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  1. The quoted figure of 14,400 will of course be the entire allocation for the SFA. Not all of these will be for the SSC and its members.
  2. I believe this could be the case as I heard this will be the criteria for entry to club games in England this season. I assume you get some sort of certificate to say you have been vaccinated. There is no way the entire population of the UK will have it by June. If you are a healthy twenty five year old regardless of how many points you have your chances of attending the Euros are greatly disadvantaged. Sometimes I'm glad I'm an old git.
  3. How sad that TA Legend Ricky from Dalkeith passed away less than two weeks before qualification. No doubt the Wallpaper Man would have loved watching the shoot out on TV but at least he lived through a period of regular qualification I guess. I can think of a few others too who have passed in recent times. Couldn't help but think of them last night.
  4. If they were trying to deter supporters from travelling it would make complete sense as they wouldn't authorise visas. Think this was denied by UEFA last week but you would expect them to have a plan B in place.
  5. STV showed the game live in colour after coming to an agreement with Park Gardens around 24 hours before kick off. They also reran the whole match again the following Saturday evening. However you may very well have watched in black and white as many households could not afford a colour set until beyond '73. Even towards the end of the 1970s commentators would commence by announcing the line ups then adding `and for those of you watching in black and white ****** are in the dark shirts.' We got our first colour telly ahead of the 1972 Olympics but were by no means among the first to embrace the change.
  6. That Norway game when we secured the required point for Italy was live on STV. Also V Argentina in March 1990 was also live again on STV, most unusual for a home friendly.
  7. Sadly true as Ted Christopher posted on Facebook I was told. A true legend of the TA been travelling since the Sixties, probably longer than anyone. RIP Ricky
  8. We also lost to the Italians in the the first Toulon tournament on pens in '77 )U221s). Plus the U23s lost a shoot out to the Dutch at Easter Road the previous year.
  9. Do you seriously think it is okay for someone to take such a vital kick when he had missed the last two? And just for the record I never booed McAllisiter - but understand why some fans did. It amazes me how some people rewrite history and I suspect some of his defenders today were amongst his critics at the time. Don't you remember the lack of sympathy when he was injured ahead of France 98? McAllister was a good, even great player for Scotland, but he was not a good captain. He wanted to take everything, every free kick, corner and penalty. I recall a debate on Off The Ball about when he was christened `ma ba' McAlllister' and how the lack of sympathy for his World Cup withdrawal was a reaction to the belief that no matter what there were no circumstances under which Craig Brown would remove him from the captaincy which many felt he took to extremes with his insistence on taking of all the set pieces.
  10. I disagree. He even made a comment after the game that it had made up for Wembley. Nobody would have called him a shitebag if Durie- who was taking penalties for his club at the time - or anyone else taken the kick. Whey would they as he had already missed twice from the spot.
  11. Going back as far as 1972 Willie Morgan missed twice from the spot. After this it was an unwritten rule that if you missed a penalty in a Scotland jersey you never took another. Rioch, Hutchison, Bremner and Jardine all missed and got no second chance with someone else was designated as the taker. McAllister missed twice V Malta and England. In between those fixtures Nevin scored from the spot V Estonia but, significantly, McAllister did not take part in that game. In a vital World Cup qualifier in Belarus 12 months after Euro 96 there were no goals into the second half when we were awarded a penalty. Gary Mac used his captains privelige to take the kick, presumably to make him feel better after Wembley. Although he scored I never thought of him the same after that as he was arguably gambling our qualification chances against his ego. Had we been a couple of goals ahead I would have had no problem with him taking a pen but not at 0-0 and that stage of the game. Of course the most important thing is he scored and we went to France and as Nevin did not play in Minsk there was perhaps no other obvious candidate.
  12. We were also awarded a pen in the next game after the East German match V Spain at Hampden in '74. But the least said about that the better.
  13. Two in `home' game with Malta in 1993- one missed and one netted at Ibrox. Ditto for East Germany at Hampden in '74. Both results were also the same, 3-0 home wins.
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