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Your support makes all the difference.HAMPDEN PARK will be like Burnden Park revisited if, as anticipated, John McGinlay and Andy Walker are asked to recreate their old Bolton partnership in a new context for Scotland against the Faroe Isles a week tomorrow.
The Scots' attacking options for the second match of their quest to qualify for the European Championship finals, already limited by injuries and loss of form, were further reduced when Duncan Shearer and Eoin Jess cried off. In the circumstances, Craig Brown has little alternative other than to reunite McGinlay and Walker.
The duo enjoyed success together in England, most conspicuously during Bolton's FA Cup campaigns, and both have continued to score regularly since Walker broke up the pairing by re- joining Celtic this summer. McGinlay, who lost out to Shearer when Scotland opened Group Eight by winning 2-0 in Finland last month, has since netted seven times in as many matches.
Scott Booth, of Aberdeen, replaces Jess, while Brown has also stayed loyal to Craig Levein, despite the Hearts defender's 10- match suspension for his part in an altercation with a team-mate during a pre-season game. Levein, if he keeps his place, will effectively be representing the body which banned him.
'Craig played for his club on Saturday, and the fact that he has lodged an appeal has been helpful to the national cause,' Brown said. 'The rules are clear-cut - it's a domestic suspension.'
The omission of Phil O'Donnell, who has made a strong start to his Celtic career since signing from Motherwell, reflects Scotland's relative embarrassment of riches in midfield.
SCOTLAND SQUAD (European Championship Group Eight qualifier v Faroe Islands, Hampden Park, 12 October): Goram (Rangers), Leighton (Hibernian), Gunn (Norwich), Boyd (Celtic), McKimmie (Aberdeen), Hendry (Blackburn), Levein (Hearts), McLaren (Hearts), Robertson (Rangers), Collins (Celtic), McAllister (Leeds), McCall (Rangers), McStay (Celtic), McKinlay (Dundee Utd), Nevin (Tranmere), Booth (Aberdeen), McGinlay (Bolton), Walker (Celtic).
The strikers Iain Dowie (Southampton) and Michael O'Neill (Hibernian) replace the defenders Colin Hill (Leicester) and Keith Rowland (West Ham) in Northern Ireland's squad for the European Championship qualifier against Austria in Vienna on 12 October.
NORTHERN IRELAND SQUAD (European Championship Group Six qualifier v Austria, Vienna, 12 October): Wright (Nottingham Forest), Fettis (Hull), Fleming (Barnsley), Taggart (Barnsley), Morrow (Arsenal), McDonald (Queen's Park Rangers), Worthington (Leeds), Gillespie (Manchester Utd), Lomas (Manchester City), Magilton (Southampton), Dowie (Southampton), Hughes (Strasbourg), Quinn (Reading), Gray (Sunderland), O'Neill (Hibernian), Patterson (Crystal Palace), O'Boyle (St Johnstone).
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