Football

Hermes were the visitors to Milton Park last Saturday and the third-placed Bridge of Don outfit were always going to be favourites against Superleague bottom dogs Banchory.

Banchory Boys 2007 are presented with a new set of strips by Adrian Clark of Alford-based ACG Construction.

Banchory travelled to Dufftown for the second time this season for this McLeman Cup first-round tie.

Donside under-13 girls football squad re-start training this week eagerly looking forward to the beginning of the 2018 season in March.

Alford Junior Girls’ football team hosted Mearns Academy in the quarter-final of the Aberdeenshire Cup on Wednesday last week, and it was a thrilling encounter, with Alford emerging as 6-4 winners.

Paul Lawrie, The Open winner at Carnoustie in 1999, has helped launch a partnership between The Open and Aberdeen FC at Pittodrie ahead of next year’s Open at Carnoustie.

Banchory Academy 2004 football team has extended a special thank you to both Raeburn Christie Clark & Wallace and The Rotary Club of Banchory St. Ternan for their very generous sponsorship which has allowed them to purchase new match kit and training tops.

Genetically modifying Scottish footballers isn’t what Scott Booth believes is required to alter the qualifying fortunes of the country. Change should be resisted on all levels in the Scotland set-up is the firm belief of the 22-times capped former SFA youth coach.

It would be understandable if representing Scotland under-21s wasn’t uppermost in the mind of Oliver Burke right now. That, though, will be anything but the case according to Scot Gemmill, who will manage him at international level next month.

The battle to land Scottish junior football's Blue Riband trophy gets under way next month.

Banchory Girls FC will welcome teams from across Aberdeen City and Shire to the King George V Park on Sunday, September 3 for a football festival hosted by the Deeside club.

Among the seemingly endless number of collectable playground crazes of the 1990s was the popular range of football models produced by Corinthian. At their height, these little figures sold by the truck load.

Queen’s Park turn 150 years old today and the fan who has seen more of their 4,846 games than any other reckons he would stop watching them if they ever gave up their legendary amateur status.

Deeside Brewery was caught up in Aberdeen’s football fever last week, re-naming one of its beers, for a limited time, to mark manager Derek McInnes’ decision to remain at Aberdeen Football Club.

The Scottish Football Partnership Trust and the Crerar Hotels Trust have teamed up to support the provision of new goalposts for seven grassroots community football clubs in the North of Scotland.

Scotland are warming up nicely for the European Championships in Holland later this summer.

Donside Juvenile Football Club U15s recently returned from the ‘Vlaardingen International Tournament’ in Holland. They were the first Scottish team ever to take part last year and were invited to return after winning the Fair Play Trophy in their age group.