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If you were in any doubt, it seems there is no justice in this world. On the one hand you have
Scotland, a team who have proven to be formidable opposition to the likes of France, Italy and
Ukraine and on the other you have England, a team that have regularly failed to convince its
supporters that it can beat anyone, regardless of stature.
For Scotland, sadly, qualification to Euro 2008 is now no longer possible.
Alex McLeish and Dick Advocaat go back a bit. As the latter moved upstairs from the manager's chair
to the general manager's office at Ibrox in 2001, he recommended to Rangers Chairman David Murray
that he should pluck Alex McLeish from Hibernian to take up his old job. The two have been friends
ever since, [.
Well, this news would matter more to me if these teams were any good.
Derby will be going down regardless; they are simply the worst Premiership team I've seen in years
and Paul Jewell won't be able to save them this season.
I picked Birmingham to join Derby in the Championship next year as well, and that was with Steve
Bruce at the helm, who I believe is a good manager and possibly could've kept the team up.
It doesn't get any better for Scottish football fans. As if failing to qualify for Euro 2008 at the
latest possible moment wasn't bad enough, now they find that their inspirational leader Alex
McLeish has resigned and won't be there to begin the 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign.
It's a shame as the Scottish FA must have considered itself lucky to have appointed McLeish the
last time they were in this situation on January 10th of this year when Walter Smith resigned.
Newcastle followed up their creditable performance against Arsenal with a heartening 2-1 against
Birmingham City to ease their Premier League woes, and give manager Sam Allardyce some much needed
breathing space.
They made it hard for themselves with a gift opener to Cameraon Jerome after only nine minutes.
