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     kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 951 Registered: 05-2005 |
Scotland have just beaten France 1-0 in a European Championship match in Glasgow. France are widely recognised to be the best football nation in the world, even better than Brazil at this moment in time. For all you non soccer fans, this is the equivalent of El Salvador going to warwith the USA and winning. Sorry, dont know anything about Baseball, NFL, Ice Hockey or Basketball so I cant make a sporting comparison. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 794 Registered: 05-2005 |
Well Kev, I remember World Cup '78, and this is nearly as important an achievement as Archie's bootiful goal! Well done Escocia!! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 661 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes, well done Scotland. What about Ireland though - losing 5-2 to Cyprus. Bloody hell! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 138 Registered: 04-2005 |
I have to admit that in 1978 I was one of those misguided souls that went to Hampden Park to see the Ally's squad off to Argentina. Somehow we believed that we were going to win the World Cup. The next match against the Ukraine will be interesting as the Scots have an amazing ability to bring up their level against really strong teams and then play incredibly badly against 'lesser' teams. Although apparently the Ukraine are placed much higher than Scotland in world rankings. Anyway it was a great evening last night and my son is going into his school tomorrow (in France) holding his head high. On Friday all his friends told him it would be a massacre for the French. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 665 Registered: 05-2005 |
Did you see that France's manager was blaming the Scottish ballboys for being tardy in returning the ball? Hilarious. Ukraine were great in qualifying for the World Cup Andrew, but were very disappointing in Germany. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 956 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig, if our tabloid press are to be believed(hard at the best of times!),as well as the manager blaming "the boyballs" (sic), Jean Alain Boumsong claims that Walter Smith outsmarted the manager and "laid the blame for defeat squarely at the door of the manager". To cap it all off, Thierry Henry stormed out of the post match press conference in the huff. I sense a 6-0 drubbing for Scotland in the return game in Paris  | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 797 Registered: 05-2005 |
in '78 I had a really exciting package arrive in the post. It was from the SFA, it was a bumper pack of all things Scotland FC, it had photos of all the squad, a magazine, a rosette, badge and lots of other goodies, it also had a SIGNED pic of Ally McLeod!! No chance of that nowadays! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 959 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence, do you remember the classic reply from Ally McLeod when he was asked what he was going to do after the World Cup in Argentina in 1978? "Retain it" he said | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 798 Registered: 05-2005 |
yeah kev, what a cracker! remeber don revie too? | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 277 Registered: 07-2005 |
England, tonight. To quote Billy Bragg, same old Shit but more expensive. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 438 Registered: 08-2004 |
I blame Chelseafication. Someone needs to tell Lampard he's aloud to pass the ball too. Things might have been different if they'd tried to win it from the start. We've got to qualify or the Tories will get in again. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 985 Registered: 05-2005 |
not that I really care obviously, but why revert to 3-5-2 (which includes playing Crouch upfront) just after you decide to ditch the best crosser of a ball in Europe - ie Beckham. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 440 Registered: 08-2004 |
A 3-5-2 which would work a lot better with Hargreaves & Gerrard & without the unsilky skills of Lamps jr. With attacking wingers a bonus. It would be nice if the fans who travelled there were offered some kind of refund. Such negative tactics with basically a 5 man defence should be outlawed. |