Written by Smithy on February 1st, 2009
The Scottish Football Association have finally given in to requests for a season ticket covering home games. For the last 3 home games of the World Cup 2010 qualifiers you'll be able to buy a season ticket covering the 3 games - Iceland, Macedonia and the Netherlands. This is only available for SSC (Scotland Supporters Club) members though.
North Stand - £80 (includes £10 discount)
South Stand upper, and South Stand Wings - £80 (includes £10 discount)
South Stand main - £96 (includes £10 discount)
East and West Stands - £64 (includes £10 discount)
In a change to normal Family section rules, an adult will now be able to acompany up to 4 children rather than just 1. Adult ticket will be £49 with a child ticket being £25 (both includes £5 discount)
Applications for the season tickets open on the 2nd February and you have until Friday 20th to apply.
MULTI MATCH DEAL FOR 3 HOME QUALIFIERS
2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ Qualifiers
Scotland v Iceland, Macedonia & the Netherlands
Dear SSC Member
We’re delighted to introduce a new Multi Match ticket service, allowing you to book all 3 of your guaranteed tickets for our home qualifiers in 2009, in the one go!
By responding to your feedback in the club members’ questionnaire in 2008, if you buy your tickets for Iceland, Macedonia and the Netherlands by 20 February, you’ll be seated in the same section for each of the qualifiers and you’ll get a discount on the overall ticket price too!
The Multi Match booking period is:
MONDAY 2 FEBRUARY @ 9.00 AM TO FRIDAY 20 FEBRUARY @ 11.59 PM
If you’re interested, ensure you read the attached guidelines and log onto
http://www.ticketlink.co.uk/sscticketing
You’ll be able to book for yourself and up to 7 fellow club members as long as you have their names and membership numbers. We have limited the groups to 8 because this is a new development and we are working on the 3 matches simultaneously.
You will be able to choose the front, middle or rear area of your preferred section.
Going forward, the next stage of system development will be looking to give you specific row & seat numbers and allow you to book up to 20 tickets as before however, meantime we’d appreciate your patience while we continue with these upgrades and improvements.
If you don’t want to buy the 3 match package, you will be able buy your single Iceland ticket when the web re-opens on:
MONDAY 23 FEBRUARY @ 9.00 AM TO FRIDAY 6 MARCH @ 11.59 PM
The prices for a single ticket will revert to the standard campaign rate.
We look forward to seeing you at Hampden in April, as we take our next step on the road to South Africa.
Thanks for your support.
The Scotland Supporters' Club
Posted in: Home Matches, Scottish FA
Written by Smithy on January 31st, 2009
Mr J. Valcke,
Secretary General,
FIFA,
FIFA-Strasse 20,
PO Box 8044
Zurich,
Switzerland.
28th January, 2009
Dear Jérôme,
Further to your letter of 14th January, we would like to issue a joint statement regarding the proposal of participation in the 2012 Olympic Games under a unified banner of “Team GB”.
We are all autonomous entities within World football and each association competes in all International tournaments under our own identities of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. This applies to World Cups and European Championships at football level and of course down through the various age groups. It is our considered opinion that the Olympic Games does not give each of us, respectfully and jointly, the same rights or privileges we are presently afforded by FIFA and UEFA in respect of autonomous representation. Therefore, we cannot view the Olympic Games as being a bona fide football tournament.
In addition to the foregoing, we would like to further clarify our position regarding football in the Olympic Games:-
1. The Olympic Games involves many different events but one common factor that should prevail is that participation and success in the Games should be the pinnacle for the sport in question. This is certainly the case with track and field, gymnastics, cycling, rowing and swimming. However, in football this is certainly not the case. The World Cup and European Championships are regarded as the major tournaments. It is our opinion that football should not be an Olympic event.
2. Our contention that football is not, and should not be, considered a serious Olympic event is substantiated by the fact that it is designated as an Under 23 contest. We consider that this not only de-values the involvement of football in the Olympic Games but it also means that a discriminatory element is introduced to the event. No other sport has an age-related qualifying element. We feel that this, in itself, is an unacceptable regulatory inclusion.
3. The Olympic Games takes place in August. This appears to take no account of the fact that the football season has already begun and that clubs would be materially inconvenienced with the loss of called-up players. At this time, it is not known which players would be required. However, it is easy to anticipate the reaction there would be from club coaches who would lose players at a time when they had vital matches to fulfil. This may even include crucial European qualifying matches.
For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to take this opportunity to formally re-iterate that we will not participate in a “Team GB” in the 2012 Olympic Games. Furthermore, we categorically state that we do not think that football should be an Olympic event. However, as it is so classified, we do not believe there is a justification for there being a Great Britain team participating therein. Our common stance is unwavering. Moreover, our supporters’ organisations have all made it clear that we have their total backing in this respect.
In view of the above, we do not believe there would be any merit in a meeting to discuss this matter further.
Yours sincerely,
GEORGE W PEAT RAYMOND KENNEDY PETER REES
PRESIDENT PRESIDENT PRESIDENT
SCOTTISH FA IRISH FA WELSH FA
Posted in: NoTeamGB.com, Scottish FA
Written by Smithy on December 4th, 2008
SFA in talks for joint bid to host European Champioonships - Edinburgh Evening News
SFA in talks for joint bid to host European Champioonships
Published Date: 03 December 2008
The Scottish Football Association today confirmed holding "tentative" talks with Wales and Northern Ireland over co-hosting the 2016 European Championships.
Scotland's dream of staging the tournament in eight years' time appeared to have ended in September when UEFA announced they were increasing the number of finalists from 16 to 24.
The country lacks the infrastructure to host an expanded tournament but the SFA are looking to link up with one of their near neighbours in the hope a joint bid will be successful.
An SFA spokesman told PA Sport tentative talks had been held with both Wales and Northern Ireland with a view to linking up with one of them.
Meanwhile, UEFA general secretary David Taylor insists Scotland would be a "great place" to hold the tournament.
Former SFA chief executive Taylor, who was involved in the unsuccessful bid to bring Euro 2008 to Scotland and the Republic of Ireland, added in the Herald: "It would be terrific. But I must be careful here.
"My enthusiasm for and advice to any country could be perceived in the wrong way. Many countries in UEFA are capable of hosting the tournament."
Posted in: Scottish FA
Written by Smithy on November 1st, 2008
There has been much debate in recent days about the issue of eligibility to play for Scotland. The FIFA regulations state that a player who has a British passport can play for one of the Home Associations if he or she is eligible, whereas a gentleman's agreement we have with the other Home Associations states that players should be picked on the basis of a blood line.
We have spoken with the other Home Associations and can confirm that it is our collective intention to honour the Gentleman's agreement and that, subsequently, players will only be eligible to play for Scotland if they qualify through the blood route.
Scottish FA Chief Executive Gordon Smith said:
"There has been some confusion and much debate in recent days about whether or not Nacho Novo can play for Scotland.
"On one hand the FIFA regulations say that George Burley can pick eligible players who hold a British passport - and on the other we have the gentlemen's agreement with the other Home Associations that says that we will pick players based on their blood line.
"I have today sought to clarify the issue. We have had discussions with the other associations in the past couple of days and I've found out that everyone is adhering to our agreement and that, subsequently, we're all going down the line that will be bloodline at the moment.
"Now at some stage in the future one or more of us may change our opinion on that - we may get together and change our decision and go for the full FIFA regulation - but at the moment, we're all sticking to the gentleman's agreement."
Posted in: Scottish FA
Written by Smithy on September 3rd, 2008
SPORT: International Football
On: Sky Sports 1 (511)
Date: Thursday 4th September 2008 (starting in 1 day)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long) VideoPlus: 500433
Scotland v Slovenia U-21.
Scotland and Slovenia U21 meet at Falkirk Stadium in a UEFA U21 Championship qualifier. Scotland won 4-0 in the away leg last year, with goals from Hamill, McCormack, Naismith and Fletcher.
(Dolby Stereo, Widescreen, Live)
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