{"id":306333,"date":"2025-12-09T04:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/306333\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T04:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:53:10","slug":"scottish-gossip-souttar-mulligan-cortes-rossi-irving-noonan-shiels-farjado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/306333\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish gossip: Souttar, Mulligan, Cortes, Rossi, Irving, Noonan, Shiels, Farjado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers have paused their search for an academy head while the recruitment process to appoint a chief executive and sporting director is ongoing. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dw2Z2ZIlhq\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">(Rangers Review), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland&#8217;s top clubs are fearing a six-figure loss in their academy budgets after the Scottish FA indicated that annual payments via Club Academy Scotland could be stopped. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/scotlands-top-clubs-face-six-36370680\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Daily Record), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hibernian midfielder Josh Mulligan has revealed how Scotland head coach Steve Clarke challenged him to &#8220;step up&#8221; into a new leadership role at Easter Road as he looks to win a place in the squad for next summer&#8217;s World Cup. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com\/sport\/football\/hibs\/hibs-world-cup-hopeful-josh-mulligan-scotland-boss-steve-clarke-step-up-challenge-5433723\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Edinburgh Evening News), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A voodoo priest has told how he plans to summon divine spirits to help Haiti claim a shock victory over Scotland at next summer&#8217;s World Cup. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/15664332\/haitians-voodoo-gods-defeat-scotland-world-cup\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Scottish Sun), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pro-Palestine demonstrators are to picket Hampden Park prior to the Premier Sports Cup final next Sunday between Celtic and St Mirren because of the recent sponsorship deal for the national stadium with banking giant Barclays. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/25679271.pro-palestine-groups-picket-hampden-renaming-deal\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(The Herald), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers fans&#8217; pyrotechnic display at Kilmarnock&#8217;s Rugby Park on Saturday is set to trigger their suspended sanction of tickets being kept back for an away game. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/sport\/25682416.spfl-stance-rangers-pyro-display-suspended-sentence\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(The Herald), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rangers have paused their search for an academy head while the recruitment process to appoint a chief executive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-306333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}