England’s witless footballers could learn a lot from the Scots

Scotland 0 Hungary 1: The Guardian called the game ‘a grim slog’, presumably preferring the fare offered by the twinkle-toed Latinos. Me, I loved every deeply flawed second. This was a League One play-off final, full of fury, grit and consummate uselessness. I’d far rather watch that than Spain and Italy – and even more so awful England, with their stupid, mind-numbing, witless, languor. Hell, at least these two sides TRIED.

Hungary were marginally the more proficient and employed the tactic of making sure Scotland had lots of the ball so they could do nothing constructive with it. The jocks had few shots on goal and none that remotely troubled the Hungarian keeper whose name was, I think, Mr Goulash.

Scotland were denied one of the most straightforward penalties you will ever see. But they would probably have missed it. They would have certainly missed the scoring opportunity which presented itself to Kev Csoboth in the last seconds, so there can be no real complaints.

And you Scots fans who displayed the Argie flag? Ha. Suck it up. Tomorrow we return to consummate boredom with England. Far too late in the day the pundits are turning against Southgate: their support for him during years of exactly the same failings are why the bloke is still there. Cocooned in their bubble of delusion, the players still think everything was tickety-boo against Denmark. Perhaps Slavoj Zizek et al will disabuse them of this notion tomorrow evening.