We’ve got party started, don’t let hangover kick in
It looked a belter of a night in today or Israel in midweek, and Belgrade and we can forgive a we’ll finish top of Group B2 –
GANNON COLUMN few heads still feeling a tad sore which will win us promotion to on the way to Slovakia. the top group.
No one is going to hold it Then there will be gold in them against the Scotland squad. thar hills, folks.
If you could bottle the feeling Scotland in the A section is a of the last couple of days, carryworld of possibilities. We’d be out shops would have to clear in with the best countries on the the Buckie off their shelves. planet but even if we got hosed
These boys deserved to have in every game there’d still be a a monster party after what they chance to bounce straight into did for the country. the play-offs for the next Euros.
We’ve been drowning our Listen the bounce we get from sorrows for so long it was about going to this one might give us time we’d something to celebrate. the momentum to do it without
But let’s just hope the fog has the need of these heart-attack cleared by this afternoon as matches but there’s no harm in they are not finished yet. having an insurance policy.
Ach, it’s only the This is how it feels Nations League, to be a side on the folk might say. They up. Good things might have a point. start to happen to
It’s not the be all good teams. and end all, and after We have seen reaching the Euros it with Wales and it’s way down the list Northern Ireland. of priorities. For years they were
We’d all love even our struggling to fast forward Celtic cousins. to June – a major During the championship and wilderness years, a vaccine for this at least we were ruddy Covid? not finishing at the
But we need bottom of groups. to hang on a wee All of a sudden minute. Scotland are in a decent they sparked to life, climbed the position in the Nations League. rankings, got better draws, and If Steve Clarke’s heroes can eventually made major tourneys sneak another couple of results and the good times rolled. this week we could get another Now this could be our turn. wee bonus down the line. That’s not to say we have to
Scotland could be guaranteed beat Slovakia. Clarke might a play-off for the World Cup. have to give some of his men a
Okay, it’s a long shot, and day off after Thursday’s epic. even if they do end up one of But that should just give some the few best group winners who of the other players not involved haven’t already qualified, we’d in Belgrade a first chance to put still need to roll two sixes and down a marker for next summer. repeat the alphabet backwards Slovakia might be a bit while hopping on one foot, hazy themselves after doing rubbing our tummies and the same as us in Serbia to patting our heads. Northern Ireland in Belfast.
But it’s still worth a shot. Look This clash could be reeking of where the last Nations League more booze than the Glasgow got us. & District Saturday Morning
The Nations League has been League but unlike us they have a blooming godsend – and it nothing to play for and could could be again. just be fulfilling the fixture.
It’s not just the World Cup that Let’s go out and do a job on could come in to sight down this them, because we all know the path either. Scotland just need best cure for a hangover is to to win one more game, Slovakia keep the party going.
If you could bottle feeling of last few days, carry out shops would have to clear Buckie off shelves