A Lithuanian Kick in the Blogs

At least I hope I won't need this blog title tomorrow. Tonight Scotland play away to Lithuania in the second qualifying game of the European Championship. We got off to a great start with the hammering of the Faeroe Islands but as bad as they are and as good as we were tonight will be a tougher game. the lithuanians drew with Italy on the italians home soil after all. We really need maximum points from our opening games from possibly the weakest teams in our group. We have France and Italy to contend with later, the World cup finalists and we also have the Ukraine and Georgia. I don't know how much more difficult our group could have been. Only the top two in the group qualify for the final stages. As the day starts I am confident, mostly, that we will win the game. I think for the first time in a decade we can say that we have the player quality to win. Not since the 70's have we had a world class team and even in the 80's we had a strong team but the 90's have been dire. We don't yet have the great team we need but we're going inthe right direction. One bad result though could wreck all the progress. We're a small nation with a big heart that needs it's football team back with the big boys. I'm getting nervous now writing this. I might just double post today with how I'm feeling later this afternoon. Game coverage starts at 5pm Dublin time. Have a wiki and check the links if you are so inclined, join the party.

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