Articles tagged with "scotland"
Scotland is #13 in FIFA rankings
By Ian Rose | October 24th, 2007Another nice milestone for the Scottish national team. One month after rising to #14 in the FIFA World Rankings, our highest-ever position, Scotland has ...
Making it hard on ourselves: Georgia 2-0 Scotland
By Ian Rose | October 17th, 2007Scottish fans have greeted this long run of wins with a combination of joy and worry. Obviously, we've been pleased with our position on ...
Scotland takes depleted roster to Georgia
By Ian Rose | October 16th, 2007It really is amazing what the Scottish national team has accomplished. 2 wins over France. A record of 8-2 in our first 10 ...
Scotland 3-1 Ukraine: Two matches to go
By Ian Rose | October 13th, 2007Well, even a broken clock is right twice a day. I predicted a 3-1 win for the Scots at home to Ukraine, and a ...
Three to go: Preview of Scotland v. Ukraine
By Ian Rose | October 12th, 2007For the first time in a long time, everyone is talking about Scottish football. As far as the national team goes, that newfound respect ...
Hibs Top of the Scottish Premier
By Daryl | October 6th, 2007Scottish football is on a bit of a high right now. There's the national team's victory over France, as well as Celtic and Ranger's excellent ...
Scotland-Italy rugby a preview of Euro 2008?
By Ian Rose | September 29th, 2007Scotland v. Italy. Winner goes to the next round. Sound familiar? Today, it wasn't Euro 2008 qualifying, but the Rugby World Cup, and Scotland ...
Scotland could be 2 seed at WC qualies
By Ian Rose | September 27th, 2007After being drawn as the four-seed in the group of death in Euro 2008 qualifying, Scotland was understandably concerned. But now, after two wins ...
France 0-1 Scotland ... so sweet, we won it twice
By Ian Rose | September 14th, 2007Hey everybody. First, my sincere apologies for not posting earlier. As JT correctly surmised, I have been in a fog of beer and ...
Ray Ray's Mind Games Work...For Scotland
By chris | September 12th, 2007France 0-1 Ecosse But EcossaisUploaded by NeRoMe The inimitable genius that is Raymond Domenech has struck again, this time inspiring the favored team to victory once ...
Flash Gordon
By Lucas | August 7th, 2007Roy Keane has made his most expensive purchase of the offseason: at £9m, Scotland international and Heart of Midlothian goalkeeper Craig Gordon is now a ...
Top 5 SPL transfers so far
By Ian Rose | July 12th, 2007Well, we're about halfway through the silly season, and already a lot of talent has moved both out of and into the Scottish Premier League. ...
Scots sent home before the postcards
By Ian Rose | July 7th, 2007The U-20 World Cup has been a huge disappointment for Scotland, but at least now it's over. Three games, three losses. Two goals ...
Nigerian FA rips into Scotland
By Ian Rose | July 4th, 2007This from today's Scotsman. The quote below is from Nigerian FA board member Dominic Iorfa, ahead of today's Nigeria v. Scotland tie in the ...
Scots get rude awakening at U-20 World Cup
By Ian Rose | July 1st, 2007For the first time in 20 years, Scotland's youth football program is in a major tournament, the Under-20 World Cup in Canada, and today, that ...
Headgear ban apparently not applied to Copa América
By Ian Rose | June 28th, 2007As reported earlier in this blog, a FIFA regulation on uniforms and headgear has forced Scotland's first female Muslim football team to basically shut down, ...
Fuddy Muckers Capture Swamp Soccer Championship
By Bob | June 18th, 2007The championship in Spain was not the only major soccer event this past weekend. The 2007 Swap Soccer championship was held in Dunoon, Scotland ...
Scotland falls to #23 despite wins
By Ian Rose | June 13th, 2007Well, that's the way it happens. I think we may have been a bit over-placed at #14, but #23 is definitely lower than I ...
The Goal That Got Us Dreaming
By Ian Rose | June 9th, 2007Now that the international season is over and all the lads are taking their vacations, I wanted to take a look back at Scotland's season. ...
Scotland NT face uphill battle after injuries
By Ian Rose | May 28th, 2007SPL 2006-07 is over, and it's time to get back to one of my true loves, the Scottish national side. After a few months ...
One step closer to an Olympic team
By Ian Rose | May 7th, 2007Oh, yeah, and independence too. So, for those of you that have been hiding under a rock and thus not paying attention to Scottish parliamentary politics, ...
Lasses teach the lads, beat Italy
By Ian Rose | April 6th, 2007Take that, Azzurri. Kind of. Scotland's men may have fallen to Italy in European qualifying (not that a 2-1 away leg loss to ...
This just in: Scots like to drink.
By Ian Rose | April 2nd, 2007From the Herald: Scotland may have lost its match with Italy, but that didn't stop the Tartan Army, our loyal and boisterous traveling fans, from ...
Sometimes a draw's a win
By Ian Rose | March 31st, 2007That is certainly the case when you are playing the top two teams in Scotland. The Old Firm of Celtic and Rangers are always ...
T-7 days: Meet the staff
By Sam | March 31st, 2007Going into the home stretch before the season final-fricking-ly starts on April 7, I'll be providing a daily look at what the team is looking ...
Italy v Scotland: Well, That's Better
By Martha | March 28th, 2007It's amazing what an early goal can do for the shape of a game, huh? The Azzurri flat-out dominated the first 10-15 minutes of the ...
Unofficial Football World Championship at Stake on Saturday
By Bob | March 23rd, 2007As a sports fan, you probably have played this game before. Your team beats the best team in the league and for at least ...
Juventus - Triestina Recap: Palladino Ole' & 7 National Teamers
By Gianfranco | March 20th, 2007As expected Juventus easily handled and dismantled Triestina 5-1. I thought the Bianconeri would win so I went with a safe 2-0 prediction, but ...
Reserves LIVE Action Tonight
By Andy | March 13th, 2007The flavour of Portugal descends on the deepest part of Essex (where the girls wear white stilletos and dance around their handbags and think ...
A Celt's a Celt for a' that, Burns included
By Craig | January 18th, 2007You increasingly get the impression that Alex McLeish will have to say/have said something really, really bad in his interview with the SFA to stop ...
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