They're fast becoming the Gucci man bags of European football. The essential fashion accessory which no self respecting club would be seen dead without.
Suddenly – and almost overnight – young, Scottish football players have become the new must-have item for some of the most fashionable, image conscious leagues in the world. Over the last couple of days, Lewis Ferguson and Josh Doig have been paraded at Bologna and Verona as Italy’s Serie A continues its recent trend towards Serie Aye – having already said yes to trailblazers Liam Henderson and Aaron Hickey.
With Hickey, Nathan Patterson and Calvin Ramsay joining Andy Robertson, Kieran Tierney, John McGinn and Billy Gilmour in England’s Premier League, it feels for the first time in a long, long time as if Scottish football has become all the rage. It really has been a remarkable transformation given that our game has spent so long being cast aside by the rest of the continent like a perennial ugly duckling.
