
Falkirk on a Tryst Night by James Grossart. Tryst is the Falkirk name for a market, but since this painting was made the word has also attached itself to a golf course and an orchestra. Source.
Morton visit Falkirk. Falkirk are top of the division with 66 points and are within a couple of games of securing promotion. Morton are sixth with 41 points and headed for a fifth- or sixth-place finish. The Bairns have won all three encounters with Morton this season.
Which teams have beaten Falkirk this season? Stenhousemuir (!) (cup), Celtic (cup), Raith Rovers (cup and league), Ayr United (cup and league), Livingston (3 times in the league).
Falkirk were in League One last year, and will probably be in the Premiership next year. They have not been in the top division since 2009-10 and have never lost the attitude that they're just slumming in these lower leagues. Former Morton players on the Falkirk roster: Ross MacIver (Morton 2020-21), Aidan Nesbitt (Morton 2016-17 and 2019-21), Gary Oliver (Morton 2016-19 and 2020-22), Darragh O'Connor (Morton 2022-24), Calvin Miller (Morton 2023).
[Falkirk 5 - 0 Morton]
The other Championship matches:
Queen's Park 0 - 5 Airdrieonians (April 2) Wow!
Dunfermline 1 - 0 Livingston (April 2) Wow!
Airdrieonians (10th) [2 - 1] Partick Thistle (4th) [Also wow]
Dunfermline (8th) [0 - 1] Hamilton (9th)
Livingston (3rd) [3 - 0] Queen's Park (7th)
Raith Rovers (5th) [1 - 0] Ayr United (2nd)
Other matches:
Odd 2 - 1 Skeid (March 31)
The Norwegian 1. Division begins.
Nairn County 2 - 0 Turriff United (April 2)
UCD 0 - 1 Dundalk (yesterday)
JEF United Chiba [2 - 1] Mito HollyHock
Lillestrom [1 - 0] Odd
Brechin City [3 - 0] Nairn County
Gretna 2008 [1 - 2] Civil Service Strollers
East Kilbride have won the Lowland League.
Largs Thistle [1 - 2] Gartcairn
[Clydebank have won the West of Scotland League Premier Division.]
Port Glasgow Juniors [2 - 0] Carluke Rovers
Culter [2 - 1] Dyce
FC Isle of Man [1 - 4] Charnock Richard
Atlético Ottawa [2 - 2] HFX Wanderers [HFX goals by Probo and Rea.]
The Canadian Premier League season begins its seventh season.
Andre Rampersad, who has been with the Wanderers seven years now, has been reclassified as a domestic player, even though he is regularly called up by Trinidad and Tobago.
The minimum salary in the CanPL is $30,000. Minimum wage in Nova Scotia $15.20 per hour. $15.20 x 40 hours per week x 52 weeks per year = $31,616.
Iida Kodai has surfaced at FC Meshakhte Tkibuli in the Georgian second tier. Let's follow that team! The season is already started; Meshakhte are 8th out of 10 with 3 draws and a loss.
Gonio [0 - 1] Meshakhte (tomorrow)
Sfida Setagaya [2 - 2] Nittaidai (tomorrow)
ReinMeer Aomori [2 - 1] Grulla Morioka (tomorrow)
Westdyke [2 - 2] Morton Women (tomorrow)
Tomorrow it's the South Challenge Cup final. East Kilbride have won this trophy four times since it was invented in 2007, while Talbot have won it once. If East Kilbride get promoted to League Two they will no longer qualify, so this could be their last shot.
East Kilbride [2 - 0] Auchinleck Talbot
[This week EK have won the Lowland League Cup, the Lowland League title, and the South Challenge Cup.]
Concacaf Champions Cup, QF, first leg (April 2):
Vancouver Whitecaps 1 - 1 Pumas UNAM
Historical matches:
1902/4/5 Morton 4 - 2 Johnstone RCup R2 2nd replay
1928/4/7 St Mirren 2 - 2 Partick Thistle
James Joyce alludes to this match in Finnegans Wake. Read about it and about his brief visit to Greenock in 1894 here.
1941/4/5 St Mirren 4 - 2 Morton
The Southern League Cup group stage ends. Morton do not advance.
2003/4/5 Albion Rovers 2 - 1 Morton
Goal by David MacGregor.
Forres Mechanics versus Clachnacuddin between the wars:
1919/9/6 Forres Mechanics 0 - 2 Clachnacuddin QCup R1
1919/10/4 Forres Mechanics 2 - 4 Clachnacuddin HL
1919/12/13 Clachnacuddin 3 - 2 Forres Mechanics HL
1920/10/30 Forres Mechanics 1 - 5 Clachnacuddin HL
1920/12/11 Clachnacuddin 5 - 1 Forres Mechanics HL
1921/2/5 Forres Mechanics 0 - 3 Clachnacuddin NoSCup R1
1921/9/3 Forres Mechanics 2 - 3 Clachnacuddin QCup R1
1921/11/5 Clachnacuddin 1 - 1 Forres Mechanics HL
1921/12/10 Forres Mechanics 1 - 2 Clachnacuddin HL
1922/9/23 Clachnacuddin 6 - 0 Forres Mechanics HL
1922/11/25 Forres Mechanics 0 - 0 Clachnacuddin HL
1923/3/3 Clachnacuddin 2 - 0 Forres Mechanics NoSCup SF
1923/12/1 Forres Mechanics 1 - 1 Cjachnacuddin HL
1924/4/26 Clachnacuddin 4 - 0 Forres Mechanics HL
1924/8/23 Clachnacuddin 3 - 2 Forres Mechanics HL
1924/9/20 Forres Mechanics 3 - 2 Clachnacuddin HL
1925/2/14 Clachnacuddin 3 - 0 Forres Mechanics NoSCup R1
1925/8/22 Forres Mechanics 2 - 1 Clachnacuddin HL
1925/9/19 Clachnacuddin 3 - 2 Forres Mechanics QCup R2
1926/2/6 Clachnacuddin 3 - 1 Forres Mechanics NoSCup R1
1926/3/27 Clachnacuddin 4 - 2 Forres Mechanics HL
1926/9/25 Clachnacuddin 4 - 0 Forres Mechanics HL
1926/11/6 Forres Mechanics 2 - 1 Clachnacuddin HL
1927/10/22 Clachnacuddin 2 - 1 Forres Mechanics HL
1928/1/7 Forres Mechanics 8 - 0 Clachnacuddin HL
1928/12/15 Forres Mechanics 2 - 1 Clachnacuddin HL
1929/4/6 Clachnacuddin 2 - 2 Forres Mechanics HL
1929/10/19 Forres Mechanics 2 - 1 Clachnacuddin HL
1930/4/5 Clachnacuddin 5 - 0 Forres Mechanics HL
1930/10/4 Forres Mechanics 1 - 2 Clachnacuddin HL
1930/12/15 Clachnacuddin 3 - 3 Forres Mechanics HL
1931/9/19 Clachnacuddin 3 - 2 Forres Mechanics HL
1931/10/3 Forres Mechanics 4 - 2 Clachnacuddin HL
1932/8/27 Forres Mechanics 6 - 0 Clachnacuddin HL
1932/10/8 Clachnacuddin 4 - 1 Forres Mechanics HL
1933/3/4 Forres Mechanics 1 - 0 Clachnacuddin NoSCup SF
1933/9/30 Forres Mechanics 4 - 2 Clachnacuddin HL
1933/11/18 Clachnacuddin 3 - 4 Forres Mechanics HL
1934/12/1 Forres Mechanics 5 - 1 Clachnacuddin HL
1935/4/26 Clachnacuddin 4 - 2 Forres Mechanics HL
1935/8/24 Forres Mechanics 4 - 2 Clachnacuddin HL
1935/11/9 Clachnacuddin 2 - 0 Forres Mechanics HL
1936/3/7 Forres Mechanics 2 - 2 Clachnacuddin NoSCup SF
1936/3/21 Clachnacuddin 0 - 1 Forres Mechanics NoSCup SF replay
1936/8/22 Forres Mechanics 3 - 3 Clachnacuddin HL
1936/12/5 Clachnacuddin 4 - 4 Forres Mechanics HL
1937/10/30 Forres Mechanics 2 - 6 Clachnacuddin HL
1938/2/12 Clachnacuddin 1 - 1 Forres Mechanics NoSCup R1
1938/2/19 Forres Mechanics 1 - 4 Clachnacuddin NoSCup R1 replay
1938/4/9 Clachnacuddin 6 - 3 Forres Mechanics HL
1938/12/10 Forres Mechanics 3 - 3 Clachnacuddin HL
1939/3/11 Clachnacuddin 1 - 2 Forres Mechanics HL
1939/10/14 Forres Mechanics 2 - 0 Clachnacuddin NoHL
1939/10/21 Clachnacuddin 8 - 1 Forres Mechanics NoHL
(Sources: Scottish Football Historical Archive for the Highland League, North Highland League and North of Scotland Cup; The Beautiful Dribbling Game for the Qualifying Cup.)