I think, the older you get, the more this thing eats you up. For me, supporting United consumes enough of my emotional capital so I become rather more objective when it comes to Scotland.

Scotland’s aim is to get out of the group stage for the first time ever. In many respects the bigger question is why we have never done it before? I would dispute that this is the most talented Scottish team to leave our shores. I don’t think it is. What I do think, is that, it the most balanced group of players, with few personal flaws who can grind out results. Watching this Scotland team play is never going to be visually pleasing, however they do have grit and togetherness.

Brazil have qualified. This tournament is a marathon, so, maybe they will conserve their energy against Scotland. As I said yesterday, luck, will always play a part.

As Ally McLeod once said “Scotland is going to educate the world in how to play football”

A lot of football still to be played, a lot of hydration breaks still to be had, a lot of "Its coming home!" Still to be endured, but at the moment Scotland are top of the table for best 3rd place so hope remains 🤞

David_Blunkett wrote:

Assuming we lose to Brazil by no more than 2, then other teams results become a factor, best guessing results with conservative scores, we'd either face Germany or Mexico. (I think)

So there's that to look forward to once we meekly limp over the line.

 
Certain sentences will never sound right:

“Grant Hanley is going to line up to face Germany”

It’s right up there with Gennaro Gattuso’s classic:

“My wife’s from Busby”

Macbonzo wrote:

David_Blunkett wrote:

Assuming we lose to Brazil by no more than 2, then other teams results become a factor, best guessing results with conservative scores, we'd either face Germany or Mexico. (I think)

So there's that to look forward to once we meekly limp over the line.

 
Certain sentences will never sound right:

“Grant Hanley is going to line up to face Germany”

It’s right up there with Gennaro Gattuso’s classic:

“My wife’s from Busby”

 
"Dundee FC win the Scottish Cup "

Impressive shithousery from Iran.

The fact they can also play better football than us is just embarrassing.

redford_must_score wrote:

Impressive shithousery from Iran.

The fact they can also play better football than us is just embarrassing.

 
They are ranked 20th in the world though

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redford_must_score wrote:

Arabdownsouth wrote:

redford_must_score wrote:

Impressive shithousery from Iran.

The fact they can also play better football than us is just embarrassing.

 
They are ranked 20th in the world though

 
What do I know 😁

 
Doesn't make it any more palatable tbh. It was actually a scotsman who showed the Brazilians how to play football in the first place too, that shit is coming back to haunt us again on Wednesday 😂

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Macbonzo wrote:

Arabdownsouth wrote:

redford_must_score wrote:

 
What do I know 😁

 
Doesn't make it any more palatable tbh. It was actually a scotsman who showed the Brazilians how to play football in the first place too, that shit is coming back to haunt us again on Wednesday 😂

 
A joking aside, there is a theme here.

Brazil 5 WC wins, Germany 4 WC wins, Italy 4 WC wins.

Ignoring Brazil, Germany lost 2 World Wars, Italy lost the World War 2. They faced adversity which we couldn’t imagine. In the 1930’s Italy was so poor many people walked from Monte Casino to Scotland.

Japan also lost WW2 and rebuilt. Japan has a 100 year plan to win the WC and are currently ranked 15th

Maybe adversity breeds a desire to learn and a hunger to succeed.

Maybe WE need to learn from others, rather than indulging the “foreign” manager the saying “he doesn’t understand the Scottish game; we need a good Scottish manager”

 
Our boys grow up eating tatties and mince,haggis and stovies, and drinking Tennants lager with a buckfast chaser. We won't win the world cup with a 1000 year plan 🤣

It's pish, the older I get, the less tolerance I have. 

I just don't give a fuck what the pundits or presenters think, same as commentators and co-commentators, just tell me who's on the ball and if they pass or shoot. 

Had the misfortune of watching a game the other night on iplayer, they kept updating us on women's cricket and rugby etc like they even mattered.

A presenter and 3 pundits in the studio analysing France v Iraq, like none of us have worked out France have all the ball, Iraq are sitting back and that they've got Mark Birig-zadeh in the goal.

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Come on Brazil!! 

Conway11 wrote:

Come on Brazil!! 

 
Troll

'Arry misses sitter v Ghana

"Yeah, I've played the game long enough to know they don't all go in. (He actually said that) They played a low block they was hard to break down, we played well, but all credit to them, we have another game soon we'll be looking to win that and finish top of the group. I don't know why we didn't win, we tried to.

Unreal.

redford_must_score wrote:

Arabdownsouth wrote:

How the fuck was that a foul on the keeper? Absolute lucky bastards! But I'll tell you what pisses me off most, the commentators never fucking mentioned that incident again! Not once,no replays nothing!
Lets imagine it happened at the other end,we'd never stop hearing about it. Utter utter cunts!

 
Not even a VAR review. Something not right there.

 
Ghana should have had a penalty too. Its truly a load of shite.
Hydration breaks in the middle of pissing down rain too, just get these yanks to fuck!