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  1. It tends to only be one anthem in particular, TBF.
  2. Those kind of events are anomalies though. In any case, Greece had probably their best ever collection of players when they won Euro 2004, a tournament where there was no clear favourite and where they benefited from the now-obsolete golden-goal rule. The Leicester City side that won the EPL was actually assembled for tens of millions and featured English, French and German internationalists. Anyone replacing Clarke in the near future will still have to find at least one striker capable of scoring at international level and a couple of international-standard centre-backs, and I can't think who these players might be.
  3. The funny thing is, most Northern Irish prods - who I suspect make up the overwhelming majority of their support - are basically Scots, or the descendants of Scots to be exact. Ne'er-do-well Scots; pain-in-the-arse Scots; Scots who couldn't fit in in Scotland and who everyone else hated so much they were paid to leave Scots, mibbe, but Scots nonetheless. Their descendants, doubtless including some of the people at Hampden last night, still claim the Scots language as part of their culture and even occasionally fly the saltire (both of which are fair enough), so it is weird to see them cosplaying as a low-rent version of the England support, flags and anti-Scottish songs included. Maybe it's intergenerational resentment against the land who evicted their forebears. 🤔 I mind catching a train from Central to the friendly in 2008 and bunch of them got on, mainly guys in their twenties and thirties, clearly with a drink in them. They weren't as obnoxious as some of the arseholes from last night but almost every song they sang was an attempt to goad the rest of the train, which might have made sense and might even have made for good banter if had been full of bevvied-up TA guys of a similar vintage, but most of the carriage consisted of auld guys and families with weans on the way to the game, and the odd unfortunate commuter. It was just a bit odd. But Lizzy is in a box - it's just a fact - whereas Scotland don't get battered everywhere we go (at least not in proper matches anyway). I don't know if Harry Kane licks bus windows or not though, but he looks like he might.
  4. Good question. Burke has had his chance, Forrest is past it and Morgan and Wright probably aren't good enough. Outwith Fraser there is Ben Doak, who, to my mind, isn't quite ready yet, based on his appearances for Liverpool in the Europa League. There's also Danny Armstrong of Kilmarnock, who I've only ever watched on Sportscene highlights but who always seems to produce an assist or a goal. I suspect if he was the answer to our prayers he wouldn't still be at Kilmarnock though.
  5. True, but teachers, nurses and polismen aren't devising policies that affect other people's lives. Those are the kind of backgrounds that I think are advantageous in politics, because you'll develop an understanding of different people, how they lives their lives and the struggles they have. The flip side, though, is perhaps you'd lack a grounding in economics or foreign affairs, which play a big part in politics (unless you're a maths/foreign languages teacher 🙂). A disadvantage of being a career-politician, I suppose, is that most of what you know is kind of theory-based. You might have a backstory of your own but you'd find yourself working in quite an artificial environment. That is perhaps why we're seeing noodle-doodle policies like the Hate Crime Bill being rolled out. We're in an age now though where people can earn living walking dugs and making YouTube videos, so it's getting harder to really pinpoint what constitutes a "proper" job!
  6. It's whoever he lives with I feel sorry for - he isn't exactly of a sunny disposition at the best of times! 🤣
  7. Every time mate. They're worse than the English, whose flags they waved and whose songs they sung (do they even have any of their own?).
  8. As the old saying goes, you can only piss with the dick you've got, and our dick has a nice shape in the middle but is weak and flaccid underneath. And it fires blanks. Then again, we still should have been capable of not getting beat at home by Michael O'Neill's rag-bag collection of journeymen and youth players.
  9. With Michael O'Neill in town too some Glaswegian publican's summer holiday will paid for by closing time tonight! 🤣
  10. We probably won't, they won't exist much longer.
  11. Christie appears to have lost a yard of pace; it's clear why he's now playing deeper for Bournemouth. We were a bit better when Armstrong came on (let's face it, we couldn't have been much worse) but that's where a genuine wide player would come in handy. Only trouble is, apart from the injured Ryan Fraser we don't have one. Mibee. Still wid though. 😶
  12. As a rule, there probably isn't much difference in terms of quality between players who play for teams that "yo-yo" between the EPL and the Championship, like Norwich and Sheffield United. There is a difference, though, between players who feature regularly for sides in the top half of the EPL and Championship players. Technically we had EPL players in our squad 10 - 12 years ago but most of them played for teams who were battling relegation; few, if any, played regularly for teams who were competing for the title or European places. Thankfully that is currently no longer the case and this, for me, is the single biggest factor behind our up-turn in fortune over the past couple of years.
  13. I agree, although, ironically, Ralston delivered our best cross of the evening - better than anything produced by Patterson or Robertson - and Christie should have done better with his headed finish. Fingers crossed Hickey makes it in time.
  14. Cheap option, I guess. Younger and/or better coaches don't see the role as career enhancing.
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