Y viva Escocia
Scotland avoided humiliation last night. In fact they played well enough to score twice against Spain and few sides do that these days. Pity about the three in the other direction. Another ref might not have given that penalty, and very few would have yellow-carded Whittaker, given that he had his back to the ball, but the guy we had last night lacked the courage to use his common sense.
There is hope for our national football side, but it will be a long haul. The first step for me would be to make Craig Levein responsible for all levels of the game, from playground level up. Since he has no more than half a dozen games a year as a team manager, there’s no valid argument against. Something has to be seriously wrong with youth development when we have a 40-year-old centre-back, and when we have to raid Sunderland reserves for a Mancunian right-back on the basis that someone’s just remembered that his dad was from Glasgow. It would also help if the Old Firm stopped signing talented young players for significant sums of money, then stalling their progress by treatingthem liek apprentices.
Yes, there is hope, the sun is coming over the hill, not setting behind it. Finally we have a coach who’s up to the job; now we need to empower him, and have patience.
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Agree 100% about the manager. About time we gave a young talented man some real time to do the job, regardless of results. Scottish football taken another blow following the impending demise of my home team Dundee…how long can Scottish football survive in the current climate?
I can only hope that your pessimism about your team is misplaced. My lot had a brush with administration but seem to have emerged from it with a greater sense of the realities of Scottish football life. The biggest crowd I ever saw at Fir Park … I was in the middle of it was a cup replay vs Dundee in the early 60s. It’s inconceivable that such a club could actually fold, and I don’t believe they will, but it may be that they and Dundee United, who do appear to have responsible financial management will be drawn towards ground-sharing, and may be more. Merger? I don’t know, but as an outsider it’s reasonable of me to ask whether the city can afford two clubs with Premier League aspirations. How long can Scottish football survive? It will, but it will only strengthen when Rangers and Celtic realise that they have a basic responsibility to their home league and renounce the crack-pot idea that they could abandon it to play in England or in some fanciful Atlantic League that seems to exist only in the imaginations of Walter Smith and a few red-top journos.