Written by Smithy on July 1st, 2009
Over the past 10 years I’ve always recommended John Maxwel’s website for Scotland International Football match results. http://www.sfu.ca/~maxwell/scot_results.html. John has now been running the website for 14 years and it’s become one of the best known sites among Scotland statos.
I’ve now found a new website that appears to offers more extensive facts and figures. http://www.scotlandfootballstats.co.uk/
I'm not sure who runs the site, but it has to be one of the most comprehensive stats sites I've seen. The only thing it seems to be missing is what the weather was doing during a game!
Match Stats – allows you to select the opponent, home or away, win loose or draw, or competitive or friendly and Venue. It even goes as far as which strip they were wearing at the time!
Player Stats – Top appearances, Top Goal Scorers, SFA Hall of Fame, Silver Caps, a list of every player who has ever played for Scotland and also every world player that has ever played against Scotland. For each player, it lists all their appearances, if they were substituted, their number of caps and number of goals.
Competitions – World Cup, European Championship, British Championship, Rous cup, Kirin Cup, Brazilian Independence Cup, and the Hong Kong Cup. For each section it lists the over all match stats as well as any cups won.
Managers – search through the results of all the managers from Andy Beattie to George Burley. Again has overall match stats for each manager.
FIFA Rankings – Highest Ranking, Lowest Ranking, monthly rankings going back to 1992.
History – A review of the various stages in Scotland’s football history covering the tournaments, the managers and friendlies.
The website is very extensive and congratulations must go to who ever spent the time developing and maintaining it. It must have taken months to enter all the stats. It's a shame the SFA couldn't have come up with something similar.
Posted in: General Tartan Army
Written by Smithy on June 29th, 2009
Most web browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari etc) allow you to “subscribe” to a website if it offers a subscription service. This allows you to see updates without actually having to visit the site. This uses something called RSS (Really Simple Syndication) .
Personally I use Google Reader (http://www.google.com/Reader), and normally check it once a day for updates. This saves me from visiting each website and having a look to see if anything news been added.
Here are some Scotland International Team and general tartan army RSS feeds:-
Tartan Army Message Board
TA Specific - http://taboard.com/forum/index.php?act=rssout&id=1
Home Games - http://taboard.com/forum/index.php?act=rssout&id=2
TA Clubs - http://taboard.com/forum/index.php?act=rssout&id=6
Norway - http://taboard.com/forum/index.php?act=rssout&id=8
Other football - http://taboard.com/forum/index.php?act=rssout&id=5
Anything Goes - http://taboard.com/forum/index.php?act=rssout&id=3
Technicle support - http://taboard.com/forum/index.php?act=rssout&id=9
Photos - http://taboard.com/forum/index.php?act=rssout&id=4
From the Scottish football Association Website
General SFA News -
http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/resources/rss/ScottishFA_News_Scottish%20FA_rss.xml
Scotland News -
http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/resources/rss/ScottishFA_News_Scotland_rss.xml
Tartan Army Websites
Edinburgh Tartan Army - http://feeds.feedburner.com/EdinburghTartanArmy
Tartan Army Blog - http://feeds.feedburner.com/TartanArmyBlog
Tartan Army.net - http://feeds.feedburner.com/TartanarmynetWebsiteUpdates
Tartan Army Soldier - http://tartanarmysoldier.com/feed/
Tartan Army Childrens Charity -
http://www.tartanarmychildrenscharity.org.uk/cms/rss.php
Google News
Google allow you to subscribe to new's storys. So for example I would like to be alerted any time the words "tartan army" are included in a news report, and Google lets me know.
Tartan Army -
http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=uk&q=%22Tartan+Army%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&nolr=1&output=rss
Scottish football Association -
http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=uk&q=%22Scottish+Football+Association%22&ie=UTF-8&nolr=1&output=rss
NoTeamGB -
http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=uk&q=%22NoTeamGB%22&ie=UTF-8&nolr=1&output=rss
If you think I've missed any please add a comment below and I'll update the post.
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Written by Smithy on April 30th, 2009
Subside Sports are offering a massive 20% discount in their end of season sale which is valid until the 8th May 2009.
Subside Sports currently stock both the current Scotland International home top and the Scotland International away top along with loads of official Scotland Football Association merchandise.
The shirts are currently retailing for £39.99 each, and with a 20% discount £31.99 - this is the cheapest we've seen the shirts yet!
The voucher code is SEASONSALE
How to use the voucher:-
Go to Subside Sports website and add items to your basket
When you reach the payment details page, copy and paste the voucher code into the Gift Certificate box
Click and apply Gift certificate
Confirm your Order
Simples
Posted in: General Tartan Army
Written by Smithy on April 26th, 2009
Subside Sports have launched a special version of the Scotland Home Football strip with £5 from every strip going towards the Scottish Poppy appeal.
The top appears normal, but has a Scottish Poppy (different from an English poppy) on the right hand side, with an additional saltire under the SFA logo with the words “Serving their country: The British Forces & Scotland National Team”
It seems odd they’ve released this top considering we’re 7 months away from the main Poppy Appeal. Is this a blatant way to tap in to the “British Forces” feel good factor?
They also don’t appear to have done their market research properly. Most Scotland fans wouldn’t be seen dead with anything to do with “British” on their Scotland Top.
It’s unclear if this is endorsed by the Scottish Football Association.
Jimmy from Coatbridge commented “I wholeheartedly support the campaign and was going to buy a top. Then I noticed the detail on the patch. It’s just not right having the word British on a Scotland top”.
John, current serving with her majesties forces in Iraq said “they should have just stuck the poppy logo on the shirt – it’s a well recognised symbol”
Scotland 2009 Home shirt with Poppy and British Forces Patch
Scotland 2009 Away shirt with Poppy and British Forces Patch
Posted in: General Tartan Army
Written by Smithy on April 9th, 2009
Today saw the release of Aprils Fifa World Rankings in which Scotland have climbed 4 places to 24th place.
The top 3 have stayed the same – Spain in first place, followed by Germany and the Netherlands.
Other teams relevant to Scotland, Norway down one place to 46th, Macedonia down 3 to 64th and Iceland plummet 18 places to 93rd (from 75).
Of the home nations, England climb 2 places to 7th, Wales drop 5 places to 73rd and Northern Ireland jump a massive 15 places to 27th. Only Mexico separate Scotland and Northern Ireland.
San Marino is still joint bottom in 202 with 5 other teams. Come on SFA, you know you want an away friendly!
Full results here
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