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<\/p>\nInternational football. don’t you just love it ?<\/p>\n
Two tournaments lasting two years each, as it appears that the longer you drag these things out, and the more districts or parishes you can find with a fairly reasonable claim to be a nation state, somehow we are all going to find it more interesting.<\/p>\n
In the old days, there’d be three or at worst four countries in your qualifying group, these days there’s six or seven. Which makes it all rather tedious.<\/p>\n
Scotland have two games during this break. One at home to Lithuania, the other away to Slovakia. Not exactly box office material, so the media, who these days have been relegated to a sort of Public Relations exercise, with occasional advertisements, have tried to jazz things up a bit.<\/p>\n
Which, I guess, can’t be a bad thing as it means they haven’t allocated one cameraman per Celtic player in a bid to find a story to fill their pages.<\/p>\n
For example, in a bid to drum up interest in a team which has layers such as Steven Fletcher and Alan Hutton in it, one headline ( Record ) may have overdone it a bit..<\/p>\n
And here’s me thinking he’d just get his jotters if it all goes pear shaped. The SFA need to be careful. If the death penalty is invoked for failure they might find it a little tricky to find a replacement for Strachan after he’s been tied to a pole and shot.<\/p>\n
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No, not that one.<\/p>\n
The article mentions the possibility of more severe recriminations should Scotland lose, which, given Strachans links with Celtic and generally low opinion of those in the SMSM, perhaps gives us a glimpse into the world of the writer than he probably would have liked us to see. It’s Keith Jackson, by the way. Though you’d probably guessed.<\/p>\n
Strachan has never bothered much about his own popularity, which is probably just as well. But he is intelligent enough to keep his finger on the pulse of public opinion, so he will be perfectly well aware by now that a lynch mob is forming and preparing to mobilise at the first opportunity.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Perhaps they’ll drag him around George Square behind a horse to get everyone in the mood for a good ole fashioned neck stretch ?<\/p>\n Or maybe its better that he just falls from a great height, which again has subtle undertones of acknowledging Strachans disdain of the chip wrapper writers…<\/p>\n
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