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I wonder if Cameron will play. Big risk of a career ending injury administered by someone worried about his place next season.

That would suit me fine. I could relax for the semis and the final. Any of that four will do.

Quarter Finals: Fulham 2-1 Palace BHA 2-0 Forest Preston North End 0- Aston Villa 3 (a fallen giant against a revived one) B’mouth 2-1 City I’d like Preston to win the tournament but they won’t so Villa will be fine.

Reading the extract from the Post reminded me of the days when papers actually printed news without hyperbole. I remember McEwan. Good player. (“Fife Ace in big money move to Midlands Giants”)

Pity Rangers hadn’t snapped up Bobby Hope while they were at it..

An Israeli strike force is more than some of the members here will be able to thole. Expect at least one diatribe.

I have no clue whatsoever who should be the new manager. Rangers are long gone from hiring in the Souness/Advocaat Category which means Ancelotti must stay at Real for now and I have no knowledge of the lower levels. Whoever is offered the job should have a consistent record. At the beginning of this season the chap at Aberdeen was a diamond and Gray at Hibs was a laughingstock out of his depth. Now look at them. (NB: This is not an endorsement of either)

Got a bit of a fright there at first glance.

Good idea.

I think @Rousseau has taken that into account in computing the list.

A name springs out of that list but sorry Wilf, but you’ll never get a job in the UK. Who wants their team called the Nancy Boys?

Wonderful footballer. Gordon Smith is my preference as indeed would be Willie Henderson.

I was going to say “and losing ground to the field” but if he looks back he’ll see that the field such as it is, is about two furlongs behind.

Pygmies in footballing terms. Gordon and Robertson each at the height of his form might have been considered for selection in better times, Souttar for a B International or the Scottish League side.

Forgot it was on. Saw the last eight minutes plus added. Dreadful. Players didn’t look bothered. Maybe they prefer not to be selected for future games. If I had remembered, I suppose I would have watched the first ten and then switched off.

Genius with a football when he matured or maybe in his younger day the platform he was on wasn’t as solid as it became. In a team game artists need labourers for the mundane tasks.

To stir up controversy, here’s a best Scotland XI since resumption at the end of hostilities: Goram, McGrain, Caldow, McKay, McKinnon, Baxter, Smith, White, Reilly, Law, Liddell.

The protection of the civil rights of individuals has nothing to do with a football club.

Any amount of heroes on this. FA Cup semifinal 1962. Reported attendance at Hillsborough of 65,000. No disasters. No large scale trouble. I wonder why that was?

I’ll have to defer to compo. Not for the first time either.

That’ll be Bobby Johnstone?

Aye but only five of them played for an English club which I think was @Gribz’s original criterion which I diverted a wee bit. It’s a cracking team though and your point is absolutely valid. Wouldn’t have picked Forsyth.

Yeah but his motes are a hell of a lot worse than my beams.

I’ve edited my original post to confine the selection to Scottish players playing in the Football League. Brown, Parker, Thomson, Gabriel, Ure, Mckay, Leggatt, White, St John, Law and Liddell.

When will we see his like again? Clarke? McInnes? Docherty Dundee? I think not. Moyes would be at least as good a choice as any current Englishmen.