Narey's Toepoker is now on twitter

Ladies and gentlemen, Narey's Toepoker can now be found on twitter. Expect my tweeting to be similar to my blogging - unreliable, sarcastic and filled with one-liners which I think are very clever and very funny (and no-one else does).

For the record, I opened it during the second half of the Scotland-Brazil game, which was the football equivalent of OK! magazine - lots of hype and show, a few
names you've heard of, but ultimately just a pointless waste of time.

Scotland boss Craig Levein called it "a great week". I'd be interested to know what lessons he learnt, beyond the fact that a 4-5-1 system, with ten men behind the ball, can frustrate any team in modern international football (such as when Liechtenstein did it to us in September), and that he has a squad of players who
can effectively chase shadows for an hour and a half. That's about it, as far as I can see. To be honest, the only reason I can see for this match being arranged - for I believe that, despite the 55,000 strong crowd the SFA makes no money, such is the charge for Brazil appearing - was to cheer up the Tartan Army, particularly those who wasted their time going to Prague last October to watch Levein's infamous 4-6-0.

Levein has also insisted it was a good team building exercise though - not surprising that, since he took them to La Manga and let them drink beer (I wonder how the players' clubs reacted to that). It remains to be seen whether that will put us in good stead for the remaining Euro 2012 qualifiers which start in September. Levein probably has to win three of those four matches (the fourth is against Spain, ulp) to get a playoff place, which might be the only way to prevent 4-6-0 becoming his legacy.

Sadly, the legacy of the Brazil friendly might yet turn out to be the row over a
banana being thrown at the striker Neymar - whilst the Tartan Army have no reputation for racism (save for anti-English sentiment, of course), this sort of
accusation tends to stick. But I'm fairly confident it wasn't a Scotland fan who threw it - the only time most of them will have seen a banana is when it has been deep-fried in batter...

L.