Scotland's fateful 1978 World Cup campaign still resonates

Scotland's fateful 1978 World Cup campaign still resonatesTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.This video can not be playedFigure caption, Scotland's Most Iconic Goals - Watch Archie Gemmell's v NetherlandsByTom EnglishBBC Scotland's chief sports writerPublished2 minutes agoArgentina '78 - the story of Scotland daring to dream and waking up in a nightmare never gets old. It's a footballing farce, a sporting tragicomedy. Some of the gold is provided by the Tartan Army and the extraordinary lengths some of them went to in order to be part of history. Not the kind of history they were getting, but history all the same.How many books, or chapters of books, have been written about 1978? How many newspaper and magazine articles? How many documentaries? And yet there's still a buzz about a telling of what went on in Argentina.Ally MacLeod's bravado was of Muhammad Ali proportions.Had the manager been canny and well prepared then Lord knows what this excellent squad might have achieved and what impact on Scottish political history it might have had.His confidence in his team led him to say that he'd cleared a place in his wardrobe for his World Cup winner's medal. He spoke at times about how the World Cup final date would come to be known as National Ally Day.World Cup fixtures and group standingsHow to watch the World Cup on the BBCPublished2 days agoEverything you need to know about the World CupPublished1 AprilImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Ally MacLeod managed Scotland from 1977-78It was pantomime stuff and it was infectious. A bandwagon rolled. AC/DC played a gig wearing Scotland jerseys. Blue Peter presented the somewhat perplexed squad with a special good luck badge.Scottish nationalism was on the march with the SNP making record gains. A pro-union newspaper in England wrote that Scotland winning the World Cup would be like "distilled firewater. Hooched up on that, the nation...