On supporting the Scotland football team
Also featured on Bella Caledonia . Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Gibraltar, Israel, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro and San Marino. Of the 55 member countries of UEFA, these footballing titans are the only nations not to have qualified for a major tournament since Scotland last did, at the 1998 World Cup in France. I was at Celtic Park as an 8 year old to watch us record a routine 2-0 win over Latvia to effectively clinch our place at that tournament, blissfully unaware that a whole generation would become adults without memory of seeing us back at that stage. After the latest shambles this week, another couple of these teams might soon be crossed off before Scotland. When I was about 15, I chose to write an essay about a "transaction" for a Standard Grade English prelim exam. By that age I really should have known what the word meant, but I got it co