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Sakha

A young Sakha woman from Yakutia. Portrait by Alexander Khimushin. Source.

Latvian Mittens

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Sanquhar Gloves

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Tarai-Bune

In Sado you can take a ride in a tub-shaped one-oared fishing boat called a tarai-bune. Source.

1992-93

Morton's 1992-93 away costume. Source.

The 2020-21 SPFL begins. The Championship won't get going until October, so in the meantime let's follow Kilmarnock FC. Today's featured match is Hibs versus Kilmarnock.

This is the sixth time these two have met on opening day. Killie have won three times, Hibs never, with two draws. But Hibs have the better all-time record, with 110 wins to 86 for Killie, and 55 draws. Hibs finished (or "finished") last season seventh with 37 points. Kilmarnock were eighth with 33.

What was Killie's best league match against Hibs?

1918/9/7        Kilmarnock 7 - 1 Hibs

What was Hibernian's best league match against Killie?

1925/8/22      Hibs 8 - 0 Kilmarnock

Hibs' top scorer last season was Christian Doidge with 12 goals in league play, 2 in the League Cup and 4 in the Scottish Cup. Killie's top goalscorer last year was Eamonn Brophy, with 9 in the league, 1 in the Scottish Cup, and 1 in the Europa League against Connah's Quay Nomads.

[Hibs 2 - 1 Killie.]

Developments:

UEFA's deadline for member leagues to finish the 2019-20 season is August 3rd.

An arbitration panel has rejected Hearts' and Partick's complaint against the SPFL.

Scottish Women's Football has declared the 2020 season null and void and will play a 2020-21 season from October 18th to May 2nd. See below for a summary of Morton's 2020 results and the 2020 table.

The 2020-21 fixtures for the Championship and Leagues One and Two were released Wednesday. Morton will have Alloa, Ayr United, Hearts, Queen of the South and Inverness CT at Cappielow twice.

Wednesday the Canadian Premier League announced the location, dates and format of its hub tournament. It'll be called The Island Games and be played in Charlottetown at UPEI's Alumni Field in August and September. Winner will be 2020 league champion and go on to the 2021 Concacaf League.

The CPL away strips are out and they're all black. Any visiting team would literally be invisible at Cavalry's park.

HFX Wanderers have signed Jake Ruby and Luke Green.

Mortonalia:

Season tickets went on sale Monday.

Goalkeeper Sam Ramsbottom has been released. Kris Doolan is also departing.

Denny Johnstone has signed with Dumbarton. He was with Morton in 2015-16 and 2018-19.

Goalkeeper Danny Rogers has signed with Kilmarnock.

[Conor Pepper has signed with Linfield. He was with Morton from 2014 to 2017.]

Big Premiership clubs in the Championship, a seven-year trend:

2014-15    Hearts, Hibs, Rangers

2015-16    Hibs, Rangers

2016-17    Hibs, Dundee United

2017-18    Dundee United

2018-19    Dundee United

2019-20    Dundee United

2020-21    Hearts

Other matches:

J2: Mito HollyHock 2 - 2 Ventforet Kofu (July 29)

Mito HollyHock [3 - 2] Zweigen Kanazawa (tomorrow)

[After 9 games Mito have 3 wins, three draws and 3 losses and hold 11th place out of 22.]

Faroes: B36 4 - 2 Víkingur (July 29)

B36 [2 - 0] ÍF (tomorrow)

Iceland: ÍBV 3 - 0 Þróttur (July 27)

K League: Jeonbuk Motors [2 - 1] Pohang Steelers

Korean FA Cup, quarter-finals (July 29):

FC Seoul 1 - 5 Pohang Steelers

Svenska Cupen final (July 30):

IFK Göteborg 2 - 1 Malmö

Allsvenskan: IFK Göteborg [0 - 3] Malmö (tomorrow)

Winterthur 4 - 0 Kriens (July 30)

Grasshoppers [0 - 6] Winterthur (tomorrow) [Wow.]

That ends the 2019-20 Swiss Challenge League. The new season will start on the weekend of September 11th.

[Winterthur finish fourth, which in this league is not good enough to get into the promotion playoffs.]

The League of Ireland 2020 season resumes this weekend. Let's follow UCD who are newly relegated to the First Division. After 3 matches played in February and March they have a win, a loss and a draw, and occupy fourth place.

UCD 0 - 0 Longford (yesterday)

RoPS [2 - 3] TPS

RoPS played Aberdeen in the Europa League last year. The PS in TPS and RoPS stands for palloseura, meaning ball club.

Matches not being played:

The Concacaf League was to have begun July 28th.

Morton Women's results in the 2020 season:

SWF Championship South:

Morton 5 - 0 Stenhousemuir (Feb 9)

Renfrew 2 - 0 Morton (Feb 23)

Morton 4 - 2 St Mirren (Feb 26)

SWF Championship Cup:

R1    bye

R2    Ayr United 1 - 2 Morton (March 1)

2020 SWF Championship South Table

Livingston                      3    2    0    1  18     4  +14    6

Airdrie                            2    2    0    0    9     2    +7    6

Morton                           3    2    0    1    9     4    +5    6

United Glasgow             2    2    0    0    6     1    +5    6

Gartcairn                       2    2    0    0    4      4      0    6

Edinburgh Caledonia    2    1    0    1    7      3    +4    3

Renfrew                        1    1    0    0    2      0    +2    3

St Mirren                       3    1    0    2    8    11     -3    3

Ayr United                     2    1    0    1    3     7      -4    3

Clyde                            3    0    1    2    6    11      -5    1

Stenhousemuir             3    0    1    2    3    11      -8    1

BSC Glasgow               1    0    0    1    3      4      -1    0

Falkirk                           1    0    0    1    1      4      -3    0

Edinburgh City              2    0    0    2    0    17    -17    0

Historical matches:

August 1st, 1992 fell on a Saturday, so the 1992-93 season synchs up with 2020-21. Our guys Morton were playing in the First Division, which in those days was the middle division of three. The schedule that season called for a demanding 44 games, plus three cups. Let's follow Morton through 1992-93 and see how they handled it.

Aug 1, 1992. Morton opened the season by hosting Kilmarnock at Cappielow. Killie won 0 - 2. This is still Morton's most recent opening day match against Kilmarnock. The two have not played in the same division since 1992-93.

John Wilson, who was Morton chairman during 1992-93, died in May of this year.

JFL 1999: Mito HollyHock 4 - 3 Kokushikan University

Tsugaru Sashiko

Aomori Prefecture combines territories once controlled by the Tsugaru and Nambu domains. A difference between the two areas is the way they embroidered kimono: Tsugaru is monochrome, Nambu is coloured. Read more about it here.

DakhaBrakha Have the Best Hats

Source. Watch a short concert.

Lillehammer Winter Olympics Sweater

Designed by Margaretha Finseth. Source.

Beaded Mittens, ca. 1885

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Stovepipe Hat

See here for a collection of 19th-Century photographs of Welsh women in stovepipe hats.