| Matchday Thread : Serbia v Scotland 16:42 - Nov 12 with 494 views | KeithHaynes |
Euro 2020 play-off final: Serbia v Scotland
Venue: Rajko Mitic Stadium, Belgrade Date:
Thursday, 12 November Time: 19:45 GMT
Coverage: Listen to commentary on BBC Radio Scotland and follow live text updates on the BBC Sport website & app; watch highlights on Sportscene
Not that we're counting, you understand. Not that the last 22 years are burned into the consciousness of all Scotland fans, but that's how long it has been since the men's senior team last played a game at a major championship. Twenty-two years. Or 268 months, or 1168 weeks or 8,178 days if you really want to be precise. Leaving the pitch after a 3-0 loss to Morocco that put them put them out of the 1998 World Cup, the Scotland players would have been a pretty demoralised crew.
Imagine you told them then that most of them would be in their 50s and their manager, Craig Brown, would be in his 80s and they'd still be waiting for Scotland to get back to that kind of stage. You wouldn't have needed consoling words that day in Saint-Etienne, you'd have needed smelling salts - and possibly stretchers.
It's been largely grim for more than two decades. The 1-1 and the 2-2 in Toftir against the Faroes, the 1-0 loss to Belarus in Glasgow, the 1-0 loss to Macedonia in Skopje, the 4-0 in Norway, the 3-0 in Slovakia, the 3-0 in Kazakhstan. Snapshots from 20 years of post-mortems on the state of the game. Teachers' strike, street football, the weather, computer games. The crisis has been played out on a loop. Reports have been commissioned and chins have been stroked. Managers have been counted in and managers have been counted out, almost all of them diminished and scarred by the experience.
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| Matchday Thread : Serbia v Scotland on 22:24 - Nov 12 with 457 views | britferry |
they go in to England's group, play them at Wembley and then get 2 games at Hampden... and look where we have to travel after getting to the semi's last time |  |
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| Matchday Thread : Serbia v Scotland on 23:09 - Nov 12 with 425 views | Fireboy2 |
| Matchday Thread : Serbia v Scotland on 22:24 - Nov 12 by britferry |
they go in to England's group, play them at Wembley and then get 2 games at Hampden... and look where we have to travel after getting to the semi's last time |
They will still lose all three, if its played at those grounds of course |  | | |
| Matchday Thread : Serbia v Scotland on 07:50 - Nov 13 with 355 views | britferry |
| Matchday Thread : Serbia v Scotland on 23:09 - Nov 12 by Fireboy2 |
They will still lose all three, if its played at those grounds of course |
it was already drawn, so if Scotland made it, they would go in to Group D with Engerland, Croatia & Czech Republic | |
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| Matchday Thread : Serbia v Scotland on 08:26 - Nov 13 with 352 views | Fireboy2 |
| Matchday Thread : Serbia v Scotland on 07:50 - Nov 13 by britferry |
it was already drawn, so if Scotland made it, they would go in to Group D with Engerland, Croatia & Czech Republic |
And I said IF the games are played at those grounds.
Didnt you see the headline last week stating that the euros might be in just one country? And that might be russia. | | | |
| Matchday Thread : Serbia v Scotland on 09:37 - Nov 13 with 334 views | britferry |
| Matchday Thread : Serbia v Scotland on 08:26 - Nov 13 by Fireboy2 |
And I said IF the games are played at those grounds.
Didnt you see the headline last week stating that the euros might be in just one country? And that might be russia. |
No, missed that... England wont be happy, they got the final | |
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