“Don’t take life too seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.” You might have seen this saying on a canvas in your sister’s living room, next to ‘Live, Laugh, Love’ and ‘Keep Calm and Bake Cupcakes’. The aphorism plays a key role in the 2016 single ‘Oi’ by Scooter, the moving tale of a German man in his fifties with bleached blond hair who “brought the bass” while “spittin’ super tight bars right in your face”. As with almost any quote you can attribute to the man who sang “Alright everybody! Tie your shoes! Yeah!”, it’s one Scottish football should bear in mind. After weeks of hand-wringing about such heinous acts as a Hibs manager telling Hearts fans to sit down and a Kilmarnock striker making fun of his weight in front of Aberdeen supporters, it’s worth asking what we want from our game. Do we want stoicism, stiff upper lips, folded arms and, ‘Yeah no yeah obviously the lads are disappointed obviously’? Or, do we want meme-ready celebrations, raging phone-ins, clumsy challenges, snarky press conferences, toys flung from prams with wild abandon and “I think everybody should get a bit more protection from Scott Brown really”? The Scottish football I’m into is the latter, and having consulted the people of Twitter I know I’m not the only one. Between Trump, Brexit and the looming fourth Mumford & Sons album, real life is grim enough. Scottish football should be a form of escapism. Although we might not be blessed with the… [Read full story]
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