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  1. We are building up quite the portfolio. Playing the Soviet Union after it fell apart (1992), Yugoslavia as it headed towards oblivion (1989), playing Ukraine after it got occupied (2022). Could be that no one's too worried about drawing us in future from a football point of view, but they might fear it's a jinx, and their whole political infrastructure's about to topple.
  2. It's great that you know what's going to happen between now and June. Well done
  3. Music! Aye. Why stop there? Give us jelly and ice cream before the game, maybe some balloons to blow up. I was just saying to ma mate after we failed to qualify yet again, y'know I'm not that bothered about the football not being up to much, what I really want is an Improved Customer Experience Thank you, SFA, you're on the ball and no mistake
  4. I like going different places and finding things different and not as antiseptic as football has now become in the UK ..... but how can it be allowed to have a ground where people can only go out by going back through turnstiles (two for several thousand people). If there'd been a need to get out quickly, or just some frustrated shoving from the back, people would have been hurt, or worse Transport to and from the ground was a joke too, but that's just annoying. Those turnstiles were genuinely dangerous
  5. Why? WHY? nothing to do with Scotland, nothing to do with Scottish football Idiots
  6. Kiev, yes, worst ever for me. Shite strewn all over the floor in the bogs. I've seen some pretty horrible sights in toilets all over the world, but that was the worst I've ever seen at a football match. Kept in afterwards by very aggressive police and then let out into the night just in time for the local neds to have assembled to pick us off. Neza in 86 was a mess but brilliant locals
  7. Well put. I agree. I'd like to think the commemoration before the match will be respectful too. But I doubt it. It'll be jingoistic bollocks, squaddies carting on the match ball, union flags fluttering at all corners, chinless wonders like the Duke of York and the Prime Minister in attendance, tannoy demands that we remember all the sacrifices made (but not by those on the wrong end of British imperial power)
  8. Your local pub's full of half wits who don't understand the first thing about football, is it? Do they say things like "may the best team win" and "at the end of the day it's only a game". Sure they wouldn't be better off with a rugger scarf? FFS. The TA has got far too many people in it who don't care if we lose as long as they get on telly swinging their kilt over their heid, but people who buy half and half scarfs are the scum of the bourgeois earth It's football it's not the F£$%^&g gay gordons
  9. I wouldn't usually get too worried about a few away fans in home sections. But I was puzzled last night by the sheer number of Polish fans last night round Hampden before the game absolutely steaming, carrying plastic bags full of cans, and attracting no attention at all from the police. I've seen plenty of Scots lifted for far less in Glasgow
  10. It's a good point. It's all got a bit ridiculous in recent years - it does look like a big fancy-dress party, with almost everyone having chosen the same outfit. And the TA is getting older too, as well as more homogenous. That picture from 1996 does hammer home how it's changed. Not for the better, to my taste. Was a great half-time though. And the difference between 96 - needed a bit of attention but basically safe - and 99 - not safe at all - was enormous
  11. WONDERFUL place!! Don't even think about driving yourself. Easy and cheap to hire a driver, any hotel or guesthouse will sort you out. Safe everywhere, far safer than the UK. Amazingly friendly people. Food .... o wow. Food. Colombo's an acquired taste - very busy, hard to get a grip on what's what, and where things are. Galle is good, Kandy lovely. And just enjoy it
  12. Yep, don't let it get too low
  13. Plan very little, is my advice. One of the beauties of interrail is hooking up with people by chance, following advice from a bloke in a bar ... or just turning up at a station mid-evening and picking a night train at random, and see where you wake up. Go east, go south for cheapness. Wouldn't bother much with France. San Sebastian is great, you can't really go wrong in Spain, and Portugal is good too, but only go to the Algarve if you like golf and expat bores telling you Farage has got the right idea. Italy's brilliant everywhere, random small towns can be amazing, Slovenia, Croatia too ... it's all great! Though I wouldn't worry too much about Scandinavia or Switzerland, which are a bit sedate and crazy expensive. Skip England too, it's shite
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