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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

There are positives, and there are negatives, from today’s second World Cup 2010 qualifier for Scotland. But the most important bits are also the positive ones – George Burley has his first win as Scotland manager, and we have three important road points. We managed a clean sheet from open play, and we [...]

All of us in the various Tartan Armies around the world have had a day now to digest George Burley’s first effort as Scotland manager, the 1-1 draw with Croatia at Hampden. Now that I’ve seen the match twice and looked over all the numbers, I wanted to make a more in-depth analysis of [...]