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Derek Lilley

Derek Lilley played for Morton from 1991 to 1997, for Livingston from 2003 to 2005, and for Morton again from 2005 to 2007. Source.

Morton visit Livingston for a friendly ninety minutes of association football. Morton have not played Livingston competitively since 2018 when Livi made the jump to the Premiership.

Livingston joined the SFL in 1974 as Meadowbank Thistle, just in time to compete in the final two-division season. In the three-division era they played 8 years in tier II and 11 in tier III. Since 1994 they've spent 10 seasons in the Premiership (including 2022-23), 11 in tier II, 6 in tier III and 2 in tier IV. Altogether Livi and Morton have been in the same division 16 times.

Morton's Kyle Jacobs, Cameron Blues, Alan Lithgow and Carlo Pignatiello have all played for Livi. Livi's Jamie Brandon played for Morton last season.

Livi have been training in Pinatar, Spain.

Also:

Stenhousemuir 0 - 1 Morton (June 28) (friendly)    Goal by trialist Jaze Kabia.

Ayr United friendlies in June:

Ayr United 1 - 1 Dumbarton (June 23) (in Largs)

Ayr United 2 - 1 Stranraer (June 25)

Ayr United 3 - 0 Darvel (June 28)

Ayr United 1 - 1 Washington University (June 30)

St Mirren are on a tour of Northern Ireland:

Crusaders 0 - 3 St Mirren (June 27)

Linfield vs St Mirren (today)

Queen's Park are in the Netherlands:

Queen's Park 1 - 3 Locomotiva Zagreb (June 29)

FC Utrecht vs Queen's Park (today)

Highland League:

Having followed Clachnacuddin last season let's turn to the other original Highland League club Forres Mechanics this season.

Forres Mechanics 0 - 3 Elgin City (friendly) (yesterday)

West of Scotland League:

Largs Thistle vs Maryhill (friendly)

Canada:

HFX Wanderers 0 - 2 Atlético Ottawa (June 30)

Cavalry FC midfielder Victor Loturi has transferred to Ross County.

League1 Ontario: Blue Devils vs North Mississauga (tomorrow)

The Blue Devils play at Sheridan College's field in Oakville. They started in 2015 and have only played in League1. They lost against AS Blainville in the preliminary round of the 2018 Canadian Championship.

PLSQ: Royal-Sélect de Beauport vs CS Lanaudière-Nord (tomorrow)

L1BC: Rivers FC vs Victoria Highlanders

Rivers FC are from Kamloops. They have former HFX Wanderer Abdelaziz Yousef.

CSL: Continentals FC vs Serbian White Eagles (tomorrow)

Here's a progress report on Windsor's CPL bid.

Japan:

Mito HollyHock [1 - 2] Yokohama FC

Tohoku: FC Primeiro vs Bogolle.D.Tsugaru (tomorrow)

As well:

Dundalk 3 - 0 UCD (yesterday)

FC Isle of Man vs Nostell Miners Welfare FC (friendly)

Vaduz 1 - 1 Winterthur (testspiel) (June 28)

AZ vs PEC Zwolle (friendly)

Regional league leaders:

Hokkaido: Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth

Tohoku: Blancdieu Hirosaki

Kanto: Tokyo United

Hokushinetsu: Arista Asama

Tokai: Chukyo University FC

Kansai: Cento Cuore Harima

Chugoku: Fukuyama City

Shikoku: FC Tokushima

Kyushu: Okinawa SV

Parliament Hole

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Persephone

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Ottawa Train Station, 1967

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Two New Brunswick Dollars

The New Brunswick dollar was a thing from 1860 to 1867. Source.

Mississauga: Land on the Move (1969)

Try to watch this 1969 short film promoting the Town of Mississauga and then not move there.

Octagonal Cockpit

This octagonal belvedere on the grounds of Dundurn Castle in Hamilton, Ontario was originally used for cockfighting. Source.

Yosuke Ideguchi

Of the four Japanese players brought in by Celtic in 2021-22 Yosuke Ideguchi has had the least impact, suffering a knee injury and making only six appearances. Bad luck for the 2016 J League rookie of the year. Source.

Canadian Championship semi-finals (June 22):

Vancouver Whitecaps 2 - 1 York United

Toronto FC 4 - 0 CF Montréal

The date of the final hasn't been announced, but I reckon it'll be July 20 or 27.

Sort the CPL clubs by number of Canadian Championship matches played:

22    FC Edmonton

12    Cavalry

11    York United

10    HFX Wanderers

  7    Forge FC

  6    Pacific FC

  5    Valour FC

  2    Atlético Ottawa

Other Canadian matches:

Pacific [0 - 3] HFX Wanderers

[Goals by Samb, Daniels and Salter.]

Somebody is thinking about putting a CPL team in Kelowna. Source.

League1 Ontario: North Mississauga [3 - 1] Sigma SC (yesterday)

Sigma was founded as a soccer academy by the Smyrniotis brothers in 2005. In 2019 coach Bobby Smyrniotis and 16 players moved over to Forge FC to become the CPL's first champion team. Sigma play at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga. North Mississauga and Sigma are the League1's only teams based in Mississauga, and their derby is called the Credit River Cup.

Duran Lee (HFX Wanderers 2019) played for Sigma from 2016 to 2018.

PLSQ: CS St-Hubert [3 - 2] Royal-Sélect de Beauport (tomorrow)

L1BC: Victoria Highlanders [2 - 3] TSS Rovers (tomorrow)

This is leg one of the Juan de Fuca Plate (the trophy, not the piece of ocean floor currently subducting beneath western North America.) (See below.)

CSL: Toronto Falcons [1 - 1] Serbian White Eagles (tomorrow)

Scotland:

Annan Athletic [2 - 2] Morton (closed door friendly) (in Gretna)

[Morton goals by Jacobs and Garrity.]

Morton have re-signed Jai Quitongo. He previously played for Morton from 2015 to 2018, and since then he has been with Partick Thistle, Machine Sazi (Iran), Dumbarton and Queen's Park. Apparently Dougie Imrie tried to get him in January. What would it take for 2022-23 to be Jai Quitongo's best year? Seven goals.

Also signed is midfielder Grant Gillespie, formerly of Hamilton, Dundee United, Raith Rovers, Derry City, Ayr United and Queen's Park.

Alan Lithgow is out with a knee injury.

Hamilton Academical have parted ways with manager Stuart Taylor.

Threave Rovers have quit the South of Scotland League and applied to join the West of Scotland League. They were in the Lowland League from 2013 to 2016.

Former Morton players who were brought back:

2022        Jai Quitongo

2021        Mark Russell

2020        Gary Oliver

2019        Aidan Nesbitt

2018        Chris Millar

2018        Jim McAlister

2018        Denny Johnstone

2017        Luca Gasparotto

2016        Declan McManus

2015        Michael Tidser

Japan:

Mito HollyHock [1 - 1] Fagiano Okayama

Tohoku: Bogolle.D.Tsugaru [2 - 1] Ganju Iwate (tomorrow)

Elsewhere:

UCD 0 - 1 Derry City (yesterday)

FC Pfäffikon [0 - 7] Winterthur (testspiel) (tomorrow)

Wintherthur and Pfäffikon are neighbouring districts in the canton of Zurich. FC Pfäffikon play in 3.Liga

The 2022-23 UEFA Champions League began this week with the preliminary round:

semi-finals (June 21):

FCI Levadia (Estonia) 1 - 6 Vikingur Reykjavik (Iceland)

La Fiorita (San Marino) 1 - 2 Inter Club d'Escaldes (Andorra)

final (June 24):

Inter Club d'Escaldes 0 - 1 Vikingur Reykjavik

Soccer's Juan de Fuca Plate. Source.

Geology's Juan de Fuca Plate. Source.

BC Redesign

Lou-ann Ika-wega Neel's British Columbia flag. Source.

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