If only that was peak SFA/McLeod incompetenceThink it was 1978, just before Argentina. The big man was on fire that year along with Gordon Smith but McLeod didn,t use D.J. despite him and Smudger scoring over 70 goals between them.
You're wasting your time, Mo.Derek Johnstone's goal was a cracker, that we still talk about 44 years later.
Perisic's goal was very good, but I doubt any Croatians will be crowing about it in 2066.
It still angers me that Derek Johnstone was not used in Argentina 78', and Jordan was.
It made absolutely no sense whatsoever at the time.
It makes even less sense today.
Joe Jordan had made the big move from Leeds to Man Utd that Jan 78',
but scored only 3 goals in 16 games for Man Utd, who finished in 10th place in the English Div 1
(4 points behind Leeds Utd in 9th position).
In that same period Derek Johnstone had scored 20 Goals in 22 Games.
Joe Jordan's goal for Scotland in the 3-1 win v Czechoslovakia (Sep 77'), was the ONLY goal he had scored for Scotland in the previous THREE years.
Derek Johnstone had just scored 38 Goals in 47 games in that 77-78 season.
Derek Johnstone had just won the Treble for the second time in three seasons with Rangers
(90 Goals in the last three seasons)
.
Johnstone's 2 goals in 2 games in 4 days (v N. Ireland and Wales) were Scotland's only goals scored in the Home Internationals, in the weeks leading up to Argentina.
Joe Jordan had scored in 1 Goal in 12 games, in the past 3 years for Scotland!
Johnstone was arguably the best all round Striker in Great Britain that season, and was awarded both the SFWA Footballer of the Year, and the PFA Scotland Players' Player of the Year (the first to do so), and he certainly posed a much greater goal threat than Jordan.
This was probably Derek Johnstone at his peak, in a career that saw him collect 14 Winners medals.
Joe Jordan, who was at the time struggling to score goals, in a team that was struggling to win points, collected 1 (one) winners medal in his entire 20 year playing career.
Big dj outstanding goal, youll go a long way to see a better header... Class is perm anentJust watched DJ’s header after seeing your post. DJ all day long. What a header! The power he generates from a dinked cross! Outstanding.
Perisic was a beauty as well in all fairness.
D J all the way what a headerName and shame everyone that didn't vote for Big Derek.
They're clearly on the wrong board.
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He's just inside the '25 yard line' when he headers it, so I'd say it is more like 17 yards...but Perisic’s header wasn’t from 25 yards out like DJ’s...lol Funnily enough I was watching that goal today with my staff and big Derek’s goal v Wales was exactly what it reminded me of. Great headers both.
That is when I started to fall out of love with the National Team.Think it was 1978, just before Argentina. The big man was on fire that year along with Gordon Smith but McLeod didn,t use D.J. despite him and Smudger scoring over 70 goals between them.
I hear you,You're wasting your time, Mo.
There were people on here a few weeks ago, on the very same subject, arguing that Jordan was a better footballer than Johnstone and McLeod was right to go with Jordan and Dalglish.
What is the point?
Derek Johnstone's goal was a cracker, that we still talk about 44 years later.
Perisic's goal was very good, but I doubt any Croatians will be crowing about it in 2066.
Was 24 at the time had a passing interested in Scotland but had never been to an international game,The 78 W.C. had everybody buzzing but after the whole debacle and the fact McCloud left D.J. sitting on the bench absolutely finished me with Scotland,Petty I know but it’s stuck with me.I've never really got over Argentina 78, no one would believe how carried away we all were and how crushing the disappointment was, I was never the same again about the national team after it and 2 words to sum Ally McLeods squad up, Joe Fukkin Harper
I think you are missing the point.Probably partly because they make and do well in tournaments with regularity and that will likely continue into the future.
Scotland clings onto celebrating the past because there's not been much to celebrate for a long time.
He did indeed score with a header against NI that week but not from outside the box. Much closer than the one against Wales.Didn;t DJ score the same week against NI with a header from outside the box?
Contains one of the greatest lines of commentary ever...."and Willie Donnachie who has never scored for Scotland has now scored for Wales."DJ's goal against Wales in the first 40 seconds of this clip. A belter.
And the OG equaliser was a belterDJ's goal against Wales in the first 40 seconds of this clip. A belter.