From stag-do drag video to the World Cup - the bizarre rise of Scotland's alternative national anthem
From stag-do drag video to the World Cup - the bizarre rise of Scotland's alternative national anthemTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.This video can not be playedFigure caption, Scotland fans party at Boston's Fenway ParkByNick McPheatBBC Sport ScotlandPublished1 minute agoYou can only imagine the Andy Considine stag-do group chat each time the Yes Sir, I Can Boogie resurrection reaches a new height.It is already bizarre enough that a Scotland anthem has been born from a video of the former Aberdeen defender dressed in drag dancing to the 1970s Baccara hit.But the sight of Fenway Park, one of sport's most iconic arenas, bouncing to the song 3,000 miles away from home was another pinch-me moment.So just how has a makeshift music video, arranged by a gang of boozed-up mates on a stag weekend over a decade ago, become the soundtrack of a summer in Boston?The night the Tartan Army took over iconic Fenway ParkPublished1 day ago'Cartwheels at breakfast' & kicking about Boston - the culture shift in Scotland campPublished13 hours agoFrom Aberdeen head-wetting to five-hour Shoreditch shootThe roots of this tale start on the day Considine - who won three caps for Scotland but played almost 600 times for Aberdeen - celebrated the birth of his eldest son with close friends and family.Known as 'wetting the baby's head' in the UK, his cousins Victor and Liam spent the entire day out in Aberdeen randomly belting out Baccara's Yes Sir, I Can Boogie in every karaoke bar they set foot in.It wasn't until further down the line that Considine would realise the significance of the song, when the same group reunited for his stag do in London.Considine was given a drag outfit to wear on the Saturday of that weekend. A drinking game that had him "blootered" by late morning followed, before he was notified by his best man that they would be shooting a music video.Image source, Andrew ConsidineIma...المصدر: BBC Sport | Source: BBC Sport
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