AS a retired Tartan Army foot soldier, the comprehensive defeat by Croatia was relatively painless compared to past hard luck stories ("Scotland's dream is over", The Herald, June 23). Still etched in my memory is being at Villa Park in 1996 when Ally McCoist scored a wonder goal to put Scotland in the lead; meanwhile, England were doing us a favour by turning it on against the Netherlands so that we were only minutes away from going through to the next round. Unfortunately for us, David Seaman

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