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!!!!