STEADY-ON Gordon, many more performances like that against Nigeria last night, and we risk getting above ourselves again. Sure, we only got a draw from a match we probably should have won, but, considering the referee confirmed my long-held belief that English officials are over-rated - there was nothing wrong with the og we didn't get when the African keeper shit himself at being so close to Grant Hanley and flung the ball into his own net, for instance - the Scotland of Berti Vogts, George Burley or Craig Levein would have lost that game.
OK, the Nigerians were better technically than our boys, but, there is a team-spirit in the Scotland squad now whish had got lost for a time. Allan McGregor, Ikichi Anya and Charlie Mulgrew - how he has come on since returning to Celtic are now genuinely international class. Andrew Robertson was terrific, his partnership with Anya is exciting, while Scott Brown still picks-up stupid bookings and gets himself too-involved in the nigglig stuff, he is becoming a genuine Scotland captain.
I liked the look of the boy Martin from Derby and, while his lack of first-team action continues to tell against Alan Hutton at international level, he copes pretty well and, if he can sort out his differences with Paul Lambert and get into the Villa first team, it will be all the better for Scotland.
I WAS at BT Murrayfield yesterday for the big renaming launch. One of the other hacks present was a man whom I had always thought of an a Rangers obsessive - a definite fan with a lap top, and fully-paid-up scommittee member of the Lap Top Loyal.
They don't get it. This guy still insists the convicted fraudster, failed director of the now dead Rangers, is THE man to lead the current tribute act to the promised land - a return to dominance of Scottish football, If that is the mind-set of one of the university-educated, member of a profession Rangers fans - then I am afraid - the tribute act will surely go the way of the real Rangers. They have learned nothing from the club's downfall.
ONE name I haven't seen mentioned as a possible replacement for Neil Lennon at Celtic Park, is that of Paul Lambert. He has served a managerial apprenticeship, he has coped well in difficult circumstances at Villa Park, and, while his survival there perhaps owes as much to the common-sense ownership of Randy Lerner, who refused to join the English Premiership charge into sackig the manager when his team wasn't in the top eight of that division - I thik Paul has done ok.
He is used to working on a limited budget, he has a terrific European pedigree and was a past Celtic captain. For me, he ticks many-more boxes than some other names which have been bandied about.
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