I am always struck when travelling abroad to report on our clubs playing in Europe or on the national team by just how little, to be frank, any of the locals give a damn. The idea that there are a significant number of people from outside our borders who are following Scottish football with anything other than a passing interest is, in my experience, rather fanciful.
So, when some parochial catastrophe or another is described as ‘an embarrassment for the Scottish game’, or for some club or another, I wonder how the people of Barcelona, Berlin or Budapest are digesting the news, and reflect on how little I myself know or care of any particular result or rammy that has taken place anywhere outside of Bonnie Scotia.
