THE concept of putting a kilt on a story is one that all sports journalists here can relate to. Searching for a Scottish angle during major tournaments is a pre-requisite of the job thanks to the lamentably frequent absence of our own national team from such events.
When it comes to slapping a splash of tartan on world champions Argentina though, the task is mercifully simple, and not just because they have a lad named Mac Allister in their midfield whose father – who also played alongside Diego Maradona for La Albiceleste – would look entirely at home staggering down a street in Mount Florida with a See You Jimmy hat on, an ill-fitting kilt, Timberland boots and a sausage supper under his arm.
You see, had it not been for a pioneering Scot from the Gorbals, the Argentinians might not have had a Lionel Messi or a Maradona to venerate at all.
