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Originally Posted by arfabe16
I don't know... it's hard to just say that one is better than the other or that one makes people more passionate.
Like, Rangers and Celtic fans are some of the most diehard, stupid, all-out-all-the-time fans, so you'd assume they care about their clubs more than anything... but I don't know of a single Scottish person that didn't know absolutely nuts when they scored against Brazil in 1998. Celtic fans and Ranger fans cheering together... only international competition can make this happen.
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I can attest to that. I am part Scottish and I know a lot of Scottish people and they go mad for the tartan army. In Scotland there is no club-v-country. It is club
and country. An Old Firm player can become a hero to me when he plays for Scotland when I normally hate him (except for Kirk Broadfoot, if he ever plays for Scotland I will vomit). I am not as die-hard Scotland as many of my Scottish fans because I am still American but they all go mad for their country and it shows in their play. A country as small as Scotland technically has no business qualifying for the 98 World Cup or leading a EURO qualifying group that includes Italy and France but the passion they play with and the support they get from their countrymen drive them on. That is something that is missing in many other teams, sports, and nations.
However, arfabe I think many of the Celtic and Rangers fans you are referring to are probably just glory hunters that have never lived in Glasgow in their lives.