Scotland qualifying, the hard way as always, for the Euro's last night was a welcome change from the mass of bumf that fills the screen these days. By outplaying a feared Serbian side they deservedly won through. Only Scotland however could allow the enemy to score an equaliser in the 90th minute of this game, an equaliser they did not deserve, and then, exhausted by the efforts over the previous hour and a half, almost throw everything away at the end. Then, after an excellent penalty shoot out, it would be hard to find nine better taken penalties anywhere, and one excellent save from David Marshall we, at last, get back into the old routine.
In my youth Scotland made a habit of qualifying for such tournaments before throwing away all advatages on offer. World Cup and European Nations would come and go, the only failure being not getting out of the section once we got there. Nations close by with easier sections, as always, managed this regularly, even if they failed to make it to the finals in 1994 in the USA. Now we have once again got back to normal I look forward to a glorious failure this summer, knives in the back for individual stars, and a mess of Bull in all the media. That's normal in this country. However, for now we enjoy and look forward with a smile, whatever that is!
Here is an excellent photo, not just because it catches the bright light indoors against the twilight outside, but because it appears Dominic is leaving. I say 'appears' as we all know how much a part acting plays with this lot. He may well be moving out, but his henchmen remain indoors, and his contact with his puppet will continue.
There are those who consider a change is under way, Brexiteers are worrying, IDS and Redwood are spouting, and Brexit is six or so weeks away and many backbench Tories are worried, a 'No Deal Brexit may lose their seat, it may also hurt the nation but they are worried mostly about losing their seat!
Our Heroic PM, the one hiding in a fridge, I suppose has seen a danger in this, the danger he may be pushed out in disgrace, something he wishes to avoid. Moving Dominic, if indeed this is genuine, and obeying this weeks girlfriend, might just save his face. Bidens victory has influencefuture talks.
Biden himself has shown his dark side. This Roman Catholic, this nice man, has already stated he will give funds to those who murder children in abortion and reverse laws banning this murder. That may give him support among the selfish but will lose it elsewhere. This was a foolish move at this time.
Scotland qualifying? Pass me the fan and the smelling salts!
ReplyDeleteNothing nice about Biden......despite how he is painted.
Dominic is still in charge of the "Dr. Strangelove" style nad megalomaniac project Moonshot, which is projected to cost as much as the entire defence budget - I have forgoten the exact figure but its a vast, vast, vast sum anyway in the hundreds of billions, and people who actually know about the subject have not been consulted. So with him in charge, you can sort of think of it as him working from home, not actually leaving. I think he probably insisted on this as a price for not spilling the beans about Johnson yet. They do want us to think he has gone, though.
ReplyDeleteFly, Scotland, I always believed....
ReplyDeleteJenny, Indeed, it all looks like a game being played out.