Thought I'd start a football blog, we might keep this going until 2010.....England doing well....did not see the match or even the goals....I'd like Michael owen back in the squad though....and I think Peter Crouch would make a very good substitute...remember against Argentina in Geneva a few years ago....with Michael Owen and some very good movements on and off the ball...they caused havoc.....did see Scotland's missed chance....that could be very costly losing those 2 points !.

If that post has come over anti-ScottishI can assure you it was not meant
All I am trying to do is establish why such a passionate footballing nation has such a poor national side

tabby...dennis law is the all time top scorer for the national team, he did not play in scotland like souness until he came to rangers late on

we have a poor national side for may reasons.....some obvious some not so.

we dont have many kinds playing football in soctland now and the ones that do come through are not taught the basics of control, passing etc

our club football is of a poor standard and the people who run our game are akin to amatuers.

add that to the fact the irish keep stealing our best prospects by offering trips and other goodie to the boys families means we are rubbish.

Dennis Law was a great player....I think he was in the 1967 Scottish side that beat newly crowned world champs England at Wembley that year......it does seem that a lot of players are lacking basics .......one thing I hate is the big kick upfield by a goalkeeper...most of the time it ends with the opposition, you do have to be more precise when playing route 1 soccer.

i read that lot of people dont want to play for scotland team. read that ferguson wasnt watching game and he is guy that spends most of time not playing for scotland when selected. also read that lot of rangers players not playing for scotland.
celtic as i said appear to be foreigners apart from 2 players who happen to play for scotland.....it appears the players on pitch play lower league in england and it must show as i read that norway could have won 10-0 as they scored a goal that wasnt given and had a penalty not given.

marni for someone not interested in football you spend a lot of time researching and reading about scottish football...is the taxiing business slow at the moment?

i only read bbc sport websites or google football in your country but there seems a lot of discontent in your country as scotland it seems can only get inferior people to play for them as quite a few of the good players wont play.

are there not good scottish players in other foreign countries?

congrats on good news with ur son

I think Asterix Arsene Wenger's magic potion is working again because the Gunners detroyed the Toffees...what a scoreline ! 1-6 away...!.

Spurs and the Gunners have pulled a double over the liver birds....I can't remember when that last happened....

http://en.soccerclips.net/videos/burnley-1-0-man-united-blake

Just in case anyone missed it.

The usual tripe about how bad Man U were in the media, but full credit to the magnificent Clarets for a merited performance and Result.

its the scottish connection...coyle, fletcher, caldwell, mcdonald, alexander

And not forgetting Easton -):

nah i would forget him..he is rubbish :-)))))

is he not scottish though?

celtic are rubbish by sounds of it.......ah yes, almost all of them are not scottish

marni...can you name me some good iraqi football players...to make it fair i will give you the last 50 years...name me 3..if not piss off back to your taxi rank wee man

Did not see any of the Celtic-Arsenal game but I understand that both goals went in off players into the net...the Bhoys were a little unlucky.

Good morning all>

As we start a new season with the usual high expectationsI thought it would be interesting to breeze through some of last seasons postsI did not realise I was so severely blasted for predicting Harry would sign Defoe.or Defoe would be proved our best goalscorer.or Spurs would finish well above Pompeyand go onto far better things under Harry even though they sat at the bottom with just a couple of pointsmaybe when I said Harry is the best English Manager aboutor possibly my belief in Roy Hodgsonwho has achieved the miracle of all miraclesnever mind I am used to getting stick on these bbs and I do give it out sometimesBTW I am a West Ham nut!One for you Trig. How many of the English team had West Ham connections the other nightI dont know the answer but broadly speaking in round figuresand with a certain amount of guessworkI would say quite a few.

Marni>

Luay Salah Mahdi Kareem Mohammed Ali Karim Muayad Khalid Nashat Akram Noor Sabri Oday Talib Salam Shaker Salih Sadir Samal Saeed Younis Mahmoud
Ali Hussein Rehema Dara Mohammed Emad Mohammed Ridha Fareed Majeed Hakard Mulla Mohammed Hawar Mulla Mohammed Hohammed Kassid Karrar Jassim
Abbas Abbas Isam Abdul Wahhab Alaa Abdul Zahra

Mohammed is a great player, lol

You sound fluent sir....... (in the words of Rowan Atkinson)....

Marni>

His divine intervention in midfield is legendry