It's the hope that kills you

@Record_Sport Every other player in the top flight has surely missed out

5️⃣ Motherwell 🟡 4️⃣ Hearts 🇱🇻 1️⃣ Celtic 🍀 1️⃣ Rangers 🔵 The PFA Scotland Premiership Team of the Year has landed! 📋 Who's missed out here? 🤔

@LNER trying to travel from Edinburgh to London. No info from LNER staff, being treated like the disruption is our fault and only told to fill in delay repay forms with no offers of support or assistance

@BeerhuntersTA Wonderful side!

@ITHTKY 🍻

@FootballInT80s We touched on the refereeing controversy of the return leg in one of our podcasts. Fascinating story and an intriguing insight into Italian football corruption in that era

11/04/1984: Hopes of a British European Cup final are high. A fabulous Dundee Utd performance sees them beat Roma 2-0 (Dodds, Stark) in the first leg of their SF. Unfortunately the return leg is steeped in controversy. Let’s just say the venue for the final in 1984 was Rome..

@JohnSwinney A lovely sentiment but football sold its soul to the corporate devil a long time ago.

The Tartan Army are the greatest supporters in the world, and have waited almost 30 years for the World Cup. They should not be priced out by dynamic ticket pricing. I’ve written to FIFA to urge fairer and more affordable prices. Football should be about fans, not finances.

@90sfootball Depends what I'm picking them for. Whether its for my football team or for tiling the bathroom with have a significant impact on who I choose.

You can only pick 2⃣👇

@mintisculture I always liked Big Dunc. I remember when he signed for Rangers from Dundee Utd for £4M and he was on £4k a week wages from memory. Couldn't get my head around those numbers. How could anyone merit that salary...simpler times!

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Duncan Ferguson x early ‘90s A ‘what could have been’ international career, but it would be a shame not to acknowledge these images of Ferguson in 1992. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Umbro ‘91/‘94 Subject to©️

@scotball_ The top 47 don't concern me...its number 48 that gives me the fear

Panama better than Scotland??? I’m not having that 😂

@TEnglishSport Overall, SC has done a great job getting to 3 tournaments but hasn't extracted maximum value from the strongest generation of players since Mexico86. All will be forgiven if we get through our group, so we must attack Haiti who will set up to defend. Something we struggle against

Another defeat and a time to cross fingers and hope that Scotland’s best players find their edge in America. Performance was ok. Booing was mad. bbc.co.uk/sport/football…

@FootballTimelyn Davie Cooper. Sadly passed away in 1995 at the tender age of 39 #DavieCooper

Who made you fall in love with football?

@Footballtweet Play acting, constant attempts to 'win' set pieces, taking a bloody age over said set pieces and having every moment subject to the abomination that is VAR, all slow the game. Making a subbed player leave the pitch quickly feels like rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic

🚨 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟: FIFA has announced new rules for the 2026 World Cup: ✅ Fast substitutions: The substituted player will have a maximum of 10 seconds to leave the pitch. If they take longer, their replacement must wait one minute before entering, leaving the team temporarily with one player less. ✅ Time control on restarts: A 5-second timer will be applied for throw-ins and goal kicks. Exceeding this time will result in loss of possession. ✅ Medical treatment off the pitch: A player receiving treatment on the field must leave and wait one minute before returning, unless the injury was caused by a card-worthy foul. ✅ VAR expansion: VAR will be able to review second yellow cards leading to a sending-off, as well as wrongly awarded corners. ✅ Captain & referees: The rule that only the captain can approach the referee is reinforced; other players risk a yellow card if they crowd the referee.

@RisingStarXI Ian Durrant...wonderful player until a sickening injury forced him out of the game for 3 years. Returned as a strong passing midfielder but was never the same player. One of the great 'what ifs' of Scottish football

🌎✍️ Name a FORMER WONDERKID everyone has forgotten about. I’ll start: 🇷🇺 𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐍 𝐃𝐙𝐀𝐆𝐎𝐄𝐕

@jj_bull My kids have fallen in love with it and insist I play it in the car...proper head bobber!

FAO Scotland World Cup song fans: it would be excellent if you stuck the song on repeat and shared with friends to see how many listens it can get by Friday

@90sfootball They still do at Tannadice!

We all played on pitches like this as a kid!

@scarabet7 @robertmdaws Thanks for sharing...Will definitely check it out. Amazing they did so well considering they had to rebuild the squad following the match fixing scandal that saw so many players banned

@ITHTKY @robertmdaws I totally agree with you. There's a documentary on the Red Devils during the competition : youtu.be/ARz299rnNf8?is… youtu.be/J6ieR05AIHk?is… youtu.be/umC8ABkBp1A?is…

JAN CEULEMANS 🇧🇪 He spent the vast majority of his career at Club Brugge (1978–1992), where he scored 191 goals in over 400 appearances and won three Belgian First Division titles. He earned 96 caps for the Belgian national team, a long-standing record at the time. He led Belgium to the final of Euro 1980 and a fourth-place finish at the 1986 World Cup. Ceulemans won the Belgian Golden Shoe three times (1980, 1985, 1986) and was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players

@BarryAnderson_ We discussed in one of our podcasts that this is the best squad we've had since Mexico'86. Regular qualification is amazing but do folks think we could get through a group if SC made bolder selection and tactical choices? Did that exasperation translate to the booing last night?

Agree with Steve Clarke. Disappointing hearing booing at Hampden after Scotland qualified for the World Cup to end nearly 30 yrs of failure. Poor against Japan, no excuses, but it's a friendly. Some players played who wouldn't normally. Just a bit of perspective. #TartanArmy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@DeathNsl Is that from the playoff for the 1986 World Cup?

The white socks on the Socceroos kit look f%cking great!! Tradition. Old skool 🤘 #AUSvCMR #Socceroos

@BeerhuntersTA @RPMComo Some stunning names. Who do you reckon is the best foreign duo from that list?

@rpmcomo Not a bad example of the 2 foreigner rule - or 9 Diddy rule as it was in Scotland 🍻🍻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@BeerhuntersTA @Wul147 I hear you...when we re-watched the game as research I was left staring into the middle distance like a Vietnam war veteran who had seen too much

@ITHTKY @Wul147 A few days ago and I’m now in recovery from the trauma it re-awoken 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤣 I’m a few years older than you guys so have fairly strong memories of 86 and 82. 78 is a vague memory 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍻🍻

Kicked lumps out of Scotland.