foolfillment: the blog

As you no doubt know I’m no stranger to the stars, having met Thabo Mbeki, David Sole, Pat Nevin and Pieter van den Hoogenband to name a few, but tonight I surpassed all of those. In fact Kevin Gallagher and Matt Elliot are standing outside of my window now. Yes that’s right the ’stars’ of Scottish football were out in force tonight as the Scotland Under 16s (or something) trained at Garscube estate, right by my halls. Walter Smith could be seen chatting away to his successor David Moyes on the touchline with Bob Malcolm just afew yards away with Alex Smith, behind them sat John Collins, Jackie MacNamara, Mixu Paatelinen and a host of others. I think the lonesome figure of Gordon Durie could be seen on the other side of the pitch collecting loose balls but I may have been mistaken. Unfortunately I didn’t have my camera so you’ll just have to take my word for it. (Even if I had had it do you really think I’d be able to take photos of that lot without feeling faintly ridiculous?)

It’s quite a collection for the future of Scotland to be working with and if it’s something Berti has initiated then it’s the first good thing he’s done as far as I’m aware. I’ve criticised his work with the first team in the past but maybe he is structuring the youth setup well and for that we have to be grateful.

We do still need someone else in charge of the top team though - maybe Walter? As long as it isn’t Tommy Burns we’ll be fine. Here’s to Saturday.