News about Grant Hanley

Moment Scotland fans brawl at Hampden as tempers flare during Poland clash

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 6, 2024
A video of the fight has been widely shared on social media showing two grown men wrestling in the stands while punches are thrown. One of the men gets topless after his jumper is dragged over his head, while his assailant ends up on all fours on the stairway as shocked onlookers look on aghast. The scrap is eventually broken up after stewards and fellow fans attempt to restore calm to the unedifying scenes. The shocking display comes after the Tartan Army were widely praised for their good-natured support earlier this summer when they made headlines while abroad in Germany for the Euros, despite the brutal exit Scotland had at the tournament.

Scots pay a heavy penalty in defeat to Poland... but Clarke refuses to pin the blame on spot-kick sinner Hanley

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 6, 2024
Steve Clarke last night refused to single out Grant Hanley after the defender conceded the stoppage-time penalty which continued Scotland's woeful run of results. Two goals down to Poland in the opening game of their Nations League group, the Scots dragged themselves back into the match with second-half strikes from Billy Gilmour and Scott McTominay. Pushing for their first ever win over the Poles in a competitive fixture, Hanley hauled down Nicola Zalewski to gift the visitors their second penalty of the game in the sixth minute of added time.

Scotland 2 Poland 3: Suffering Scots are stuck in reverse as Poles pounce on mistakes to prevail at Hampden

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 5, 2024
That Scotland didn't deserve to lose this game offered no real consolation in the end. The statistics now show that the national team have won just one of their last 13 games and find themselves in the midst of their longest winless run at home since 2008. The last victory of any description came in a friendly clash against Gibraltar.

Scotland's big hitters failed to turn up at Euros ... but it's not the end of the road for an ageing side just yet

www.dailymail.co.uk, June 24, 2024
What are we to make of this Scotland team? The nearly men? All talk and no trousers? Certainly, for the second time in three years, this group of players have merely made up the numbers at a major tournament despite promising so much more. All the chat about trying to create history and reach the knockout stages for the first time felt cheap and hollow come full-time against Hungary on Sunday night, almost like a pipe dream. It was all so different barely a fortnight ago. Even a couple of laboured performances against Gibraltar and Finland in the warm-up games couldn't dilute the excitement and optimism surging through the country.

Scotland fans rage as they crash out of Euro 2024 branding their performance against Hungary a 'f***ing joke', as one supporter claims he 'spent f***ing TEN GRAND to go to Germany' to watch his side have one shot on target

www.dailymail.co.uk, June 24, 2024
Scotland fans have been venting their frustrations after their side crashed out of Euro 2024 on Sunday afternoon following an agonising last-minute defeat by Hungary. Steve Clarke's side pressed for a late winner, with Grant Hanley hitting the post in injury time, but they could not find the back of the net. Hungary would then turn the tide on the Scots, with Kevin Csoboth completing a sensational counterattack by firing in a pass from Roland Sallai into the back of the Scotland net to seal a 1-0 victory.

WILLIE MILLER: If the Tartan Army are at fever pitch just now, what will they be like if we do qualify?

www.dailymail.co.uk, June 23, 2024
If Willie Miller was any more laid-back, he'd be horizontal. There's not really too much that puts him up or down. But this Scottish football legend, figuring prominently at the moment in BBC Scotland's Icons of Football television series, is getting excited. It's fair to say that's not his default position. As a radio pundit, he's not one for ranting and raving, shouting and screaming, but measured Miller might make an exception tonight if Scotland can boldly go where no other Scotland team has gone before and stay longer than three group games at a major tournament. Sixty-five-times capped by his country - and it would have been more had injury not intervened - Miller was one of the first players to be inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame.

Gritty Scotland give themselves a chance of making history with progress to knockouts still a possibility after outperforming Switzerland, writes IAN HERBERT

www.dailymail.co.uk, June 19, 2024
IAN HERBERT IN COLOGNE: A tide of royal blue support on the banks of Rhine lifted Scotland to another level on Wednesday night and kept their place in these championships alive. The team they urged on were confronted by opponents who threatened them and just briefly, looked like they might bury them, but Scotland were lifted to another level. They took the point which means a win against Hungary in Stuttgart on Sunday could take them to the knock-out stages of a tournament for the first time. You would not say it was a European sophistication from Scotland. Just direct, vertical, muscular highly effective football. And it worked. Amid the cacophony of noise, they struck a post and could walk away in the knowledge that that were the better side.

SCOTLAND 1 SWITZERLAND 1 Pride restored as brave Scotland keep alive hopes of reaching knockout stage

www.dailymail.co.uk, June 19, 2024
TEDDY ROOSEVELT, the late American president, once said that nothing in the world was worth having or worth doing unless it meant effort, pain and difficulty. Scotland's national football team have never known any else. It's an ingrained way of life. Shuffling from the RheinEnergieStadion, the well-oiled, hoarse rank of the Tartan Army nursed a mixture of emotions. Pride, relief, anticipation and that old familiar feeling of anguish. When Grant Hanley attacked an Andrew Robertson free-kick after 66 minutes, the game was finely poised, the tension choking the city of Cologne. Two inches to the right and Scotland would have secured only their seventh win in a major international tournament in 34 attempts. Alas, it wasn't to be.

GARY KEOWN: It's make or break for Bennett at Ibrox... if Rangers don't grasp their European lifeline, Celtic will simply disappear over the horizon

www.dailymail.co.uk, June 2, 2024
THE last time John Bennett said anything significant outside of the stage-managed snoozefest of the Rangers AGM, it was part of a ludicrous move to try to play down the significance of monies being brought in from the Champions League. September 2022 that was. On the in-house TV channel. He was still the vice-chairman. The manager, Giovanni van Bronckhorst, had got the club into the group stage of Europe's premier competition by beating PSV Eindhoven in a play-off and, despite seeking to strengthen the squad, received nothing for any new players in the six days between securing progress in the Netherlands and the transfer window shutting. When it all went pear-shaped that season, managing director and all-round grey man Stewart Robertson started droning on about how people had been talking about money having 'fallen out of the sky' and how this Champions League dough the club had been chasing for years was, as it turns out, nothing to get in a flap over.

Blackburn 0-2 Norwich: Liam Gibbs scores first senior goal as Canaries edge closer to the play-offs

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 7, 2023
JOE BERNSTEIN OF EWOOD PARK: Liam Gibbs of Norwich scored his first senior goal after being given the nod over club legend Teemu Pukki, but his team's excitement was stifled by Grant Hanley's serious-looking injury on his 400th appearance. Pukki was put on the bench by Canaries boss David Wagner during a critical match between two play-off candidates and Gibbs that took only 11 minutes to explain.

Norwich 1-0 Sunderland: Abdoulla Ba's long-range strike stalls Canaries' play-off push

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 12, 2023
Sunderland defeated Norwich 1-0 on Sunday afternoon at Carrow Road, thanks to Abdullah Ba's driving effort. Sunderland struck just before the 15 minute mark, with Norwich's defense allowing Ba too much space for him to fire a low shot from long range between Grant Hanley's legs and the right corner of the net. Joe Gelhardt had a great chance just minutes later, but they didn't have a big lead after smashing his shot straight into Angus Gunn in goal.

Burnley 1-0 Norwich: After Rodriguez scores from the penalty spot, the Hosts have climbed to the top of the Championship table

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 25, 2022
Jay Rodriguez's penalty against Norwich sent Burnley to the top of the Championship table for his eighth goal of the season. Grant Hanley blocked Manuel Benson's cross with his elbow with just eight minutes remaining, and Norwich held out for their second straight draw to put an end to their slide. With eight games without a win and just one point from the previous five games, the Canaries remain in play-off positions.

CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND-UP: Norwich miss out on chance to go top after draw with Reading

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 4, 2022
CHAMPIONSHIP ROUNDUP: Norwich spurned the chance to advance to the top after a 1-1 draw in the tussle between second and third at Reading. On 50 minutes, Grant Hanley took the Canaries lead before Jeff Hendrick's halfvolley. At Kenilworth Road, Elsewhere, Luton, and Huddersfield all fought a thrilling 3-3 thriller. Before Elijah Adebayo's first of the game, Carlton Morris' own goal put the visitors ahead.

With West Brom just three points above the drop zone, Steve Bruce admits that his job is under pressure

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 17, 2022
JON WEST AT CARROW ROAD: Albion's early header put them on track for their second Championship victory of the season. But fortune left Bruce and his players dead in the 68th minute when Teemu Pukki's shot went off the unwitting Byram, and Albion appeals for handball were unable to convince the officials. Albion's results placed them at a definite departure from the relegation equation, which often sees under-performing teams as part of the team's leadership. Bruce was adamant referee Thomas Bramall and his staff had erred with Norwich's intention, as well as getting a penalty claim wrong earlier this year.

Norwich 3-2 Bristol City: Pukki nets brace for Pukki's sixth straight Championship victory

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 14, 2022
Norwich won their sixth straight Championship victory after two goals from Teemu Pukki and a clincher from Josh Sargent. The Canaries stayed second in second place behind leaders Sheffield United, but the Robins could claim to be the best in all departments other than defense. After Bristol City made it 3-2 in the 77th minute, Dean Smith's hosts had to hold the point, they were convinced that they should not have stayed.

ON THE ROAD: Sunderland are moving in the right direction with or without Alex Neil

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 29, 2022
Not the one who pulled them out of the third tier of English football after four years, not the one who took them out of the doldrums of the third class of English football, not the one who brought them out of the club's bleakest days in this club's proud history. Not the one who assembled a hard-to-beat squad with a young talent that secretly focused not on Championship defense but rather a strong push for the top six. In a 1-0 victory over Blackburn, Alex Neil was 121 miles west at Ewood Park, with Stoke's new side showing solid foundations. Ex Rovers manager Tony Mowbray will replace Neil on Wearside, which is in the wrong direction. More on that later.

The Canaries have been pushed into second place in the Championship after Josh Sargent's late strike

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 27, 2022
SUNDERLAND 0-1 NORWICH TEELE AT THE STADIUM OF LIGHT LEWIS STEELE, a raucous, febrile, and agitated. 'Don't be concerned about a thing because every little thing is going to be all right,' they sang, a Bob Marley tribute.' They're still optimistic on Wearside, but Sunderland supporters were rightly upbeat 24 hours before a crunch match. After four seasons as bosses, Alex Neil, nicknamed a'saviour' for leading them out of League One, made a snap decision to join Stoke and left Sunderland managerless. So the fact that Norwich hosted promotion favorites Norwich was a bit of an afterthought, with rage directed at the directors for allowing Neil to go so easily.