My name is Stephen and I am a Bad Scot. At least that’s how I feel. For the past week Italian flags have been popping up all over Scotland ahead of tonight’s Euro 2020 final. Music station Pure Radio Scotland rebranded itself ‘Pure Radio Italy’ for the weekend. A shopper in Glasgow complained that Tesco was failing to ‘help boost national pride’ after their local branch played the England fan anthem ‘Vindaloo’.
A pub in the city centre had the moment Gareth Southgate missed the decisive penalty against Germany in Euro 1996 blown up into a giant poster and is displaying it next to the bar’s entrance. The National newspaper ran a front page depicting Roberto Mancini as William Wallace and describing Italy as Scotland’s ‘final hope’. The Daily Record, warning of the ‘nauseating possibility’ that England could win, published a list of things Scots might want to do instead of watching.
How could you not want this England side to win? Harry Kane and his squad have played their hearts out
All this resentment leaves me cold because, as a Scot, I would love to see England triumph tonight.
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