Nor-er-Iron, Nor-er-Iron

Best of luck to the mighty green and white army and that they do themselves justice against the England *spit* "we're too good to be playing the likes of you" Team. Lawrie Sanchez has us playing a lot better since he took over, added a bit of confidence and got the team scoring a few goals. Who can forget the shame of the world record 1298 minutes of International football without a single goal? Hopefully Walter Smith can instill a similar bit of order and confidence in the Scotland team who had further to fall than my own Norn Iron based on past glory.

When the qualification groups were announced it was obvious that England would stroll through to the finals in Germany 2006 without any shocks or worries. I notice Eriksson has stated that they have a good chance of winning football's ultimate prize this time but with him at the helm they'll win nothing. They should have won the World Cup in 2002 but for Eriksson's tactical inaptitude and misguided loyalty to fading stars and should have walked their way to the European Championship but for their lack of a Plan B with failure, again lying at the door of Eriksson. He's got everything he wants now with the break to prepare immediately before the tournament so will have no excuses when he fails. I suppose a few key injuries will put a shade of doubt in peoples minds but the rumblings have been getting louder recently about the manager's ability (or lack there of). Failure again will see him go with a nice payoff in the back pocket and zero success with an individually talented team (in today's meagre pickings of World football).

Remember, "We exist"

Our wee country

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