Okay, I fully understand why Kris Boyd was angry on Saturday night. He is the best goalscorer Scotland have had since McCoist and yet cannot get a game for club and country. He should have been brought on in the 2nd half on Saturday at the very least BUT Kris should have kept his cool. He could easily have spoken out in the media without allowing himself to be painted as the bad guy. He could have made a strong emotional and patriotic case to play based upon his impressive scoring ratio. Burley’s impassioned rhetoric on Monday was certainly persuasive to those of us who could only dream of playing for Scotland at Hampden.
I am sure Kris knows deep down that he over-reacted. I would have played Boyd and McFadden in a 4-4-2 and i would not have asked our best dribbler, Faddy to play with his back to goal. I mean, have you seen how wee McFadden actually is? Who was Burley kidding? He is not Dalglish and doesn’t claim to be.
I want Burley to succeed but i fear that the rootlessness which characterised Vogts’ reign as manager has crept back into our game. And if he fails, who is next? Maybe old smiler, Jim Jefferies should get a shout.
Anyway, we are still 2nd in our group so we have lots to play for, even if we can expect little change out of the Netherlands games. Fingers crossed.
A bigger question i wish to ask is; does anyone else feel like cringing when they hear flower of Scotland nowadays? It just seems rather juvenile and pathetic when we are singing about what happened nearly a millenium ago. And can we move off blaming the English for everything in the process?
Apart from their sports commentators, who are fair game as far as i am concerned.
