Tartan Pride - Romano, Gigi
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Scotland's men's national team helped invent international football, filled Hampden with record crowds, and carried a country's self-image into every era of the modern game. Yet across World Cups and European Championships, Scotland's story has so often turned on the finest margins: a late concession, a missed chance, a group decided by goal difference, a summer that promised more than it delivered. This book traces that tension from the first international in 1872 through the rise of Hampden as a national stage, the long shadow of the England rivalry, and the tournament decades that made…mehr

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Scotland's men's national team helped invent international football, filled Hampden with record crowds, and carried a country's self-image into every era of the modern game. Yet across World Cups and European Championships, Scotland's story has so often turned on the finest margins: a late concession, a missed chance, a group decided by goal difference, a summer that promised more than it delivered. This book traces that tension from the first international in 1872 through the rise of Hampden as a national stage, the long shadow of the England rivalry, and the tournament decades that made "near-miss" feel less like a phrase and more like a national inheritance. Told as a continuous, fact-based narrative, Tartan Pride follows the managers, captains, and defining squads who carried Scotland through qualification obsessions and finals heartbreaks-1954 and 1958's hard lessons, the near-escapes of 1974 and 1978, the knife-edge summers of the 1980s and 1990s, and the long drought that followed France '98. It also charts the modern rebuild: the return to the Euros, the pressure nights that broke the barrier, and the renewed belief that Scotland can compete-while still confronting the brutal truth that major tournaments demand not just passion, but conversion. At its heart, this is a story about more than results. It is about identity and belonging: the Tartan Army turning foreign cities into temporary Scotland, the domestic game's pride and politics shaping every national-team era, and the way a single shirt can hold decades of memory. Scotland's football history is filled with glory that never quite arrived in the form supporters wanted, but the pursuit itself-stubborn, communal, and enduring-remains one of the country's most powerful shared rituals.