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14 hours ago, thesaint said:
Suggest the ones who are being selfish are those that are making this futile move to change the game to June knowing hundreds of fans have paid for flights,hotels etc for the game in March and the nations league games in June.Selfish because they know fine well come June Ukraine will still have to either play players who play in other countries or withdraw.They are quite willing to stuff it to the fans who have already paid money for flight etc,so they can feel good about themselves.Virtue signaling .I'm sure anybody in their right mind are with the people of Ukraine,but this particular issue is about football.What possible good is it going to do to delay the games until June and still end up with the same options that are available now.If anybody can explain what ACTUAL good will come of moving the game to June i am certainly willing to be educated.So uefa/fifa logic is lets cause chaos with fixtures and fans and move the game to June when we have a pretty good sense that the situation regarding Ukraine will be exactly the same,but hey it makes us feel good about ourselves.
It's great that you know what's going to happen between now and June. Well done
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Music! Aye. Why stop there? Give us jelly and ice cream before the game, maybe some balloons to blow up.
I was just saying to ma mate after we failed to qualify yet again, y'know I'm not that bothered about the football not being up to much, what I really want is an Improved Customer Experience
Thank you, SFA, you're on the ball and no mistake
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I like going different places and finding things different and not as antiseptic as football has now become in the UK ..... but how can it be allowed to have a ground where people can only go out by going back through turnstiles (two for several thousand people). If there'd been a need to get out quickly, or just some frustrated shoving from the back, people would have been hurt, or worse
Transport to and from the ground was a joke too, but that's just annoying. Those turnstiles were genuinely dangerous
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Why? WHY?
nothing to do with Scotland, nothing to do with Scottish football
Idiots
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On 26/02/2016 at 6:41 PM, DaveyDenoon said:
The stadium in Kaunas was the biggest shit tip I've been in with Scotland by a million miles and yeah the climb down that mad hill in the dark afterwards was very surreal. How on earth international football could ever be played there is one of life's great mysteries.
But I actually liked Kaunas as a place and we had a great trip there.
The stadium in Bydgoszcz wasn't up to much either but miles better than Kaunas. The old Olympic stadium in Kiev was also pretty run down although it's the dugs' now.
Kiev, yes, worst ever for me.
Shite strewn all over the floor in the bogs. I've seen some pretty horrible sights in toilets all over the world, but that was the worst I've ever seen at a football match.
Kept in afterwards by very aggressive police and then let out into the night just in time for the local neds to have assembled to pick us off.
Neza in 86 was a mess but brilliant locals
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Before Skopje (the first time) and the Tblisi just gone, that was the hottest I've been at a Scotland game.
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Brazil in 1982 was pretty warm
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I'll be respecting it like I have my whole life but pride is something I won't be feeling.
Well put. I agree.
I'd like to think the commemoration before the match will be respectful too. But I doubt it. It'll be jingoistic bollocks, squaddies carting on the match ball, union flags fluttering at all corners, chinless wonders like the Duke of York and the Prime Minister in attendance, tannoy demands that we remember all the sacrifices made (but not by those on the wrong end of British imperial power)
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As it says on the tin... I was too disappointed after the game to stop and pick up one, but I'm after one half and hald scarf for my local pub. I've been scouting the net/ebay for days but nothing appeared so far. Any spares?
Your local pub's full of half wits who don't understand the first thing about football, is it? Do they say things like "may the best team win" and "at the end of the day it's only a game". Sure they wouldn't be better off with a rugger scarf?
FFS. The TA has got far too many people in it who don't care if we lose as long as they get on telly swinging their kilt over their heid, but people who buy half and half scarfs are the scum of the bourgeois earth
It's football it's not the F£$%^&g gay gordons
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I wouldn't usually get too worried about a few away fans in home sections.
But I was puzzled last night by the sheer number of Polish fans last night round Hampden before the game absolutely steaming, carrying plastic bags full of cans, and attracting no attention at all from the police. I've seen plenty of Scots lifted for far less in Glasgow
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If you were given a draw against Ireland right now, would you take it? .
Explain to me how that works?
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Wish our away support was like that now.
Not a glengarry, pipers jacket or fecking feather to be seen.
It's a good point.
It's all got a bit ridiculous in recent years - it does look like a big fancy-dress party, with almost everyone having chosen the same outfit.
And the TA is getting older too, as well as more homogenous.
That picture from 1996 does hammer home how it's changed. Not for the better, to my taste.
Was a great half-time though. And the difference between 96 - needed a bit of attention but basically safe - and 99 - not safe at all - was enormous
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WONDERFUL place!!
Don't even think about driving yourself. Easy and cheap to hire a driver, any hotel or guesthouse will sort you out.
Safe everywhere, far safer than the UK. Amazingly friendly people.
Food .... o wow. Food.
Colombo's an acquired taste - very busy, hard to get a grip on what's what, and where things are. Galle is good, Kandy lovely. And just enjoy it
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Another top TAMB tip. I see you're travelling alone - for Christ's sake, watch the bevvy intake.
Yep, don't let it get too low
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Plan very little, is my advice.
One of the beauties of interrail is hooking up with people by chance, following advice from a bloke in a bar ... or just turning up at a station mid-evening and picking a night train at random, and see where you wake up.
Go east, go south for cheapness. Wouldn't bother much with France. San Sebastian is great, you can't really go wrong in Spain, and Portugal is good too, but only go to the Algarve if you like golf and expat bores telling you Farage has got the right idea. Italy's brilliant everywhere, random small towns can be amazing, Slovenia, Croatia too ... it's all great! Though I wouldn't worry too much about Scandinavia or Switzerland, which are a bit sedate and crazy expensive. Skip England too, it's shite
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They were all set to give Gary Teale the Ballon d'Or a few years ago but he he smashed into the back of Platini's new Bentley before the ceremony and that was that.
Aye, and those wristwatches that Platini and all the rest of them got given as a 'gift' a wee while back - shame Bobby Moore's not around anymore, he'd have nicked a few o'them
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Good shout for John Charles. Everything I've read about him and the footage there is shows the guy had something special.
A while ago now I was listening to some idiots on the radio (think it was on 5live) discussing who the greatest ever Welsh footballer was. All they talked about was Giggs, Rush, Hughes and Southall (great players but none are the greatest ever Welsh footballer) whilst totally ignoring Welsh international greats like Billy Meredith, Ivor Allchurch and John Charles. Another nugget of wisdom they pulled out was that Ally McCoist had to be "Scotland's greatest ever player".
Stan Matthews, Tommy Lawton, Bobby Moore, Dixie Dean are others I'd consider for England.
Billy Bremner, Hughie Gallacher, Alex James, Billy Liddell, Dave Mackay, Billy Steel, Jim Baxter and Gary Teale would be on my list for Scotland alongside Law and Dalglish if we were considering the "greatest British player."
Gary Teale and Bobby Moore - you're a wag!!
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My idol Robert Prosinečki
The home game with Croatia in the WC qualifying for (I think) 2002 - the man was absolutely outstanding. Didn't run more than a yard or two all game, but because he saw the pattern so early, he was always in space to receive a pass, and then to move the ball on to a teammate. No Scotland player could get close enough to stop it, even though all the play was obviously going through Prosinečki. Genius
Iniesta at Hampden in the 2-3 game a couple of years ago would be the only other midfield performance I'd want to mention in the same breath. Proper, proper footballers
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I wouldn't even have Best in the top 20. A waster who was brilliant on his day but was only on he's day occasionally and for about 5 or 6 years. Dalglish is the greatest "British" player ever in my opinion anD produced regularly for over 15 years. Law would be a close 2nd.
You're dead right about Best. He gets mythologised because of some folk's envy about his drinking and women, but he was simply (at the most generous) the third best player in a very good United team, and was effective for only 3 or 4 years, quickly being exposed as short of top class when he was asked to do it for a declining United side.
Greatest British ever? Well, that's an interesting one to discuss - Bobby Charlton, Gordon Banks, Kenny Dalglish, Denis Law, Tom Finney and (my slight favourite) John Charles would all be in the frame, I think - but not Best, no way
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Ireland are hurting after the celtic park result. They will be fully fired up and looking for revenge against us. Their feel-good-factor was dented by our victory, but the 4-1 friendly win over the USA helped them get it right back. They also unearthed some decent new players in that game (Brady from Hull looks very good).
Getting a point in Dublin will be a fantastic result. All this talk of us winning over there is a bit over-confident IMO
Ach don't worry.
Brady from Hull's no bad, but he's not even Hull's best left sided player. Hull's best left sided player is Scottish!
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On a serious point there should be no friendly. The England game is our biggest and yet the atmosphere was pretty poor on Tuesday.
I agree, and I think our manager would too, but I'm sure the SFA needs a friendly here and there: ticket sales and TV rights matter, even if they won't be large for a friendly v N.I.
For me, if there has to be a friendly, make in March not June. In June the Republic play England at home a few days before they play us. If we can avoid playing a friendly in the run-up, I think we'll be fresher and gain a real advantage
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What will be the easier way? Usually get the train from Bridgeton like I do when visiting as a away fan, just wondering if it might be as mobbed as mount florida though, especially with segreagation for away fans etc
You can't be suggesting they're going to route the Irish through Bridgeton??!!
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Our 98 Squad was the weakest we've ever sent to a tournament in my memory (I'm too young to recall the 50s World Cups). Having said that, there weren't many contenders for places at the time amongst those left out. Never a Jackson fan, but I agree he'd been surprisingly effective in qualifying.
There wee always some issues with any squad: 86 rankled with me as the utterly useless for us Archibald and Sharp nabbed strikers' places, while Mo Johnston, Andy Gray and Ally McCoist were left at home. The lack of Gray was also controversial in 82 and 78. In 90, I recall being angered by Nicholas having been left out, but Dumbo Alan McInally was taken along.
Most of my gripes were with decisions taken from among those in the squads: McLeod was clearly being loyal to guys who were past it, off form or off their heads in 78, Stein bottled it when it came to decisions at the back in 82, Fergie made some really bizarre judgement calls in 86, as did Roxburgh in 90. Pa Broon, with the weakest pool ever, actually probably did as well as they were capable of with the people available.
Agree with you.
Brown was pragmatic and really did get more out of his squads than just the sum of the parts. I wish he'd been in charge when the quality of the players was better overall. No complaints about 74, but 78 was an appalling waste. 82 was unlucky up to a point but, again, agreed, Stein never quite was firm enough on his preferred defence. Then again, if someone had picked up Chivadze for the equaliser as I was yelling at them to do from behind the goal we might still have got through. 86 was a gruesome group, maybe we did as much as we could do, though obviously the Uruguay game still rankles - they were just a bit too streetwise for us.
90 was Roxburgh, the most dismal miserable petty dull man ever to take charge of an international football team. The only person in the whole world who didn't know that if we tried to defend our way to a 0-0 v Brazil then we'd lose 1-0 to a late goal was Roxburgh
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Yes. Thank you.
Yes. I'm calm, I am. If someone says to me "Well, I voted no, I just felt too worried about the uncertainty", well, I am calm, they've made their choice.
If someone says to me "I was going to vote yes, but I changed my mind and voted no because I was so impressed by Gordon Brown's speech but now I am o so disappointed because it turns out that balloon was lying on behalf of his English masters and in fact none of those promises are going to be kept, and I never even guessed that might happen at the time", well, I won't be so calm
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Our legal expert emailed the Gibraltar FA today, threatening to seek compensation if the game is moved from the Algarve . Richard replied that they are still planning to play the game in Faro , but its now a tax issue that is the problem . So, looks like game goes ahead as planned, but why did they not check everything out before announcing a venue ?
I suspect it's all going to go ahead in Faro anyway, but it's clear from UEFA's Regulations for the tournament (Art 22) that venues have to be announced no later than 120 days before the game. So I don't think at this stage Gibraltar were ever committed to play in Faro. Under UEFA rules they were always free to move it, and still are
Scotland Ukraine. Will it go head?….
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We are building up quite the portfolio. Playing the Soviet Union after it fell apart (1992), Yugoslavia as it headed towards oblivion (1989), playing Ukraine after it got occupied (2022). Could be that no one's too worried about drawing us in future from a football point of view, but they might fear it's a jinx, and their whole political infrastructure's about to topple.