Talking Scotland Coach Pressley Discounts Friendly Flak and Says Dark Blues Will Be Ready for Real Thing Coach Pressley Discounts Friendly Flak and Says Dark Blues Will Be Ready for Real Thing Blood and Thunder of Gets Hearts Pumping Competitive Action and Lion Rampant

Evening Times › September 12, 2008

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A BALL has not so much as been kicked in Scotland's qualifying campaign for the 2010 World Cup and yet already there are rumblings of discontent.

Three friendly matches against Croatia, the Czech Republic and Northern Ireland have not yielded a victory for new manager George Burley.

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Talking Scotland Coach Pressley Discounts Friendly Flak and Says Dark Blues Will Be Ready for Real Thing Coach Pressley Discounts Friendly Flak and Says Dark Blues Will Be Ready for Real Thing Blood and Thunder of Gets Hearts Pumping Competitive Action and Lion Rampant

The national squad has also been hit by a spate of injury call- offs, too, with Callum Davidson, Barry Ferguson, Alan Hutton, David Marshall, Kevin McNaughton, Garry O'Connor and Kevin Thomson all ruled out.

With the opening match in our Group Nine campaign looming against Macedonia in the heat of Sk...

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