World Cup 2026

[bigmanbob]

Theres no way Clarke is under pressure BTW.

[Big Nevs Vaz]

Disappointed for all our Scottish Blues. It was a really tough draw when you look at some of the groups. Fingers crossed there's still a route through.
I think the second tier of Europe are struggling. Czechs, Turkey dumped out, Sweden struggling, Belgium looking poor enough too.

[AjaxAndy]

Qatar player Modibo has been given a 5 match ban for breaking Canadian player Kone's leg.

They didn't show the incident properly on TV but it looked pretty innocuous and that he only got sent off once the officials realised the extent of the injury and not because of the challenge.

Has anyone seen proper replays that show it warrants a 5 game ban?

[sam of the south]

Qatar player Modibo has been given a 5 match ban for breaking Canadian player Kone's leg.

They didn't show the incident properly on TV but it looked pretty innocuous and that he only got sent off once the officials realised the extent of the injury and not because of the challenge.

Has anyone seen proper replays that show it warrants a 5 game ban?

Gomes on Son vibes.

For that reason alone I now feel a kinship with the Qatari's

[sam of the south]

Hasn't Beckham heard of using Sun protection, as red as a beetroot.

It was all that UB40 he was tucking into

[Shogun]

Qatar player Modibo has been given a 5 match ban for breaking Canadian player Kone's leg.

They didn't show the incident properly on TV but it looked pretty innocuous and that he only got sent off once the officials realised the extent of the injury and not because of the challenge.

Has anyone seen proper replays that show it warrants a 5 game ban?

Bizarre. It was a yellow card at most.

[Gash]

Theres no way Clarke is under pressure BTW.

Yeah, he won't be under pressure having just signed a new deal but if he hadn't signed I think they'd have parted ways after that.

We can play the hard luck card, apparently there wasn't another group with two of the top seven in the world in it so we knew it was going to be difficult but it was more the manner of how we've approached it. Lack of ambition against Haiti and silly mistakes are the main factors but most of the issues have been problems for Scottish football for a long time. Keepers not playing at club level and lack of decent strikers and not scoring goals have been issues for years now and there's not a lot of sign of that changing.

[Audrey Horne]

Slightly! Although Panama are ranked like 35 places higher than Ghana bizarrely.

No way!!!!!

[toffee_scot]

Credit to Clarke to get Scotland qualifying for a Workd Cup and 2 Euros but I do think it’s time for a different approach. It won’t happen, he’s seen as Scotland’s most successful manager based on qualifying for 3 tournaments which tells you all you need to know about how poor Scotland have been as a national team historically.

The reality also is, apart from about 3, maybe 4 players, the current Scotland team and what’s available is not good enough. If they were an English football club they would be a struggling Championship or decent League 1 club.

Disappointing considering the Tartan Army’s presence and how great their support has been, that clearly hasn’t rubbed off on the players. Even afterwards both McGinn and Clarke were pessimistic and believed they were going home. They probably never had the belief they do something more or the pressure got to them, from the manager right down to the players.

Anyway, it was still nice seeing the support here in Glasgow and going to the bars to see one of the games. For a while it does lift spirits a bit being in a big competition like this.

Good luck to Carlo Ancelotti, out of all the former Everton managers in this tournament I’d really like him to win the World Cup. Just think, 6 years ago, he was walking along Crosby beach during lockdown thinking about how to get the best out of Tom Davies, Michael Keane and Mason Holgate, then he became a Champions League winning manager again twice, if he wins the World Cup, Hollywood should make a blockbuster film about this.