2012 then is it?

 "Goat any Monster Munch?" "No, Boydy" "Right, f__ yeez then, um no' playin''"


The feel good factor that resided within the Scotland camp has well and truly left the building with Oily George's erratic tenure as the gaffer now has a lived in nameless dread.

To be fair to Surly Burley, Chris Iwelumo's Ronny Rosenthal-esque sitter was not his fault. Perhaps putting Kris Boyd on instead was the answer. We will never know. 

South Africa 2010 will take place without a Caledonian presence and maybe we all knew that after the Macedonia game.  

Boyd's petulance in his self-imposed hiatus does no-one any favours. As the blog made quite clear in the past, once you leave, you are never allowed back. The blue shirt you put on says Scotland and not George Burley. He should never be permitted to play for us again.

Will Boyd refuse to play under Walter Smith at Rangers, where he is also a habitual bench warmer? The answer to that query is the same response to "Will we break our twelve year absence from international tournaments and take our place among the football elite in the next World Cup?"

This is a shambles of Gordon Smith's own making and if Burley gets a picture of a Spitfire then it surely also is a case of "And Smith Must Go".