Yokohama F.Marinos again put their faith in an Australian coach ahead of an Asian Champions League quarter-final with Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr Ange Postecoglou looks a little frazzled these days but may find some comfort in watching one of his old clubs play on Saturday evening (Sunday 5.30 AEST) and contemplating his Japanese legacy. Yokohama F.Marinos meet Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr in an Asian Champions League Elite quarter-final with Patrick Kisnorbo is in charge. The 44-year-old is the fourth Australian to occupy the Yokohama hotseat since Postecoglou left for Celtic in 2021 after three years in Japan that must seem happier by the week. Rose-tinted glasses can be forgiven in light of Tottenham Hotspur’s current woes. For all the talk about second-season trophies, there should be more about how Postecoglou – in his first J.League campaign with Yokohama in 2018, was saved from relegation only by goal difference. Yokohama were, of course, the second-highest scorers in the league, with just one goal fewer than the champions, in what proved to be the platform for the title-winning season that came next. Continue reading...

Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers, St Johnstone's Uche Ikpeazu and Aberdeen v Hibernian in focus as the Scottish Premiership splits.

Astonishing final-game deciders, postponed playoffs and the unluckiest team in the country with 100 points Six years after Bury were expelled from the league, last weekend they smashed a North West Counties league record by attracting a crowd of 8,719 to Gigg Lane as they sealed the first promotion since they were reborn by thrashing Burscough 4-0, a 15th successive victory. A measure of this achievement: the previous record crowd, the 6,023 who watched FC United of Manchester lose 1-0 to Great Harwood Town, was set in April 2006 (the 5,834 that saw Bury draw 2-2 with Ramsbottom United on Boxing Day sits at No 3 on the list); only one team in non-league football, Southend in the division above the division above the division above the division above them, have had more people at a game this season; Bury’s average attendance in the ninth tier of English football, 3,315, is bigger than that of five teams in League Two and one in League One, as well as seven in the Portuguese top flight; that record attendance was 2.7 times larger than the total attendance at the other 11 games played in their division on the final day. A couple of other familiar names with big fanbases also hope to end the season with a celebration: Scunthorpe United, with the fourth-biggest average attendance in non-league football, are two points behind Kidderminster Harriers and Brackley Town in the hunt for a single automatic promotion spot in National League North (though Brackley are at home to rock-bottom Farsley Celtic, who are on a run even sillier than Bury’s having lost their past 17 league games), and Torquay, fifth in the attendance table, are in the National League South wild shake-up. Continue reading...

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Captain Callum McGregor believes continued success at Celtic should not be underestimated, saying that the club's domination has "desensitised everyone to how actually difficult it is".

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Police have launched a manhunt over an assault which occurred during the Celtic vs Rangers game in Glasgow last month.

BBC Sport Scotland examines why Brendan Rodgers is so keen to keep left-back Greg Taylor at Celtic even with Kieran Tierney set to arrive this summer.

Olympiakos confirm they will not sign on-loan Celtic winger Luis Palma permanently, while Declan Gallagher will reportedly leave Dundee United.

What do the respective supporters think of Aberdeen's win over Heart of Midlothian and Celtic's defeat of St Johnstone in the Scottish Cup semi-finals?

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