Tom English
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New coach, new players, but same old failings hamper Scotland (opens the original)
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Scotland fans came to Hampden to welcome the new man, Sebastien Pocognoli, and left with all the woes of old weighing them down as they went. More calamitous defending in the beginning, another self-inflicted wound that was a complete game-changer, another day without a goal - four in a row now. In the early minutes when Jack Hendry got himself sent off, we may as well have been back amid the meltdown of Miami. Then, Scotland gifted Brazil one goal and then two when they made a fiendishly-diffic
Scotland: From turgid to thrusting - mixed start for new Scotland (opens the original)
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For 45 turgid minutes in Slovenia, some in the Tartan Army might have reimagined the Steve Clarke years as a time of plenty, the halcyon era of ambitious football when Scotland were an all-electric thrill-fest. The opening half of the Sebastien Pocognoli regime was, as expected, disjointed. It was also, rather unexpectedly, devoid of anything remotely related to what Pocognoli laid out as his non-negotiables - front-foot pressing, high intensity, speed of thought and mind, goal threat. They had
Robbie Ure: From leaving Rangers to La Liga - Scotland is next step for striker (opens the original)
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Robbie Ure, cool and confident and 22 years old, played 90 minutes for Sevilla against Barcelona at the weekend; 90 minutes of being marked by Pau Cubarsi, man of the match in the World Cup final, 90 minutes of pitch-time with Rodri, player of the tournament, 90 minutes of breathing the same rarefied air as Lamine Yamal. Ure is a part of a new-ish wave of Scotland striker, uncapped but hopeful of making a debut on Saturday away to Slovenia in the Nations League. There is no Lyndon Dykes in Sebas
Leaden, stale, disheartening - where do Celtic & Martin O'Neill go from here? (opens the original)
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To Celtic fans it might seem like sacrilege to doubt Martin O'Neill's capacity to get them through whatever it is they're going through right now - a slump or something deeper - but keeping the faith is surely becoming testing. After their shellacking at Ibrox on Sunday, Celtic's response against Ferencvaros was another heavy defeat and three more goals conceded. More absent-minded stuff in the midfield, more loose defending, more negativity and lack of accuracy on the ball, no great grasp of th
David Gray: Painful endgame as stale Hibernian slump (opens the original)
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It was the strangest kind of farewell; more sadness than satisfaction, more 'thanks for the memories' than 'never darken our door again'. After a dozen years as a player, a goalscoring and Scottish Cup-winning icon, a coach, an interim manager and, for the last two-and-a-bit seasons, the first team manager, David Gray exited Hibernian on Wednesday evening. He left, not to the sound of euphoria from the fans, but to the sound of a support collectively exhaling in relief. Given what he did on an i
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