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Listed below are comments made by dannys_beard between Friday, 13th June 2008 and Friday, 17th April 2009.

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Old Firm dominance is depressing 10:37pm on 17 Apr 2009 Good blog IMHO - it's topical, expressed an opinion and got the debate going. Is that not more of the point than whether the opinion is right, wrong, justified or not?

I'm a Celtic fan but would have to give shouts to Zaliukas at Hearts and for the young player, Dixon at Dundee Utd has impressed every time I've seen him play.

Also, it's good to have a view on Scottish football outside of Chick's ramblings and Doddsy's random number generator...we've got a title race, a chase for european places and a battle for survival all still to be decided - let's look at the positives!
Why now for Shearer and Newcastle? 1:20pm on 01 Apr 2009 You mean this isn't just an April Fool?

Maybe this means Ferguson and McGregor were really on the lash - I was worried that one was made up as well and they were actually going to play tonight...
The perils of turning 30 8:09pm on 24 Dec 2008 Lubo Moravcik.

Didn't arrive on these shores until he was 33 and having never won anything, but what a player! Comfortable on either foot, creator and scorer of goals, a joy to watch.

Zidane and Nedved had him down as the player they looked up to, says something about his talent!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1wahIWA42oQ
Classic bunkum from the blazers 06:58am on 03 Nov 2008 The point that nobody seems to have raised is that the home nation's FAs originally settled upon this "gentleman's agreement" to prevent someone with a British passport playing for any of the home nations.

This was seen as a key factor in protecting our status as individual countries on FIFA's eyes.

Break this and you will open the door for holders of a British passport to pick and choose their nationality as a badge of convenience and destroy the international game as they are slowly but surely destruing our club game.
Baffled by tactics and Boyd's omission 1:30pm on 14 Oct 2008 DistantScot, I can't believe you're comparing Boyd to Anelka. The only thing they have in common is their public persona of surliness - which is only a media myth, as you've pointed out in Boyd's case. Backed up here :-

http://www.theherald.co.uk/sport/headlines/display.var.2459831.0.Only_one_person_to_blame_for_Boyds_chronic_underachievement.php

Anelka is proven at the highest level of football, has pace to burn, control, awareness *and* can score goals against the best teams in world. Boyd has none of that.

Chick, training is where the manager sees what his players are capable of. If he sees that what they are capable of is plodding about the pitch for a maximum of 30 minutes, then that's the most they're ever going to get.

If i put very little effort into my day-to-day work, where do you think that would get me? And shame on you wags out there who would suggest "blogging on the BBC"....
Your chance to quiz Gordon 11:59am on 13 Jun 2008 Hi Gordon,

Is all the talk of 4-5-1, 4-3-3 just so much froth? Is "game intelligence" more important - the ability to spot weaknesses and make runs and pick passes to exploit them more important?

Picking out 2 examples - Van Bronkhorst's decision to make the run from his own goal line clearance against Italy and Pepe's burst into space for his goal against Turkey. How do you coach this into players?

Congratulations on 3-in-a-row - looking forward to 4!

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