IggyStooge

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*nervously awaits the return of the prodigal Pepp.

A fitting tribute from Gordon Strachan: "There's some things that you can deal with and there are some things that blow your mind. "The game that I love [football] and the reason why I'm still involved is people. I love football people and one of the greatest factors of my love of the game was Walter. "Whenever I met him, life got better."

An absolute legend of the game. 'Nuff said. Characters like Walter are lost from the game forever and, in my opinion, that's a loss that has added to the safe and sterile nature of modern football. As well as his many successes at Rangers (not least the 92/93 Champion League run and the 2008 UEFA Cup final) and his admirable job of stabilising Scotland and pushing them back up the ranking post-Berti, he should also be remebered as an integral part of the Dundee United golden age of the 80s and, whether it was Mexico or Manchester, he was the man Fergie called upon more than once in his career. No matter what, Scottish football will never forget him and we'll sadly never see his likes again.

Dykes with a goal and assist today, Ryan Christie MotM and Scott McKenna highly rated in a clean-sheet for his defence. A decent (and victorious) day for the Championship contingent.

Not to put the cat amongst the pigeons but he was a Rangers fan growing up, as is his family. I am sure that is why he was being referred to as 'Agent McGregor' when he realised a lifetime ambition by scoring a winner for the team in blue in an Old Firm derby.

King Kenny Dalglish's last international cap (when he was already manager of Liverpool) came against Luxembourg in 1986 in the Euro 88 qualifiers. We won 3-0 with a double from Davie Cooper and one from Mo Johnston. Almost exactly a year later (without Dalglish and Cooper and feauturing big Graeme Sharp and wee baldy Ian Wilson of Everton in their stead) we played out a 0-0 draw which is one of the prime results which gives us the 'f**k-it-up-against-minnows' reputation and the bore draw proved to be a hammer blow to our qualification hopes. It's meagre consolation indeed that Gary Mackay "still never has to pay for a drink in Dublin" because we beat Bulgaria 0-1 in Sofia in the last group match and that meant Ireland went to their first ever major tournament.

Baws oot.

Sweden hand Spain their first World Cup qualifying defeat since 1993. A 66-game unbeaten streak home and away. The previous defeat was in the Parken during qualifying for USA 1994.

What would Kris Boyd know about that...?

Would that be Greer? I thought he was half-decent most of the time and Hanley was the one who was most often criticised. They were at separate ends of the career timeline though and Hanley has undoubtedly improved of late.

Clarke in Parken Harakiri.

We should be aiming for a draw here in this group but instead we've chucked it after ten minutes. The call-offs proving to be very costly also as the defence especially is just an absolute shambles of the square pegs variety.

According to the English commentary team and pundits, the Danish injuries were 'tactical'. Everyone is trying to cheat them from their destiny it seems, the underachieving c*nts.

I don't see any comedy value whatsoever in the shameful harbouring of a paedo sex pest, to be honest. C*nt should be in the nick and it is nothing short of a disgrace that he is allowed to escape the law.

Oh, what a surprise.

"Schpiderman een Glaschkow" followed by much hysterical laughter was how they reported it on Dutch telly during highlights (and they had the image below behind them on the big screen in the studio). No doubt who they thought was responsible and he really has to hold his hands up to that one. You could just feel the ultimate sucker-punch was coming as we were all up the pitch getting way too overexcited. Well, I could feel it anyway. Must be used to it by now. As Blootoon says, you could hardly ask for an easier tournament opener and we totally reverted to type. A side-order of two plucky results and ootski coming right up... tl;dr - usual pish.

As above; although he was gallus going forward, Patterson got absolutely ripped a few times by the Luxembourgish-Portuguese left-winger. If he continues to develop his game (and screw the nut) then he should become the better player but right now he looks defensively suspect and raw and to throw him in against someone like Perisic or Rashford would be an act of total folly.

You're bang on. I did not.