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Scotland V England
Posted by geacher53 on 13 January 2010 - 8:44pm.
I see that there is an attempt in the offing to resurect the annual football clash against "The Auld Enemy". I, for one, embrace this concept with a passion.
From 1971 to 1979 I attended every game,home and away, and can say that nothing beat it for passion and intensity.
Indeed, in 1975 I was working in Kent, and travelled back up to Argyll just to get on the pub bus back down to London the following day to attend the game, then reversed the trip.... took seven days all told!
And, please, no "Tartan hordes wreaking havoc, babies eaten, Convents ransacked" comments please...it didnae happen!
What fun it was!
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Scotland got mullered by Wales recently,
Wouldn't it be a bit pointless?
No
it's not the point.... we got "mullered" 5-1 in 1973... but it was a grand 5 days out... AND it's only a friendly.
Havoc etc
Geacher, as someone who witnessed the havoc up close, I can assure you it did happen. I think it was fun up to the point the Scots decided to demolish Wembley. But bring it on I say.
I went in 1983
It was the year Ted Croker moved it to a midweek evening to combat Scottish hooligans, which is funny when you consider how English fans rampaged across the world in the 20 years which followed.
I travelled down on a football special train. Not an 8 hours I would want to experience again!
Demolish Wembley??
Nope, we ripped up the turf, broke the goalposts.... Wembley was still there when we left...
OK, not smart or clever, BUT nobody was hurt, no violence at all...
Oh, well that's OK then...
I thought about changing the word, but let it go because I didn't expect anyone to take it literally. It's the people who had to clear up after you that I feel sorry for.
As I recall
...the fixture got canned when the English fans eventually came mob-handed to Glasgow and duly trashed the place. Victoria Road was in a terrible state afterwards (no jokes about £7 worth of damage please).
As pointless
as Ricky Hatton boxing again.
for one chance, just one chance
to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take
our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom?!
(Or you could just let it go)
Controversial!
Lots of English would support Scotland in the World Cup Finals. I've never met a Scot who would support England against anybody!
I do
I find the supporting by my fellow Scots of whoever is playing against England to be rather pathetic.
Yeah, thats fairly true,
and sad. I was actually born in England, and have some roots in Lancashire, so I look upon Engerlund as my "second" team.
Oddly, the same Jocks that I know who would support anyone against England in football look upon the English cricket team as "ours" and were fair giving it laldy in 2005 when "we" retained The Ashes!
Go figure....
Unequal contest
The trouble is, it will never matter as much to the English as it does to the Scots. If England win, well, there's 50 million of us against 5 million of them, so it's no great achievement, whereas if Scotland win it's a plucky underdog triumph against a historically despised bigger neighbour.
Also, it seems that football rivalries have to be nasty nowadays, so I'm not sure all the hate generated would be worth it.
Agree on the nastiness
Football seems to bring out the worst in people.
To all the.....
.....Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and England people this is probably ancient history which means nothing but to those who never thought they'd see a third division player not only play but score for England this is GOLD....Out of darkness cometh light...