Tuesday, October 13, 2009

A Voyage of Discovery to Japan


But the Japanese fans would have come along even if the away side was Swaziland instead of Scotland, such is their fervour for their national team.

Many of them took their seats as much as two hours before kick-off - a phenomenon almost unheard of in our country where we like to keep the waiting around to an absolute minimum.

"Why are they here so early?" wondered BBC Scotland's perplexed pundit Murdo MacLeod in the commentary box, double-checking that his watch had not stopped.

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