10-09-2015, 06:50 PM
(Edited 10-09-2015, 06:51 PM by shaun.lawson.)
(10-09-2015, 06:25 PM)Francis Begbie Wrote: Agree totally with this, but the problem is, it's the exact same chat we were having 17 years ago. Nothing has changed because the SFA know upheaval would spell the end of their cushy numbers.
Correct of course. Three bleak turning points:
1. Argentina 1978 - because it stopped future Scotland managers having a real go and trying to develop a bandwagon. The depressing change in Scotland's style began under Big Jock.
2. Portugal 5-0 Scotland 1993, when Strachan himself warned of the wilderness which would follow if root and branch change didn't happen. No-one listened; most just blamed Roxburgh instead. Portugal had achieved very little in international football prior to that night; they've been constant semi-finalists and quarter-finalists since.
3. Scotland 0-3 Morocco 1998. That night, pundits spoke of a whole generation out of major tournaments. I thought they were exaggerating. Couldn't have been more wrong.
Meanwhile, that Scotland's wilderness years began at the exact same point as the Greed Is Good SPL was formed cannot be a complete coincidence.