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Went into my first bookies in over a year yesterday and backed: Liverpool Seville Olympiakos Kiev 20 quid returned 95

Agreed, if he was going to be removed it would have been done by now. The plums at the SFA need 6 or 7 meetings to discuss it. You just know the excuse is going to be along the lines of "we want to see come continunity (sp) and removing someone doesnt achieve that"....well if thats the case get the right man and give him a chance.

Match Odds: Stuttgart 8/13 Draw 5/2 Rangers 7/2 Correct score: Draw: 0-0 7/1 1-1 11/2 2-2 14/1 Rangers Win: 1-0 8/1 2-0 20/1 2-1 16/1 First Goalscorer (rangers) Boyd 8/1 Miller 9/1 Novo 10/1 Naismith 12/1 McCulloch 14/1 Davis 18/1 Rothen 18/1 Mendes 20/1 Whittaker 28/1 Bougherra 40/1 Weir 50/1

TBH I can see the Premier League breaking up in the next 5 years and this will see the forming of a Euro super league. Money with the top clubs is going to keep on going up and their debts will increase also which means the will be looking for more revenue and playing in a Euro super league will give that. Premier League clubs already have the problem of having to pay higher wages than on the continent due to the 50p in the pound tax compared to about 20p in Spain. The real power and ability to control this is at the bottom of the triangle with the fans. If people stopped going to football matches for a period then clubs would collapse. I just wish those multi million pound primadonas would realise that sometimes!

I just realised this game is Wed and not tonight which is a boost as Im flying tonight. Its a tricky game so Im going for a 0-0 draw.

Thats a joke if true. He has actually done worse than Vogts, at least Berti got us to the play offs. I cant really think of 1 good thing about Burley as manager. He lost the dressing room, he hands out caps to anyone, plays players out of position (we've seen that before though), has muppets as his background team and most importantly cant get results! Terrible terrible decision if he stays on.

Absolute bollocks, I cant see Keane going to the SPL as there would be a lot of EPL clubs after him first. TBH id be gutted if they did get him, he is a cracking player.

Anyone who boo's their own players and blames players from certain clubs isnt fit to call themselves a fan or in the Tartan Army. They are bitter sad people who are living in a timewarp - let them be like that and have pity on them rather than hatred. The 'real' tartan army are those who support the team and all the players. So I disagree with those who sing stick the TA up your ass. They are as bad as the others who boo the players and obviously have an agenda also and cant concentrate fully on football matters.

Man U were superb and brought Spurs back to earth. Giggs free kick was brilliant. Arsenal cost my coupon, i thought they would go to Man City and give them a lesson like Man U did to Spurs. How fuckin lucky are Chelsea! 93rd min winner against Hull and now a 94th min against Stoke! They are becoming the Man U of the 90s. Some good games next week also Man U v Man C and Chelsea v Spurs. Arsenal need to beat Wigan at home plus win there game in hand against Bolton or they are out the race already despite being the most impressive side so far (bar yesterday). The destroyed Everton and portsmouth and played Man U off the park yet they find themselves struggling. if they can just get injury free then it would help - Arshavin, Narsi and Walcott all out now.

Wanker! I hope he gets a ban for kicking Van Persie. At first I didnt think it was intentional but after seeing it a few times you can see his leg kicks out. Arsenal have the worst keeper in the league. If they had a strong keeper they wouldnt lose games like this or the one at old trafford 2 weeks ago.

Yeah Ive a feeling Rothen will make a good start and we have a good record of players scoring in their debuts.

I was going to say the only thing I could think of was he is new to the league and Walter has so much experience so they gave it for that, but he was Hibs manager so knows what the leagues all about. Never mind, his honeymoon period comes to an end in a few weeks time when he gets gubbed in the first OF game.

I totally cant see WS returning to Scotland manager, even after he ends this spell as Gers boss. The article has some decent points but you can tell its from SA with the pro Boyd comments about him being the star player I think we should put Chris Iwelumo�s howler to bed. Lots of players have missed sitters over the years, so we shouldnt dwell on these things and instead we should just look forward. Dont get me wrong I agree that Boyd should have been brought on ahead of 2 uncapped players in this game. To try out uncapped players in an important game (Norway at home was probably the most important game to get 3 points) was crazy as these players should be tried in friendlies. But I think Burley is going to get backed by the SFA else he would probably have been sacked by now. This is a major boob by the SFA. I cant see how Burley and Butcher can turn things around for the next campaign and that means yet another tournament we have to miss out on. Why cant the SFA just be simple and go get the right available man for the job - in this case it has to be Strachan. He is out of work and will be fresh and ready to take over.

It would sound better if you replaced Boyd with Lafferty And with Mendes, Rothen and Novo not getting a mention, nor the promising Fleck, then our attacking options look great.

Strachan did say he wanted to manage Scotland at some part of his career. But after 4 years at Celtic and witnessing how bad the media pressure is he might prefer a move back down south - who could blame him! but he is a stronger character than that and will talk to Walter Smith who did wonders in the job. However I have a sneaky feeling Burley will be backed aswell and he will stay on....but I hope im totally wrong.

Motherwell 0-2 Rangers (Rothen, Mendes)

The midfield one is going to be interesting. I cant see McCulloch being dropped as WS seems to favour him. I havent seen his performances but with 2 goals in 3 games does he not start tomorrow on merit??

I was embarrassed enough typing Calderwood and Mcghee's names, Jefferies was in my mind but it would have ben for a joke! Thats worse than Robbie Fowler is having a medical at Ibrox! Fraser, Burley is 110% NOT the man for this job following that campaign. A change is practically in the minds of everyone, if he continues then the whole country will groan and be against him again. I think he is a decent club manager and will do ok somewhere else but he has to go now.

Its always best to have england at the WC to see them get knocked out, but I always say if they are in it they can win it! but they dont have the mentality to win it, they think it will come to them half the time through some devine right while the Germans, Brazilians, Italians etc just get on with the job. It was good to see Spain finally get past being under achievers last year at the Euro's and they will carry that onto the WC so at the moment id be backing them. As Gav says - no more than the Quarters for England but Portugal who regularly put them out of tournaments are struggling to make it aswell as Argentina.

Id imagine the N Koreans would have as much right to a missile proof vest seen as the Yanks fire more. But didnt Iraq play USA in a WC not so log ago and it wasnt a bad match at all. And you need to add Brazil and Paraguay to the list. Argentina are struggling but they should at least make the play off spot.

Folliwing the international disappointment in midweek, it will all be forgotten about this weekend as the club action kicks off again. Tricky away tie at Fir park for us. Im looking forward to seeing Rothen in action, I get the feeling he will be a good signing. Also looking forward to having Lafferty back should his injury clear up. I voted him as our 'player to watch' for this season - IF he is played through the middle. He was a different player in the 2nd half of last season and impressed on a number of occasions. I didnt realise he had a good bit of pace about him - he isnt Usain Bolt but he is certainly mobile enough and I can see him and Miller being a handfull for defences (Sorry Boyd fans ) Saturday will be the 1st chance I get to see us in action this season as I only watched bits of the Hamilton game so I cant wait.

Good shout, Ok I will let you know. Im heading over next week but staying back until the 29th plus another day is tricky.

Didnt see the game but for the praise Whittaker is getting shows what ive been saying for a while - he is better at LB than RB. When he filled in at LB last season I was impressed by him, at RB I thought he was just decent.

Overall this qualifying campaign has been a disaster from the performances on the park to the boozegate stuff off the park and the way that was handled. For us to not even get 2nd in the group reflects it in the end. I wanted to see us in South Africa but had we sneaked in the back door it would have been through sheer luck more than anything else. the likes of N Ireland have gave their group a real go and far deserve a play off spot more than Scotland do. The SFA dont help things, its now 11 years and counting since we were at WC 98 but we have a mess of a organisation running things who ban 2 key players and hamper qualification. The whole system needs sorted out in scottish football from top to bottom including those who attempt to run it and the structure of the domestic leagues. The Craig Brown days look glorious compared to what we have right now. How Walter managed to pick up us in such mess and put is in a great position is beyond me. We've falling like a pack of cards again since then. I think we have some good players that just need coached right. We have 3 quality keepers in Gordon, McGregor (has to be recalled) and alexander. Our midfield looks good if K Thomson comes in to play with Brown, Fletcher, McFadden and Commons. We just need a manager who will come in and get them playing well again.

Dissapointing but we were shocking throughout the campaign and didnt deserve to be near the WC. Oh well, back to club football this weekend. Im booking a weekend in Phuket during the the next international break as it will be too depressing. Fair play to the dutch, I hope they do well at the WC, Id like to see them win it.