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Import storm

Foreigners both obscure and notorious are flooding into Scotland. Gary Oliver suggests some clubs may have bought better than others

If Jim McLean is proved to have cut the lip of BBC reporter John Barnes, it will be a rare instance of a Dundee United man hitting the target this season. The team, like the former manager and chairman, has become a parody of its former self. At Tannadice there no longer appears to be a quality control department, and the club is recruiting increasingly obscure foreign players of dubious ability.

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Life at the top – Scottish Premier League

An assessment of the likely winners and losers in Scotland in 1997/98 – no prizes for guessing the former

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Keith Davidson


How will your team do this season?
With Celtic having a complete shake-up over the close season, perhaps second, although the general view from the Scottish press is fourth.

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Remote possibilities

Alan Pattullo tells the remarkable story of a tiny club from Andorra's adventure in the UEFA Cup

A principality dug into the Pyrenees between France and Spain, Andorra is not the pastoral haven you might assume. Thanks to its tax free status it has been variously described as “a drive-in supermarket” and “a cross between Shangri-La and Heathrow Duty Free”. Not surprisingly, football too has managed to breach its borders, though the Andorran Football Association was only founded in 1994. Now members of UEFA, they will be playing in the next set of European championship qualifiers.

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Trading places

After a spate of sackings in Scotland Gary Oliver provides a recap of the carnage

Only a quarter of the Scottish League season gone, but already a number of the managers listed in this year’s Rothmans are history. To follow the complex trail of resignations and sackings requires the aid of a flow chart ; that, however, would tell nothing of the machinations that have accompanied the cull.

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