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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Will Unwin

No Scotland, no party? Brazil boogie all over Tartan Army’s World Cup fun

Scotland fans in Miami
Pity the Tartan Army, who will have to hang about in Miami to see if their team gets through to the GWC knockouts. Photograph: Amanda Perobelli/Reuters

SHOWER OF SCOTLAND

Sorry, I’m a Lady, The Devil Sent You to Lorado and Sleepy-Time-Toy are reminders that no one remembers the bad times, the mind is selective and focuses on the positives. Baccara’s back catalogue is roughly one song long, the others are rightly forgotten, a figment of only a few people’s imaginations. Scotland needed a certain song and took it around America; well, from Boston to Miami at least. The nation arrived with hope, boasting European champions, Premier League and Serie A winners among their cohort on the pitch, hoping to get through the group while drinking cities dry. All they had to do was get past Haiti, African champions* Morocco and those boys from Brazil.

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