Plenty of Nothing

Wax Caroline Matilda

Caroline Matilda was a daughter of King George III of Great Britain, and for a time was Queen of Denmark until she was divorced and exiled for carrying on an affair. Her story was sufficiently notorious to land her in the wax museum. Source.

Norrbotten Regiment

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Bear Mosaic

Mosaic bear from the remains of Roman Bulla Regia in Tunisia. Source.

Shonan Monorail Maintenance Cars

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Taking Home Peats

This should be a Highland Games triathlon: balancing a stack of peats while traversing hill and dale while turning out precision handiwork.

Petit Bleu

The petit bleu was a light-weight form that Parisians could fill in with personal correspondence and send via pneumatic tube anywhere in the city. The system was in service from 1866 until 2004. Source.

Kursaal

Greenock had Cappielow, but Gourock had the Kursaal roller skating rink. Source.

Morton host Kilmarnock.

This is Killie's first visit to Cappielow since January 6th, 2007. That game was a Scottish Cup Third Round tie which Morton won 3 - 1. Just to confuse future sports historians, Morton wore blue and white vertical stripes that day while Killie wore yellow. BBC report.

Kilmarnock are top of the division, but only by a point. Morton are eighth with 12 points. This year's Championship is divided pretty neatly into top five and bottom five, with an eight-point gap in between. All of today's games are between a top-half team and a bottom-half team.

This is a Plenty of Nothing Championship League Cup Round Two match.

The Easdales are rumoured to be involved in a bid for English Championship side Derby County.

The other Championship matches:

Arbroath (3rd) [1 - 1] Queen of the South (9th)

Ayr United (6th) [0 - 4] Partick Thistle (5th)

Hamilton (7th) [0 - 3] Raith Rovers (4th)

Inverness CT (2nd) [1 - 2] Dunfermline (10th)

[Morton 0 - 2 Killie.]

John Hughes is the new Dunfermline manager. He previously managed Falkirk, Hibs, Livingston, Hartlepool United, ICT, Raith and Ross County.

Other matches:

J2: Mito HollyHock [1 - 3] Júbilo Iwata (tomorrow)

[Júbilo earn promotion with this win.]

JFL: ReinMeer Aomori [3 - 2] FC Kariya (tomorrow)

Dalbeattie Star 1 - 4 East Kilbride (November 10)

East Kilbride [2 - 1] East Stirlingshire

SWF Championship South: Rossvale [3 - 2] Morton (tomorrow)

Omiya Ardija Ventus [0 - 0] Elfen Saitama

Sandbach United 2 - 4 FC Isle of Man (November 9)

FC Isle of Man [2 - 1] Rocester

Troon [3 - 1] Largs Thistle

Canadian Premier League:

York United 1 - 3 Forge (November 9)

FC Edmonton [1 - 0] Forge (today)

Forge have one more rearranged league match Tuesday, and then the playoffs can begin.

The CPL has awarded a second franchise to the group that owns Pacific FC. The new club will play somewhere in the Lower Mainland starting in 2023.

CS Mont-Royal Outremont and Guelph United are the champions of the Quebec and Ontario leagues and will appear in the 2022 Voyageurs Cup.

HFX Wanderers versus everyone else all-time, league and cup:

Forge FC              12    2    6    4    11    16    -5

Valour FC             11    6    1    4    10      9    +1

York9/United         11    2    7    2    15    17    -2

Cavalry FC           10    1    3    6      5    12    -7

Pacific FC             10    2    4    4      8    16    -8

FC Edmonton         8    3    2    3      7      8    -1

Atlético Ottawa       7    4    2    1    12      6    +6

Vaughan Azzuri      2    1    0    1      3      3      0

Ottawa Fury           2    0    1    1      4      5     -1

AS Blainville           1    1    0    0      2      1    +1

CF Montréal           1    0    0    1      1      3     -2

João Morelli's goals for HFX Wanderers:

2020/8/15      12'    Alumni Field    Pacific                Wirth    league

2020/8/26      45'    Alumni Field    Edmonton        James    league

2020/8/26      76'    Alumni Field    Edmonton        James    league

2020/9/12      41'    Alumni Field    Cavalry        Carducci    league GS

2021/7/10        7'    IG Field    Edmonton               James    league

2021/7/10      55'    IG Field    Edmonton               James    league

2021/8/2        25'    W's Grounds    Atlético           Powley    league

2021/8/2        37'    W's Grounds    Atlético           Powley    league

2021/8/7        40'    W's Grounds    York United    Giantsopoulos    league

2021/8/17      72'    W's Grounds    Blainville    Yesli    Cdn Championship

2021/8/29        3'    Lansdowne    Atlético             Obadal    league

2021/8/29      51'    Lansdowne    Atlético             Obadal    league

2021/9/6        84'    W's Grounds    York United    Ingham    league

2021/9/6        87'    W's Grounds    York United    Ingham    league

2021/9/11      17'    Lansdowne    Atlético              Powley    league

2021/9/11      89'    Lansdowne    Atlético              Powley    league

2021/9/25      24'    W's Grounds    Edmonton        James    league

2021/9/29      45'    W's Grounds    Atlético            Powley    league

2021/9/29      54'    W's Grounds    Atlético            Powley    league

It's the Japan Regional Champions League, first round. The three groups are:

Group A: Okinawa SV, FC Ise-Shima, Fukui United, Fujieda City Hall

Group B: Cobaltore Onagawa, Ocacias Kyoto, Criacao Shinjuku, Baleine Shimonoseki

Group C: FC Tokushima, Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima, Artista Asama, Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth

The three group winners and the best second-place team will advance to the final round. At least one finalist will advance to a playoff with a bottom JFL club, the exact number depending on how many top JFL clubs get promoted to J3 at the end of the season.

Only Criacao, Fukui, Ocacias and Okinawa are here as a result of finishing first in a completed regional league this year.

Mitsubishi Mizushima were part of the JFL from 2005 to 2009. Cobaltore played one season in the JFL in 2018. Fujieda City Hall were members of the old JSL Division Two in 1988-89.

[FC Tokushima, FC Ise-Shima, Ococias Kyoto and Criacao Shinjuku advance.]

1999-2000

November 12, 1999.    Morton hosted Inverness Caley Thistle in a Friday-nighter before 812 spectators and took a resounding 5 - 1 victory. Morton goalscorers were: Graeme Morrison, Ross Matheson, Harry Curran, Keith Wright and Stephen Aitken.

November 14, 1999.    Clydebank were home to Falkirk in a Sunday afternoon match and lost 0 - 3. Attendance 561.

Port Glasgow Athletic results for 1891-92:

1892/5/21      Morton 3 - 1 Port Glasgow                      friendly

1892/5/7        Linthouse 3 - 1 Port Glasgow           Scottish Alliance

1892/4/30      Port Glasgow 4 - 1 King's Park       Scottish Alliance

1892/4/23      Port Glasgow 4 - 0 Thistle               Scottish Alliance

1892/4/16      Port Glasgow 4 - 0 Northern           Scottish Alliance

1892/4/2        Port Glasgow 2 - 0 Ayr FC              Scottish Alliance

1892/3/26      Johnstone 2 - 3 Port Glasgow                friendly

1892/3/12      St Bernard's 4 - 2 Port Glasgow        Scottish Alliance

1892/3/5        Port Glasgow 3 - 3 Airdrieonians      Scottish Alliance

1892/2/27      Northern 3 - 0 Port Glasgow             Scottish Alliance

1892/2/13      Port Glasgow 4 - 1 E. Stirlingshire    Scottish Alliance

1892/2/6        Port Glasgow 4 - 2 St Bernard's      Scottish Alliance

1892/1/30      King's Park 6 - 3 Port Glasgow         Scottish Alliance

1892/1/23      Port Glasgow 2 - 2 Partick Thistle     Scottish Alliance

1892/1/9        E. Stirlingshire 3 - 2 Port Glasgow    Scottish Alliance

1891/12/19    Port Glasgow 1 - 3 Abercorn        Renfrewshire Cup R3 replay

1891/12/12    Port Glasgow 3 - 3 Abercorn        Renfrewshire Cup R3

1891/12/5      Partick Thistle 2 - 1 Port Glasgow    Scottish Alliance

1891/11/28    Port Glasgow 4 - 1 Cameron Highlanders    friendly

1891/11/21    bye                                                    Renfrewshire Cup R2

1891/11/14    Port Glasgow 2 - 4 Linthouse            Scottish Alliance

1891/11/7      Morton 1 - 2 Port Glasgow               Scottish Alliance

1891/10/31    Port Glasgow 8 - 1 Bridge of Weir    Renfrewshire Cup R1

1891/10/24    Thistle 4 - 4 Port Glasgow                 Scottish Alliance

1891/10/17    Kilmarnock Athletic 5 - 4 Port Glasgow    Scottish Cup R3

1891/10/10    Kilmarnock 0 - 0 Port Glasgow          Scottish Alliance

1891/10/3      Fair City Athletic 4 - 5 Port Glasgow      friendly

1891/9/26      Port Glasgow 4 - 1 Glengowan        Scottish Cup R2

1891/9/19      Port Glasgow 5 - 5 Morton                Scottish Alliance

1891/9/12      Ayr FC 5 - 1 Port Glasgow                Scottish Alliance

1891/9/5        Port Glasgow 6 - 3 Lanemark          Scottish Cup R1

1891/8/29      Our Boys 5 - 5 Port Glasgow                   friendly

1891/8/22      Port Glasgow 3 - 6 Kilmarnock         Scottish Alliance

1891/8/15      Airdrieonians 1 - 1 Port Glasgow      Scottish Alliance

(Sources: The Beautiful Dribbling Game for the Scottish Cup; SFHA for the Scottish Alliance and Renfrewshire Cup; Glasgow Herald for friendlies.)

Roller soccer is a thing.

1936 Schlörwagen

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Radhe Shaam

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Zipporah by Botticelli

Detail from Botticelli's Youth of Moses, showing Zipporah the shepherdess. This is the portrait Swann has in mind when he thinks about Odette in Proust's À la Recherche du Temps Perdu. See the whole fresco here.