Scotland's totems must turn up to thwart dynamic Morocco

Scotland's totems must turn up to thwart dynamic MoroccoImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The midfield head-to-head between Scott McTominay and Ayyoub Bouaddi could be vitalByTom EnglishBBC Scotland's chief sports writerPublished1 minute agoLast weekend in Boston, Scotland played their most important game of international football in 28 years, a walk on the walkside against Haiti, a game that put the heart sideways in every Scot but, ultimately, sparked the party to end all parties in the city they called Beantown.More like Beanotown, more like Scotland, Massachusetts. For almost four decades there was a character in the DC Thomson comic called Ball Boy, a wee football-obsessed lad who couldn't kick a can down a street without thinking he'd scored the winner in a World Cup final.Boston has been overtaken by Ball Boys, full-time dreamers and relentless ambassadors for their country. There isn't a cop in the city who hasn't been charmed by them, nor a local business that hasn't benefitted hugely from the Tartan Army dollar. They've been a happy whirlwind, a force of nature that will be missed when it blows out of town in the coming days.Before the exodus, though, there's a job to be done. Such is the rarefied air they're breathing at this World Cup, what we said in previewing Haiti can be said again in looking forward to Morocco. Scotland's Boston love affair one for the agesPublished8 hours agoWhat are Clarke's big calls for Morocco? And who would you pick?Published22 hours agoWhy does Scotland's McGinn do goggles celebration?Published18 hours agoAfter the big one comes the ever bigger one. Bigly, as somebody once said.This one, if it goes well, could be the greatest of them all, not just in 28 years but, arguably, in the 154 years since Scotland played England at the West of Scotland Cricket Club in the first international match ever played. Then, as now, Scotland were captained by a man with fi...