Slovenia victory a means to end our campaign of pain
Is it high treason to hope for a Slovenia win over Scotland at Hampden tonight?
Surely backing against your own country for the greater good isn’t criminal disloyalty if it’s a cry for change.
But this is a World Cup qualifier like no other. It’s an amnesty international, with pardons available for the growing number who hope we don’t pick up a point.
Make no mistake. There’s mutiny afoot, with some of the Tartan Army hoping that defeat for Gordon Strachan will herald the end of his reign as national boss.
What a predicament, eh? The other scenario is just as unbearable.
In the unlikely event that Slovenia join Gibraltar and Malta as the only scalps Scotland have taken in competitive matches over the last two and a half years, the pain will be prolonged.
Delusional statements of staging a Group F revival will be dragged out until England arrive in June and duly complete our embarrassment.
Hoping for Scotland to fail shouldn’t sit well with anyone – but there is a bigger act of betrayal afoot. The SFA’s failure to act after Scotland’s 3- 0 defeat at Wembley back in November, and indulging Strachan’s belief that qualification is still a reality, should have led to demands for Stewart Regan to resign. The chief executive has shown scant regard for the public mood – a trademark of his time in office.
The Englishman’s an exhibit in waiting at the Hampden Football Museum as the man they couldn’t axe.
The sycophantic backing chorus of SFA blazers such as president Alan McRae and his accomplice Rod Petrie are also two expense accounts that can be sacrificed when there’s an appetite for revolt.
Strachan’s a good guy, a hero of mine, but Kenny