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Saturday 15th September 2007
After 5 call offs on the Friday, there were only 6 brave souls who ventured out into the wilds of Arbroath for the EASTA Golf outing.

Winner: Sean Dorian

Runner Up: Willie Dunn

Longest Drive: Tam Ferry

Nearest the Pin: Stevie Blaney

Boobie Prize: John Dunn

Only person not to win a prize prize: Cammy Robertson

Final standings;
1. Sean Dorian
2. Willie Dunn
3. Cammy "the Drunk Man" Robertson
4. Tam Ferry
5. Stevie Blaney
6. John Dunn


July 2007

The Scottish FA is delighted to confirm that Scotland will play South Africa at Pittodrie Stadium in Aberdeen on Wednesday, 22 August 2007.

March 2007

Saturday 24th March 2007 - Scotland become the "The Unofficial Football World Champions" by beating Georgia 2 - 1 at Hampden Park. Goals from Kris Boyd and Craig Beattie mean that yet again Scotland became the World Champions (unofficially).... sadly 4 days later Scotland lost to Italy 2 - 0. For further details of how Scotland were unofficfially the World Champions visit www.ufwc.co.uk/
A book titled "The Unofficial Football World Championships: An Alternative Soccer History" is also currently available at Amazon.
But remember to get the Scottish cover from the website http://www.ufwc.co.uk/scotlandcover.pdf

EASTA Quiz
The first winners of the EASTA charity Quiz Shield were the "Are we there yet" team, who finished miles ahead of everyone else on 95 points.
EASTA raised £125 towards the Dean Fraser Appeal.

Dean Fraser Appeal

Monday 29 January 2007
McLeish unveiled as Scotland boss

Alex McLeish has been named the new Scotland coach. Former Rangers boss McLeish has signed a contract until 2010 and succeeds Walter Smith who resigned to take over at Ibrox on 10 January

December 2006
Scotland to play Austria in May

The Scottish FA can confirm that Scotland will meet Austria in an international friendly to be played in Vienna on Wednesday 30 May 2007.
The match will be used by Walter Smith to overcome the gap between the end of the domestic season and the crucial Euro 2008 qualifier against the Faroe Islands on 6 June.

November 2006
Scotland's Euro 2008 qualifier against France next September will be played at the Parc des Princes in Paris, the French FA announced.

October 2006

The Evening Times photo

The Metro newspaper featured a picture of some of the EASTA members in Kiev for the Ukraine match.

EASTA team photo from the Scotsman Wednesday 11th October

SCOTLAND'S Euro 2008 qualifier against France on September 12 2007 has been confirmed as taking place in the Parc des Princes in Paris.

September 2006
EASTA Golf outting 2006 won by Tam Ferry. More details

Tickets for Scotland's crucial Euro 2008 qualifier against France will go on pubic sale at 9 am on Friday, 15 September.
Already, over 30,000 tickets have been allocated in advance sales to members of the Scotland Supporters Club and visiting French supporters, and the popular North Stand and upper South Stand have sold out.
A full list of outlets will be confirmed next week, but in the meantime the following can be confirmed:
Web sales - www.secxtra.com (please note Family Section tickets are not available online).
Telephone sales - 08700 13 14 15 (open 9am-9pm).
Personal sales:
Hampden Park, Glasgow (shop open Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 11-5)
SECXTRA Ticket Outlet, St Enoch Centre, Glasgow (open Mon-Sat 9-6, Sun 11-5.30)
Further outlets to be confirmed.
Ticket prices:
Adult tickets £22 (West Stand), £32 (South Stand).
Family section (East Stand) £16 adults and £6 accompanied children.

Lithuania 1 - Scotland 2

Lithuania: Karcemarskas, Stankevicius, Dziaukstas, Skerla, Zvirgzdauskas, Savenas (Tamosauskas 50), Kalonas, Mikoliunas (Labukas 66), Preiksaitis (Miceika 81), Poskus, Danilevicius.
Subs Not Used: Malinauskas, Paulauskas, Zelmikas, Kavaliauskas.
Goals: Miceika 85.

Scotland: Gordon, Dailly, Weir, Caldwell, Naysmith, Pressley, Fletcher, Quashie (Boyd 43), McFadden (Graham Alexander 21), Hartley (Severin 88), Miller.
Subs Not Used: Neil Alexander, Anderson, Neilson, Teale.
Goals: Dailly 46, Miller 62.

Scotland 6 - Faroe Islands 0

Scotland: Gordon, Dailly, Weir, Pressley, Naysmith, Fletcher (Teale 45), Hartley, Quashie (Severin 84), Miller (O'Connor 61), Boyd, McFadden.
Subs Not Used: Neil Alexander, Graham Alexander, Anderson, Caldwell.
Goals: Fletcher 7, McFadden 10, Boyd 24 pen, Miller 30 pen, Boyd 38, O'Connor 85.

Faroe Islands: Mikkelsen, Pauli Hansen, Oli Johannesen, Danielsen, Janus Joensen, Benjaminsen, Johnsson (Simun Samuelsen 76), Borg, Frederiksberg (Thorleifsson 60), Christian Hogni Jacobsen, Rogvi Jacobsen (Kari Nielsen 84).
Subs Not Used: Meinhardt Joensen, Claus Bech Jorgensen, Hans Pauli Samuelsen, Mortensen.

DAVID WEIR marked his 50th cap for Scotland by leading Scotland to victory over Lithuania.

The Everton defender entered the SFA's Hall of Fame with a magnificent display at the heart of Walter Smith's defence in the 2-1 win over Lithuania.

August 2006
Gaelic added to Scotland strips
Scotland's national football kit has had the word Alba, Gaelic for Scotland, added to it for the first time.
It follows a long-running campaign by Gaels and the Association of Tartan Army Clubs to recognise the language.
The new shirt, which carries Alba on the back, will be worn at Scotland's opening Euro 2008 qualifier against the Faroe Islands on 2 September.

Squad for the matches against Faroe Islands and Lithuania. Goalkeepers:Neil Alexander (Cardiff City), Craig Gordon (Hearts), Graeme Smith (Motherwell)
Defenders:Graham Alexander (Preston), Russell Anderson (Aberdeen), Gary Caldwell (Celtic), Christian Dailly (West Ham), Stephen McManus (Celtic), Graeme Murty (Reading), Gary Naysmith (Everton), Robbie Neilson (Hearts), Steven Pressley (Hearts), David Weir (Everton)
Midfield:Darren Fletcher (Manchester United), Paul Hartley (Hearts), Lee McCulloch (Wigan), Nigel Quashie (West Brom), Scott Severin (Aberdeen), Gary Teale (Wigan)
Forwards: Kris Boyd (Rangers), James McFadden (Everton), Kenny Miller (Celtic), Garry O'Connor (Lokomotiv Moscow)


July 2006
The Unofficial Football World Championships: An Alternative Soccer History by Paul Brown (ISBN 0955218314, Tonto Press, £9.99)
Web site - www.ufwc.co.uk

European Final for Scotland Under-19 Football Team

The Scotland Under-19 football team defeated their counterparts from the Czech Republic 1-0 in the semi-final of the European Under-19 Championships to book a place in the final against Spain. Scotland deserved their victory against the more-fancied Czechs. Spain defeated the Scots 4-0 in the Group stage of the tournament and have players from Liverpool, Man United and the Real Madrid first team. The young Scots were only narrowly defeated by 2-1. Spain scored first, early in the second half and scored another twnty minutes later as the heat got to the tired Scots. But they got a consolation goal three minutes from the end.

EASTA win friendly match

EASTA Team
Haigy
Del (yes I said DEL!)
Stevie McMaster
Lee Campbell
Jodney
Jamesy
Stevie Blaney
Scotty P
Jimmy B
Tam (yes I said TAM!!)

EASTA 3 Douglas 2

EASTA were 2-0 down before Tam rounded off a great move with a delicate lob, after a cross from Haigy and a lay off (bad control! lol) from Jimmy Bell. The lob (ok there was a slight deflection but I am still claiming it) looped over the keeper to make it 2-1. Great play from Bell saw him win a corner, and McMaster headed on and Bell was there to scoop the ball into the net. the winning goal minutes from time was a great individual effort from Bell who rounded the keeper after a great through ball from Scotty P.

A well deserved victory!

June 2006
Scotland's First Euro 2008 Match for Celtic Park When Scotland play Faroe Islands in their first Euro 2008 qualifying match on 2 September, the National Football Stadium will be hosting a Robbie Williams pop concert, which had been arranged before the football matches had been organised. So the Scottish Football Association has decided that the game will be held instead at Celtic Park in Glasgow. Aberdeen are disappointed, as they were a major contender to host the match. But the SFA say that a large crowd is expected for the opening game, but hope to take Scotland's next home friendly match to the Granite City. Scotland have been drawn in a very difficult qualifying group for Euro 2008 and are up against France, Italy, Ukraine and Lithuania.

March 2006
Euro 2008 qualifying dates confirmed for Scotland

Scotland's fixtures:

2006
Saturday, 2 September - Scotland v Faroe Islands
Wednesday, 6 September - Lithuania v Scotland
Saturday, 7 October - Scotland v France
Wednesday, 11 October - Ukraine v Scotland
2007
Saturday, 24 March - Scotland v Georgia
Wednesday, 28 March - Italy v Scotland
Wednesday, 6 June - Faroe Islands v Scotland
Saturday, 8 September - Scotland v Lithuania
Wednesday, 12 September - France v Scotland
Saturday, 13 October - Scotland v Ukraine
Wednesday, 17 October - Georgia v Scotland
Saturday, 17 November - Scotland v Italy

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Wednesday, 1 March 2006
Scotland 1-3 Switzerland

Scotland: Gordon (Neil Alexander 49), Dailly, Weir (Steven Caldwell 56), Webster, Graham Alexander, Fletcher, Ferguson (Teale 50), Gary Caldwell, Quashie, Miller, McFadden. Subs Not Used: Naysmith, Anderson, Maloney, Riordan, McCulloch, Murray, Marshall.
Goals: Miller 55.

Switzerland: Zuberbuhler (Coltorti 50), Degen, Senderos (Lustrinelli 73), Grichting, Behrami (Djourou 50), Barnetta, Vogel (Dzemaili 81), Cabanas, Wicky (Vonlanthen 50), Streller (Smiljanic 74), Gygax. Subs Not Used: Muller.
Goals: Barnetta 21, Gygax 41, Cabanas 69. Scotland 1-3 Switzerland

Att: 20,952

Ref: Bruno Coue (France)

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The Rock Trust Kilt Walk taking place in Edinburgh on Sunday 2nd April

We have closely aligned ourselves with the Tartan Army on this brilliant new event, to get as many of you to take part. The Tartan Army of NYC have been instrumental in this respect by creating a special Kilt Walk Tartan Specials Video of “We’ll be coming down the Road”, which is available to view now on The Kilt Walk website at www.kiltwalk.org

The Kilt Walk takes the image of Scottishness and gives it a shake up for the 21st Century. It’s a 5km walk in kilts around Princes Street Gardens and Edinburgh Castle, all in aid of The Rock Trust – the Lothians youth homelessness charity. As a charity we deal with young people each year who come to us from other parts of Scotland.

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February 2006

Ex-Scotland manager Prentice dies
Former Scotland manager John Prentice has died in Australia of a brain tumour at the age of 79.
Prentice played for Hearts, Rangers and Falkirk before managing Arbroath, the Bairns and Clyde.
He spent six months in charge of the national team in 1966, recording a 1-1 draw with reigning champions Brazil prior to the World Cup finals.

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FIFA Women's World Cup Qualifying campaign continues in 2006

National Coach Anna Signeul continues her preparation for the FIFA Women's World Cup with friendly matches against Italy on 8 March in Isernia at Studio Le Piane and they are also playing Japan in Italy on 10 March in Agnone at Stadio Civitelle.

Italy are currently ranked 10th in the FIFA World rankings and Japan 11th with Scotland ranked 29th. Anna commented that:

'Italy have appointed a new coach Pietro Ghedin who is preparing and building his squad during these preparation matches for their World Cup Qualifying matches against ourselves and Japan. Both of these matches will be invaluable in terms of our qualification preparation too'.

The Scotland team has a very challenging year ahead of them with their first qualification match of 2006 at home against Switzerland on 26 April at McDiarmid Park, Perth.

2006 Match Fixtures

5th FIFA Women's World Cup Qualifying Matches

Scotland v Switzerland 26th April 2006
Republic of Ireland v Scotland 6th May 2006
Scotland v Russia 24th May 2006
Switzerland v Scotland 26th August 2006
Scotland v Germany 24th September 2006
International Challenge Matches

Italy v Scotland 8th March 2006
Japan v Scotland 10th March 2006 (in Italy)
Scotland v Finland 3rd August 2006
Belgium v Scotland 6th September 2006

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Scotland Under 21 team have fixed up an international friendly against Iceland, to be played on Tuesday 28 February at Firhill Stadium in Glasgow.

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January 2006

EASTA Cows now named - Click here for More details

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EURO 2008 Qualifying Draw

Group B
France	www.fff.fr
Italy	www.figc.it
Ukraine	www.ffu.org.ua
SCOTLAND	www.scottishfa.co.uk
Lithuania	www.futbolas.lt
Georgia	www.gff.ge
Faroe Islands	www.football.fo

View full draw

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Scotland are considering an end of season tour to Japan. The Kirin Cup could form part of the Scots preparations for the forthcoming Euro Championship campaign.
As part of his preparations Walter Smith is keen to gather his squad together at the end of the season, and with that in mind Taylor is in talks about a possible trip to the Far East.

Scotland manager Walter Smith will withdraw his team from the Future series of matches after the final game against Turkey in March.

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Easta and Tartan Army articles from the Media 2006.

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