Hello folks 😃 just wanted to tell a wee story, so please grab a beer , take 10 mins and have a read at my little 🧵 about my #italia90 sticker album I hope you enjoy as much as I have writing this ⚽️📕🟢⚪️🔴

After Scotland’s 1-0 World Cup opening win over Haiti, a fan dropped their phone while trying to film the players leaving the pitch 📱 John McGinn spotted it, picked it up, and took a selfie What a moment ❤️👏 #Scotland #TartanArmy #WorldCup

When Bobby Robson finished his last chemotherapy session in 2007, Dr Ruth Plummer pulled him to one side at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle. Bobby thought it was going to be about his health. Instead, Ruth wanted to talk to him about something else. Her department was too old. There was a new Early Cancer Trials Unit being planned at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care, three times bigger than what they already had, with a proper laboratory, modern equipment and room for clinical trials. But there was one problem. They did not have the money to kit it out. So Ruth asked Bobby if he knew anybody who might help. Bobby went home and spoke to his wife Elsie. The next day, they started making calls. Very quickly, what had started as a quiet conversation with Ruth had turned into a committee. Then the idea came up. Use Bobby’s name. He was not comfortable with that at first. He did not want a charity built around himself. But the others told him it would open doors, and once Bobby agreed to it, there was no going halfway. The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation was born. At the first meeting with the hospital, Don Robson got straight to the point. How much money was needed to get started? £500,000. And Ruth needed it by the summer of 2008 because she wanted the facility running by October. That was when Bobby knew what he had walked into. “There could be no slowing down, no pulling out, no getting halfway down the road and turning back.” The original plan had been simple enough. Bobby would lend his name, act as a figurehead, and stay in the background. It did not work out like that. He went to the meetings. He did the interviews. He kept going even when he was not well. Sometimes he would pull Ruth to one side and ask her: “What have you bloody well got me into?” But he never missed a single meeting. The launch was held at the Copthorne Hotel. By then, Bobby was fully in it. “If I’m committed to something, then I’m committed.” And then the money started coming in. Within seven weeks, the first target had already been reached. £560,000. Then people started turning up at Bobby and Elsie’s house. The first donation came from a woman carrying an envelope full of cash. Her husband had recently died, and his final request had been that people at his funeral gave money to Bobby’s charity instead of buying flowers. She handed over £271.74. “What can you say to that?” Then there was Johnny Bliss, a local singer with pancreatic cancer. His doctors had told him he had months to live, but he still held a concert, sold CDs and raised around £10,000 for the Foundation. Bobby met him at the Copthorne. Johnny brought his family with him, and made the men wear their best suits and ties. Bobby could see he was not well. “I could have cried.” And for all the football he had lived through, all the countries, all the clubs, all the games, this became his last big job. “It’s not about beating Portsmouth any more.” “It’s about beating death.” As of today the Sir Bobby Robson foundation has raised over £27 million. #football

A Scotland #FIFAWorldCup win, 36 years in the making. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Where did the sunlight come from?

Last time I was having a beer at 3.05am was about 30 yr ago and I was shouting " one more tune" trying to keep the night going in the boulie 😂 #worldcup #scotland #boulie #nightclub

Everyone in Scotland right now..

Scottish Social Media is quality today 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ⚽⚽⚽

Cmon the Scotland ! Scots Way Hay Up yer Kilt n' Doon yer Haggis Och aye the noo Och aye the noo Och aye the noo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 And as John McKay used to say at 6.30pm "That's the end of the noos"

Every bar owner in Boston is figuring out how fast Amazon can deliver a Scottish flag.

GBXMBE disnae have the same ring to it

The whole of Scotland at 7pm tonight , staring at the beers #scotland #worldcup

The big descion is what Scotland top to wear tomorrow? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I've narrowed it down to the early 90s... #scotland #worldccup

5 seconds now for a throw in, this will speed the game up.. Meanwhile GK taking goal kick Put ball on 6 yrd line Walk backwards Go up and reposition ball Bang studs off post 6 times Wave everyone up Stutter run up .. About 34 mins wasted #worldcup26

#worldcup2026 #itvsport @ITVSport Is it not just a wave ?

In the dead of night the Scots arrived at the Airbnb across the street. Decked out and playing the pipes at 6:30 am. So it begins…

Gotta thank John Logie Baird for inventing the Television in 1926 so we can watch the Scotland games, and the volume buttons in 1927 so we can watch the England games

When we promise the other half that we wilnae start drinking at 4pm on Saturday before the Haiti game coz we want to actually get to see it... #scotland