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England are very fortunate not to be down by a cricket score tonight.

Because I don't watch much English football many of those playing for Scotland are strangers to me. All I can say is, either they've caught the usual disease of turning to crap when donning a Scotland jersey or English football is much worse than I suspected.

I don't know how I could find out, but I'm almost certain the game against Czechoslovakia was on tv during daylight hours. I was a wee boy and recall asking my dad why the crowd were all whistling. As for Davie himself - I met him a few times and always found him to be a total gentleman. He was one of my favourite players during that era.

I'm now watching and believe me Ian - this is as well as I've seen them play for some years now.

Scotland 1-0 down.

I'm sitting in the living room with headphones on listening to radio coverage.

" Maguire's defence solicitor Tony Callaghan " - there's a surprise, eh ?

Having only listened intermittently on radio and watched the highlights on tv, can anybody tell me if Darren Fletcher played ? I neither heard nor saw any sign of him. That's not a dig at him. I'm being honest.

Around 1980 I was offered a job at a steel making plant in the Netherlands. Please excuse the spelling, but a place called "Heerhogovliet" or similar.

I have to agree with your point there cal. I faced a disciplinary hearing and got a punishment far above what others had received. At appeal it was more or less proven that the company were seeking to punish me for periods of illness rather than what I was supposed to have done wrong. The punishment was overturned and I was recompensed what I'd lost.

I'd be happier here if some of the speculation being taken to the extreme stopped, at least until we know the full story. Not being a Warburton signing is something the manks with "contacts" have been pushing. Disagreement between Warburton and King is another. We made a mistake signing him and simply can't afford his wages is something they're still shoving. The media and online "guys in the know" are going frantic despite having none of the facts. The story will eventually appear and there's no reason for us to start criticising the manager, boardroom or anybody else until we are told.

Who is that mate ?

I suspect he was told to apologise or similar and has failed to do so. Either that or he's done something else moronic we've yet to read about.

The European Cup and European Cup Winners Cup semi-finals both being played in Glasgow on the same night and watched by in excess of 150,000 fans. Celtic lost to Inter Milan while we defeated Bayern Munich. You have to wonder how the polis coped. These days a balloon stall getting opened in George Square sees matches cancelled.

Listening to Strapon bumming up Lithuania on tv yesterday made me feel sick SBS. " They won't come to put 10 across the back. They'll have a go" was raising a white flag before a ball was kicked. We all know we don't have a squad of world beaters. Christ, we can barely raise a team that would finish in the top six of the SPL. But ffs ! I'm so brassed of with the guff coming out from Hampden. It's been happening for years. Strachan strikes me as being a former player who became a pundit. Somehow he staggered into management and got lucky. But there is nothing professional about the bloke. Soundbytes for the 3 minute report on the STV news is all fair and well . I'm looking for somebody resembling a manager rather than a wanabe comic. He should appear wearing clown make-up. His erse should've been thrown out the front door of Hampden after his last fiasco trying to qualify. I'll make a prediction right now - apart from the next Malta match we have gained our last point.

Switching over off and on to listen . At least the ref added 5 minutes. Strapon is our problem. We have no chance of qualifying with him in charge. He thinks he's funny - a career onstage awaits.

The badges went on general sale online today. Mine are already ordered. http://rsea.org.uk/shop/

Strachan just can't stop with the jokes - "Darren Fletcher is an example for kids to follow". Yes, if turning into the invisible man every time you pull on a Scotland jersey is your main aim. How that guy continues to gain caps totally defeats me.

I started going to Ibrox when the Richie, Shearer, Caldow, Greig, McKinnon, Baxter, ........ side were successful. I then had to endure the title going elsewhere for 9 years in a row. But what is often forgotten is, we played some great football ourselves during those years. Probably thankfully , I worked abroad for several years so missed most of the late 70's, early 80's when it would seem from reading here, we were pretty awful. I didn't even know about the Chesterfield match until I read this thread. I'll agree with you that things go in circles. I've no doubt we will be back on top again in the not too distant future.

Every one a member of the gangrene brigade would be my guess.

Strangely enough, just a few weeks ago a mate said to me we could be doing with someone like Stevens as a strong link in our side right now. My reply I think put that one out to dry - could we depend on the rest of our defence to guard the resultant free kicks around the box ? I don't think the guy could spell football.

That was one of my best euro trips abroad that match. We were brilliant and it took me about a week to sober up.

The international break is killing me this week and normally they just don't bother me. On the day of the match against the manks I headed over to France for a break with family and friends and came back with a virus that floored me for well over a week. My laptop was gubbed and I couldn't keep up with what was happening at our club. Then, dragging myself out of my sick bed I had to go to Spain to help repair a mates boat . On return I got a new laptop but can't find anything worthwhile footballwise to talk about as I've missed so much recently - which is a bummer as I'm feeling quite sprightly right now. Still, I'll be looking forward to seeing the Scotland game at the weekend.

At Rangers matches in my youth I waved a saltire mainly because it was the same colours as ours, not because it was my national flag. The fact I could use it at international matches was a bonus.

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