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AS he gabbed away with a gaggle of Scottish newspaper reporters ahead of the UEFA Conference League play-off double header against Hibernian on a Zoom call last month, Aston Villa captain John McGinn allowed his thoughts to drift ahead.is never far from the mind of the man mountain who has become an icon to the Tartan Army with his goalscoring heroics in the past four years.
But it is, of course, far from meaningless. There is national pride at stake. Everyone who dons a dark blue jersey next week will be hell bent on prevailing. No 50-50 challenge will be shirked during what promise to be 90 fiercely-contested minutes. That will be invaluable if they do make it through to Euro 2024 as the likelihood is high they will, as we saw when they were drawn in a section with Croatia, the Czech Republic and England at Euro 2020, come against some formidable foes.
Sporting exploits have certainly had a direct bearing on far weightier issues in the past. “There was a suggestion at the time of the Scottish devolution referendum in the March of 1979 that Scotland’s failure at the World Cup in Argentina nine months earlier had played a big part in the result,” said Dr Neil McGarvey, a senior teaching fellow in“National confidence took such a dent as a result of the debacle in South America. I am not totally sceptical of its impact.
That was the first general election at which a Scottish National Party candidate won a seat at Westminster. Donald Stewart captured the Western Isles and became their only MP. They enjoyed a period of sustained growth thereafter.
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