By Tom English BBC Scotland 20 Jun From the section Scotland Share this with Digg Facebook Google LinkedIn Reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Copy this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48708705 Read more about sharing. If the minutes and hours following the final whistle at the Parc des Princes was not the time for Scotland to look in the mirror to confront other, less convenient, realities then that time is now.No amount of deflection can disguise the truth of this. The Scots blew it. The hard work had been done, a commanding lead had been established in style, and they folded.To say anything else would be to patronise the players. To soft-soap it and call it unfair or unlucky would open up accusations of treating the women's team differently to the men's team. To bang on about being robbed while brushing away the colossal errors in the endgame would be insultingly … [Read more...] about ‘Scotland must face World Cup capitulation truth’
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Scotland star Fiona Brown fulfils her childhood World Cup dreams
Dunblane is set to back one of its top sporting icons when Fiona Brown stars for Scotland at the World Cup next week. The 24-year-old forward is part of the squad jetting off to France this week, as the nation braces itself for its first football World Cup in 21 years. Ex-Dunblane High pupil Fiona , who now plays her club football in Sweden, was last month named in Shelley Kerr’s 23-woman squad. The Scots face a string of mouth-watering fixtures, including their opening game against England in Nice on Sunday. They also face Japan and Argentina. Fiona’s parents Alison and Stuart, plus brother, Ian, and aunts, uncles and cousins are all set to travel to France for the matches. Proud mum Alison believes her daughter was always destined for great things. She said: “Fiona has always been active and tried, and was good at, lots of sport. But one day, when she and I were up north together, she announced to me that football was her passion and she wanted to play for … [Read more...] about Scotland star Fiona Brown fulfils her childhood World Cup dreams
Watch: Scotland depart on World Cup adventure
Shelley Kerr's Scotland squad leave Edinburgh Airport, bound for France, before their first ever World Cup match on Sunday against England. … [Read more...] about Watch: Scotland depart on World Cup adventure
Record crowd gives Scotland Women perfect World Cup send-off
Sport by Press Association 28/05/2019, 9:49 pm Send us a story Sign up to our Daily newsletter Scotland Women achieved boss Shelley Kerr’s “watershed moment” with a record crowd of 18,555 in their 3-2 win over Jamaica at Hampden Park. The Scots head coach had targeted the 4,098 of last year’s match against Switzerland for the send-off friendly match ahead of this summer’s World Cup in France, their first appearance at the competition. Kerr claimed that reaching a five-figure attendance would be the most recent indication of the growth of the women’s game. The Scottish Football Association had kept prices low and also offered complimentary tickets to schools and clubs and supporters flocked to Mount Florida. By the time they eventually all got in the record was obliterated, although due to queues at the turnstiles many missed visiting attacker Khadija Shaw firing in the opener past keeper Lee Alexander from the edge of the box … [Read more...] about Record crowd gives Scotland Women perfect World Cup send-off
Allan Massie: Six Nations trials and tribulations can benefit Scotland at Rugby World Cup
0 Have your say Gregor Townsend may, come the World Cup in Japan, benefit from the consequences of the blows fortune has inflicted on him in this Six Nations campaign, writes Allan Massie After the Welsh match Tom English, late of this parish, wrote that if Wales have forgotten how to lose, Scotland have forgotten how to win. This was a harsh judgement, not however without substance – and sadly it might be repeated again this week. After the most unexpected, sublime, spirited, skilful and romantic of comebacks at the Castle of Doom, aka Twickenham, Gregor Townsend’s Scotland had overturned a 31-point deficit and coming into the last minute were, astonishingly, seven points in the lead. It was a second-half performance that any writer of old-fashioned school stories would have hesitated, and blushed, to offer. So when Finn Russell kicked into touch in the England 22 the match was all but won. But England attacked from deep. When their left wing, Jonny … [Read more...] about Allan Massie: Six Nations trials and tribulations can benefit Scotland at Rugby World Cup