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[Amanda]

Well I missed most of it. My sister decided to pay me a visit right at the start of the match and she left right at the end, I suspect the boyfriend may have had it on at home. It was worth the distraction just to hear my nephew calling Wayne Rooney "Monster" though

We were pretty damn good anyway, 5-1

[Brandz]

GET IN!

[JamesD89]

Yeah we were good. Again.

If Capello can get our defensive slip ups ironed out we'll be big world cup contenders.

[Gaz]

GET IN!

GET IN THERE!!!

[headless]

I can feel the enthusiasm busrsting through my skin

[EwanM]

So near yet so far.

It is unfortunate that we had to be knocked out in such fashion. The team was fantastic considering the opposition, the crowd were second to none and it was yet another rollercoaster ride for Scotland.

With every passing qualification phase, one begins to lose confidence in Scotland ever being in a big competition again. However such fears will not stop me supporting in future.

As a Tartan Army footman, I soldier on... down the road...

[bud]

bummer.

you can follow Australia in the world cup atleast

[headless]

Yeah Scotland did well and gave it a good try

[EwanM]

Yeah Scotland did well and gave it a good try

Indeedy do.

[headless]

Yeah Scotland did well and gave it a good try

Indeedy do.

So you gotta give them some credit for that, it was a very spirited attempt and you gotta feel sorry for them, so unlucky

[EwanM]

Yeah Scotland did well and gave it a good try

Indeedy do.

So you gotta give them some credit for that, it was a very spirited attempt and you gotta feel sorry for them, so unlucky

Aye but the damage was done earlier in the qualifying campaign.

Typical Scotland always have to try and do it the hard way. I think FIFA has a file locked away in a vault entitled "The Scots will fail continually, but always in a different way from the last time."

Personally I was shocked at how well Darren Fletcher played. I've never been the biggest fan of him, but he outclassed Van Persie for most of the game and there was certainly no club rivalry lost when those two collided

However so be it. We'll never hear the end of it next summer, but at least we gave it a shot.

In the words of Arthur Montford: "Brave, brave Scotland - they just have not stopped trying."

[headless]

Have a haggis to cheer yourself up

[EwanM]

Have a haggis to cheer yourself up

Haggis is a traditional Scots dish. It is a wechtie pudden traditionally served wi chappit neeps an tatties.

Altho the'r monie recipes, some uisin deer emmledeug, for ordinar it's makkit wi the follaein ingredients: sheep's hert, liver, an lichts, minced wi ingan, aitmael, shuet, spices, and saut, mixt wi bree an traditionally byled in the beast's painch for several hoors. It is amang the maist muckle kinds o sassenger. The'r recipes athoot maet an aa, speceifically for vegetarians, that tastes gey seimilar tae the maet-based receipts.

In some weys, the nor-aestren US dish scrapple is like haggis, but haggis differs in the follaein weys: it uises sheep emmledeug insteid o swine emmledeug and aitmael insteid o cornmael (maize); it is a sassenger raither nor a maet laif; an it is byled insteid o bein bakkit. Acause o this, the leuk an the gust differs seegnificant.

History an Popularity

Haggis is tradeitionally sert wi the Burns supper on 25t Januar, whan Scotland's naitional poet, Robert Burns, is commemorate. He wrate the poem Address tae a Haggis, stertin "Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the puddin-race! Aboon them a' ye tak your place...." In Burns' lifetime haggis wis a popular dish for the puir, syne it made uiss o pairts o a sheep that wad ithergates hae been wastit.

Haggis is widely available in supermercats in Scotland the hail year aboot, an the cheaper brands is for ordinar stappit intae artifeicial casins, raither nor painches, juist like the cheaper brands o sassengers isna stappit intae animal thairms ony mair. Whiles it is selt in tins, an ye juist microwave it or uin-bak it. Some supermercat haggis is maistlie made frae swine's, raither nor sheep's, emmledeug. Forby, aamaist aa Scots fish an chips shops will sell thair customers a haggis supper, a smaa aesome portion o haggis doukit intae batter an deep fried wi chips; it gies a het, fillin, hie-energy mael for a cauld winter's day. The'r fast-fuid shops that sells haggis burgers an aa, a patty o fried haggis on a bap.

Orra Facts an Popular Cultur

Syne monie kintras' fuid saufty laws ootlaws some o the ingredients in haggis (for examplar, Unitit States law forbids the sale o onie animal's lichts for human consumption), expatriate Scots and Scots descendants owerseas haes been kent tae engage in haggis smugglin for tae obtein richt Scots haggis.

Haggis is a funny subject for monie fowk. Thaim that speirs at a Scotsman for wittins aboot is rarely gien a straucht answer. A common "answer" tae the speir "Whit is a haggis?" aften gaes like this: "A haggis is a smaa fower-leggit Scots Hieland craitur that haes its lims on the tae side shorter nor the tither. This means that it is weel adaptit tae rinnin aboot the braes at a steady altitude, athoot aither gaun up or doun. Houaniver a haggis can be eith keppit bi rinnin aboot the brae conter gates." (see wild haggis) Surpreisinly the humorous myth is believed bi monie tourists; syne thay are scunnert tae hear the trowth.

Forby thon haggis is uised in a sport cryed haggis hurlin, thrawin a haggis sae faur as possible.

The Warld Record for Haggis Hurlin haes been hauden bi Alan Pettigrew for mair nor 18 year. He threw a 1 lb 8 oz haggis a stoondin 180 feet 10 inch on the island o Inchmurrin on Loch Lomond in Augist 1984.

[bud]

have black pudding instead! i loved it......

[EwanM]

have black pudding instead! i loved it......

How did you have it?