I gave up on the Scottish national football team years and years ago when I saw the direction they were heading in. We simply don't have decent quality players at our disposal and even Jose Mourinho couldn't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Blaming a succession of managers is not addressing the problem. The football infrastructure of this country needs dismantled and completely rebuilt. However, that would mean the end for the "blazer culture" and "jobs for the boys" as epitomised by the SFA's George Peat and Gordon Smith. But we all know that turkeys don't vote for Christmas.....
As for the Tartan Army, I can't stick them. I don't want Johnny Foreigner thinking that we're all ginger, stepped off the top of a shortbread tin, and that "Brigadoon" is a documentary. As for their "Doe a deer" pish, what's that all about?

And to top it all, pre-game we now have sad old Ronnie Brown struggling to sing and keep time with our dirge-like "national anthem" and randomly shouting "come on".

Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh :comp2:
As for England, now that I've grown up from my Wembley '79 and similar escapades, I wish them well in the tournament. They have put some serious markers down in qualifying, have some top class players and a great manager who seems to be able to handle and control the various egos that must be present in the squad. Let's not kid ourselves...if Scotland had a team of their quality our press, media and fans would be foaming at the mouth at the thought of next year's tournament. And if we'd won the World Cup at
any time in our history, I'm sure they'd still be going on about it.
Rant over. I await the abuse.