
Parklea Stadium on the eastern shore of Port Glasgow is the home ground of Port Glasgow FC and Greenock Morton Women. There's also a lawn bowling club next door. This snap is from a night game last November between Port Glasgow (black and white) and Greenock Juniors (red). See here for a scotch pie review.
Developments:
Monday the SPFL cancelled the rest of the Premiership season, making Celtic 2019-20 champions and relegating Heart of Midlothian.
However, the league reconstruction committee is back at work trying to find a way to budge Hearts up again.
The Lowland League website is reporting that Bo'ness United are close to being promoted to the 2020-21 Lowland League. This comes in the wake of the South of Scotland League voiding its 2019-20 season. As there is no SoSFL champion (which would have been Threave Rovers) there is now no need for a playoff with the EoSFL champion (which could not have been played due to the coronavirus) and so Bo'ness are clear to advance by automatic promotion.
On Thursday 1.FC Saarbrücken began training for their June 9th DFB-Pokal semi-final against Bayer Leverkusen.
The SPFL wants to start training camps June 10. The League Cup might become a casualty of the coronavirus, as the part-time clubs can't afford to play without gate receipts. More on that below.
Games being played:
Faroes: B36 [6 - 2] Skála Ítróttarfelag
B36 enter today's game in second place. They have not been scored on yet this season. Skála are in ninth place.
Skála met Tampere United in the 2005 Intertoto Cup, and lost both games. They appeared in the first qualifying round of the 2006-07 UEFA Cup, where they were beaten twice by IK Start of Norway. Skála wear orange and black, to the joy of Dundee United fans. They were sixth in the league last season.
K League: Pohang Steelers 1 - 2 FC Seoul (May 21)
FC Seoul were able to play two matches in the interrupted 2020 AFC Champions League. They beat Malaysian club Kedah in the playoff round and Melbourne Victory in the group stage. They finished third in the league last season.
Games not being played:
HFX Wanderers do not host Forge FC.
The CPL is looking at starting the season by playing all its games at one location, perhaps Langford BC. If they staged one match per day they could complete the schedule in 112 days.
The first round of the Canadian Championship is supposed to go June 16, which seems very unlikely.
Tomorrow it's not the final of the 2019-20 South Region Challenge Cup.
SWF Championship South: BSC Glasgow vs Morton (tomorrow) (no)
Swiss Challenge League: Grasshoppers vs Winterthur (May 20) (not)
That would have concluded the Swiss Challenge League 2019-20.
The Swiss Cup final should have been today.
Bolivian league:
Guabira vs The Strongest (May 20) (no)
The Strongest vs Aurora (tomorrow) (no)
Historical games:
1963-64: On May 20th Morton played their final Summer Cup group stage match, hosting Partick and playing to a 1 - 1 draw. Partick, Morton and St Mirren all finished with 7 points, but Partick won the group with the superior goal difference. Partick went on to lose to Aberdeen in the semi-finals, and Aberdeen lost to Hibs in the finals.
On May 23rd St Mirren beat Morton 0 - 2 at Cappielow in the first leg of the Renfrewshire Cup final. The second May 26th they played to a 1 - 1 draw in Paisley. St Mirren were Renfrewshire champions.
It's nearly time for the Scottish League Cup groups to be announced. If the SPFL sticks with the same format this year, what teams will be in which pots?
The seedings are based on the previous year's standings, so the matter of reconstruction shouldn't have any bearing on the 2020-21 group stage format.
Bye to Round Two: Celtic, Rangers, Motherwell, Aberdeen
Top seeds North: St Johnstone, Hibs, Ross County, Hearts
Top seeds South: Livingston, Kilmarnock, St Mirren, Hamilton
Second seeds North: Dundee United, Inverness CT, Dundee, Arbroath
Second seeds South: Ayr United, Dunfermline, Morton, Alloa
Unseeded North: Raith, Montrose, East Fife, Peterhead, Forfar, Cove Rangers, Elgin, Cowdenbeath, Stirling Albion, Brechin, Brora, Kelty
Unseeded South: QoS, Partick, Falkirk, Airdrieonians, Dumbarton, Clyde, Stranraer, Edinburgh City, Queen's Park, Annan, Stenhousemuir, Albion Rovers
I don't know if the league would really put Lowland League champions Kelty in the North, but by latitude that's where they go.
There's a one in four chance that Morton's top seed opponent will be St Mirren.
If it looks like football is still off in July the league might opt to revert to a strictly knock-out format, which ought to be easier to postpone.
Who beat Rangers in league play in Division Three, League One and the Championship?
2012/10/6 Stirling Albion 1 - 0 Rangers
2013/3/9 Rangers 1 - 2 Annan Athletic
2013/4/20 Rangers 1 - 2 Peterhead
2014/8/10 Rangers 1 - 2 Hearts
2014/9/29 Rangers 1 - 3 Hibs
2014/11/22 Hearts 2 - 0 Rangers
2014/12/12 Queen of the South 2 - 0 Rangers
2014/12/27 Hibs 4 - 0 Rangers
2015/2/13 Rangers 0 - 2 Hibs
2015/4/9 Queen of the South 3 - 0 Rangers
2015/11/1 Hibs 2 - 1 Rangers
2015/12/19 Falkirk 2 - 1 Rangers
2016/3/18 Falkirk 3 - 2 Rangers
2016/4/20 Hibs 3 - 2 Rangers
2016/4/26 Livingston 1 - 0 Rangers
Cups and playoffs not included.
Pohang Steelers in the 2010s:
P W D L F A GD P Pos
2019 38 16 8 14 49 49 0 56 4th
2018 38 15 9 14 47 48 -1 54 4th
2017 38 15 7 16 63 60 +3 52 7th
2016 38 12 10 16 43 46 -3 46 9th
2015 38 18 12 8 49 32 +17 66 3rd
2014 38 16 10 12 50 39 +11 58 4th
2013 38 21 11 6 63 38 +25 74 1st FA Cup
2012 44 23 8 13 72 47 +25 77 3rd FA Cup
2011 30 17 8 5 59 33 +26 59 2nd
2010 28 8 9 11 39 48 -9 33 9th