The Scottish Premier League is considering reducing the number of teams in the league in order to make the country's top tier more competitive.
No, that doesn't mean that the SPL will only (officially) be a two-team competition from here on out.
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SPL clubs will look at a proposal to shrink the number of teams in the league to ten (from the current 12), which would ostensibly increase the level of play in the top division while also presenting the possibility to form an SPL2.
If ratified by the 30-team strong Scottish Football League, the plan would supposedly allow more money to filter into the second tier, and also allow the inclusion of SPL "B" sides to compete in the full professional league (as Spanish clubs do now).
The initial vote goes to the 12 current SPL teams next week.
* Sam Allardyce has been sacked by Blackburn Rovers, a day after Blackburn's heartbreaking loss away at Bolton Wanderers. New owners Venky's Limited Group only took over the club last month, and cited "wider plans" for the 13th placed team as the reason for Big Sam's departure.
For his part, Allardyce released a statement that he was "shocked and disappointed to be leaving Blackburn."
* The Carlos Tevez drama continues at Manchester City, with the club calling his transfer request "ludicrous and nonsensical." Tevez says that he wants to leave because his relationship with certain people in the fromt office have broken down, although he was quick to point out that he has no problems with manager Roberto Mancini or owner Sheikh Mansour.
* AC Milan took further control of the Serie A table with a 3-0 win over Bologna yesterday, moving Milan six points clear of second-place Juventus. Highlights of the match can be seen here.
* Adriano is the Italian league's flop of the year, for the third time. The obvious question to be asked is how can a former world class player be washed up at 28, but Adriano was washed up at 25 before a short-lived revival in the Brazilian league, so this is really no surprise.
* Arsenal travels to Old Trafford today to take on Manchester United in a battle for the top spot in the English Premier League. The game is on TSN2 in Canada, and kicks off at 3:00 pm EST.
There's no shortage of bulletin board material in the lead up to the match, with Patrice Evra kicking things off by stating that Arsenal is in crisis.
"We could lose to them but then what? There is nothing [for them], there will be no trophy, nothing," Evra told British media last week. "Arsenal are a great club but it has been five years since they won anything and that for me is a crisis."