The Firhill Tavern, 740 Garscube Road, anchoring the neighbourhood in the 1970s. Source.
Morton visit Partick Thistle at Firhill Stadium. Morton are 4th with 30 points after 18 games. Partick are 5th with 30 points after 20 games. So far each side has taken a win from the other.
Though they're in fourth place Morton lead the Championship in two important categories: fewest losses (4) and fewest goals allowed (19). For their part Partick are averaging 2 goals scored per game, the best in the division; Morton score one and a half per game. Partick Thistle are very streaky this season. They were six games without a loss beginning with the League Cup group stage in July, but put up six straight losses in October and November.
Darren Hynes and Lewis McGregor have left Morton. Kyle Jacobs, who has been on loan to FC Edinburgh since July, has left Morton and signed with FC Edinburgh properly.
Lawrence Shankland and Kyogo Furuhashi are neck and neck in the Premiership scoring race with 15 goals apiece.
Cove Rangers fired their manager Jim McIntyre after that 6 - 1 loss to ICT Monday and quickly rehired Paul Hartley. He got them into the Championship back in April and then left for Hartlepool (because naming is destiny) where he won 1 game out of 11 and was sacked.
[Partick Thistle 2 - 1 Morton. Morton goal by Baird.]
The other Championship matches:
Raith Rovers (6th) 1 - 1 Dundee (2nd) (last night)
Arbroath (9th) [1 - 4] ICT (7th)
Ayr (3rd) [1 - 0] Hamilton (10th)
Cove Rangers (8th) [0 - 6] Queen's Park (1st)
Other matches:
Gala Fairydean Rovers 2 - 0 Edinburgh University (January 3)
Gala Fairydean Rovers [0 - 4] Caledonian Braves (today)
Forres Mechanics [8 - 1] Strathspey Thistle
FC Isle of Man [1 - 3] Kendal Town
Cambuslang [2 - 2] Largs Thistle
PEC Zwolle 3 - 2 Almere City FC (yesterday)
Scottish Women's Cup, R4:
Ayr United [4 - 4] Morton (tomorrow) [Ayr win on PK.]
Canada
Valour FC have signed Marcello Polisi, who spent the past two seasons with HFX Wanderers. Fumpa Mwandwe has been loaned out to Newtown AFC of the Welsh league until the end of February.
The Canadian Premier League website had nothing new to say about anything from December 24th until January 3rd. In contrast, Plenty of Nothing updates every day.
The 2022-23 Championship clubs ranked by number of years in the top Scottish division:
98 Dundee
86 Partick Thistle
54 Morton
49 Hamilton Academical
42 Queen's Park
37 Raith Rovers
36 Ayr United
12 Inverness CT
10 Arbroath
0 Cove Rangers
Historical matches:
January 3, 1967 East Stirlingshire 1 - 2 Morton
January 7, 1978 Alloa 0 - 5 Morton
Goals by Billy Thomas, Charlie Brown (see below), Goldthorp and Ritchie (2).
Northern FC in the Glasgow Cup:
1887/9/17 R1 Northern 4 - 0 Whitefield
1887/10/15 R2 bye
1887/10/29 R3 Cowlairs 7 - 1 Northern
1888/9/15 R1 Pollokshaws 1 - 4 Northern
1888/10/6 R2 Northern 10 - 0 Pollokshaws Harp
1888/11/3 R3 Northern 5 - 5 Queen's Park
1888/11/10 R3 Queen's Park W - L Northern
1889/10/12 R2 Northern 3 - 6 Rangers
1890/10/4 R1 Kelvinside Athletic scr/wo Northern
1890/11/11 R2 Northern 1 - 2 Celtic
1891/9/19 R1 Northern 4 - 3 Thistle
1891/10/10 R2 bye
1891/11/7 R3 Celtic 3 - 2 Northern
1892/9/7 R1 Rangers 6 - 2 Northern
1893/9/16 R1 Northern 3 - 1 Cameronians
1893/10/7 R2 Northern 2 - 3 Celtic
1894/9/15 R1 3rd LRV 5 - 0 Northern
1895/9/21 R1 Clyde 3 - 0 Northern
(Source: Scottish Football Historical Archive)
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