![]() This is the Czech Republic’s seventh straight appearance at the Euro finals, having made their debut at Euro 1996, coming within 17 minutes of winning the whole damn thing. But while the Scottish squad are tournament novices, their opponents today have been down this road many times before. The Scots have a great recent record against the Czechs, having won home and away in the Nations League last autumn, as well as in a Prague friendly in 2016. And yet Steve Clarke’s squad is packed full of talent and promise – Andy Robertson, Kieran Tierney, Scott McTominay, Stuart Armstrong, David Turnbull, Ryan Fraser and Che Adams among others – so a couple of lusty choruses of We Have A Dream are very much the order of the day. Nobody’s making any great claims, because the Tartan Army have been down this road before, with better squads, and look what keeps happening. Hey, as periods in the wilderness go, it’s been good fun, one way or another.īut now Scotland are back at the party, for the group stage at least. And that heroic two-goal comeback to scramble a draw with the Faroes. And the greatest three minutes of Leigh Griffiths’ career, only slightly completely ruined by Harry Kane. And McFadden’s winner against the Dutch, even if the return was lost 6-0. ![]() ![]() The stand-out moment unquestionably being James McFadden’s glory strike against France. Most of the period since Mr Brown took his boys to the 1998 World Cup has been reasonably undistinguished, fair to say. COME ON SCOTLAND!!!”ĭid you wake in the night with a fever? Sky the darkest blue? Still, small voices calling? Don’t worry, wipe the sweat from your brow, your imagination was always bound to run riot ahead of this. Just EFFING CALM DOWN, OK?! And whatever happens, let’s hope football is the winner. And in any case it would be tempting fate to be horrible to Scotland given it would certainly bring retribution from the gods in the forthcoming game: so a sedate draw is called for.”Ĭiaran Crowther adds: “Hope today settles the nerves for Scotland fans and rest assured your Celtic cousins across the Irish Sea will only be rooting for one team at Wembley on Friday.”Īnd here’s Simon McMahon: “Well, it’s happening. “Trouble is there are no teams such as Peru, Costa Rica or Morocco against whom Scotland can make themselves a laughing stock (nobody mention the opening moments of a certain team’s game against San Marino). “Could things get better than being retired, living in south-west France, and having to stay inside to watch the football because it’s too hot to venture outdoors?” wonders Richard Hirst, rhetorically, I’ll be bound.
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