Crikey, it's getting depressing - either we go into the Euro qualifiers with a manager looking to have his first good tournament at the fourth attempt (after overseeing three of the worst) or we have another Mick McCarthy 2.0 situation, expecting a new manager to turn things around with few or no games to prepare. We've reached the point of claiming "moral victories" against Scotland in The Nations League - that is not good
Yes, we played well in patches but that is not enough at this stage in Kenny's tenure. If he is the man bring about a revolution in our fortunes, this is the tournament where we should have been seeing the results, where we should show that we are capable of consistently defeating teams viewed as a being at a similar level. Instead it has been Scotland who have done this. One of the other posters talked about fine margins and asked if Scotland really are eight points better than us and the answer is YES! Why? Because they comfortably beat Armenia twice, hammered Ukraine and today got revenge for our victory over them.
But one thing that really, really annoyed me tonight was the attitude of the Scotland fans - they boo Amhran na Bhfiann and The Fields of Athenry (songs about the evils of English Colonial Occupation), they boo McClean for his attitudes to English Colonial Occupation - but then roar out an anthem about how they bravely stood up to English Colonial Occupation seven hundred years ago, after which they later gave up their independence and never got it back, even turning down an opportunity to choose it for themselves. Really, it's time to make them sing God Save The King.
And enough of this "Celtic cousins" nonsense - we need to have suitable chants for the next time we play them - for example
- What's it like to have a King?
- You're just a Northern England province
- You're not a proper country
And speaking of them not being a proper country, should Scotland (plus Wales and Northern Ireland) even have international football teams? I mean every other international footballing team is, politically, an actual country with its own national government. Even setting aside the issues in The North, these three entities, politically speaking, are more comparable with Quebec than other countries. Transdnistria have more of a claim to nationhood and access to international football competitions than Scotland.
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