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I wasn't born in 1978 but looking back at the footage last night the killer Dutch second goal seemed to arrive in a typically Scottish fashion. Three minutes after Gemmill's goal.
You can just imagine the elation and the possibilities racing through the mind when Gemmill scored. Only for them to be shattered within three minutes. Grim.
I think that is the first time I have seen footage from the game against Iran too, and the OG they scored. The footage from that game seems to show a squad in a bad way. Pretty tragic to look back at actually, because with the right preparation and frame of mind I've no doubt that squad could have gone a lot further.
In all seriousness though, it went a long way to showing the complete incompetence of the SFA in terms of planning and organisation. Nothing really appears to have changed in that regard. The sooner the SFA and the diddy clubs professionalise their preparations and planning for big trips, the better chance they have of competing.
There was a clip of Ernie Walker going through an itinerary meticulously marking off exact times when the squad would arrive on the pitch for that ridiculous send off then head to the airport. You can actually hear him mention what will happen at every five minute time window at one point.
Maybe sort out an actual hotel instead of a building site and a training base that has a football pitch instead ya pumpkin. Other highlights include the squad having to push a bus up a hill and being that bored they started chucking stuff at ants for entertainment.
By the way, Alan Rough is badly at fault for that Cubillas free kick. Amateur hour.
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7 Jun 2018, 10:05 AM
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I can't find the original thread so chucking this in here:
Paul Larkin has made his 3 documentaries available for free online - his most recent 'Anyone But Celtic' http://thefrontofthebus.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-asterisk-years-abc-and-armageddon.html?m=1
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7 Jun 2018, 10:32 AM
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Scottish Cup Final an evening kick off and promoted Livingston’s intention to lay a plastic pitch for next season means a quarter of the Premiership clubs will have artificial grass. Well, one is a definite. THE LATE SHOW SFA chief Ian Maxwell says next year’s Scottish Cup final could take place in the EVENING if there’s potential to cash-inThe former Partick Thistle supremo is hoping to announce a TV deal soon for the competition and admits it could be a later kick-off Spoiler: click to toggle By Derek McGregor SFA chief executive Ian Maxwell has revealed next season’s Scottish Cup Final could move to an EVENING kick-off time. Maxwell made the stunning admission following his first Hampden AGM as successor to the axed Stewart Regan. He is confident a broadcast deal for the William Hill-sponsored competition is all but secured and close to being announced. And Maxwell, who quit as chief of relegated Partick Thistle, stated the traditional 3pm start for the showpiece CAN’T be allowed to get in the way if there’s the potential to cash-in by meeting any TV demands for change. SFA chiefs also have a new major sponsor to find following Vauxhall’s decision to pull out this summer. But Maxwell, 43, is confident commercial chief Chris Rawlings is on the ball with negotiations — helped by what he regards an attractive Scottish football scene. Asked directly if we could soon be following the lead of the English FA who six years ago controversially moved their Cup Final at Wembley to a 5.15pm kick-off, he said: “I’ll be honest with you, I don’t think anything is off the table. You would be daft to go into a negotiation with a position of ‘we don’t want, we don’t want, we don’t want’. “There is obviously a value attached to all these things and it’s about getting as much as we possibly can. “If that’s a decision that is made because we think it is in the best interests of the association and Scottish football, then so be it. “In terms of the William Hill Scottish Cup, we hope to be in a position whether it is a few weeks or a month to say ‘listen, we have got a broadcast deal for that’. “It is well documented the sponsorship is up but there are a number of people who are interested, it is not like we have nobody. “When you look at Scottish football and how we are trying to sell it, you’ve got Steven Gerrard coming in at Rangers, you’ve got Hibs and Aberdeen doing well in the last couple of seasons. “There are a lot of things that we have to talk up and use it as leverage to get the best deal we can. “Obviously, Celtic have done tremendously well to win the Treble in each of the last two seasons, but whether they can maintain that level remains to be seen. “The stronger we can get Scottish football as a whole, whether teams are challenging for the title or just European or cup final places, the better. Even the relegation battle was exciting this year.” Promoted Livingston’s intention to lay a plastic pitch for next season means a quarter of the Premiership clubs will have artifical grass. But Maxwell’s ‘fine’ with that, providing the quality of it is good enough. He said: “I don’t have concerns about it. Even the guys who have artificial pitches would say they would prefer to play on a good grass surface every week. “But because of the climate we are in, and costs of maintaining pitches, a lot of clubs go down the synthetic road now and it’s difficult to argue with it.” https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/2748438/sfa-ian-maxwell-scottish-cup-late-kick-off/ Oh I can just see the boys in blue agreeing to that in the event that we meet the great unwashed in the final!
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7 Jun 2018, 10:37 AM
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Unless the Cup Final is going to be on a different day to the English one, then where's the commercial interest in having it in the evening? Unless its going to be 7.45, no broadcaster is going to put it up against the English Cup final especially when there's no other games that day. Its effing daft.
It usually coincides with the CL Final - so a 7.45 slot would pit the Scottish Cup Final against the biggest day of the biggest footballing even outside of the World Cup Sounds like a classic SFA move
They are on different days now. UEFA insist that the CL final is the only game that day, its why the Scottish Cup final was a Sunday a few years back. Is that definite?
I'm sure the English Championship play off was played a couple of hours prior to the Champions League Final kicking off.
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7 Jun 2018, 10:40 AM
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Unless the Cup Final is going to be on a different day to the English one, then where's the commercial interest in having it in the evening? Unless its going to be 7.45, no broadcaster is going to put it up against the English Cup final especially when there's no other games that day. Its effing daft.
It usually coincides with the CL Final - so a 7.45 slot would pit the Scottish Cup Final against the biggest day of the biggest footballing even outside of the World Cup Sounds like a classic SFA move
They are on different days now. UEFA insist that the CL final is the only game that day, its why the Scottish Cup final was a Sunday a few years back.
When was the Scottish Cup Final on a Sunday ?
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7 Jun 2018, 10:41 AM
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- 7 Jun 2018, 06:39 AM
Scottish Cup Final an evening kick off and promoted Livingston’s intention to lay a plastic pitch for next season means a quarter of the Premiership clubs will have artificial grass. Well, one is a definite. THE LATE SHOW SFA chief Ian Maxwell says next year’s Scottish Cup final could take place in the EVENING if there’s potential to cash-inThe former Partick Thistle supremo is hoping to announce a TV deal soon for the competition and admits it could be a later kick-off Spoiler: click to toggle By Derek McGregor SFA chief executive Ian Maxwell has revealed next season’s Scottish Cup Final could move to an EVENING kick-off time. Maxwell made the stunning admission following his first Hampden AGM as successor to the axed Stewart Regan. He is confident a broadcast deal for the William Hill-sponsored competition is all but secured and close to being announced. And Maxwell, who quit as chief of relegated Partick Thistle, stated the traditional 3pm start for the showpiece CAN’T be allowed to get in the way if there’s the potential to cash-in by meeting any TV demands for change. SFA chiefs also have a new major sponsor to find following Vauxhall’s decision to pull out this summer. But Maxwell, 43, is confident commercial chief Chris Rawlings is on the ball with negotiations — helped by what he regards an attractive Scottish football scene. Asked directly if we could soon be following the lead of the English FA who six years ago controversially moved their Cup Final at Wembley to a 5.15pm kick-off, he said: “I’ll be honest with you, I don’t think anything is off the table. You would be daft to go into a negotiation with a position of ‘we don’t want, we don’t want, we don’t want’. “There is obviously a value attached to all these things and it’s about getting as much as we possibly can. “If that’s a decision that is made because we think it is in the best interests of the association and Scottish football, then so be it. “In terms of the William Hill Scottish Cup, we hope to be in a position whether it is a few weeks or a month to say ‘listen, we have got a broadcast deal for that’. “It is well documented the sponsorship is up but there are a number of people who are interested, it is not like we have nobody. “When you look at Scottish football and how we are trying to sell it, you’ve got Steven Gerrard coming in at Rangers, you’ve got Hibs and Aberdeen doing well in the last couple of seasons. “There are a lot of things that we have to talk up and use it as leverage to get the best deal we can. “Obviously, Celtic have done tremendously well to win the Treble in each of the last two seasons, but whether they can maintain that level remains to be seen. “The stronger we can get Scottish football as a whole, whether teams are challenging for the title or just European or cup final places, the better. Even the relegation battle was exciting this year.” Promoted Livingston’s intention to lay a plastic pitch for next season means a quarter of the Premiership clubs will have artifical grass. But Maxwell’s ‘fine’ with that, providing the quality of it is good enough. He said: “I don’t have concerns about it. Even the guys who have artificial pitches would say they would prefer to play on a good grass surface every week. “But because of the climate we are in, and costs of maintaining pitches, a lot of clubs go down the synthetic road now and it’s difficult to argue with it.” https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/2748438/sfa-ian-maxwell-scottish-cup-late-kick-off/
Oh I can just see the boys in blue agreeing to that in the event that we meet the great unwashed in the final!
Hiya Gary !!!
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7 Jun 2018, 11:39 AM
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They are on different days now. UEFA insist that the CL final is the only game that day, its why the Scottish Cup final was a Sunday a few years back.
When was the Scottish Cup Final on a Sunday ? The year we beat Hibs. Bank holiday weekend as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%E2%80%9313_Scottish_Cup
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7 Jun 2018, 11:44 AM
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Amazon buys one of the remaining English Premier League packages. No current details on value.
BT buys the other for $90m a season, £270m in total.
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7 Jun 2018, 11:52 AM
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Amazon buys one of the remaining English Premier League packages. No current details on value.
BT buys the other for $90m a season, £270m in total. The Amazon deal is two full cards, one in midweek and one on a bank holiday
Be interesting to see the viewing figures for some of the shampooter games going head to head with some big teams
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7 Jun 2018, 11:56 AM
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Amazon buys one of the remaining English Premier League packages. No current details on value.
BT buys the other for $90m a season, £270m in total.
The Amazon deal is two full cards, one in midweek and one on a bank holiday Be interesting to see the viewing figures for some of the shampooter games going head to head with some big teams Interesting. Certainly good news for the SPFL rights too. I heard that there was three interested parties, so I wonder if one of those parties is Amazon.
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7 Jun 2018, 01:02 PM
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Amazon buys one of the remaining English Premier League packages. No current details on value.
BT buys the other for $90m a season, £270m in total.
The Amazon deal is two full cards, one in midweek and one on a bank holiday Be interesting to see the viewing figures for some of the shampooter games going head to head with some big teams The idea will be to prevent as many clashes as possible to maximise value. The Premier League had already announced that the games in these fixtures rounds don't all have to start at the same time.
So the midweek fixtures will be split between Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, with something like 3 fixtures on each of the first two nights and then two on the Thursday.
Depending on what's been agreed, you could even see a 7pm and 9pm kick off time for games taking place on the same night, not unlike the Europa League, and Champions League from this season.
They'll put the Bank Holiday fixtures back to back to back like La Liga does on a Saturday and Sunday. They could end up with four games in different slots starting from 12 and then can schedule at least one game on the day either side of the Bank Holiday.
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7 Jun 2018, 01:05 PM
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- 7 Jun 2018, 10:05 AM
I watched The Asterisk Years the other night - wasn't great to be fair.
I went to see ABC when it was premiered in Malone's
Haven't watched Armageddon yet
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7 Jun 2018, 01:19 PM
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Drawing with Iran was one of the worst results in Scotland's entire history. That show confirmed previous stories, they did zero research on their opponents, and scraped a point against utter dross, and got pumped by a Peru side that they should be beating with the squad that Scotland had there. Then in classic Scotland fashion, somehow pulled themselves into having a faint chance in the last match, but also effed that up as well. The phrase "glorious failure" seems like it was designed for Scotland.
Noticed we did not have 1 player in the squad...before my time but were we THAT bad we had 0 player(s) in the squad? NB - Know the huns won the treble that year was it close or where they far and away better than us and a other teams? we had just come out of one of our worst seasons ... 36 points from 36 games, finished 5th. Danny was injured or would have travelled. Nobody else was even close, we were woeful! As mentioned the previous summer we'd went there on tour after beating England at Wembley and got good resukts. McGrain was injured as was Gordon McQueen, although he did travel. I was at Hampden for the England match... the writing was on the wall then
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7 Jun 2018, 01:35 PM
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Drawing with Iran was one of the worst results in Scotland's entire history. That show confirmed previous stories, they did zero research on their opponents, and scraped a point against utter dross, and got pumped by a Peru side that they should be beating with the squad that Scotland had there. Then in classic Scotland fashion, somehow pulled themselves into having a faint chance in the last match, but also effed that up as well. The phrase "glorious failure" seems like it was designed for Scotland.
Noticed we did not have 1 player in the squad...before my time but were we THAT bad we had 0 player(s) in the squad? NB - Know the huns won the treble that year was it close or where they far and away better than us and a other teams?
Peter Latchford Alan Sneddon Andy Lynch Johannes Edvaldsson Roddy MacDonald Mike Conroy George McCluskey Ronnie Glavin Joe Craig Tom McAdam Johnny Doyle Roy Aitken John Dowie Tommy Burns A selection of players from our team that year. Very much transitional. Huns did little after til Sourness. Aitken and Burns were probably too young. Also have to remember Scottish players were mainstays in league and European Cup winning English teams at that time.
Thought it very stange not one of our guys was there but understand Liverpool, Nottingham Forest, Ipswich all had top teams back them whilst we finished lower down in our own league.
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7 Jun 2018, 01:44 PM
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Amazon buys one of the remaining English Premier League packages. No current details on value.
BT buys the other for $90m a season, £270m in total.
The Amazon deal is two full cards, one in midweek and one on a bank holiday Be interesting to see the viewing figures for some of the shampooter games going head to head with some big teams
The idea will be to prevent as many clashes as possible to maximise value. The Premier League had already announced that the games in these fixtures rounds don't all have to start at the same time. So the midweek fixtures will be split between Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, with something like 3 fixtures on each of the first two nights and then two on the Thursday. Depending on what's been agreed, you could even see a 7pm and 9pm kick off time for games taking place on the same night, not unlike the Europa League, and Champions League from this season. They'll put the Bank Holiday fixtures back to back to back like La Liga does on a Saturday and Sunday. They could end up with four games in different slots starting from 12 and then can schedule at least one game on the day either side of the Bank Holiday. What is interesting is that the Premier League won’t seem to divulge how much Amazon paid for the package. I wonder if Amazon got the package at a heavy discount.
I also think that this couldn’t have happened at a better time for the SPFL. It’s just if those in charge have the ability to use this as leverage.
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7 Jun 2018, 01:57 PM
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Drawing with Iran was one of the worst results in Scotland's entire history. That show confirmed previous stories, they did zero research on their opponents, and scraped a point against utter dross, and got pumped by a Peru side that they should be beating with the squad that Scotland had there. Then in classic Scotland fashion, somehow pulled themselves into having a faint chance in the last match, but also effed that up as well. The phrase "glorious failure" seems like it was designed for Scotland.
Noticed we did not have 1 player in the squad...before my time but were we THAT bad we had 0 player(s) in the squad? NB - Know the huns won the treble that year was it close or where they far and away better than us and a other teams?
we had just come out of one of our worst seasons ... 36 points from 36 games, finished 5th. Danny was injured or would have travelled. Nobody else was even close, we were woeful! As mentioned the previous summer we'd went there on tour after beating England at Wembley and got good resukts. McGrain was injured as was Gordon McQueen, although he did travel. I was at Hampden for the England match... the writing was on the wall then I too was at the England match at Hampden. I can remember the looks I got in assembly at school on the Friday morning when the form teacher asked if anyone is going to the match tomorrow. There were only the two of us in the class, the other lad got his through the school football team, and I got mine as a birthday present courtesy of my late uncle- face value £2. It was my first experience of a big match, our tickets were for the old Rangers end, I can remember the “river” that flowed down the dirt terracing, and Hampden really was a dump.
As for the 78 world cup campaign, it showed the SFA for the bunch of bungling blazer wearing amateurs that they were. Absolutely no preparation or scouting the opposition. I think the injury to Gordon McQueen in the home internationals really cost us, if I recall correctly clattered his knee off one of the square posts in the wales game?
The Peru and Iran games were an embarrassment, the Holland game was one of the finest performances I’ve seen from Scotland- pity it was all too late. Didn’t Scotland also get docked 2 points as a results of the positive drugs test or am I making that bit up?
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7 Jun 2018, 02:03 PM
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The programme last night didn't show, that when Scotland went 1-0 up against Peru, they then missed a penalty, Don Mason, which would have made it 2-0.
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The idea will be to prevent as many clashes as possible to maximise value. The Premier League had already announced that the games in these fixtures rounds don't all have to start at the same time. So the midweek fixtures will be split between Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, with something like 3 fixtures on each of the first two nights and then two on the Thursday. Depending on what's been agreed, you could even see a 7pm and 9pm kick off time for games taking place on the same night, not unlike the Europa League, and Champions League from this season. They'll put the Bank Holiday fixtures back to back to back like La Liga does on a Saturday and Sunday. They could end up with four games in different slots starting from 12 and then can schedule at least one game on the day either side of the Bank Holiday.
What is interesting is that the Premier League won’t seem to divulge how much Amazon paid for the package. I wonder if Amazon got the package at a heavy discount. I also think that this couldn’t have happened at a better time for the SPFL. It’s just if those in charge have the ability to use this as leverage. I seen the figure somewhere, cant mind exactly how much it was but it was definitely down from the last set As was the BT one
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The idea will be to prevent as many clashes as possible to maximise value. The Premier League had already announced that the games in these fixtures rounds don't all have to start at the same time. So the midweek fixtures will be split between Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, with something like 3 fixtures on each of the first two nights and then two on the Thursday. Depending on what's been agreed, you could even see a 7pm and 9pm kick off time for games taking place on the same night, not unlike the Europa League, and Champions League from this season. They'll put the Bank Holiday fixtures back to back to back like La Liga does on a Saturday and Sunday. They could end up with four games in different slots starting from 12 and then can schedule at least one game on the day either side of the Bank Holiday.
What is interesting is that the Premier League won’t seem to divulge how much Amazon paid for the package. I wonder if Amazon got the package at a heavy discount. I also think that this couldn’t have happened at a better time for the SPFL. It’s just if those in charge have the ability to use this as leverage. Could be a stipulation of the Amazon contract. But yes, it is conspicuous by its absence.
They made £5.1bn from 2016-19. Even with the other package bought by BT for £270m this time, it brings the total excluding whatever Amazon paid to just shy of £4.75bn. So to stand still the Amazon deal would need to be work £350m.
However that's having offered 96 more live games over the lifetime of the new deal.
You'd have to think that the package they bought is more valuable given it includes a Bank Holiday fixture round, but given it is likely to be a streaming only service, you've got to wonder if Scudamore offered them a discount simply to get them involved.
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7 Jun 2018, 03:59 PM
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- 7 Jun 2018, 02:03 PM
The programme last night didn't show, that when Scotland went 1-0 up against Peru, they then missed a penalty, Don Mason, which would have made it 2-0. No, Peru equalised near the end of the first half. Mason's penalty miss was at the beginning of the second half.
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