Fact That Conquerors Are Weak Rubs Salt in Scots' Euro Wounds ; the Column [Eire Region]

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FOR the couch potatoes, lager to the right hand and remote control to the left, there isn't a problem. It's like your birthday and a minor lottery win rolled into one. But for the rest of us, the real fans, when the knockout stages of the European season roll back onto our television screens, it's agony. Like listening to Daniel O'Donnell singing Sinatra, it stinks.

Chelsea and Inter, United and Milan, Juventus and Ajax, Madrid and Lyon - the big boys are all out playing football and our Scottish sides are at home tucked up in bed. It's a nightmare.

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Fact That Conquerors Are Weak Rubs Salt in Scots' Euro Wounds ; the Column [Eire Region]

Aberdeen, Falkirk, Motherwell, Hearts, Celtic and Rangers - they carried our hopes but laid them down somewhere and forgot where that somewhere was.

With the World Cup just around the corner and Scotland, again, not needing t...

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