Tend to agree. There was a time I followed the Scotland team, but I’ve been sort of forced into an ambivalence I would never have predicted years ago.
I just can’t be arsed with the compulsory “Scots wha hae” antics.
The boring and tiresome “Wha’s like us, damn few and they’re a’ deid” mob just push me further away.
I’m not putting on my kilt, Caterpillar boots, a Glengarry with seagull feathers stuck in it and join in with that dreadful Corries durge before and throughout every game, just to feel part of “The Tartan Fucking Army” who by and large hate me and everything I believe in.
Not only that, I think there was maybe one player in the starting 11 who for what looks like financial reasons and self interest, choose not to live or play in Scotland.
That’s fine, but equally I can choose self interest to my wallet and family and be elsewhere when they’re playing.
Pretty much where I am too.
Like most boys growing up in the 60's for me supporting Scotland was almost as important as following Rangers.
As I grew up in the 70's attending Scotland matches was high on my priorities, suffering the agony of the 1974 World Cup, being at Anfield when Wales were beaten, I even managed to get to Wembley (lost 1-3) but what an experience.
Then the Sfa started their shite, Andy Roxburgh followed by Craig Brown and the subsequent treatment of Rangers and players by the national governing body.
Then we we were treated to the 'Tartan Army' booing Rangers players, and please let's not pretend this didn't happen, because of who they played for.
Spare me the rhetoric about Argentina, Italy and Germany, where club rivalry is put aside, they are not blinded by hatred for players of 1 particular club which is driven not only by certain fan groups but by a compliant media and a certain political party who despise everything our club and the majority of our fanbase stands for.
When I was an avid Scotland fan the majority followed Rangers as well, and club rivalries were put aside, that is not the case now.
I have no issue with our fans who follow Scotland, but please do not be surprised when some of us who feel no love for the SFA, their XI, or the 'Tartan Army' for a myriad of reasons fail to get a hard-on for a sporting collective that has no love or tolerance of Rangers FC.