Scotland's Seoul survivor

He’ll be the only Scot at the World Cup, and wants Ireland and England to be eliminated as soon as possible.

Scotland's Seoul survivor

He’ll be the only Scot at the World Cup, and wants Ireland and England to be eliminated as soon as possible.

When Hugh Dallas crosses his fingers and hopes for an early England exit from the World Cup, it won’t be because of a deep-rooted love of Sweden, Argentina or Nigeria. And it won’t even be down to the media nasties served up by flag-waving English pundits that make it impossible to stem the tide of petty parochialism in so many of his compatriots.

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