A rare Auld Enemy encounter these days, but Scotland v England was, in my
youth, a regular and meaningful fixture, especially when I was living north of
the border in the seventies, and two of them spring immediately to mind: in May
1972 I was at a hostile Hampden to see England win by a single, scrappy (Alan
Ball?) goal, and in February 1973 I was in a roomful of Scottish students
watching on a black and white TV as England ungraciously marked the Scottish
Football Association’s centenary by beating their hosts 5-0; tonight’s televised
game brought another England win in a game most remarkable for its display of
some old-fashioned British football values – fast pace, proper tackling, no
diving, no feigning of injury – combined with some modern one-touch play that
brought some top class goals.
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