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UPDATED: Sunday 26 April 2009

After a controversial round of matches for Scotland, the dust is beginning to settle, and despite our second place, the grim reality is that having played all four teams in our group, we've only been able to beat one of them so far.

Photos from both of the double-header games have been added, including a job lot from our Hampden tour the day after the Iceland victory.

Anyway, there are still three games to go including a trip to that least enticing of destinations, Oslo. Travel details for that trip, plus news about a controversial trip to Japan in October, have been added to the Travel Details page.

Our next update is anticipated in either late May or early June. Although the season is already over for some (including, sadly in mine and Rich's opinion at least, Southampton FC), things are just heating up for others. With a potential Fortuna play-off looming, and possibly clashing with Clydebank FC's greatest moment since their renaissance (congratulations to the Bankies for reaching the Scottish Junior Cup Final against all odds!), as well as Worthing facing play-offs this coming week, it will at least be an exciting month!

Cheers, Paul

NEW: Netherlands Gallery

Less than a month after the event, here's the gallery with over 120 snaps from two nights apiece in Haarlem and Amsterdam. Enjoy... more

NEW: Iceland Home Gallery

And a further 68 from the home win against Iceland and a tour of Hampden the following day... more

UPDATED: Travel Plans & Gossip

Norway's sorted, and a return to the Land of the Rising Sun appears to be on the horizon... more

ALSO: F95.co.uk updated

Paul's Fortuna Düsseldorf website has also been updated with photos and background info... more


STOP PRESS: Sunday 15 March 2009

Just to get you in the mood for the Amsterdam trip, here's a cracking short song from Ally about Paris (right click to save as a 3mb MP3 file). There's also a guide to the superb German city of Regensburg, plus some photos of Paul and Helen's trip there last weekend. Back with a proper update in April!


UPDATE: Saturday 28 February 2009

Exactly one month to go before we start on the campaign trail again, and everyone is wondering if we'll have to suffer a repeat of our last trip to Amsterdam, or whether a repeat of Paris 2007 is on the cards.

You can now read up on our last away game - our only success to date - to whet your appetite for the upocoming trip. We've also got a very detailed and opinionated questionnaire from NATA's own Ladies Man, as well as a link to a worthy new business venture from a NATA member.

Finally, this update also sees a long overdue overhaul of our popular Prague Pub Guide, with lots more pubs added and even some pub crawl suggestions.

Being realistic, we're unlikely to manage an update in March, however we will be back in April with photos and gossip from the double header against the Netherlands and Iceland, as well as any other nuggets we can come up with in the meantime. For now, have a good month and savour the anticipation of our next game!

Cheers, Paul

NEW: Iceland Diary

Bringing us back up to date on the diary front, for one more month at least, here's the tale of 2 nights in Iceland and Scotland's only win in theWC campaign to date ...more

NEW: Meet Rich

Chapter and verse from NATA founder member Rich, including a rare admission of an embarrassing incident from the usually unflappable Ladies Man ...more

UPDATED: Prague Pub Guide

After two weeks in Prague in the space of a month last summer, we felt it was time to update the Prague Pub Guide, now with far more pubs and some cracking pub crawl suggestions ...more

Superior Condoms.com

Safe sex and balloon animals* are both lots of fun, and both have been made easier thanks to SuperiorCondoms.com, a new business venture from one of the NATA boys.

* We're not suggesting that these two activities should be combined!


UPDATE: Sun 4th January 2009

First of all, sorry for the website laying low for the past three months. What caused the hiatus? A variety of things, basically: pressure of work; reluctance to commit to PC time when relaxing at home; travel; but, most of all, simple creative writing block, I suppose. It's very disheartening, as there's only been a handful of months without updates since the site's inception 7 years ago this month, but c'est la vie...

Anyway, we're back now and that's the main thing! What I can bring you is not one but two photo galleries: the comprehensive Macedonia gallery and a smaller one for the Noway home match. I've also managed to shake off my creative shackles and knock out a diary entry for the Skopje trip (and the Iceland one is almost done - next month, honest!). Finally, it's my own turn to complete the Meet NATA questionnaire (for the second time, may I add).

I really, honestly do envisage being able to update the website again before the end of next month, and plan to bring some of the following: the Iceland diary, an update to the Prague pub guide, a new questionnaire and the final tweaks to the Meet NATA page.

Between now and then, I'm really hoping that the SFA do something about our friendly calendar for the remainder of the year, as it really is looking quite sparse. Whilst I fully appreciate that the priority has to be meeting the squad's needs, surely a little bit of communication and forward planning wouldn't go amiss?

Cheers, Paul

NEW: Norway Photos

For starters, here's 42 snaps from the dreary 0-0 draw at home to Norway in October 2008 ...more

NEW: Macedonia Diary

To follow, a blow-by-blow account of our 5 days in Skopje, which may be a little different from other people's experience ....more

NEW: Macedonia Gallery

The biggest gallery we've ever done - no less than 368 photos covering our 5 days in Macedonia, including the infamous bus trip/mountain hike at Matka ...more

NEW: Meet Paul

And continuing our Questionnaire series, it's webmaster and co-founder of NATA, Paul's turn. Read all about his favourite trips, stadia, drinks and Scotland tops ...more


Last year's updates are detailed on the News Archive 2008

 

 

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