By Alan Duffy
Alex Horne, with a little Madonna-esque microphone
FA big-wig Alex Horne believes that the much-debated goal-line technology could finally be
introduced into top level football as early as next season. Horne says that if one of the current
systems which are being tested is found to work reliably, then the technology is likely to be
introduced.
Wales and Tottenham Hotspur winger Gareth Bale has caused a bit of controversy after modeling the
supporters shirt for the Great Britain 2012 Olympics football team. The issues are: The Welsh FA
(and Scottish FA) don't want players from their ...
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Football clubs and the media covering them live together as slightly estranged bedfellows,
desirous of one another's company but at times cold or distant when the other's been bad in the
sack. Quite often it is the club in some capacity turning away, demanding the media pick up the
blanket off the end of the bed and to go sleep on the couch for the night.
By Chris Wright
Look what was waiting for us on the doormat this morning, a padded envelope containing a few
photos of the brand new Adidas Scotland home shirt for 2012/13...
We'll have more photos (and a wee promo video) up shortly.
The embossing across the stomach, which incorporates elements of both the old and new Hampden
Park, the Lion Rampant, the Thistle, the 1928 ball used in the 5-1 demolition of England at Wembley
Stadium, the Fleur De Lis and the date 1873, i.
"Ya beauty, a new Scotland strip."
That's me trying to channel my eight year old self because I'm not really sure why anyone who isn't
going to wear it competitively or anyone over school age should get excited about such a thing.
But they do.
And here it is. In all it's glory.
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Lightning indeed strikes twice in the same spot, but this still remains a less reliable
proposition than seeing the Old Firm finishing one on top of another in any given Scottish
Premiership season. Despite this, the engagement of a new campaign in the Scottish top flight
prompts enough questions in need of answering that makes the competition worth a mention.
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax
Of cabbages and kings
And why the sea is boiling hot
And whether pigs have wings."
Lewis Carroll, 'The Walrus and the Carpenter' from ' Through The Looking-Glass and What
Alice Found There'
In the run up to Blatter's coronation we've had all kinds of lurid tales including some
concerning our unsuccessful World Cup bid: principally the suggestion that the FA Cup could be
re-named after Dr.
Sepp Blatter as mad King Lear. "What crisis?"
" Close pent-up guilts,
Rive your concealing continents, and cry
These dreadful summoners grace. I am a man
More sinned against than sinning." (King Lear)
Sepp Blatter could very well use those words for his re-election happening tomorrow.
I thought I'd take "Soccer By The Numbers" literally for a change. How? For years, Google has been
busy digitizing books and printed materials, and they've been going back into historical archives.
So now, researchers (and, well, anyone with access to a computer, like me) can search for words or
phrases that have occurred in print over the past several hundred years, give or take.
Scotland officials have denied Brazilian forward Neymar was the victim of racist abuse during the
friendly match between the two teams at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday.
Neymar told reporters after the game that a banana was thrown on the pitch in his direction and
that he was the target for racist chants during Brazil's 2-0 victory over Craig Levein's side.
I mentioned the other week that I'd been invited to the SFA Grassroots Awards dinner at Hampden.
Strange as it may seem the point of the evening was not actually to give me a free feed.
In fact a number of our game's unsung heroes were honoured. So I'm indebted to Steven at event
sponsor's McDonald's for providing some info on each of the winners.
By Ollie Irish
"Some of my best friends are black women..."
Richard Keys' modus operandi: Casual. Smart casual, casual sexism and – to complete the set
– casual racism.
It seems someone at Sky is really out to harpoon Keys' career (or what's left of it), after
audio of him calling former Ipswich and Nottm Forest striker David Johnson a 'choc jocko' (Johnson
is black and was courted by the Scottish FA for a time).
Mike Grella figured to have a good chance for playing time with Scottish club Motherwell, but
now he won't have that chance.
Grella's loan from Leeds to Motherwell has been cancelled due to FIFA regulations that don't
allow players to play for three clubs in one season. Grella had played for Carlisle United on loan
last fall, an emergency loan neither Leeds or Motherwell believed would count against Grella, but
the Scottish FA put a halt to the loan.
Patrick Kavanagh on The Drum website has an interesting blog in favour of a ten team SPL, comparing
it to the idea of "contraction" in US sport where the number of teams is reduced to increase the
talent on show.
I don't agree with his theory or some his arguments and I'm not sure his idea of complete parity in
the share of TV revenues will ever happen.
Blue Monday. The most depressing day of the year.
Fitting that it was today we heard another version of the SPL's grand new plan for Scottish
football.
Forget the two ten team leagues idea of a couple of weeks ago. The head honchos have listened to
the near universal condemnation of that plan.
Vauxhall Motors has been announced as the Scottish FA's new National Team Sponsor in a
three-and-a-half year deal.
