Old Rivals, Old Friends

A rare (these days) repeat of the oldest international match of them all, with England taking on Scotland at Hampden Park, prompted me, while watching on TV, into a match-long exchange of texts with an old Scottish pal with whom I stood on the Hampden Terraces for the 1972 edition of the game; and while I could cope during the easy-paced first eighty minutes of the game my un-practiced fingers and thumbs struggled with the frantic last ten.