FIFA: Team GB will be Team England

By: Ian Rose | May 31st, 2009 | No Comments »

The disastrously bad idea that was Team GB for the London Olympics is finally dead today, as FIFA agreed to allow England to represent Great Britain at the games. I can’t say I’m 100% thrilled, as I loved the idea of a tournament playoff and thus the possibility of a Scotland team at the Olympics, but this is the next best thing. England will host the games, England will play at the games, and that’s entirely fine by me. I won’t promise to root them on or anything, but I’m glad it’s worked out.

Apologies for the long wait between posts. I’ll attempt to do a better job as we head into the summer World Cup qualifiers. Mon the Scots.

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Scotland up four places to #24

By: Ian Rose | April 9th, 2009 | No Comments »

On the strength of a World Cup qualifying win over Iceland, we rose four spots in this month’s FIFA rankings to #24. That’s still eleven places below our best-ever ranking of #13 back in October 2007 (beating France twice will do that), but still an improvement as we rise back up ... [read]

Young Scots Start with Double Win

By: Ian Rose | April 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »

While most eyes were on the senior squad for the 3-0 loss to the Netherlands and the 2-1 win over Iceland this week, the future of Scotland football was showing itself to be quite bright, as the Scotland U-21 side won their two opening matches in Group 10 of the 2011 European Championships qualifying.
It was a double-header against Albania, starting ... [read]

Scotland 2-1 Iceland

By: Ian Rose | April 1st, 2009 | 7 Comments »

Not much detail from me, because I’m at work, and it’s been one of those days. Luckily, despite the best efforts of a few of our defenders, the Scots had a much better day than I’m having. Congratulations to Ross McCormack and Steven Fletcher on their first senior Scotland goals, and on Craig Gordon for his first competitive ... [read]

Netherlands 3-0 Scotland

By: Ian Rose | March 29th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Really, not far from the expected result. There were some questionable referee decisions, but it would be wrong to say they cost us the game. We were outplayed, barely had a chance at the Dutch goal, etc etc. To be honest, with the crap stream I watched the match on (late, since I had a game of ... [read]

Another bloody squad post: Holland

By: Ian Rose | March 21st, 2009 | 8 Comments »

Here’s the list of Dutchmen that we’ll be facing a week from today. As always with Holland, the strikers are frightening, the midfield intimidating … the rest? Without the known quantity of Edwin van der Sar between the sticks, it’s hard to say.
Mon the Scots. Oh, and I’m no Dutch-hater, but if I didn’t include ... [read]

Holland v Scotland: The Keeper Situation

By: Ian Rose | March 18th, 2009 | No Comments »

Long story short: Nobody quite knows who will man the sticks on March 28th in Amsterdam. On the home side, Edwin van der Sar said today that he wouldn’t be returning to international duty for the Netherlands. In a word, yay. Any day you don’t have to line up against a Champions League holder, that’s a good ... [read]

Squad for Holland and Iceland

By: Ian Rose | March 17th, 2009 | No Comments »

Yesterday, we had the squads for the U-21 Euro qualifiers - now, here’s the one for the big show, the two World Cup qualifiers with Holland and Iceland. The big news is the return of Alan Hutton, who has been sorely missed in the defense. Iwelumo is back, for another chance, and let’s hope he can bury it ... [read]

U-21 Squad Announced

By: Ian Rose | March 16th, 2009 | No Comments »

As Scotland prepares for vital World Cup qualifying matches against Holland and Iceland, we shouldn’t forget about the future either. The U-21 team begins qualification for the 2011 U-21 European Championships with a home-and-home with Albania. And, just to assure that the youth game has no audience whatsoever, the matches are the exact same dates as the senior ... [read]

Two weeeeeks …

By: Ian Rose | March 14th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

God I love that movie. Anyway, the relevance of that clip, thin as it may be, is that in two weeks, Scotland is finally, FINALLY back in action, in the toughest World Qualifier of the whole campaign, away against the Netherlands. Manchester United keeper Edwin van der Saar (who apparently CAN be scored on), and the rest of ... [read]

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Sol - yeah, its basically the equivalent in some other countries of raising the middle finger to the ...[read more]
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*** V sign From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The V sign is a hand gesture in which the ...[read more]
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What's up with that whole Ferguson 'V' sign business, I don't understand half of it. What were th ...[read more]
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Carlos - Right now, there's hope, but it's not in any way safe. If we beat Macedonia and Norway, or ...[read more]
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