The ugly truth about Scotland

After tonight’s loss to Hampden, the boos rung out at Hampden for Scotland. Rangers players’ involvement was minimal – neither Murphy nor Cummings started, and despite the wealth of subs that can be made in friendlies, Murphy made a fruitless 3 minute cameo at the end and Cummings failed to get anything.

And those boos? Ibrox Noise had predicted boos for Rangers players, but that couldn’t really come to pass given their limited involvement but more telling was the boos for the overall display.

Despite more possession, more shots and frankly reasonable all round play, Scotland were undone by a clinical finish from a team who, lest we forget, got to the quarter finals of 2014’ss world cup and were only undone by penalties.

Scotland were facing a side ranked 26th in the world, yet fans booed a decent performance with a fair number of chances made?

Sure, Scotland has a problem with Rangers, but it also seems to have a problem with itself.

We can’t quite tell if the boos were because a h*n is in charge of the NT or what, but to boo your side for losing to the better team by a very honourable 0-1 thanks to a brilliant assist and even better finish is indicative of a national football regime destined to remain in the doldrums for a long, long time.

Forget the glory days of France 98, forget the near misses of 2007/2008 and the titanic results Eck and Walter managed.

No, a fringe Scotland team went out and gave a decent account of itself, if nothing brilliant, and lost to a damn good team, so let’s boo?

How are Scotland ever going to get to a major championship if their ‘fans’ boo them for a night like that?

Scotland hates Scotland as much as it does Rangers.