Wednesday, 8 September 2010

Euro 2012 for L'Ecosse?

Well having never learnt my lesson I sat down to enjoy/ watch Scotland play Liechtenstein in Glasgow in the football as qualification for Euro 2012. Surely it was going to be an easier result against weak opposition and surely guaranteed points at home. I forget that Scotland NEVER do things the easy way and I'd sooner put money on them against the bigger nations than trusting them against the smaller nations!

Lets set the picture..... Liechtenstein are ranked about 144th in the world, their population would struggle to fill all of Hampden Park and they don't have a team of full time pros. One of their players is a mechanic for example. Now Scotland have had some howlers in the past but surely this was a definite 3 points....surely?

Well the first half went past and no goals were scored. One minute into the second half Liechtenstein scored. A wonderful goal to be fair and suddenly we had to face the facts that forget a draw being a bad result we might actually lose the game. Now Liech. have only ever won 5 games and there best ever result was a draw against Portugal. This would be without fail Scotland's worst ever football result (impressive since we've had a few!) and would end any Euro 2012 hopes.

FINALLY after about 60 minutes Scotland scored the equaliser but still a draw probably wouldn't be enough. In a league with Spain and the Czech Rep. you need all your points and especially at home to Leich. The game went on and the presumed winner never seemed to come, it was going to be a terrible night for Scottish sport....again! 90 minutes passed and unbelievably 7 minutes into injury time Mc Manus scored Scotland's winner 2-1. For once we had had some luck and been saved a lot of blushes. It also turned out that Lithuania had beaten Czech Rep. a great result for us. So what had been on the verge of a terrible night for anyone Scottish actually 7 minutes into injury time ended up being a pretty good night. Not a pretty result but they all count.....bring on Spain!!!!

Tuesday, 7 September 2010

Another epic!

Well the last game was an epic beauty but this game was truely awesome. South Africa vs. Australia in Bloemfontein. It looked at one point as if Australia were going to walk it as they were very clinical and South Africa just weren't in the game. Australia led 31- 6 at one point.

The second half started and South Africa woke up and unbelievably pulled it back to 31-30 then took the lead. A period of lead swopping took place and it was just a hugely entertaining game to watch. 8 Tries. Then as the clock hit 80 South Africa gave away a penalty on half way on the side. A difficult last gasp kick to win it and Beale stroked it over with no effort at all. Australia won 41-39.

South Africa will be gutted but Australia probably deserved it on the whole despite an impressive come back from South Africa. South Africa will be gutted to lose but having had a bit of luck last week they can't complain. Having been so close to beating the All Blacks though as well they will feel hard done by. What a game though and can only be a good advert for the Rugby Union.

Wednesday, 1 September 2010

South Africa v. Australia....an epic!

What a game. 9 Tries in an enthralling, epic game! South Africa finally run out winners 44- 31. After Australia led all the way through the 1st half but SA never gave in and with some mammoth kicks and great tries run out winners! New Zealand can't be caught in the championship but 3 games still remain. SA play Australia again and Australia have 2 tests left against the All Blacks. Come on Scotland!!!!!!