[St Charles Owl]

And you call yourself a site moderator St Charles Owl?????? YOU DINNAE HALF HAVE YOUR OWN CRITICAL MOMENTS  - PROVED TO BE A HUMAN BEING WITH HUMAN FRAILTIES AS WELL AND SANCTIMONIOUS ONES AT THAT! AS WELL AS SUDDENLY BEING ULTRA DEFENSIVE EHHHHHHH!!!
Btw lotsa Tartan Army fans heading to London because their plans to travel were pre-arranged months ago at cost - just saying!! And in my OP it is just a statement of fact. I haven't defended it or backed it. As for Southgate's silly interview, I'm not gonna bother reeling off his jaw-dropping comments word for word but it certainly had a good number of Scot people, incl myself, coming out with the classic EHHHHHHHH word!! It was a football interview, not a political one, on a sports media channel!!! Embarrassing what!! And he did it twice FFS!!
Also re the Tartan Army, I'm sure most of us will have already "set our watches" for the first mention of 1966 - as predictable as clockwork with the self-assured reasoning that everyone, irrespective of their national background shares the same overwhelming English history - it is the very essence of entitlement.
Lastly, re that "political dimension" re footie - over the next few weeks, the serially dense will be out and about making the naive case for disaggregating politics and sport - a flawed argument with next to no moral authority whatsoever. Football reflects a sense of nationhood and community; it is funded by corporate capital and global media, and it is riven with old enmities sometimes born out of war and annexation - all components of what we widely consider to be politics. There are many historical international footie matches that reflect that association and there will be many more in the future.

Yes the seriously dense will turn this political, but that was my point in the first place, and before you start I do not consider you to be in that bracket. As for me being a site moderator, I don't see what that has to do with anything!! My "sanctimonious" moments have all occurred on threads surrounding that particular topic, I just didn't like seeing a football match thread being political from the off, I don't think that is necessary and there are plenty of other threads to do that. We have enough on the field history to have a good rivalry and have some banter, politics is just divisive at the moment. And we will always remember 1966, we won something, and if you ever get to win something you will do the same!! And lets not forget your name is your way of celebrating a couple of wins by your team over it's rivals, so we all remember the successes in our own way.