Evening News - Scotland back issues from January 1999:
Saints in no mood to argue
Jan 02, 1999 ... St Johnstone 4 Aberdeen 1 ABERDEEN'S caretaker boss Paul Heggarty named an unchanged line-upas his side visitied McDiarmid Park looking to maintain their recentunbeaten run. Saints boss Sandy Clark made two changes to the team which drewwith Dunfermline in ...
HASTINGS HERO FOR 'SONIANS
Jan 02, 1999; ... Stewart's Melville 13 Watsonians 29 WATSONIANS took the spoils with a 29-13 victory but it wasStewart's-Melville's rich crop of younsters who caught the eye in anentertaining Inverleith friendly. Two divisions of the Premiership seperate the teams but, for longperiods, it ...
Oliver saviour for Spartans
Jan 02, 1999 ... Spartans 1 Clyde 1 EVENING NEWS columnist and Spartan player Eamonn Bannon was spoton with his prediction that this Tennents Scottish Cup second-roundtie would end in a draw. But if it wasn't for the brilliance of Spartans' goalkeeperOliver, who saved a 65th-minute penalty ...
BURNS BACKS MARKET FORCES
Jan 02, 1999 ... MARKET forces should be allowed to drive Scotland's domestic clubrugby, a top Edinburgh based player is claiming. But in outlining his vision at the end of a month which has seenthree clubs in his native Aberdeen take tentative steps towardsamalgamation Simon Burns, of Edinburgh ...
HUGH'S CHANCE
Jan 02, 1999; ... SINCE this is traditionally the time of year for a Festive quiz,which player, due to turn out for Edinburgh Reivers against GlasgowCaledonian Reds in the Tennents' Velvet Tri-Series decider atNetherdale tomorrow, has as good a scoring rate for Scotland as anyin international in ...
Nicholl's headache
Jan 02, 1999 ... RAITH ROVERS boss Jimmy Nicholl is regarded as one of the moreanimated characters in the Scottish game so it will come assomethingof a surprise to find out that he spends half his working daysittingin his office waiting for the phone to ring. Having lost strikers Keith Wright ...
Musselburgh run riot as Preston find it so tough
Jan 02, 1999 ... Preston Lodge 0 Musselburgh 57 BURGH made the better start and deservedly took the lead afterseven minutes. Cliff Livingstone broke from just inside his own halfand sent out a perfectly-weighted pass to Gavin Brown who in turnreleased JOHNNY HENDERSON to race in on the ...
Gala quickly off the mark to quash Jed threat
Jan 02, 1999 ... Jed-Forest 5 Gala 25 WITH just two minutes on the clock, Gala, playing with a strongwind at their back, breached Jed's line after Weir had picked upfroma scrum and made a good 30-metre charge before feeding BOLAND tocross over. Stand-off Paterson was off target with the ...
McCORMICK SEALS CUP JOY FOR LIVVY
Jan 02, 1999; ... Inverness CT 1 Livingston 2 LIVINGSTON booked their spot in tomorrow's third round-draw oftheScottish Cup after a hard-fought 2-1 victory over Inverness Caleythis afternoon. Top-scorer David Bingham broke the deadlock in the ninth minutefrom the penalty spot after Andrew ...
OLLIE TO PLAY PART
Jan 02, 1999; ... OLLIE COQUEUX escorted two mascots on to the ice prior to thestart of the second period of the Christmas Cup clash with PerthPanthers. The genial French-Canadian showed them a few tricks of the tradeand helped them fire the puck into the unguarded net. Minutes later, he was ...
RAMPANT HIBS TURN THE SCREW
Jan 02, 1999; ... Hibs 5 Raith Rovers 1 HIBS were in a seventh heaven tonight as they tightened theirgripon the First Division title with a devestating 5-1 victory overstruggling Raith Rovers at Easter Road. Stuart Lovell sent Hibs on their way to a seventh successivevictory as he claimed ...
Van Bronckhorst is prepared to redress balance
Jan 02, 1999; ... RANGERS midfielder Giovanni Van Bronckhorst has only ever enjoyedone Old Firm derby experience and that was when he sat in the crowdwith the Celtic support. The Dutch international, then with Feyenoord, was in the Parkheadstands at the invitation of Celtic's Henrik Larsson for last ...
Bairns and Diamonds provide rough house encounter
Jan 02, 1999 ... Falkirk 1 Airdrie 1 FALKIRK almost got their New Year off to the perfect start afterjust five minutes thanks to a mis-hit kickout from Airdrie 'keeperJohn Martin. There seemed to be no danger when Sanderson sent theball back to the veteran goalkeeper until he took a touch too ...
Red card for Shay as Newcastle struggle
Jan 02, 1999 ... NEWCASTLE boss Ruud Gullit, already under pressure after a poorChristmas run, endured a nightmare first 45 minutes against CrystalPalace at St James' Park. The Magpies first lost goalkeeper Shay Given for handball on 14minutes and then went 1-0 down when Lee Bradbury struck on ...
Paton is given Brown backing
Jan 02, 1999 ... DUNFERMLINE boss Bert Paton came under fire from the Fife fansfollowing last weekend's 2-1 defeat against Aberdeen. Paton, whose East End Park side still sit at the foot of thePremier League despite a spirited 1-1 draw against St Johnstone onTuesday night, joked with the press that ...
Dodds is quick off the mark for United
Jan 02, 1999 ... Dundee 1 Dundee United 3 DUNDEE UNITED made three changes from the side narrowly beaten byRangers in midweek as they tried to prevent a Dundee victory whichwould put their rivals seven points ahead of them. It was United who were first to threaten when Miller out-pacedSharp ...
JAMBOS LEFT FRUSTRATED
Jan 02, 1999; ... Dunfermline 0 Hearts 0 HEARTS brought a welcome end to their losing run as they pickedupa valuable point in a hard-fought, if uninspiring, East coast derbyat East End Park this afternoon. The Tynecastle side, who had gone into the game on the back offour straight defeats, ...
Four-goal stroll and a real breeze for Ayr
Jan 02, 1999 ... Ayr 4 Stranraer 0 AYR started with a flurry of attacks and took only two minutes totake the lead. A Mickey Reynolds cross from the right was onlypunched out by 'keeper Garry Matthews for ex-Hib's midfielder BILLYFINDLAY to bury a shot low into the corner. Mathews was in ...
MENTEITH TO OPEN DOORS
Jan 02, 1999; ... LAKE of Menteith has decided the open its doors to the PikeAnglers Club of Great Britain and Ireland. After negotiations between the PAC and the fishery, Lake ofMenteith will allow PAC MEMBERS ONLY on the following dates:SaturdayFebruary 27 and Saturday March 13. There will ...
CRAIGROYSTON LEAD WAY
Jan 02, 1999; ... THE last year of the 20th century is already two days old and thecountdown to the new Millennium is about to become a daily facet ofour normal everyday life. But will this historic year herald the beginning of a new era asfar as East of Scotland League football is ...
THE OLE WAY IS UP HIBS
Jan 02, 1999; ... AS his teammates headed for the beach during the summer to licktheir wounds and contemplate life in the First Division, OleGottskalksson took off in the opposite direction, going home toIceland knowing that his Hibs career was hanging in the balance. As the Easter Road club slid ...
Short break no benefit to players
Jan 02, 1999; ... AS Scottish football prepares for its first mid-winter shutdown,someone with experience of such a break has claimed that the onlypeople who are going to benefit are the supporters - not theplayers. After tomorrow's Old Firm clash at Ibrox, the Premier League willshutdown until ...
200 MATCHES LOST AS WEATHER TAKES HOLD
Jan 02, 1999; ... WITH clubs out of action until Saturday, January 9, David Ramagetakes a look at how the new Lothian and Edinburgh AmateurAssociationis shaping up after the first few months of the season. All the clubs have integrated well, with the only drawback beingthe number of matches ...
GLASGOW AWAY, SAYS ROBERTSON
Jan 02, 1999; ... GLASGOW Tigers' bold plan to build a new speedway training trackat Ashfield Stadium has run into fierce opposition from outgoingLinlithgow Training School supremo Alan Robertson. Robertson, who has run Heathersfield Stadium for ten years, saysthere isn't room in Scotland for two ...
Keane's delight at Lions progress
Jan 02, 1999; ... LIVINGSTON chairman Dominic Keane is proud to be sitting at thetop of the Second Division going into the New Year. The former Celtic director, who assumed control of the WestLothian club towards the end of last season, has been delighted withthe progress of the Lions. While ...
Broxburn future on the line!
Jan 02, 1999 ... BROXBURN Athletic have called a crisis meeting for tomorrow in abid to stay alive. The troubled Albyn Park club, thrashed 10-0 by Whitburn in theDavid Moffat Cup last weekend, are desperate for behind-the-sceneshelp. Two more committee members resigned in the wake of ...
YOUNG GUNS CAN GO RIGHT TO TOP!
Jan 02, 1999; ... THE Junior football scene provides one of the greatestcontradictions in sport. This season, it has been veterans likeGraham Harvey, Callum Milne, Wayne Foster and Steve Maskrey thathavetaken the non-league scene by storm. Other Thirtysomething stalwarts include Arniston ...
SKILL IS KEY!
Jan 02, 1999; ... IT wouldn't be wrong to say Hearts are currently among theleadingScottish clubs where involvement with youth football is concerned. Teams wearing the famous maroon jerseys are in action each weekinthe local boys clubs leagues, starting at under-nines and going uptothe ...
Cup crackers are set to take centre stage
Jan 02, 1999; ... YOUTH football clubs in the Edinburgh and District Youth FA willbring in the New Year with another full list of fixtures on Sunday,January 10, including important Scottish and East of Scottish Cupties. Tynecastle Boys Club will entertain Thornton in their 10sScottishCounty Cup ...
HUTCHIE VALE IN DIFFERENT CLASS
Jan 02, 1999; ... THERE is little doubt which youth club should be named 'Club ofthe Year' for 1998 - Hutchison Vale! They fully deserve that honour for their exploits alone in theGothia World Youth Cup tournament in Sweden in July, but theircontribution to youth, minor-grade football and, indeed, ...
Starie manager is a Quinn fan!
Jan 02, 1999; ... THE manager of British super-middleweight champion David Starie,Norfolk-based Gordon Holmes, is a golfing nut who even bought acaravan at the Fife seaside resort of Leven to play as often aspossible on St Andrews Old Course, and other Kingdom-based linkssuchas Crail and ...
Pedal power helps Marino get back on the right track
Jan 02, 1999; ... FIT-AGAIN Falkirk hero Marino Keith has revealed how he got onhisbike to battle back to form after suffering a horrific head injury. The former Highland League hitman was sidelined for four weeksafter being knocked unconscious following a clash of heads in a gameagainst Morton in ...
WHITEHILL ON MARCH AGAIN
Jan 02, 1999 ... Whitehill 1 Stenhousemuir 1 TEN-MAN Whitehill Welfare produced more Scottish Cup heroicstodayagainst Third Division Stenhousemuir. The Rosewell East Seniors side created a stir three years ago,reaching the third round where they bravely bowed out to Celtic.And they shocked ...
Record remains after Walker just misses out
Jan 02, 1999; ... THERE was no world record for European 200 metres champion DougWalker to end the year on, but British Army officer Joclyn Thomascompleted a gloriousamily double to land the GBP 3,500 prize for thebig sprint at Edinburgh Hogmanay Games at Meadowbank on New Year'sEve. Joclyn ...
The right decision
Jan 02, 1999; ... WHILE today's crunch clash with Dunfermline at East End Park willhave been foremost in their thoughts, the Hearts players will stillbe delighted to hear the Tynecastle pitch is going to be dug up andrelaid during the winter shutdown. Over the past couple of months, Jim Jefferies' ...
League leaders warned
Jan 02, 1999 ... HADDINGTON boss John Cockerell today revealed there is anotherproblem with being top of the league - giant-killing BlackburnUnited. The Millfield Park chief has already had to warn his playersagainst complacency after they finished 1998 at the top of DivisionTwo. Now he ...
Gough's hat-trick heroics!
Jan 02, 1999 ... DARREN GOUGH claimed the first England hat-trick since DominicCork's heroics four years ago to dismiss Australia for 322 on adramatic opening day to the crucial final Ashes Test at the SydneyCricket Ground today. The Yorkshire fast bowler dismissed Ian Healy, Stuart MacGill ...
WE'LL DITCH THE PITCH
Jan 02, 1999; ... HEARTS today announced that the much-criticised Tynecastle pitchis going to be dug up and relaid during the winter shutdown - and itwon't cost them a penny. Work will start next week on lifting the pitch and a new surfacewill be in place before the end of the month. The move ...
Derby pounding piles pressure on Rangers
Jan 02, 1999; ... CELTIC midfielder Paul Lambert believes the pressure is onRangersto perform in tomorrow's Old Firm derby despite the Ibrox outfitleading them in the title race by ten points. Scotland international Lambert reckons the Rangers support willaccept nothing less than a convincing ...
Lavety back on course
Jan 02, 1999; ... HIBS boss Alex McLeish today backed striker Barry Lavety to put amiserable 12 months behind him and make 1999 a year to remember. The Easter Road hitman has been battling to regain form andfitness in recent months, his winning goal in the opening FirstDivision clash against Morton ...
Attitude key for Capitals
Jan 02, 1999 ... VETERAN hitman Scott Neil eyed tonight's Christmas Cup showdownatthe Paisley Pirates and said: "It is our cup final." Edinburgh ScotRail Capitals need victory at The Lagoon and afollow-up win at Murrayfield over Fife Flyers to proceed to the nextround. And they go into the ...
Wallace is dark horse
Jan 02, 1999 ... LES WALLACE, who along with Jocky Wilson is one of only twoScottish players to have won the Embassy World Darts Championship,opens the 1999 Wallace, champion in 1997, will open the 1999 tournament ...
Brandon calls for Rocks passion play
Jan 02, 1999; ... EDINBURGH ROCKS coach Jim Brandon has told his players they mustbring in the New Year in the same way they rung out the old - withpassion and determination. The Capital's pro basketball team, who recorded their thirdBudweiser League win last weekend, face the Greater London ...
Yemeni murderers trained at fanatic's camp for terrorists
Jan 02, 1999; ... MEMBERS of a fanatical fundamentalist group behind the Yemenihostage tragedy were trained at terrorist camps run by the world'smost wanted man, it was claimed today. US intelligence chiefs say the Islamic Jihad fighters, who seizedthe group of Western tourists, attended Saudi ...
The secret history of Edinburgh
Jan 02, 1999; ... THE deft touch of the modern spin doctor was badly missing as theGovernment took the historic decision to close the Waverley railline, it emerged today. Official records from 1968 show that ministers and civil servantsagonised long and hard over how to break the news to the people ...
Battle to save bank buys time
Jan 02, 1999 ... TALKS to save a 133-year-old village bank have been held betweenWest Lothian Council and Clydesdale Bank. Clydesdale had hoped to close its Mid Calder branch in Januaryandend its local service for surrounding villages. But the bank agreed to meet councillors and council ...
Revellers get a pat on back
Jan 02, 1999 ... POLICE today praised Hogmanay revellers for taking safetymessageson board after the largely trouble-free New Year's Eve in Edinburgh. A major police presence on the streets helped to keep a lid onpotential trouble. And with tickets for the central area again restricted any ...
Hunt for knifeman
Jan 02, 1999 ... POLICE believe two attempted robberies in Edinburgh may have beencarried out by the same knifeman. A 49-year-old woman was approached as she left Cameron TollShopping Centre with her sister-in-law at 6pm on Hogmanay afterdoingher ...
Ice one Karen .. see you again next year
Jan 02, 1999; ... EDINBURGH'S Winter Wonderland may have seen its ice rink meltedbywarm weather and its festive shopping grottos flattened by gales. But defiant organisers are vowing to come back next year with aneven bigger and better festival - possibly kicking off with an icedance ...
Foresight of Capital's three wise men
Jan 02, 1999; ... THE changing face of Edinburgh city centre in the 60s was placedin the hands of three wise men. And their ideas, though original at the time, were to foreshadowmuch of what was to happen in later years. The group of architectural experts formed the "Princes StreetPanel", ...
Hogmanay is all right on the night
Jan 02, 1999; ... THE world's biggest street bash was today hailed as anoverwhelming success. Everything went according to plan at Edinburgh's Hogmanay 1998celebrations which saw only 12 arrests inside the "ring of steel" -almost half the 1997 figure of 21. And although 220 people were treated ...
Riot police called out
Jan 02, 1999 ... POLICE with riot gear were called to West Pilton, Edinburgh intheearly hours of New Year's Day after officers were allegedly attackedby revellers. Two officers ...
The life and death decision that faces transplant doctors
Jan 02, 1999; ... IT is just three months since she had the transplant and EllenMcCulloch feels better than she has in years. Yet when she is asked how she feels about the gift she has beengiven from an anonymous donor, she bursts into tears. Mrs McCulloch, 60, knows she would have died without ...
First act in drama of the opera house
Jan 02, 1999; ... THE political tensions which were to turn Edinburgh's ambitiousopera house project of the Sixties into a major civic embarrassmentare exposed in newly released papers. The Castle Terrace site, once earmarked for a prestigiousculturalcentre, was to derelict for 20 years and become ...
Who could do this?
Jan 02, 1999; ... IT'S an all too common story nowadays - vandals running riotaround a vital focus of a community. But even against a backdrop of malicious attacks on primaryschools, playgrounds and village halls, the trail of destructionleftat Uphall Playgroup was truly shocking. The ...
Newborn Daisy is First Foot
Jan 02, 1999 ... PENNY HAMILTON and Derek Tipton cuddle their new daughter Daisy,Edinburgh's first baby of 1999. Daisy bounced into the world just 50minutes into the New Year at Simpson ...
QUEEN'S BOOST FOR SCOTLAND
Jan 02, 1999; ... THE Royal Family are set to immerse themselves in Scotland asnever before over the coming year in a bid to preserve the Union. Backed by the Government - which wants to balance the unity ofEngland, Scotland and Wales with devolution - the Royals will embarkon a far wider range of ...
Good Samaritans are being taken for a ride
Jan 02, 1999; ... DESPITE a massive publicity campaign including stomach-churningTVfootage of real, catastrophic road accidents, the number of Lothianmotorists failing breath tests has increased compared with the sameperiod last year. The reason why so many folk ignore the warnings and take ...
Caring Shirley helps family take the strain
Jan 02, 1999; ... ANYONE who knows anything about autism knows sufferers can haveenormous talents. The character played by Dustin Hoffman in the movie Rain Man wasagenius at working out gambling odds which allowed him to win in LasVegas casinos. Matthew Johnston from Leith is also autistic ...
Rovers run Strollers ragged
Jan 02, 1999 ... Civil Service 0 Albion 3 THIS Tennents Scottish Cup second round tie ended in frustrationfor Strollers who finished the game demoralised and reduced tochasing shadows with six of their players booked and Curran sent offfor an off-the-ball incident after 73 minutes. The game ...
Tait in fixture plea
Jan 02, 1999; ... ALAN TAIT steps back into the rugby spotlight tomorrow insistingthat holiday showdowns like the Tennent's Velvet tri-series deciderbetween Edinburgh Reivers and Glasgow Caledonian Reds at GalashielsMUST be a key element in the fixture list whatever is decided by thegame's impending ...
Cash plea for Scots tourism
Jan 02, 1999 ... SCOTLAND'S tourist industry today claimed it faced a bleak futureunless the Holyrood parliament made major changes to the way it wasfunded. The Scottish Tourist Board says major long-term projects toattract more visitors are at risk because it does not know how muchmoney it is ...
Lothian 'blitzed' in great storm
Jan 02, 1999; ... LOTHIAN did not escape the trail of death and devastation left bythe hurricane that struck Scotland in January 1968. Glasgow, Clydebank and Greenock bore the brunt of gusts of up to130mph during the "great storm" of January 14 and 15. The freak winds, likened by some to the ...
Holyrood gunman jailed
Jan 02, 1999 ... SECURITY was tightened around Holyrood Palace - where the RoyalFamily were staying - when a car went through a red traffic light inHolyrood Road. The vehicle was stopped and officers found a 12-bore sawn-offshotgun and 22 cartridges in the front passenger seat pocket. The ...
Fireworks spark alert
Jan 02, 1999 ... TRADING standards officials seized more than 140 packets of whatwere believed to be potentially dangerous fireworks from theCarnivalfunfair on New Year's Eve - but not before a similar number had ...