{"id":815453,"date":"2026-10-27T12:46:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815453\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T12:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:46:23","slug":"scottish-gossip-mcburnie-carter-vickers-milne-borchgrevink-johnstone-templeton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815453\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Gossip: McBurnie, Carter-Vickers, Milne, Borchgrevink, Johnstone, Templeton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sam Johnstone feels better equipped to meet the demands of playing for Celtic since the goalkeeper suffered a bruising debut in their 3-0 Premier Sports Cup quarter-final defeat by Rangers. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/sport\/football\/celtic\/latest-celtic-news\/celtic-summer-signings-six-week-hoops-education-from-ibrox-baptism-of-fire-to-weathering-easter-road-storm-9308061\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Scotsman, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celtic-supporting former winger David Templeton has revealed then manager Neil Lennon tried to persuade him to snub a move to Rangers in 2012, but Hearts said he would not play for them again if he did not accept the six-figure transfer and instead waited to run out his contract to join their Glasgow rivals. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WHkN2Qh20HA\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">STV Radio Football Podcast, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dundee United have contacted the Scottish FA to request an explanation after Zac Sapsford had a goal ruled out in contentious fashion during Saturday&#8217;s 3-2 win over Aberdeen. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/sport\/football\/dundee-united\/5606123\/dundee-united-sfa-var-willie-collum-sapsford\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Courier, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Rangers manager Michael Beale has personally refunded his Zulte Waregem fans their ticket price after they suffered a fourth defeat in a row. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/sport\/26669150.former-rangers-boss-beale-refunds-fans-money-loss\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Herald, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Motherwell manager Jens Berthel Askou has revealed he had to evacuate his players to a secret location because of riots in Toulouse before their Ligue 1 draw with Troyes. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/sport\/26669187.ex-motherwell-boss-takes-extra-steps-protect-players-riots\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Herald, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Johnstone feels better equipped to meet the demands of playing for Celtic since the goalkeeper suffered a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-815453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815453","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=815453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}