It’s funny, the way allegiance and loyalty work.
It’s such a valuable commodity worth much more than money, to create loyalty and allegiance with a person or a tribe of people which pays back over a lifetime.
Such an extraordinary commodity and one so easily thrown away by so many people.
Whilst I dictate this it’s 5 minutes before Scotland click off against the Czech Republic.
I’d hoped to write this afterwards so I don’t know the result (obviously) but I’m terrified, in fact I feel sick because of my allegiance to the Scotland football team.
I’ve never really been a club supporter because my dad didn’t encourage club support.
My dad was a rangers fan and my brother and I were brought up catholic so we’re Celtic fans but none of us really followed the club football.
My dad took me to see Scotland as a 13 and 14 year old and we stood at Hampden watching world cup qualifiers and Scotland vs England games and waded through the terrible toilets and froze in the winter nights.
I was there when Kenny Dalglish was given his 100th cap and I vividly remember a conversation that evening when I said to my dad that there was an outside chance that the following year I might be playing for Scotland myself.
At the risk of being an arrogant bore, I was able to represent Scotland 17 times and 3 as captain as a basketball player until I was 17 and so, the combination and mixture of me following the Scotland football team through it’s trials and tribulations and then walking out as the captain of Scotland means now I’m so nervous about the Scotland vs Czech Republic match that I want to vomit.
I’m off to see a patient now (terrible logistics and planning that I’m going to miss the first half of this game) but the important point is that the alliance and loyalty that was built between me and the Scotland team is almost unbreakable.
Anyone who can do that with any team is a genius.
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