Scottish football, a Jurassic world where ancient species thrive | Kevin McKenna

Things are so bad for the national side it’s becoming a struggle to find 11 fit players who actually want to wear the shirt

A new form of football seems to have evolved in Scotland during our 20 years of wandering in the game’s wilderness.

On closer scrutiny, it bears curious similarities to some of those recently discovered islands in the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific which are found to have sprouted their own unique ecosystems. In these places some of the accepted norms of biological science appear to have been happily defied in the passing of millennia. The passage of time, though, is no match for David Attenborough and his camera crew – and these remote islands, like all living things, must eventually succumb to the great TV explorer when he rocks up for a wee look.

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