That was some boring international break, wasn’t it. Between major injuries in the friendlies, diplomatic tensions rising after a particularly testy set of matches, and some sort of handball incident you might have read about, this was easily the loudest two-week international break in quite some time. Now is the time when our attention shifts [...]
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You Can’t Fire The Players
Posted in Commentary, General, Homerism, News, Off the Pitch, Scottish Football League, Scottish Premier League on November 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
After three wins in fourteen matches- culminating in a humiliating 3-0 loss to a “rec level” Wales squad last weekend- George Burley is out as manager of Scotland. As the title of this piece suggests, you can’t place all the blame on the manager, but… It’s worth keeping in mind that it was Burley picked [...]
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