La Main de Dieu

Thierry Henri is a cheat.
French commentators think the “double main” stunt is hilarious.

Hurley Burley

A few years ago, while at Ipswich Town, George Burley was the Premiership manager of the year. This was quite some feat with competition like Sir Alex, Jose Murinho and Arsene Wenger.
Then as manager of Hearts it looked briefly as if he might manage a side to challenge the Old Firm’s grip on the SPL [...]

Fitba’ Latest

I see the other club who are too good for Scottish fitba’ were dumped out of the diddy cup tonight.
It’s now left to Rangers to carry the Glasgow flag into the semis against their big spending rivals!

How to Celebrate a Goal!

Argentina style (It’s about 45 seconds in)

The Bold Firm?

Aye the story has surfaced once again. It’s all far too boring but really why don’t they just go?
It really wouldn’t make any difference to the remaining clubs.
They’ll struggle.
They struggle now.

If the Old Firm went to play in England or some new Euro set up, to have a hope of a sniff at a trophy [...]

Will the Last Laugh be with Fergie?

Good grace is something which has never troubled Sir Alex Ferguson.
His peerless skill as a manager and coach seems sometimes secondary to his ability to wind up and upset his opponents. Does he care? not a bit of it!
I am convinced that Fergie’s mind games were at least in part responsible for one title win. [...]

Young Chick

Did anybody hear Chick Young on Sportsound on Radio Scotland tonight?
Was it my imagination or was the bold Chick nearly greetin’ at the thought of Walter Smith leaving his beloved Teddy Bears?
Then after an interview when Walter made it quite clear he thought that the SFA had made the right decision over extending George Burley’s [...]

Reffing Ridiculous

This is the decision which gave Arsenal a penalty against Celtic in a Champions League qualifier recently.

Following the game UEFA imposed a two game suspension on the Arsenal player Eduardo. They decided he had conned the referee by diving to gain a penalty.
Yesterday Eduardo won his appeal against that decision.
I wouldn’t [...]

Glorious Failures

I thoroughly enjoyed last night’s Scotland v Holland game. I don’t think there was a failure in the Scottish ranks and before anyone points the finger at Kenny Miller (I’ll be in a minority of one here no doubt) I thought he had a great game and was desperately unlucky.
I’ve gone on record saying that [...]

Scotland 2 Macedonia 0

I’m not certain of the language of the commentary.
Not that I care.
As good goals as you’ll see anywhere.
Scotland still have two chances of qualifying for the World Cup – slim and fat, but at least some pride was restored today.