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My Name is Ally MacLeod and I am a Winner - The Blizzard

How Scotland’s humiliation at the 1978 World Cup knocked nationalism off course This piece was written by Dominic Sandbrook for issue 5 One evening in May 1978, almost 30,000 people stood on the terraces of Hampden Park in a state of near-hysterical excitement. Festooned with flags, scarves and banners, they had come to wish good luck to their nation’s World Cup squad before their flight to Argentina. They cheered as 10 massed pipe bands took to…
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