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This illustrated text introduces the reader to the mad-cap supporters of Scotland's national soccer team, the "Tartan Army" - a harder core, more eccentric type of travelling soccer fan - and follows the Army on their expeditions around the world during the 1990s.

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I commend this book to all football supporters... You are left once more feeling slightly proud that these stupid creatures are your own countrymen. - GRAHAM SPIERS, SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

What have you done to Scotland's image abroad? - ANDY ROXBURGH

How many of these drunken comic Scotsmen would you let in your front garden, never mind your front room? - MICHAEL KELLY, former Lord Provost of Glasgow, DAILY MAIL



Table of Contents
Come awa with me; dispatches from the Russian forest; save the whale; the camper van from hell; free team Ritchie; Jimmie Hill is, William Wallace isnae; a boot in the baltics; Monte Carlo and nearly bust; there's no such thing as an ugly Swede.

Over the Top with the Tartan Army

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    A Paperback / softback by Andrew McArthur, Graham Spiers

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      Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/06/2005
      ISBN13: 9780946487455, 978-0946487455
      ISBN10: 946487456
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      Sport Association football (Soccer)

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This illustrated text introduces the reader to the mad-cap supporters of Scotland's national soccer team, the "Tartan Army" - a harder core, more eccentric type of travelling soccer fan - and follows the Army on their expeditions around the world during the 1990s.

      Trade Review

      I commend this book to all football supporters... You are left once more feeling slightly proud that these stupid creatures are your own countrymen. - GRAHAM SPIERS, SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

      What have you done to Scotland's image abroad? - ANDY ROXBURGH

      How many of these drunken comic Scotsmen would you let in your front garden, never mind your front room? - MICHAEL KELLY, former Lord Provost of Glasgow, DAILY MAIL



      Table of Contents
      Come awa with me; dispatches from the Russian forest; save the whale; the camper van from hell; free team Ritchie; Jimmie Hill is, William Wallace isnae; a boot in the baltics; Monte Carlo and nearly bust; there's no such thing as an ugly Swede.

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