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To stir up controversy, here’s a best Scotland XI since resumption at the end of hostilities: Goram, McGrain, Caldow, McKay, McKinnon, Baxter, Smith, White, Reilly, Law, Liddell.

The protection of the civil rights of individuals has nothing to do with a football club.

Any amount of heroes on this. FA Cup semifinal 1962. Reported attendance at Hillsborough of 65,000. No disasters. No large scale trouble. I wonder why that was?

I’ll have to defer to compo. Not for the first time either.

That’ll be Bobby Johnstone?

Aye but only five of them played for an English club which I think was @Gribz’s original criterion which I diverted a wee bit. It’s a cracking team though and your point is absolutely valid. Wouldn’t have picked Forsyth.

Yeah but his motes are a hell of a lot worse than my beams.

I’ve edited my original post to confine the selection to Scottish players playing in the Football League. Brown, Parker, Thomson, Gabriel, Ure, Mckay, Leggatt, White, St John, Law and Liddell.

When will we see his like again? Clarke? McInnes? Docherty Dundee? I think not. Moyes would be at least as good a choice as any current Englishmen.

Absent real Scotsmen I’m left with these poor substitutes: Seaman, Terry(C) Stam, Vidic, Scholes, Giggs, Vieira, Essien, Silva, Aguero, Drogba.

We could have picked two outstanding teams of real Scotsmen playing in the Football League from the 1950s/60s. These days are gone now.

Perhaps it was aimed at some of the weird notions coming out of US Colleges. This is no time to offend Californians.

Just remove the drum.

If you want to defend Europe you are opposed to “the Global Majority”. It’s forbidden to think such a thought let alone cause an inference to be drawn from a banner. Free speech is haram.

Not nearly enough so heinous was the transgression.

I’d put Robertson into the higher category.

Seventeen caps, nine goals. Your uncle was right.

I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again, that is brilliant. For the sake of completeness, though, you should have mentioned his Scotland caps, fourteen and goals, six. Not a lot of caps compared to modern times but international matches were fewer, the talent pool was much larger and the selectors used to dole caps out to chaps they thought deserved a chance. Dundonian Jackie Mudie was a contemporary but with a place on the pantheon of Blackpool divinity a bit lower than Matthews and Mortensen

Would the butler be serving the potatoes or would it be some poor soul lower down the hierarchy of domestic servants?

I think @Blue Moon’s answer is the correct one but it may also be that Scotsmen are more self confident than a certain type of Irishman and don’t feel the need for flamboyant demonstration of identity. Or maybe we just can’t be bothered.

Long before Dawson, common on radio comedy shows when I was a young lad late 1940s, early 50s but according to wikipedia the origin is: ”The term, or its variant "as the actress said to the bishop", is British in origin. It supposedly originated from a conversation between the actress Lillie Langtry and the Bishop of Worcester. They were at a country house weekend party and on Sunday morning before church, they went for a stroll in the garden. On their walk, the bishop cut his finger on a rose thorn. Over lunch, Lillie enquired about his injury, asking: "How is your prick?" To which the bishop replied: "Throbbing," causing the butler to drop the potatoes.” I hope that’s true.

Ha ha. Long time since I heard anyone else use that one.

Never likely to be favoured by purists but he could devastate a defence. I wish he had played with Ralph Brand. I suspect Brand’s formidable goal tally would have been further boosted.

The Carabao Cup’s on the road to Blaydon.

He only did belters. No sclaffs or in-offs.