When Saturday Comes website pieces: Scotland National Team

 Other than the monthly magazine, until the summer of 2018 When Saturday Comes also published original articles on their website:

Here are a few I provided over the years on the constantly triumphant, perma-glorious, ever optimistic topic of the Scotland national team.

You might not even need to click on the links to each piece to notice a theme developing:

How it felt as Euro 2016 kicked off knowing Scotland were the only home nation not to qualify.

Why we should look at the Welsh model as, on the eve of 2018 World Cup qualifiers, the national team sat on the brink of becoming an irrelevance even within Scotland.

Why losing his previous game in fact proved Gordon Strachan was absolutely the right manager to get a result out of our Russia 2018 qualifying clash with England at Wembley.

Why, despite remaining in contention as qualifying headed for its final rounds, Scotland would not only fail to reach Russia 2018 but were historically bound to fail in the most tortuous way possible.

How it felt to be a Scotland fan as the 2018 World Cup finals approached, knowing we hadn't qualified and our football association, having just replaced Strachan with Alex McLeish, was utterly clueless.

Like I said, something of a thread running through my Scotland pieces... a commonality of mood and tone, if you will.

Aherm.

All pictures taken by my suffering self.