It's actually the buying of Iceland shirts that gives the impression that you revolve around us. Italy shirts, Argentina shirts... Whatever. It makes an individual look bitter, like you have some kind of national neurosis and look even more left behind in a competition that was great for a reason you missed out on and couldn't really feel.

Wales, NI and Rep. Ireland don't seem like 'underdogs' anymore and I think that this will stay with them (whilst we possibly start to get used to that reputation ourselves because we're a fucking disgrace). In a sense, I don't think their fans feel the same way as yours do anymore. If Scotland started to regularly make the latter stages of competitions, would the fans still wear the strips of teams that beat England? That would definitely be strange I think anybody would agree. Anyway, that negativity compared to the positivity of people buying other nations shirts for reasons of perhaps, genuine admiration for the teams real greatness - not beating shitty England - or because you went to the country and loved it and the people, is just another minus against the all the pluses of the beautiful game. I live in Scotland though, so I'm used to the most depressing connotative values to football colours. Emanating from Glasgow it somehow manages to spread all the way to the Outer Hebrides. I support Celtic btw.

I expect somebody else is going to point it out to you anyway but it's yourselves who really look like you have a victim complex. The bitter, eternal underdogs. Maybe when the mentality changes, you're game will improve. If it's all just a joke then carry on being the joker. Fuck me mate... The idea of wearing the shirt of a team that beat Germany because they beat Germany? What a notion. The humiliation. Would I ever give them the pleasure of letting them think we saw ourselves that way? Would I fuck.