Scottish Football Frustrations
The Old Firm buying up the best players from other Scottish teams and then complaining about the lack of competition. Gordon Strachan is the latest culprit. He has spent the past couple of years buying the best players from Hibs & Hearts and he then has the cheek to say there isn't enough competition in the SPL. Doesn't take a genius to figure out why.
Managers from clubs spending time talking about other clubs. Jimmy Calderwood is a good example but the latest culprit is Stevie Frail who has developed an obsession with Hibs. He has spent a lot of time trying to talk them down, the latest claim was that Hearts have a better squad than Hibs, he doesn't rate the young Hibs players and he thinks Hearts had a better season than Hibs. Now I happen to disagree with all these points (Hibs won a cup and Hearts won ......... nothing) but it annoys me that Frail thinks he can comment on Hibs. He has no idea what goes on at Easter Road so he isn't qualified to make any announcements. He should follow the lead of John Collins and stick to talking about his own club.
Celtic's insistence of effectively taking over the Scottish Cup Final and turning it into a farewell party. They did it in 2004 for Larsson, in 2005 for Martin O'Neill and this year for Neil Lennon. It devalues the Scottish and isn't fair on whichever team Celtic happen to be playing in the final (Sadly this is never Hibs). I can appreciate Larsson and O'Neill deserved a send off for their achievements but don't make it the cup final. The less said about Lennon the better, he really isn't a good role model and doesn't deserve to be canonised in this way.
Every Scotland manager who picks on Old Firm youngster after he has played a couple of good games. This despite the fact that there are players at other clubs who have been playing consistently well for a number of season yet are overlooked as they don't play in Glasgow. The latest example of this is Alan Hutton (who it was generally agreed was mince until he had some good games) being picked ahead of Steven Whittaker despite the fact Whittaker has been one of Hibs top players for the last 3 years.
3 comments:
Did you call this posting lemon on account of you being so bitter?
That's the second time i've heard you rant about steven frail! You should be like John Collins and just talk about yourself. You have no idea what goes on in the head of Steven Frail etc...
Lemon works in a couple of ways...
The difference between myself and shaggy is that I am ranting on my own personal blog not doing it in the media. Plus it's not like I'm offically connected to Hibs.
If Hearts really do think they are a big team, why is their coach spending so much time talking about the so called "wee team"?
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