Points from the press

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Over the weekend I read a couple of interesting articles.

The first was the local Dunfermline Press which had comments from one of their players faollowing last Tuesday's Scottish Cup replay win over St Johnstone. Dunfermline were 0-2 down at half time and looking unlikely to host Celtic in the next round. The manager decided to change things around and played 2-4-4 for the second half and they won 3-2 !!! The players said it was the right thing to do and they were completely comfortable with it.

The second was someone previewing Erikssons first squad, and saying it would be a far bigger gamble for him to stick with the senior players than t would be to go with youth. He had no excuse for not knowing what to expect of older players, and they had shown over the last few seasons that they just weren't up to it. Very Newcastle like ?

-- Anonymous, February 19, 2001

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It's also pretty frustrating that "making it" to most footballers these days seems to mean signing an enormous contract, getting a massive sponsorship deal, launching a range or crap products, buying a flat on the Quay Side with wall-to-wall slappers and driving several fast cars. Whatever happened to the idea that "making it" was actually playing top-flight football on merit?

-- Anonymous, February 19, 2001

Yes, tou've got ask the lad who thinks he's "made it" with an enormous contract, getting a massive sponsorship deal, launching a range or crap products, buying a flat on the Quay Side with wall-to- wall slappers and driving several fast cars.

When did it all go wrong bonny lad?

-- Anonymous, February 19, 2001


Point taken, but playing football well used to feature in there somewhere, didn't it?

-- Anonymous, February 19, 2001

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