The Football.....

[Joey Shabadoo]

 

[User32269]

Good luck with Brendan Bhoys. Was excited when he came to LFC but he ended up out of his depth. Really doesn't seem to possess a Plan B when things not working. On the bright side, he got us closer to the title than we managed for years. Hope he comes good for the hoops.

Off to Wigan soon to see the Mighty Reds play the Pie Eaters......oh yeah....living the dream!

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Sod the Euro Wendyball nonsense. Yesterday was back to real football - atrocious refereeing and a 1-0 defeat at Stirling Albion. Lovely.

 

[AndyRM]

Good luck with Brendan Bhoys. Was excited when he came to LFC but he ended up out of his depth. Really doesn't seem to possess a Plan B when things not working. On the bright side, he got us closer to the title than we managed for years. Hope he comes good for the hoops.

Off to Wigan soon to see the Mighty Reds play the Pie Eaters......oh yeah....living the dream!

Rodgers is a joke of a manager who now has the easiest job in fitba. He'll win a load of trophies (finally) with Celtic, whilst continuing their policy of buying other teams best players and not playing them.

Then I suspect he will be given another chance in England and get found out, again.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Oh crap, Payet wants to leave...

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...he-is-100-per-cent-staying-at-west-ham-united

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Next season looking a bit better with Kante onboard.

A decent price too in the current absurd overall pricing situation.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Sod the Euro Wendyball nonsense. Yesterday was back to real football - atrocious refereeing and a 1-0 defeat at Stirling Albion. Lovely.

An excellent 2-2 draw for Forfar v Dumbarton, and going on to win on penalties for an extra point. East Fife v Dundee was also a draw, with East Fife getting the bonus point after penalties. It's opened up the group, I reckon the extra point penalty element might be a successful introduction to the format; I suppose the SFA had to get something right eventually!

 

[PaulB]

Sod the Euro Wendyball nonsense. Yesterday was back to real football - atrocious refereeing and a 1-0 defeat at Stirling Albion. Lovely.

There was one major thing about the euro nonsense and that was the massive development visible in my three year-old grandson as a result of it. He now knows the flags of all the competing nations after memorising them voluntarily and will always remember them (as his father did after I'd taught him all flags at the same age and he still recalls them all), can tell you the city every game was played in, the score and the scorers and which club side each of those players play for! It must have been a huge thing in his pre-school class and all the kids there were swept up in the tournament and it was a theme the teachers used to build up the kids' interests and as the games were on at a time the kids could see them all, educationally, it was a huge success. I found I had to watch games just to keep up to speed with my grandkid's knowledge of what was happening and his predictions on what was about to happen! As regards the games themselves, I had zero interest in any of the games and any of the teams boring us rigid.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I think my first experience of that was the 74 World Cup learning where Yugoslavia was and where to find Zaire. By the time of the 78 World Cup we avidly collected and swapped the stickers and I could probably mentally picture the face of every player if I saw their name. Especially Teofilo Cubillas

With Scotland being too abysmal to qualify for tournaments for years, I wonder if there's generations of Scots kids missing out because there's just not the same connection when your own team isn't there.

 

[PaulB]

Teofillo Cubillas! For us, we'd try and shoehorn a player's name in wherever possible. So in the gym, we'd encourage our lift-mate to do one more Johnny (Repp - rep) or sound out our pals if anyone fancied going down the Robbie (Rensenbrink - ice-rink).

 

[Brandane]

I think my first experience of that was the 74 World Cup learning where Yugoslavia was and where to find Zaire. By the time of the 78 World Cup we avidly collected and swapped the stickers and I could probably mentally picture the face of every player if I saw their name. Especially Teofilo Cubillas

With Scotland being too abysmal to qualify for tournaments for years, I wonder if there's generations of Scots kids missing out because there's just not the same connection when your own team isn't there.

Ahhh, the 1978 world cup. Squad names etched in my memory come flooding back; Rough, Jardine, Macari, Buchan, McGrain, Donnachie, Masson, Gemmill, McQueen, Jordan, Johnstone, Souness, Hartford. Plus of course the manager, "He's our Mohammed Ali, he's Alistair MacLeod".

Can anyone name any England players from the 1978 (or 1974) World cup squads?

The current squad? Errrrm - Scott Brown? That's all I can remember, seriously. That's how much my interest has waned.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I hope you stood to attention reciting that list

My engineering science teacher used to stand to attention and salute whilst naming the 1940s East Fife Scottish Cup winners. Good way to waste ten minutes on a Monday morning.

 

[AndyRM]

Ahhh, the 1978 world cup. Squad names etched in my memory come flooding back; Rough, Jardine, Macari, Buchan, McGrain, Donnachie, Masson, Gemmill, McQueen, Jordan, Johnstone, Souness, Hartford. Plus of course the manager, "He's our Mohammed Ali, he's Alistair MacLeod".

Can anyone name any England players from the 1978 (or 1974) World cup squads?

The current squad? Errrrm - Scott Brown? That's all I can remember, seriously. That's how much my interest has waned.

The most worrying thing about the Scotland side is that we're still playing Alan Hutton.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

And Scott Brown.

 

[AndyRM]

And Scott Brown.

I'm not entirely sure he's human, he looks like a robot with various aggression settings.