Scotland have been eliminated from Euro 2020 without winning a game, though, for a country with a population of just five million, it was quite an achievement simply to qualify for the competition. Back in 1978, Ally MacLeod took the national team to the World Cup in Argentina, cheered on by a ‘Tartan Army’ of expectant fans. Their hopes were already sky high when MacLeod announced that “You can mark down 25 June 1978 as the day Scottish football conquers the world”. The mood was captured in a catchy song:
We're on the march with Ally's Army
We're going to the Argentine
And we'll really shake them up
When we win the World Cup
'Cause Scotland are the greatest football team
It all ended badly, of course, in a hailstorm of hubris and recrimination.
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