Sitting here drinking my honey filled light Horlicks I am enjoying watching Scotland play Costa Rica. Asalways with Scotland the word 'enjoy' is notto be taken seriously.
For a start I have to seek out a stream to watch this game. While England fans have the dubious option of watching their losers on ITV Scots cannot do this, I expect however STV will be showing the England game to rub this in. So folks like me who canny afford 'SKY' have to seek out one of those horrid streams that convey the game to us poor folks, this I have found on malware full 'First Row' and a blessing to go with this is the lack of commentary! No blethering numpty to fill the screen with needless words and talk about a different game from the one I watch.
Of course with another of the 'Old Firm' Glasgow Mafia leading the team it is no surprise to find many of his 'friends' in the side, including a goalkeeper who is second choise at his own team to a better Scots goalie who has not been brought into the squad! We need not mention Charlie Mulgrew who has only one left foot and keptputting the ball onto hisright in the first half. Overall this was nothing special as a game, Costa Rica are preparing for the World Cup in Russia while we are rebuilding once again and the result does not matter but individual performances do. McBurnie at centre looked OK as did McTimanay or whatever his name is in midfield. Both have lots to learn but did no bad. McGinn of Hibs appeared and committed more fouls in ten minutes than most do in 90!
We did make some chances and miss them, they only made one in the second half and hit the bar so in the end I am not to unhappy with this mishmash of a side mainly because theyoung lads did OK.
This is not the first time we have met Costa Rica, during Italia 90 we managed to laugh at this small nation far away and rejoiced at meeeting them. We lost one nil. This however has not led some, especially the hacks, to continue regarding such sides as 'small teams' while we are a big one. That attitude has failed us so often in qualifying for tournaments that you might think it had gone, it hasn't and tonight will not see an end of such arrogance.
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A friend invited us to watch the match at his place....the Costa Rican television commentators were their usual hectic selves for the duration of the match...I don't know what they feed them but I could do with some it.....while the room was full of men in baseball hats worn back to front trying to outdo the commentators for noise while drinking beer.
They were disappointed with the performance of the 'sele', as the national team is known, against one of the the minnows of the football world...
Yet another day of prayer and public humiliation in Scotland on its way...
Fly, Humiliation, gnashing of teeth and tears, the usual response in Scotland. It was not as bad as I thought it would be and will get worse in the next game. Nice to know Costa Rica considers us 'minnows.'
Said very politely, of course....
Fly, Indeed!
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