Written by Smithy on October 27th, 2009
Former Scotland Boss Craig Brown has joined forces with the Royal Regiment of Scotland to launch poppy branded Scotland retro football shirts. The retro tops have the Scottish 4 leaf poppy embroidered in to the top right of the shirt - not to be confused by the two leaf English poppy.
Craig Brown said: "Our Servicemen and women do a great job, facing many dangers and, sadly, some make the ultimate sacrifice. Many more come home with physical and emotional scars and PoppyScotland is there to support them. These shirts will allow football fans to show their support for Scotland’s veterans."
The text under the SFA roundel, which came from Poppy Scotland, reads "Serving their Country: British Forces & Scotland National Team"
The tops are produced by Subside Sports and are currently retailing for £34.99, and £5 from the sale will be going direct to Poppy Scotland - all money raised from this will be staying in Scotland supporting Scottish war heroes.
Click here to order your Scotland Retro Poppy shirt from Subside Sports
Poppy Scotland became autonomous from the UK poppy appeal a few years ago.
Posted in: General Tartan Army
Written by Smithy on October 15th, 2009
Tickets for the 14th November match between Wales and Scotland have now gone on sale. SSC members on more than 3 points are guaranteed a ticket and can now book via the telephone hot line - 0844 481 9989. Lines are open from now until 9pm Friday 23rd October. To find out how many points you are on check out this page on Tartan Army.net
Those on 2 or 3 points are invited to register an interest in a ticket. Depending on how many people apply, the pointers will be balloted first, then if there's tickets left they will go in to a ballot for the 2 pointers.
Only one ticket is being issued per member, and you can only book for 8 members at a time.
Scotland supporters will be in sections 119, 121 and 122 and access will be via gate 7.
Posted in: General Tartan Army, Wales
Written by Smithy on October 12th, 2009
The SFA have released a Scotland International Team calendar for 2010.
The calendar is currently available from Play.com for £5 with free P&P
Posted in: General Tartan Army
Written by Smithy on October 10th, 2009
Adidas have been confirmed as the new Scotland International kit supplier. The deal will run from January 2010 till June 2014 - taking in Euro 2012 and World Cup 2014 qualifications and hopefully the finals.
Scotland will first wear the new Adidas kit at the Scotland V Czech Republic match in March 2010.
The new gear will include match strips, replica strips, training gear and leisure wear. The new kit will go on sale in Spring 2010.
The SFA hope the new deal will bring high quality merchandise to Scotland supporters. Shops selling previous Diadora kit had complained that it always sold out quickly and securing new stock was difficult. In later years of the Diadora contract merchandise was only distributed through the Intersport chain of shops. This meant Diadora and the SFA could keep the shirts at full price for much longer.
Posted in: General Tartan Army
Written by Smithy on September 18th, 2009
Saturday 5th September
Hampden Park Glasgow
Scotland 2 - Macedonia 0
Scott Brown scored at 56 minutes and James McFadden at 80 minutes.
Attendance 50,214
This game put Scotland back in second place in the Euro qualifier table. Win against Netherlands and we'd pretty much be on for a play-off, draw and it would depend on the other results.
Wednesday 9th September
Hampden Park Glasgow
Scotland 0 - Netherlands 1
Attendance 51,230
With this result, and Norways win on the same day, Scotland finish in 3rd place.
Monday 14th September
George Burley met with SFA top man George Peat to discuss the 2010 qualifying campaign.
Tuesday 15th September
Following a meeting of the SFA committee, they have confirmed that George Burley will keep his job for the current time. Burleys contract is due to finish in the summer of 2010 with an option to extend to summer 2012.
Wednesday 16th September
George Burley confirms that Steven Presley will no longer form part of his backroom staff and Presley will return to full time football.
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