I’ve spent all morning installing Solaris 10 and Oracle 10gR2 on the ISP4400 and configured my first ZFS filesystem. I’ll blog about that later, but I had to get this one out of the way before Scotland play France at football at five o’clock.
This is from an interview with Walter Smith, Scotland’s manager, yesterday.
“As an English friend of mine said to me: ‘You are the only country in the world that can’t qualify for a tournament, but then, two months after the tournament is over, still think you can beat a team which reached the final.’
We’re Scottish, so we’ve always got to be optimistic. We’re just a nation that is like that and I think it isn’t something to be criticised, it is something to be admired.“
Truthfully? I know a fair bit about football and we don’t have a snowball in hell’s chance (mmm, ‘always got to be optimistic’?) although a fighting draw would be a brilliant result. Even a fighting defeat wouldn’t disappoint me too much. It’s just a welcome relief that Walter Smith has instilled some cause for fragile hope.
Then again, …. 😉
An English friend who was visting me in Edinburgh many years ago watched England defeat Scotland in the European Championships in the pub with me. (Well, me, him and the TV, not all the players.) When we went out that night, he commented that, if he hadn’t seen the match, he would have assumed that Scotland won based on the behaviour of the supporters that night.
Good luck Scotland and, if we get cuffed? We’ll be back for more.
I’ve tried to hold off commenting but…
1-0!!!!!!
Man, am I was p*ssed off that I couldn’t watch the game on the TV, only the English one. It’s only days like these when I wish I had cable TV 🙁
Saying that the, listening to the match on the radio was something else, really exciting stuff. You forget how good it really is on the radio and hearing that Scottish commentary really gets you going. (Especially when you beat the best team in the world against the all the odds)
Well done lads! 🙂
The Scottish commentator I was listening to on the internet was awesome!….he painted a better picture than actually watching it…
But you know that as a team we are great at being “soooo close but just didn’t make it”…its a great start but still a long way to go…
Oh, yes. There’s still lots of opportunity for us to come within touching distance and fail gloriously. However, when your group includes (FIFA rankings in brackets)
France (2)
Italy (5)
Ukraine(13)
(We’re 34th)
and only two teams qualify, I’ll take all the enjoyment I can, while it lasts 😉
You were saying Doug… hang on Thomas beat me to it.
🙂
Well, well, well 😉
And I *have* cable.
9 points – top of the group, 8 points clear of Italy (albeit that they have a game in hand)
Whatever happens from here, I’ll at least enjoy this moment.
no dish Doug??? :D:D
Unfortunately I live in an area of natural beauty where they don’t allow satellite dishes 😉
I still have all of the Sky channels though!
yep, clearly you know nothing about football.
congratulations and I look forward to having my nose rubbed in it at Birmingham (either the english half or the irish half – not a good night)