
Kashima Antlers (1st) [2 ]EF United Chiba (10th)
Kawasaki Frontale (6th) [0 – 5] Yokohama F Marinos (8th)
Kashiwa Reysol (9th) [3 – 0] Mito HollyHock (7th)
Urawa Red Diamonds (4th) [1 – 2] Machida Zelvia (3rd)

The JFL Cup begins. Like the J League the JFL needed a tournament to fill in the months between 2025 and 2026-27. The 16-team JFL will divide into two 8-team groups and each group will play a single round robin, each club playing seven games. The top two clubs from each group will enter into a playoff. Winner gets a trophy.

To help spread the table out, regulation time winners get 4 points. Shootout winners get 2, shootout losers 1, and regulation time losers 0.

Let’s follow ReinMeer Aomori, who began play yesterday:
Criacao Shinjuku 0 – 0 ReinMeer Aomori (ReinMeer win on PK)

Other matches:
Greenock 0 – 1 Cambuslang Rangers (March 17)
Hearts B 0 – 8 Clydebank (yesterday)
Lipno Stęszew [2 – 3] Flota Świnoujście
Wick Academy [0 – 1] Brechin City
Renfrew [1 – 2] Largs Thistle
Bonnyton Thistle [5 – 3] Greenock
Glasgow United [3 – 0] Port Glasgow
Arniston Rangers [2 – 1] Coldstream
Fortuna Düsseldorf [2 – 5] Hertha BSC (tomorrow)
Morton Women [0 – 1] Bonnyrigg Rose (tomorrow)
Glasgow Girls and Women FC have dropped out of the women’s Championship and their games have been voided. Morton Women now sit tenth out of eleven with 8 points.

Lowland League Cup final (tomorrow):
Cumbernauld Colts [3 – 2] Gala Fairydean Rovers

Scottish Junior Cup, QF:
Johnstone Burgh [1 – 2] Dundee North End

West of Scotland League Cup, SF:
Irvine Meadow XI [1 – 1] Troon [Troon win on PK]

West of Scotland League Cup, R4:
St Cadoc’s [0 – 4] Auchinleck Talbot

2026 Concacaf Champions Cup, Round of 16, leg 2 (March 18):
Seattle Sounders 2 – 1 Vancouver Whitecaps
The Vancouver Whitecaps are out.

HFX Wanderers have signed Tanzanian striker Cyprian Kachwele on loan from the Vancouver Whitecaps, Dalhousie University goalkeeper Sinclair Astridge, and defender Harvey Hughes from Cape Breton University.

Historical matches:
1891/3/21 Morton 1 – 4 Northern
1931/3/21 Hamilton Academical 1 – 1 Morton
1953/3/21 Forfar 5 – 1 Morton
1981/3/16 Clydebank 0 – 6 Morton (Sc Cup R5 replay)
1981/3/21 Morton 3 – 0 Hearts

SFL results 1890-91:
1891/3/21 Celtic 2 – 2 Rangers
1891/3/21 Cambuslang 2 – 2 Dumbarton
1891/3/21 Hearts 4 – 1 Third Lanark
1891/3/21 Vale of Leven 5 – 2 St Mirren
1891/3/21 Abercorn 1 – 0 Cowlairs