Sindre

Thank you everybody for the imput! Haggis_trap, I think you are making an excellent point wok regards to geography of the country and distance to the stadium. You could argue that our games in Oslo are pretty much only available from that part of the country, and my guess the totalt population of the region is ca 2 million. Also very interesting graphs of attendence numbers. Clyde and aaid - can I ask what the source of the figures are? I would like to use this info in the article and need to fact check it. It still seems to me that scottish supporters are more loyal to the national team, in spite of lack of success. The identity aspect with regards to GB/England is very interesting. It would also be interesting to see if support for national teams are growing along side more nationalistic political currents on our continent, or if its all based on results. For everybody except Scotlans that is...

Hello! My name is Sindre Leganger and I work as journalist for Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten. I'm writing about the supporter culture for our national team. We haven't qualified for a championship since 2000, and the support for our team is currently not strong. However - If I've understood correctly, Scotland has not qualified for a championship since 1998 (when we were in the same group!). Yet the Tartan Army stands strong. I'm trying to understand why that is. What are you guys doing right, that we are doing wrong? Who should I talk to? Can you help me with contact information? Hope hear from you, and have a great day!