Magazine cover by Mexican illustrator Ernesto Garcia Cabral. Source.
Partick Thistle travel to Cappielow. Partick are in seventh place with 20 points. Morton are second with 22. In their last meeting, October 1st, Partick won 5 - 1. Since then Morton have not lost a game and have allowed only 2 goals. In the same span Partick have won only once and surrendered 20.
Dougie Imrie is Manager of the Month for the newly-created month of September/October 2022, and Robbie Muirhead is Player of the Month.
Jim Duffy is back as manager at Clyde, with Allan Moore as his assistant, both of them former Morton managers. Ray McKinnon is the new gaffer at Forfar. Jonatan Johansson is available for hire, having been dumped by TPS in September.
After today's games the Premiership does not meet again until December 15th, owing to the World Cup.
[Morton win 2 - 1. Goals by Ambrose and Blues.]
The other Championship matches:
Hamilton (10th) 2 - 3 Ayr (1st) (last night)
Arbroath (9th) [1 - 1] Cove Rangers (8th)
Dundee (4th) [2 - 0] Raith Rovers (3rd)
Queen's Park (6th) [2 - 1] Inverness CT (5th)
Other matches:
Scottish Challenge Cup R3: Rangers B 0 - 3 Hamilton Accies (November 8)
Gala Fairydean Rovers [2 - 3] University of Stirling
Highland League Cup, R1: Keith [0 - 2] Forres Mechanics
Dryburgh Athletic vs Morton Women (tomorrow) (postponed)
Darvel 1 - 2 Largs Thistle (November 9)
West of Scotland Cup: Largs Thistle [1 - 3] Hurlford
FA Vase R2: Holker Old Boys [3 - 1] FC Isle of Man
The Ravens have fired manager Chris Bass.
PEC Zwolle 5 - 2 FC Eindhoven (yesterday)
Minaj 0 - 1 Chornomorets Odesa (November 10)
Rukh Vynnyky [1 - 1] Minaj (Monday)
Waseda University [1 - 4] Takoshoku University
League of Ireland promotion playoff final: Waterford 0 - 1 UCD (yesterday)
UCD stay up in the Premier Division.
Lugano [3 - 1] Winterthur (tomorrow)
This is their second meeting in four days. The Swiss Super League now takes a break until January 22nd.
Swiss Cup Round Three (November 9):
Lugano 1- 0 Winterthur
FAI Cup final (tomorrow):
Derry City [4 - 0] Shelbourne.
It's the preliminary round of the 2022 Japan Regional Football Champions League. Twelve teams compete: the nine regional league champions plus three top finishers from the 58th Shakaijin held in October. The winner and runner up in this tournament will be first in line for promotion to the 2023 Japan Football League if there are spaces available. The preliminary round is a group stage, with the twelve teams divided into three groups of four. The winner of each group plus the best runner-up advance to the final round.
The teams are: (Group A) BTOP Thank Kurayama, FC Kariya, Nobeoka Agata, Tochigi City; (Group B) Arista Asama, Cobaltore Onagawa, Okinawa SV, Veroskronos Tsuno; (Group C) Arterivo Wakayama, Briobecca Urayasu, Fukuyama City, FC Tokushima.
FC Kariya, Tochigi City, Cobaltore Onagawa and Briobecca Urasawa are all trying to get back into the JFL.
[The following teams advance: (A) FC Kariya, (B) Okinawa SV, (C) Briobecca Urayasu, and (2nd) Tochigi City.]
Canada
The CPL's minimum player salary has been increased to a whopping $30,000.
Former HFX Wanderer Elliot Simmons has been released by Cavalry FC.
Renfrewshire Derbies
It's two years and a day since Morton last played St Mirren. In the time of the Renfrewshire Cup those two clubs were almost guaranteed to meet up once a year, even if they were in different divisions. What was the longest spell without a Morton/St Mirren match?
St Mirren played their first match on October 6th, 1877 (Source: Wikipedia St Mirren article), and the first game I know of between Morton and St Mirren was a Scottish Cup match in September 30th, 1882, a gap of 4 years, 11 months and 24 days. But there might have been a friendly in there, the record is too spotty to say.
They met nearly every year until 1900 and once they both got in the First Division they did not miss a season until 1928.
I don't know of a Morton/St Mirren game between January 1st, 1952 and May 2nd, 1959, a gap of seven years, four months and a day. There may have been friendlies, but SFHA shows no Renfrewshire Cup meetings.
And if there was a match between March 19th, 1988 and August 22nd, 1992 -- four years, five months and three days -- I haven't found it.
So, provisionally, the longest gaps without a Renfrewshire Derby are:
1) 1952 to 1959; 2) 1877 to 1882; 3) 1988 to 1992.
Historical matches:
November 9, 1966 Morton 3 - 1 St Mirren
This was the first leg of the Renfrewshire Cup final.
November 12, 1966 Berwick 1 - 4 Morton
November 12, 1977 Dumbarton 1 - 1 Morton
Goal by Andy Ritchie.
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