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FULL TIME: SCOTLAND 1 ENGLAND 3 Well, we all bought in to the whole rivalry thing, and for a moment we almost forgot that we would be watching Scotland play England. There were long periods of anti-football, not nasty or negative or anything, just low quality. But in fairness to England, they were the away side, and they kept Scotland and their fans very quiet indeed.
91 mins: Bannan with a freekick, Fletcher plays it back across but there's Sterling to clear. England will complete a quietly encouraging evening's work with a comfortable win here. Here's Roddy Forsyth:
Scotland fans leaving at 2-0 came back and jigged in celebration at Robertson's goal. Then were immediately flattened by Wayne's second and headed straight for the car park and a head start on the motorways...
90 mins: *Ron Manager Voice* Enduring image, isn't it, hmm?
87 mins: Jack Wilshere off, Ross Barkley on. Impressive game from JW. Email from Peter F Duncan:
Why do Scotland not produce great players anymore? When I grew up in Scotland in the 60s and 70s, the parks were packed with casual soccer games. Nowadays there are very few games in the parks. All the great players of the 60s and 70s came from playing in the parks. Simple. No park game no great players.
GOAL! Brilliant from England. A drive down the right, Lallana with a clever cutback, and there's a lovely crisp spanking finish from Rooney. Well played England. SCOTLAND 1 ENGLAND 3 (Rooney 85)
85 mins: I was just going to tweet that we could be in for a fun finish but England have just scored a really excellent goal
GOAL! Excellent. That is what the game needed. Andy Robertson, who has had a good game, surges down the left. He gives it inside to J Russell, keeps on with the run and scuffs a low shot past the keeper at the near post. England switched off. SCOTLAND 1 ENGLAND 2 (Robertson 84)
80 mins: Derby's Johnny Russell on for Maloney.
78 mins: That's followed by another bright bit of play as Raheeeeem paces down the left and crosses threateningly. Just cut out. Corner. Nada.
77 mins: Best moment for a while as Wilshre, Ox and Chamberlain break at pace and Wilshere mis-hits a shot not far wide.
75 mins: Well, highly charged post-referendum clash or not, this has been absolute tedium since half time. It was a shame that England got the second so soon after the break. Neither side doing much of anything at the moment and the nine subs so far have taken any sting out of it.
72 mins: Fletcher getting Scotland playing a bit, and Stevie May (on for Hanley) giving them some sort of presence up front. It's a corner to Scotland. Naismith gets ahead of Clyne but cannot make a good contact with the heid.
68 mins: Talking of full-backs though, Luke Shaw didn't look too spry as he came off.
65 mins: K Gibbs on. R Sterling on. Welbeck and Shaw off.
62 mins: Rooney with a tame long shot. Gordon expresses particular displeasure with Robertson for a meaingless hoof.
60 mins: Wee Gordon is livid. Even more so than usual. He brings Anya off and Barry Bannan on.
59 mins: Dat Guy Welbz signals that he wants to come off, then goes on a lung-bursting run, and then clutches his leg. God there will be a stink if he's hurt himself.
58 mins: Wilshere passing it around well. Lalana crosses, and Smalling should have done better with a header from close range.
56 mins: The Twitters is abuzz coz Clive T shouted "Roooney!" when Oxlade-Chamberlain scored the first. Perhaps Clive was just being predcitive of the second.
53 mins: Milner! With a shot at goal having made himself a nice bit of room. England are well on top at the moment. Rule Britannia v booing in the stands. Hard to believe this is the same species that just landed a robot on a comet.
50 mins: Scots have a free, very well whipped in, R Martin gets up and heads at goal. Solid effort but Forster always had that covered.
GOAL! Terrible defending from the Scots. That freekick played in, Scotland make a meal of clearing. It's drilled back in by Wilshere. But an awful piece of play from fullback Robertson, who just sends the ball back across his own area, standing it up perfectly for Wayne Rooney to head it home for the second. SCOTLAND 0 ENGLAND 2 (Rooney 47)
46 mins: Mulgrew into the book for cynical use of the arm to haul back an opponent.
21.06 Two changes for England; three for the Scots. Lalalalalalana and Jags on. Downing off. Morrison, Fletcher and Gordon on for the Scots. Marshall, Brown and Martin off.
21.05 Sorry computer hell. At least it was mainly during half time I guess.
HT: SCOTLAND 0 ENGLAND 1 Well Europe’s footballing superpowers might not be exactly quaking in their boots, but it’s been enjoyable enough as an occasion. Not a vast amount of footballing quality to tell you about, but that was a lovely ball from World Class Wilshere for the goal, and a clever header from the Ox. Both sets of fans enjoying the hate; hopefully it will turn out to be of the panto variety rather than the A&E type. We’ll be getting underway for the second half soon.
44 mins: Scotland have a free but cannot fashion much from it and that's the half.
41 mins: Nice bit of play from Scotland but it's wasted by Maloney, who skews it to row ZZ. Strachan loses his stuff on the bench! He's got mad, hitting the seat in rage. Think it was Maloney's shot, not the nasty song.
40 mins: You can hear the England fans for the first time in the match. They're doing "Cheer up Gordon Strachan."
39 mins: Robertson tries to free Anya down the left. Scotland are short of attacking outlets.
36 mins: Good football. England. Clyne with some solid defence, a controlled move involving several players, Milner has a cross-shot thing and it finds its way to Welbeck in the area. He cannot control. Fair enough. It was fair LASHED at him
34 mins: Anya and Robertson making ground down the left. Wilshere down on the ground for a bit but the Scots play on. He's okay and the move eventually peters out.
33 mins: Mulgrew with a late one on Milner. No cards yet. Yet.
GOAL! A simple, but effective bit of play. Jack Wilshere slings the ball in on a diagonal from the left. It's a beaut through the centre of the Scottish defence... and here's Oxlade-Chamberlain ghosting in and heading it home with a lovely delicate nod. SCOTLAND 0 ENGLAND 1 (Oxlade-Chamberlain)
30 mins: Scott Brown, who loves a foul, has a nibble at Milner.
28 mins: A period of play in which the sides take turns for some ball in midfield without looking like they know exactly what to do with it.
25 mins: But the delay helps England. They catch Scotland a bit flat and Rooney is only a yard away from sending Dat Guy Welbz clean through.
24 mins: Bit of a delay for that knock. To summarise: England started more impressively but Scotland on top now. The Scotland fullbacks getting forward well.
22 mins: Pressure on England. Martin and Maloney with some neat stuff on the edge of the England box. The hosts have a corner. Whittaker putting himself about. Naismith has caught Luke Shaw on the ankle.
20 mins: Here's Robertson down the left, good run, he's got the beating of Alex O-C and Robertson surges past him to drill a dangerous cross through the England area.
18 mins: First bit of argy-bargy as Maloney goes on a little hard on Welbeck, who has a word.
17 mins: Cahill manhandles Chris Martin. Scotland have a freekick 40 yards out. Something from the training ground as Whittaker shoots. Straight into an England player. The Scots have a corner and a penalty appeal from it when the ball hits Cahill.
15 mins: England starting to have the better of this, they have had a lot of ball on the edge of the Scot box in the last minute or two but have not created an opening. Downing's cross sails over all.
13 mins: Mistake from Scotland! Scott Brown gives it away, the defence is nowhere and Welbeck has a chance to send Rooney clear. He over-cooks his pass, though.
11 mins: Scotland break with the lively Anya, but Clyne does well to keep him to a corner. Good little duel between those two players. England fail to pick up Whittaker on the back of the area and he has bags of time to have a shot... charged down.
10 mins: Both teams trying to play, there hasn't been a challenge with any snap in it yet, let alone any fouling.
8 mins: The Ox is into the area but Wilshere badly overhits a chipped pass.
7 mins: Good sweeping move from the Scots, crisp passes, and it's lucky for England that Shaw reads one and cuts it out. Anya shows his pace to beat a man down the left but he's over-run it.
4 mins: England right back Clyne, known to all as Patsy, pressing very high up on his flank. Whittaker dallies on the ball, Welbeck robs him and surges forward. Gets in a hard low shot that the keeper parries, not a million miles away from the lurking Wayne.
2 mins: Martin plays it forward but Shaw cuts the ball out, gives it to Wilshere and breaks forward well. Rooney holds it up, waits for the overlapping Shaw and England win a corner. Cahill gets up well for the header but it's wide. In fact, had he left it for Smalling, his partner had a better run on the ball.
1 mins: England kick off. Andy Townsend has been "looking forward to this all day." Talk about eager anticipation. Ref gets the first use of his whistle as an England player goes in a bit late on Mulgrew. For some reason the TV cameras appear to be positioned in, ooh, Falkirk, so I couldn't not see who.
20.00 Roddy Forsyth says: "The racket during the two anthems gave new meaning to the term 'noising up'...."
19.59 There's a minute's applause for Nathan McSeveney, the young lad who died falling down a stairwell at Parkhead at the weekend.
Scotland: Marshall, Whittaker, Russell Martin, Hanley, Robertson, Maloney, Mulgrew, Brown, Anya, Chris Martin, Naismith. Subs: Gordon, Bryson, Berra, Morrison, Bannan, Dorrans, Greer, Darren Fletcher, Burke, Russell, May, Macleod, Forsyth, Paterson, Gilks.
England: Forster, Clyne, Cahill, Smalling, Shaw, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Wilshere, Downing, Milner, Welbeck, Rooney. Subs: Foster, Chambers, Henderson, Walcott, Jagielka, Gibbs, Lambert, Sterling, Lallana, Barkley, Berahino.
Referee: Jonas Eriksson (Sweden)
19.58 Not like England haven't dished that out a few times, you have to say. Not many Better Togethers in the night, by the sounds of things.
19.57 As thorough and committed a display of booing as you will ever hear. Well done to all at Celtic Park for that response to God Save The Queen.
19.55 "When I am asked where the best Champions League atmosphere is, I always say Celtic Park. Tonight, not so much a European night as a great British night. The old firm of international football" - Clive Tyldesley's intro.
19.53 Splendid atmos at Celtic Park. Someone has given Mr Roy a bottle of whisky.
19.50 Both Gordon and Roy keen to stress that they don't know what's going to happen, refusing to make predictions etc etc. Phil Martin writes:
I actually think this game is very important to measure England's progress as their EURO qualifying group will not throw up one difficult game.
19.48 I didn't catch this myself, but if Harry says it, I am sure it's true.
One of Glenn's greatest.
19.45 Loved Gary Neville forcibly removing Wilshere's earphones. Sure he is just a young man trying to make his way in a high-pressure job, growing up in the public eye and all that, but Wilshere really does seem like an oaf.
19.43 "You go away from home in the Premier League and it can be difficult. I don't think we should overstate [being in Celtic Park]" - Roy Hodgson.
19.41 Roddy Forsyth with news of some tricky conditions up in Scotland
Those who think we reporters have a glamorous life at these occasions might like to know that the biscuits we usually get with our tea at Celtic games are not on offer in the media room on the SFA's watch. Tea and coffee...and that's it. And people wonder why I keep a catering box of chunky Kit Kats in the boot of the car...
19.37 Oh I say
19.36 Scotland will be lining up thus.
19.33 Here are the team formations, as predicted by the Eye Tee Vee.
19.32 Actual LOL at this. Well done Sir Gurreh.
19.31 Email from Robert Stewart.
My money is on most of Arsenal's china dolls picking up a season ending injury.
19.30 There's Adrian Chiles then. Now Glasgow. We don't want a repeat of the disrespectful behaviour we saw on that Brazil beach, do you hear?
19.20 More from Roddy Forsyth.
Paul Hayward says that when the England team bus arrived to be met by the Tartan Army, Wayne Rooney and Jimmy Hill didn't come out of it well....
And, believe it or not, a certain TV company offered its representatives here tonight....stab vests. The offer was not taken up.
Are there any England fans here tonight under age of 30? All the ones I've seen are seasoned geezers.
This is excellent. We should have Roddy on all our blogs. A picture, an anecdote, some tellyland gossip, an implied invitation to imagine what the hell they're sinigng about poor old Sir Jimmy Hill. He's bossing it.
19.15 Henry Winter begins his preview with a cracking anecdote about Saido Berahino:
This is more than a game. When Saido Berahino was called up for England, he drove into West Brom's training ground and "exchanged comments" with the Scots Graham Dorrans and James Morrison. Pressed on the contents of the conversation, Berahino smiled and confessed it was unrepeatable. Berahino was living in Burundi when England last visited Glasgow yet has become fully versed in the rivalry.
19.12 What are your favourite England and Scotland memories?
19.04 Everyone is obviously hoping to see a massive 22-man on-pitch brawl good open game of football. But what if it does get spicy? Here are the teams' most recent disciplinary rap-sheets
Four yellow cards, 14 fouls - England (v Slovenia)
Four yellow cards, 14 fouls - Ireland (v Scotland)
Two yellow cards, 12 fouls - Scotland (v Ireland)
"So who is kicking whom, exactly?" asks Roddy.
19.00 Great news for fan of Stewart Downing, then.
18.55 I really don't understand that man's sign. What is "Booze Off The Hoops"? Should it not be "Hoops off the booze', even?
18.50 Here is our Scottish football supremo Roddy Forsyth with updates from the ground.
Talking to Scotland fans outside - a few from the Highlands and they don't like the ticket prices. "We paid £52 and that's too much when you're being asked to follow the team to Germany and Poland," said one.
There's been a lot of criticism by fans' groups. Maybe that's why the SFA picked today to announce that they're going to give away 10,000 tickets to youth groups for the game against Gibraltar in March.
There's a guy outside the ground who said he was protesting against Celtic having a cider maker's logo on their shirt when the West of Scotland has a significant incidence of drink related illnesses.
I don't why he didn't pick a Celtic game. Maybe he does and I just haven't seen him.
18.41 And here is the Scotland team
Marshall; Whittaker, R Martin, Hanley, Robertson; Brown, Mulgrew; Maloney, Anya, Naismith; C Martin
18.40 Here's the England team
England: Forster, Clyne, Cahill, Smalling, Shaw, Wilshere, Milner, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Downing, Rooney, Welbeck
18.35 I shall bring you the team news as soon as I have it. Meanwhile, news from the ground
One wag replies: "better than the England band, anyway."
18.30 Good evening Scottish people! Good evening English people! How exciting this all is. Neither of our football teams might be all that much use, but by God we know how to have a a good time (Scots) while we are supporting them. Or smashing up a town square while we are supporting them, whatever comes more naturally. It should be a highly entertaining evening.
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Gordon Strachan believes Scotland's friendly against England at Celtic Park tonight will be played in the right spirit - like the Euro 2016 qualifier against Republic of Ireland.
Much was made about the robust and physical nature of the match against the Irish at Parkhead last Friday night where Shaun Maloney's second-half goal kept Scots' hopes of qualifying for the finals in France very much alive.
England goalkeeper Ben Foster made the headlines with his take on the match: "From watching the game the other night, they were kicking lumps out of each other weren't they?"
However, Scotland manager Strachan said: "It was a game played in the right manner and everyone gave it their best.
"It was physical but fair. I think people think it was some sort of bloodbath, it was nothing like that.
"It was people going toe to toe and respecting each other.
"There is a big difference between that and a bloodbath, which we have seen many a time over the years.
"I thought it was played in a terrific spirit and I know it is going to be the same [against England]."
Strachan entered the debate about Maloney's wonderful goal which involved Ikechi Anya and skipper Scott Brown at a short corner before he curled the ball past Irish keeper David Forde from around 16 yards to take Scotland level on seven points with Martin O'Neill's side and Germany, three behind Group D leaders Poland.
While his praise for Maloney was unstinting, the former Scotland midfielder drew the line at putting his strike ahead of Archie Gemmill's famous goal for the Scots against Holland in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, which has its own display in the Scottish Football Museum at Hampden Park.
"I have seen Shaun's goal two or three times now," said the former Celtic manager.
"There are loads of things it could have fell down on but three or four players put the move together and then Shaun has the difficult bit.
"He was at the point where the whole of Ireland and Scotland are watching him and all those years of practice comes down to these situations.
"I have seen players at clubs get changed and go away but Shaun is not like that.
"He has been working for years for that moment, to be able to master his craft and do that.
"So it is no fluke but no [not better than Gemmill's goal]. Archie's goal is in the Hampden museum.
"Once it gets into the museum you can call it a good goal."
Alan Tyers will be here from 6.30pm tonight ...
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