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At the beginning of the season, I always do goal-setting. I do that not with just the team but with the whole football club - the chefs, everyone. Make them all a part of it. We called it 'Project 73' and we told no one outside the building. It was kept quiet.

Dominic Plank has been a key man for Chris Aitken's side at Stranraer, playing a major role in helping get the Blues into the League Two promotion play-off places.

Luke McCowan's goal inside 30 seconds was irrelevant in the broader context of this tie. Stuttgart's 4-1 canter in Glasgow a week earlier ensured that. Still, a game that had the whiff of irrelevance for Celtic delivered unexpected cheer.

Regis Le Bris's Black Cats impressed during the first half of the season, but have only recorded two wins from nine league games so far in 2026. They enter Saturday's skirmish at Bournemouth on a three-game losing run in the league and sit 12th in the table. Sunderland's injuries have suddenly mounted since Sunday's defeat by Fulham, with fresh problems for Romaine Mundle, Jocelin Ta Bi, Nordi Mukiele and Brian Brobbey.

Brad Stulberg took to Instagram to share that the country's approach to youth sports could be part of the reason why. Obviously Norway and winter sports kind of go hand-in-hand, but Stulberg points out that the country does things a lot differently than countries like America or Canada, where youth sports often feel more like minor league tryouts than kids learning sportsmanship, athleticism, and skills.

Bodø/Glimt were already admired for their ascent through the Norwegian system-returning to the top flight only in 2017 and winning four league titles in the years that followed. But their leap into the Champions League spotlight this season has been extraordinary. As tournament debutants, they arrived with curiosity surrounding them-but they quickly replaced intrigue with astonishment.

Vitor Pereira asked his Nottingham Forest players to "express themselves" prior to their commanding victory at Fenerbahce in the first leg of their Europa League knockout round play-off tie. It could not have gone much better for the Portuguese in his first game in charge of the club, who recorded their biggest ever win away from home in European competition. Goals from Murillo, Igor Jesus and captain Morgan Gibbs-White underpinned a dominant Forest performance that could arguably have delivered an even more emphatic winning margin.

You would not expect to find coaches from the Celtic FC Foundation in Brixton. But even the torrential rain in south London has not stopped them and four local teams from turning out to help launch a programme that will provide girls and young women from underprivileged backgrounds in the local area with a chance to play football. It is one of several initiatives established since the foundation began working in London to mark Celtic's 125th anniversary in 2013.

He, like all Hearts' signings, went through Jamestown Analytics' assessment and passed the test. "If he had rated poorly, we wouldn't have signed him. It just wouldn't have got over the line," McInnes said of Findlay on Open Goal, external in October. "He's a brilliant boy in terms of being a brilliant team-mate. He allows you to play with that high line, gives you that left-sided balance."

The investment allows us to strengthen every area of the club, from the first team to our infrastructure, academy and community work, while crucially protecting the values and identity that make Kelty Hearts what it is. Retaining a meaningful local shareholding was essential to us and this partnership ensures the club remains rooted in the community while benefiting from new ideas, ambition and long-term support.

Without a permanent manager and languishing in eighth place in the Scottish Premiership, they are 11 points off the top six never mind the European places. The club have churned through a manager, a sporting director, and plenty of players since the summer, fielding four debutants in defeat by Motherwell on Sunday. They face the same opposition in Wednesday's re-arranged Scottish Cup last-16 tie which now has the feel of a season-defining game.

Celtic will face Dundee, and holders Aberdeen welcome Motherwell, in the only two all-Premiership ties in the last 16 of this season's Scottish Cup.

In Saturday's game against Millwall Cleworth became the leading appearance-maker of Phil Parkinson's reign, surpassing Paul Mullin's 172 games under the English boss. Cleworth, still only 23, is Wrexham's final on-field survivor of the National League days, though Davis Keillor-Dunn and Ryan Barnett, who has played 12 times in the league this season, have recently returned. Since his debut while a 17-year-old academy player in the Scottish Challenge Cup in 2019, the Chester-born defender has made 175 appearances in red.

Andoni Iraola's side had yet to register a shot on target against the Premier League's bottom side when Kroupi controlled Amine Adli's flick on the edge of the Wolves penalty area with 12 minutes of the first half remaining. Moments later goalkeeper Jose Sa was picking the ball out of his net after being beaten by Kroupi's thunderous, looping strike, which looked set to be the game's only goal until Alex Scott doubled Bournemouth's advantage in stoppage time.