My Blue Heaven - Vol 2

Well .... oh my god
That must make us world champions or somethin, just like when we tanked The Auld Enemy in 1967 ( the year after something happened can't quite remember now what it was ).

Scotland beat France 1 - 0 at Hampden Park on Saturday to go 9 from 9 in the chase for a european championships place in 2008. France the undoubted best team in the world at the moment ( well not any more ). France who beat ( annihilated ) the world cup winners Italy a couple of weeks ago.

Fantastic, you know what, we jump for joy and can't believe ourselves, but there is a little bit of every Scotsman who in their quitest moment will sit back, slippers on and cigar in hand and rest on the fact that .. this is how it is supposed to be. We invented the game, we took it to the world, we are and have always been the best footballing nation on the planet. What happened on Saturday was just, well normal. Par.

France started the game looking ominous, they looked to a man a head taller than each of us - i commented "You look at the French team and they are all North Africans, Algerian and Nigerian etc just think how good those teams would be / will be when they have the infrastructure that France has got - it is truly frightening"
Henry had a free kick 25 yards out, he took a step and half and stroked the ball at blistering pace onto the far post, it came off and hit Gordon on the head and thankfully slipped wide. If that had gone in, France may have run away with a 5 goal drubbing of Scotland and this entry would be very different. Not to be tho.
2 goals disallowed for offside, and we started to think things may be a bit strange today.
Was this not France's day?
Scotland held out til half time then in the second half done a number on France.
We out thought the French, we allowed them lots of the ball but abjectly refused to allow them to do anything with it. I wouldn't say they got frustrated more a bit perplexed by the scurrying Scottish midfield and defence. We got a chance and we took the chance with a well struck Cauldwell effort from a Hartley outswiging corner. There was only one place the ball could go and Cauldwell found it - so great goal.
France still could not better the Scottish defensive set up and as the game progressed Scotland were the more likely scorers - Hartley, Teale and OConnor all having efforts.
Henry had one chance to level the game but his header was weak and easy for Gordon to collect.

That was it

Scotland 1 France 0

Scotland now travel to Ukraine for the next qualifier on Wednesday. It is way too early yet again ( how many times do i say that ) but if we do beat them ( what am i drivelling about ) and then take points of Italy in our next game against them - both will struggle to catch Scotland.
It is easy because we are the greatest footballing nation in history, we just need to write that history.