Neil Lennon and Jim Duffy were ready for a square go in 2017, but shook hands in the end. That’s Lawrence Shankland over Duffy’s shoulder. Source.
Lennon’s Dunfermline Athletic return to Cappielow for a Tuesday nighter to make up for the match postponed January 10th. Dunfermline are fifth in the Championship with 29 points, Morton seventh with 27. The Pars have two games in hand.
Morton’s season is two-thirds over. They’re on track to finish with 40 or 41 points, not completely safe from relegation. At the moment they’re 5 points out of fourth place and 4 points out of ninth.
By my count this is Lennon’s ninth game against Morton. He has won twice: 2013/9/24 Celtic 0 – 1 Morton 2016/8/27 Hibs 4 – 0 Morton 2016/12/17 Morton 1 – 1 Hibs 2017/3/29 Hibs 0 – 0 Morton 2017/4/8 Morton 1 – 1 Hibs 2025/5/2 Morton 2 – 0 Dunfermline 2025/8/2 Morton 0 – 0 Dunfermline 2025/11/22 Dunfermline 1 – 0 Morton
[Morton win 2 – 0 on goals by Brophy and MacPherson.]
Scottish Challenge Cup, QF: St Johnstone [3 – 3] Ayr United [Ayr win on PK]
Lowland League Cup, QF: Broxburn Athletic [0 – 1] Cumbernauld Colts Civil Service Strollers vs Tranent [postponed] Linlithgow Rose vs Clydebank [postponed] Gala Fairydean Rovers [2 – 0] Bonnyrigg Rose (tomorrow)
Concacaf Champions Cup, R1, leg 1: Atlético Ottawa [0 – 2] Nashville SC Cartaginés (Costa Rica) [0 – 0] Vancouver Whitecaps (tomorrow)
It’s the return of Dougie Imrie as his new team Raith Rovers visit Cappielow. Raith are sixth in the Championship with 28 points, Morton seventh with 26. 26 is the total number of points Morton earned in the relegation year of 2013-14.
Not so long ago Imrie was in charge at Morton and Morton’s new manager Ian Murray was in charge at Raith Rovers. What’s their record against one another? 2022/8/13 Murray 2 – 1 Imrie 2022/10/15 Imrie 1 – 0 Murray 2022/12/10 Murray 1 – 1 Imrie (Murray won on PK) 2022/12/23 Murray 2 – 2 Imrie 2023/4/22 Imrie 1 – 0 Murray 2023/8/12 Murray 3 – 2 Imrie 2023/10/31 Imrie 1 – 2 Murray 2024/2/27 Murray 0 – 0 Imrie 2024/4/27 Imrie 0 – 0 Murray
Where have Morton’s 26 points come from? 7 Ross County 5 Arbroath 4 Queen’s Park 3 Airdrieonians 2 Ayr United 2 Partick Thistle 1 Dunfermline Athletic 1 Raith Rovers 1 St Johnstone
An international business interest named Estrella Football Group wants to invest in Morton. Story.
Morton have signed goalkeeper Murray Johnson on loan from Hibs.
Hamilton Academical have been docked six more points. That’s twenty-one on the season.
[Morton 0 – 0 Raith Rovers]
The other Championship matches: Airdrieonians (8th) 0 – 1 St Johnstone (1st) (yesterday) This was a Plenty of Nothing Championship League Cup semi-final. It sets up a March 21st final between Partick Thistle and St Johnstone. Arbroath (3rd) vs Ayr United (4th) [postponed] This is an A Ton of Snow Championship Consolation Cup Round One match.* Dunfermine Athletic (5th) vs Partick Thistle (2nd) [postponed] Ross County (9th) [0 – 1] Queen’s Park (10th)
*Once the Championship League Cup finalists are known, the other eight clubs embark on the Consolation Cup. I’ve run this cup for four years so far and never once had a winner, because there are never enough fixtures left in the season to get to the final. This year I’m making a format change to try to speed things up. Instead of pairing up the teams according to their places in last season’s standings, I’ll choose the set of four fixtures that can be completed the soonest, barring postponements. One of those is today [but it’s postponed] and the other three are on February 28th.
Scottish Challenge Cup, QF (February 10): St Johnstone vs Ayr United (postponed)
J1 100 Year Vision League East, week 2: Machida Zelvia (4th) [2 – 2] Mito HollyHock (9th) [Zelvia win on PK] Kashima Antlers (7th) [1 – 0] Yokohama F Marinos (6th) FC Tokyo (5th) [1 – 1] Urawa Red Diamonds (3rd) [FC Tokyo win on PK] JEF United Chiba (10th) [0 – 0] Kawasaki Frontale (1st) (tomorrow) [Kawasaki in on PK] Kashiwa Reysol (8th) [1 – 2] Tokyo Verdy (2nd) (tomorrow) [Draws go to penalty kicks. The winner gets 2 points, the loser 1.]
Other matches: Elfen Saitama [4 – 0] Nagano Parceiro Fortuna Düsseldorf [0 – 0] Preußen Münster [yesterday] Clydebank [1 – 2] Tranent Hurlford United vs Largs Thistle [postponed] Bellshill Athletic vs Greenock [postponed] Port Glasgow [3 – 1] Glenvale Coldstream vs Fauldhouse United [postponed]
Lowland League Cup, R1 (February 10): Berwick Rangers 1 – 2 Bonnyrigg Rose
West of Scotland League Cup, R3: Lanark United vs Auchinleck Talbot [postponed]
West of Scotland League Cup, R4: Drumchapel United [4 – 0] East Kilbride Thistle Irvine Meadow XI vs Benburb [postponed]
Concacaf Champions Cup, R1, leg 2: UANL 4 – 1 Forge (February 10) Cruz Azul 5 – 0 Vancouver FC (February 12) BothForge and Vancouver FC are out.
2025-26 AFC Champions League Elite, league phase, matchday 7: Vissel Kobe 2 – 0 FC Seoul (February 10) Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2 – 1 Johoe Darul Ta’zim (February 10) Shanghai Shenhua 0 – 2 Machida Zelvia (February 10)
2025-26 AFC Champions League Two, Round of 16, leg 1: Pohang Steelers 1 – 1 Gamba Osaka (February 12)
Excavation of the Roman arena of Lutetia, discovered in the 1860s during construction of a tramway depot for the Parisian Compagnie Générale des Omnibus. Source.
Having missed the train in Tabor (A) the good soldier Švejk decided to walk to regimental headquarters in České Budějovice (J). The blue line traces his wanderings. Source.
The Ottawa Senators visited the Detroit Falcons at the Olympia on this date in 1931.
Detroit entered the NHL in 1925 stocked with Victoria Cougars from the defunct WCHL. They played their first season at the Border Cities Arena in Windsor, Ontario while the Olympia was being built. They called themselves the Cougars for the first four seasons, then rebranded as the Falcons in 1930, and the Red Wings in 1932.
Which Victoria Cougars were still with Detroit in 1930-31? Only Winnipegger Frank Frederikson, and he was returning from spells with Boston and Pittsburgh.
There were several Ottawa players on the Falcons roster. Ebbie Goodfellow was a former Montagnard. Bert McInenly had played for the Rideaus, Shamrocks and Gunners. Stan McCabe was a Gunner and a Rideau in the Ottawa city junior league. Hal Hicks played for pretty nearly all the Ottawa teams between 1916 and 1926. John Newman was a junior Shamrock. Harvey Rockburn was a Tiger, a Gunner and a Shamrock.
The Senators’ goalie Bill Beveridge was a Detroit Falcon in 1929-30. He began as an Ottaa Shamrock in 1924-25 and finished off his career as an Ottawa Commando in 1944-45.
First period: goal by Herbie Lewis (Detroit).
Second period: no scoring.
Third period: goal by Goodfellow (Detroit).
Final score: Detroit 2, Ottawa 0.
Montreal Senior Group: Game 29, February 9: Columbus vs Victoria Game 30, February 9: Canadiens vs Montreal AAA These last two games were not played, as the three playoff teams were already decided and because McGill wanted to fit in an exhibition game against Harvard. In pursuit of that potentially huge box office McGill agreed to waive their claim to first place and with it a bye through to the final. So the final standings were:
The semi-finals were a two-game total-goal series between McGill and Columbus. The first leg was moved forward to February 9th: Semi-final game 1: Columbus 2 – 1 McGill
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