
Downtown Kilmarnock, sometime between 1848 and 1929. Sir James Shaw is the bloke on the plinth. Source.
Kilmarnock host Greenock Morton.
Coming into today's games, Stranraer, Clyde and Kilmarnock can still earn 9 points, Morton 8, and East Kilbride 7. Do Morton still have a path to Round Two? Yes. If they take 3 points from Killie today and 3 points from Clyde on Saturday, while Killie beat Stranraer, then they will finish top of the group.
Getting drawn together in this League Cup group means that Morton and Killie will meet five times this season, Covid permitting. The record is six matches (four league and two cup) in 1992-93.
Morton's captain Kyle Jacobs played for Kilmarnock in 2013-14. Robbie Muirhead was with Killie from 2013 to 2015. Killie's Stephen McGinn played 8 games for Morton earlier this year, and Jason Naismith played 4 for Morton in 2012.
Judging by their Wikipedia pages Kilmarnock have twice as many players under contract as Morton have.
In the 2016-17 League Cup Kilmarnock were the top seed in Morton's group. Morton came to Rugby Park and beat them 0 - 2, with goals by Oliver and Quitongo. Morton went on to beat Hamilton and Dundee United before losing to Aberdeen in the semi-finals.
[Kilmarnock 1 - 1 Morton. Young McGregor scores for Morton. Killie wins on PK. Lithgow, Oliver and Ugwu scored in the shootout.]
The other match:
East Kilbride [2 - 2] Clyde [Clyde win on PK.]
Stranraer are off.
Group G standings after these games:
Stranraer 3 2 0 0 1 4 1 +3 6
East Kilbride 4 1 0 2 1 5 3 +2 5
Clyde 3 1 1 0 1 4 4 0 5
Kilmarnock 3 1 1 0 1 3 5 -2 5
Morton 3 0 1 1 1 1 4 -3 3
Elsewhere:
FC Edmonton [1 - 0] HFX Wanderers (tomorrow)
The Kickoff has highlighted a new problem for Canadian soccer -- summer temperatures. The season is already crammed into six or seven months because Canadian winter is too cold for soccer. But with daytime temperatures averaging 30 degrees as they have done through much of The Kickoff, when the games have been forced into the evenings, it looks like in parts of the country summer is too hot for soccer.
Beith Juniors [5 - 0] Largs Thistle (tomorrow)
Blooming [2 - 0] The Strongest (tomorrow)
UEFA Champions League 2QR first leg:
Celtic [1 - 1] Midtjylland
Olympic Women's Soccer, group stage:
Great Britain [2 - 0] Chile (July 21)
Japan [1 - 1] Canada (July 21)
[Scorers: Christine Sinclair (Canada), Mana Iwabuchi (Japan).]
Developments:
Serie A is banning green jerseys because they're hard to distinguish from the pitch on TV. It would never happen in Scotland.
Which clubs are in 2021-22 League One, and when did they know for sure?
April 17 Alloa Athletic
April 20 Queen's Park
April 23 East Fife
April 29 Peterhead
May 4 Falkirk
May 6 Clyde
May 11 Cove Rangers
May 11 Montrose
May 20 Dumbarton
May 21 Airdrieonians
When did they last join the division and was it from above or below?
2021 Alloa (above)
2021 Queen's Park (below)
2020 Cove Rangers (below)
2019 Falkirk (above)
2019 Peterhead (below)
2019 Clyde (below)
2018 Dumbarton (above)
2018 Montrose (below)
2016 East Fife (below)
2013 Airdrieonians (above)
In which divisions have the 2021-22 League One clubs played since 1994?
Falkirk AABBBB BBBBBAAAAA BBBBBBBBBC CC
Clyde CCCCCC BBBBBBBBBC DDDDDDDDDC CC
Alloa DDDDCC BCBCCCCCCC CDCBBBCCBB BC
Dumbarton CBCDDD DDCCCCDDDC CCBBBBBBCC CC
Airdrieonians CCBBBCBB CCBCCCCCCC CC
East Fife CCBCCD DDDCDDDDCC CCCCDDCCCC CC
Peterhead HHHHHH DDDDDCCCCC CDDDCCCDDC CC
Queen's Park DDDDDD CDDDDDDCCD DDDDDDCCDD DC
Montrose DCDDDD DDDDDDDDDD DDDDDDDDCC CC
Cove Rangers HHHHHH HHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHD CC
(A = tier I; B = tier II; C = tier III; D = tier IV; H = Highland League)