23-07-2016, 12:27
I wish I had paid closer attention to the downturn in the fortunes of Scottish football. I assumed it was a temporary blip and that once you threw a few sandbags overboard you'd start rising again. It hasn't happened and it's been years.
I watched Laura Muir last night, full of determination charging away from a top class field in the athletics and started to wonder why there isn't even one Scottish lad poised to rip up our, or even your, Premier League ........ There has to be the natural talent out there, it can't all be full of stereotypical fried Mars bars, or playing FIFA. You had better players when there was rickets in The Gorbals, it doesn't make sense.
You were always a proud footballing nation, not always for what you achieved, but for the dreams the sometimes brilliant players you produced created in the minds of supporters. And now those poetic dreams have turned to heavyweight prose. Okay it is probably an English idiot's romantic vision, but I wouldn't mind seeing a Scottish kid nutmeging a galumphing Allardyce England midfielder and laying it up to a forward who throws in his Cruyff turn to baffle the defence before rolling the ball into the net. I can see that to produce those sparks of brilliance you'd need a whole bonfire of decent players playing in a competitive environment .... but the guy has to be wrong that you shouldn't be surprised by the Hearts result, you must be horrified ... and by Celtic's performances too. It can't be right can it that Division 2 players in England go up to Scotland and are quite successful in a Premiership?
I make a joke of most things, but Scotland's too good for this. When Hibs winning but going out at Brondby really is a bright spot there's something very wrong. Maybe it's a political corner that needs to be turned, like independence, I don't know. I wish Hibs every success this season and next when back challenging Celtic and Rangers. Maybe that's what it needs, like Leicester in England, a Hibs just to keep on winning.
I watched Laura Muir last night, full of determination charging away from a top class field in the athletics and started to wonder why there isn't even one Scottish lad poised to rip up our, or even your, Premier League ........ There has to be the natural talent out there, it can't all be full of stereotypical fried Mars bars, or playing FIFA. You had better players when there was rickets in The Gorbals, it doesn't make sense.
You were always a proud footballing nation, not always for what you achieved, but for the dreams the sometimes brilliant players you produced created in the minds of supporters. And now those poetic dreams have turned to heavyweight prose. Okay it is probably an English idiot's romantic vision, but I wouldn't mind seeing a Scottish kid nutmeging a galumphing Allardyce England midfielder and laying it up to a forward who throws in his Cruyff turn to baffle the defence before rolling the ball into the net. I can see that to produce those sparks of brilliance you'd need a whole bonfire of decent players playing in a competitive environment .... but the guy has to be wrong that you shouldn't be surprised by the Hearts result, you must be horrified ... and by Celtic's performances too. It can't be right can it that Division 2 players in England go up to Scotland and are quite successful in a Premiership?
I make a joke of most things, but Scotland's too good for this. When Hibs winning but going out at Brondby really is a bright spot there's something very wrong. Maybe it's a political corner that needs to be turned, like independence, I don't know. I wish Hibs every success this season and next when back challenging Celtic and Rangers. Maybe that's what it needs, like Leicester in England, a Hibs just to keep on winning.