With Scotland playing England on Friday night younger supporters might be in the dark about the mysteries of the ‘Auld Enemy’.
For generations, Scottish football revolved around a couple of fixtures a season with the biggest of them all, even bigger than the two ‘Old Firm’ league matches, Scotland v England.
Fans of every club would do anything and everything to get hold of a ticket for the bi-annual clash at Hampden with the gate money providing the back-bone of the money needed to sustain the SFA for two years.
Across Scotland ‘Wembley Club’s were the norm as folk, often not regular supporters, would put something away every week to pay for their Wembley Weekend which involved massive kerry-oots and even longer bus journeys.
Although it was only for the minor glory of the Home International Championship the Scotland v England game was the end of season show-piece shown live on telly year in year out as it was a guaranteed sell out.
From that background English footballers were rarely found in Scotland, Scots poured south of the border but very very few made the opposite journey.
In the mid-seventies Peter Latchford broke the mould but it wasn’t until Terry Butcher and Chris Woods joined the Debt Revolution at Ibrox that English players started to consider moving north.
Some loved it, the intensity, the passion and the golf courses, others hated the weather and moved back south as soon as possible.
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