Boo Khaki Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 (edited) Meh... MacAllister was just a poor man's Gary Harkins All joking aside; fantastic player, and an absolute disgrace how he was hounded out of the side by idiots. I remember the look on McCoist's face after he stepped up to take that penalty. Total anger and frustration. I'm not generally a fan of McCoist, but I am convinced he would have absolutely burst the net if Gary Mac hadn't pulled rank. Edited June 7, 2020 by Boo Khaki 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JTS98 Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 1 hour ago, Boo Khaki said: Meh... MacAllister was just a poor man's Gary Harkins All joking aside; fantastic player, and an absolute disgrace how he was hounded out of the side by idiots. I remember the look on McCoist's face after he stepped up to take that penalty. Total anger and frustration. I'm not generally a fan of McCoist, but I am convinced he would have absolutely burst the net if Gary Mac hadn't pulled rank. It's a horrible thing to revisit. But I suppose I don't really have a problem with the rank-pulling. If he was the designated penalty taker (I assume he was) then really on the pitch that should be that. There shouldn't be any arguing and a change of taker just heaps more pressure on the guy taking it. There can be no more welcome sight for a keeper about to face a penalty than the opposition arguing over who should take it. Had I been on the pitch, I'd have eliminated this dispute by picking up the ball, giving it to McCoist and distracting McAllister by booting him in the baws. But that's fitba. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 17 hours ago, Boo Khaki said: I was steaming for the England match so don't remember much beyond the goals, missed pen, and Durie's miss, but I only just got to the pub in time for kick-off in the Swiss match, and my recollections are that it was pretty even-steven throughout, but there was a definite sense that something was going to happen once McCoist came on. My recollection is that we were always on top against the Swiss, but didn't have a lot of ideas going forward. That definitely changed when McCoist came on, but we could still only score once, in a game that we knew from the start would require a few goals to give us any chance of qualifying. Not scoring enough goals in wins seems like it used to be a recurring theme when we actually qualified for things. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 What a load of moronic garbage on here. McAllister was the nominated penalty taker. He had been for years. The squad all knew that. He took one in Euro 92. What was arrogant about the nominated penalty taker taking the penalty? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 Do you have any evidence that we even had a nominated penalty taker at Euro 96? A lot of different players took penalties for Scotland around that period. As far as I can see, McAllister only ever took four penalties for us - against Canada in a friendly in 1992, CIS at Euro 92, England at Euro 96 and away to Belarus in 1997. In the qualifiers for Euro 92, John Robertson and Gordon Strachan both took penalties - McAllister was on the pitch both times. So it's entirely possible that McAllister was never the nominated taker, but just happened to be the guy willing to hit one in that CIS game (when we were already 2-0 up and cruising). We then only had one penalty in the entire period between Euro 92 and Euro 96, and it was scored by Pat Nevin against Estonia in WC94 qualifying. So this idea that McAllister was some long-running penalty taker doesn't really have much evidence behind it. McCoist was never really a penalty taker though - he never took one for Scotland as far as I can see. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 It's mental for teams not to have a nominated taker. Every now and then you'll see players squabbling over whether or not they get to take the penalty because they were the one that was fouled, or it's their birthday, or they're Cristiano fucking Ronaldo and they'll do whatever the f**k they want. Get them all telt ahead of time, look, Angus doesn't give a f**k and usually hits the target, so this is his job. If you want to get picked for the next game, shut your hole and let the man get on with it. You wouldn't have some numpty demanding to swap shirts with the keeper. At least, you'd hope not. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 4 hours ago, craigkillie said: Do you have any evidence that we even had a nominated penalty taker at Euro 96? A lot of different players took penalties for Scotland around that period. As far as I can see, McAllister only ever took four penalties for us - against Canada in a friendly in 1992, CIS at Euro 92, England at Euro 96 and away to Belarus in 1997. In the qualifiers for Euro 92, John Robertson and Gordon Strachan both took penalties - McAllister was on the pitch both times. So it's entirely possible that McAllister was never the nominated taker, but just happened to be the guy willing to hit one in that CIS game (when we were already 2-0 up and cruising). We then only had one penalty in the entire period between Euro 92 and Euro 96, and it was scored by Pat Nevin against Estonia in WC94 qualifying. So this idea that McAllister was some long-running penalty taker doesn't really have much evidence behind it. McCoist was never really a penalty taker though - he never took one for Scotland as far as I can see. It was discussed on the radio last week (I think) during one of their look backs at Scotland games in tournaments. McAllister was interviewed and confirmed he wad the nominated taker. Also during the re-run of the games vs Holland at Euro 92 the commentators said he was the named penalty taker. He had taken and scored one in the Euro 92 warm up game against Canada. Are we to seriously believe that a manager as meticulous as Craig Brown went in to a major tournament with no nominated penalty taker? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JTS98 Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 (edited) 12 hours ago, craigkillie said: McCoist was never really a penalty taker though - he never took one for Scotland as far as I can see. Not sure where you get this idea from. He took plenty of penalties. He scored four penalties in the European Cup alone. He once took two penalties for Rangers in a single cup final. In another cup final he was Rangers' opening taker in a penalty shoot-out. He scored four penalties in the league for Rangers in the season leading up to Euro 96, which is four times as many as McAllister had scored for Leeds that season. Edited June 8, 2020 by JTS98 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 BBC showing the England v Germany semi final yesterday, recorded it and watched it last night as I knew it was a happy ending In all seriousness though, what a game of football, when Gascoigne hesitates and just misses that cross from Shearer by a bawhair you still expect him to score even 20 odd years on. Also interesting to note the BBC graphics department confirming what we always knew about referees. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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