[Scotland v Spain - Match Thread]

Just now, Texas Pete said:

There’s only one fruitcake around here son. 

We agree on that then. I log in, see someone talking bollocks, make one completely reasonable post completely disagreeing with them and then come back hours later to find myself accused of being them. Take a step back, look at it from my perspective, and think about how mental that is. 

[Scotland v Spain - Match Thread]

2 hours ago, Texas Pete said:

Seek help mate. You’re fooling nobody. 

Do you think I believe someone joins the TAMB and replies to one post (yours) and you reply to it to further your rantings? Just do us all a favour and piss off would you?

Or at least stop creating new profiles to converse with? When they reply I can see your comments and I’m fed up ignoring new users. 

I didn't think when I made that post this morning I'd be coming back to this fruitcake shit, but here we are.

I used to post on here a long time ago as DC92 but I've lost access to that account if it's even still around. I very occasionally pop in to have a read and created a new login to respond to a post in January but lost interest waiting for my account to be approved.

I'm not on here nearly enough to know who the regular trolls are. I just logged on to see the chat after the Spain game, saw a post implying we were lucky, took it at face value and responded in kind.

[Scotland v Spain - Match Thread]

1 hour ago, Whelky75 said:

I think teams with possession of 50-odd percent will still often lose the match. However, once a team gets up to 60 or 65 percent possession, they’re going to be very unlikely to lose the match.

We competed well and the win wasn’t undeserved, but the first goal was very fortunate and the second goal a bit fortunate as well.

In the last two years in competitive matches:

- We beat them with 25% possession

- Morocco beat them on penalties with 23% possession

- Japan beat them with 17% possession

- Switzerland beat them with 25% possession

- France beat them with 36% possession

- Sweden beat them with 25% possession

- Italy beat them on penalties with 30% possession

It's very rare for Spain to have less than 2/3 of the ball against any given opponent (even the top nations). It's not at all rare to see them lose or fail to win in spite of that.

The fact their possession resulted in fewer efforts on goal than us says it all about their flaws. Any sensible manager playing against them knows to let them pass the ball around ineffectually and then hit them on the break when the opportunity arises. Nothing lucky about it, that's how any team beats them.