Brown Keen To See Fletcher Return
Scott Brown is keen for Steven Fletcher to settle his differences and return to the Scotland fold. The Wolverhampton Wanderers striker is currently frozen out from the national side, having declared himself unavailable to play for a Carling Nations Cup tie with Northern Ireland last year. With ten goals to his name in the English [...]
Aberdeen’s Ryan Jack and Peter Pawlett were this morning named in Billy Stark’s Under 21 squad set to face the Netherlands in the UEFA Under 21 championship qualifier at St Mirren Park in Wednesday 29th February 2012.
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Scotland have called up Celtic defender Charlie Mulgrew and Blackpool winger Matt Phillips for the friendly against Slovenia on 29 February. Goalkeeper Craig Gordon, who has been sidelined for a year with a knee injury, is also in the 24-man squad. Aylesbury-born Phillips, 20, has represented England at Under-20 level, but qualifies for Scotland through [...]
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Scotland will play an international friendly against the USA on Saturday 26 May 2012 at EverBank Field, Jacksonville, Florida. The match will take place at the home of the NFL team the Jacksonville Jaguars, in Florida. Craig Levein said: “Following the match against Slovenia in February, this will provide another opportunity to get the group [...]
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The Slovenian FA have advised that kick-off in the Slovenia v Scotland match in Koper on 29 February 2012 has been moved forward by 15 minutes. The match will now kick-off at 8.45 pm local time (7.45 pm UK time) rather than 7.30 pm as previously stated.
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Scotland manager Craig Levein has held talks with Blackpool’s Matt Phillips over a surprise call-up for the England Under-20 cap. The highly-rated winger could be selected by Levein for the international friendly against Slovenia on February 29. Phillips was brought to Levein’s attention by national team scout Michael Oliver after a number of impressive displays [...]
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Football is the only London 2012 event which has not sold out, with approximately 1.5m tickets still available, BBC Sport has learned. Football is still the biggest-selling sport at the games, but only 800,000 of the 2.3m tickets have been sold. Showpiece events such as some of the men’s quarter-final and semi-final ties have suffered [...]
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Scotland have unveiled their new away kit for the national team’s 2012/13 season. The strip, manufactured by adidas, is predominantly white with blue trim. A shadowed silver stripe is also present on the top across the chest. As with the recently launched home kit, a variation on the round badge used by Scotland in the [...]
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The Scottish FA can confirm that it is well on track to a full renewal of the Scotland Supporters Club membership scheme. So far 20,159 of the current 35,000 members have renewed for the forthcoming campaign with two months remaining for members to subscribe. In addition, a further 15,950 potential new members have registered their [...]
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The Scottish Football Association are in discussions over an away friendly against the United States of America in May. STV understands talks have taken place over the possibility of Craig Levein’s side travelling to take on Jurgen Klinsmann’s team, which would take place on a date between May 27 and 29. Plans have not yet [...]
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