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Burley stays; Mediocrity continues
George Burley is staying on as manager of Scotland, ensuring that another year, and possibly another tournament campaign, is wasted. Prove me wrong, George. I was on your side at the beginning, after being impressed with what you did at Hearts, but you made a disbeliever out of me. And out of a lot of Scots.
At roughly one win a year, and after being the first coach in my lifetime to lose in Oslo, plus the disgrace in Macedonia, you don’t deserve your job. We deserve better, or at least to try something new. That’s what you do when something isn’t working, and this clearly isn’t.
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And we’re done: Scotland 0-1 Netherlands
After weeks of crunching the numbers, of trying to figure out who has to win, lose and draw to allow Scotland a chance into World Cup 2010, it’s now official – the Scots are out of qualifying. For those of you not obsessively watching today, we dropped our last qualifier 1-0 to the Dutch today at Hampden.
In a way, ... [read]
9/9/09 Scotland vs. Netherlands
First, sorry for the lack of coverage of the Macedonian win. I was out of town and though I watched the match, I didn’t have a lot to add because frankly, all it did was keep us afloat. All we could have done on Saturday is lose the World Cup, and we didn’t. Wednesday, we have the ... [read]
Norway 4-0 Scotland … a dark day
When things go especially well, or especially poorly, there is always a tendency to go overboard. Every big win feels like the corner turned, with a wide open future ahead. Every big loss, in turn, can feel like a blind alley, with no real hope of emerging into anything like safety anytime soon. So, in order to ... [read]
Norway v. Scotland: Not Even Close to a Preview
The stomachs of Scotland fans are already churning as they hear all-too-familiar phrases being bandied about – “must win” … “need luck” … “depleted squad”. Tomorrow, we Tartan Army faithful face possibly the most important match of George Burley’s time in charge of the Scotland side, a road trip to Oslo to face Norway in a World Cup qualifier.
The ... [read]
Scotland U17 in Cup final … against England!
Ever heard of the Nordic Cup? Truth be told, neither have I. I will be the first to admit that, while I think the youth game is incredibly important, I don’t always keep up with it as much as I should. Sufficed to say, it is a preseason youth tournament made up of northern European sides (Scandinavia ... [read]
FIFA: Team GB will be Team England
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 ... [read]
Scotland up four places to #24
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
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
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]
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Jan-There's a reason he was known as "Kenny Misser" in his time at Celtic. ...[read more] - And we're done: Scotland 0-1 Netherlands
Jan from the Dutch blog here... Sorry for your loss guys. I actually would have loved to see the ...[read more] - And we're done: Scotland 0-1 Netherlands
Aye who wants to go to South Africa anyway as Seb said - I had plans at any rate - getting married a ...[read more] - And we're done: Scotland 0-1 Netherlands
Believe me, Matt - I'm as far from a Kris Boyd fan as it comes, after the way he abandoned his count ...[read more] - And we're done: Scotland 0-1 Netherlands
It'll be winter in South Africa though Seb. Thought the Scottish NT played well and were unluck ...[read more] - And we're done: Scotland 0-1 Netherlands
Nevermind, who wants to go to South Africa anyway? It's too hot and the noise fae those horns would ...[read more] - And we're done: Scotland 0-1 Netherlands
From the Dutch blog again - Sad to see the Scots not make it. You have the best fans, the most coura ...[read more] - And we're done: Scotland 0-1 Netherlands
Drew - A win would have put us on 13 points, and second ranked (for now) among the second-placed tea ...[read more] - And we're done: Scotland 0-1 Netherlands
I may be wrong, but looking at the table standings Scotland wouldn't have made it through even if th ...[read more] - And we're done: Scotland 0-1 Netherlands
Oh, and to answer your question, I got match tickets in the first round of bidding back in March, an ...[read more] - And we're done: Scotland 0-1 Netherlands
Ahh, the English trolls don't take long to show up. Eugene, I will definitely be supporting the Iri ...[read more] - And we're done: Scotland 0-1 Netherlands
England in + Scotland out = Sweetest day in history. ...[read more] - And we're done: Scotland 0-1 Netherlands
Ian Purely out of curiousity, I'm assuming you have tickets for a match of some sort in South Afr ...[read more] - 9/9/09 Scotland vs. Netherlands
Hopefully some Ireland ones, John - those are a little easier to stomach. ...[read more] - 9/9/09 Scotland vs. Netherlands
Looks like Scotland's watching from TV, next summer. Maybe even get to watch some England games.:) ...[read more]
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