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Dropping the unpopular minimum cap threshold and extending it out to the top 20 looks as follows. I am planning to make this in to a video so I would be grateful to hear about any errors (Ian Ferguson's wiki page is not very specific so there is a bit of guess work in his split of medals). Honourable mentions to James Forrest (12), Roy Aitken (12) , Alex McLeish (11), Willie Miller (11), Stuart McCall (11) and Paul Lambert (10) who are the other Scottish players in double figures. Leagues National cups League cup European Total 1 Bobby Lennox 11 8 5 1 25 2 Billy McNeill 9 7 6 1 23 3 Kenny Dalglish 10 5 5 3 23 4 Ally McCoist 10 1 9 0 20 5 Jimmy Johnstone 9 4 5 1 19 6 Richard Gough 10 3 6 0 19 7 Ian Ferguson 10 4 5 0 19 8 Bobby Murdoch 8 5 5 1 19 9 John Greig 5 6 5 1 17 10 Barry Ferguson 5 5 6 0 16 11 Bertie Auld 6 4 5 1 16 12 Alan Hansen 8 2 3 3 16 13 Jim Craig 7 4 3 1 15 14 Scott Brown 7 3 5 0 15 15 Danny McGrain 7 5 2 0 14 16 Sandy Jardine 3 5 5 1 14 17 Shaun Maloney 5 6 3 0 14 18 Davie Cooper 3 4 7 0 14 19 Derek Johnstone 3 5 5 1 14 20 Graeme Souness 6 0 4 3 13

Good shout. I am using wikipedia as the source and Fergie's page implies no caps but 7 appearances (and 9 goals) for a Scotland XI in 1967. In the notes its defined as: "The Scotland XI team was made up of young, promising players who were to be given the taste of international football with the aim of developing a team for the 1970 World Cup. With a number of Scottish clubs unexpectedly reaching final stages of various European cups, a number of players had to pull out from the touring team to help their clubs. The Scotland XI played nine matches and won them all."

Cheers Fringo - I think you are right, I will review the list and maybe put in to video format which might be a bit more engaging. Will also think about the manager list. Based on the same criteria of only counting leagues, national cups etc Alex Ferguson won a mind boggling 34 medals (16 leagues, 9 national cups, 5 league cups and 4 European trophies). Mental!

Some other lists (not related to Scottish team) include community shield, European super cup, even runners ups medals etc The more contentious criteria is having a minimum cap threshold (we have set it at 25) so several of the Lisbon Lions have missed the list as has Ian Ferguson as Toepoke pointed out earlier. Bobby Lennox would top the list with 25 medals but he only got 10 caps so would welcome views on whether a review is in order? Not keen on weighting medals although I agree with the underlying point.

Great spot Tartan McCole - we had denied Broonie his latest league cup medal. Have updated now, will need to update this entry again soon no doubt....

Why would we have an argument about something as benign as a list of players who won medals?

Facts are facts pal

Not to get on our list of Scotland's most decorated player

Sounds magic, I am 41 as is my pal who wrote the blog and this is the type of trip we are waiting for.....

We forgot to mention Murdo McLeod getting sparked clean out from a brazilian free-kick. Dunga was it?

Aye - there is a few like that, cracking players whose Scotland careers never really got going (Jimmy Johnstone as well). We could adjust the criteria down from 25 caps but that seems the minimum to us to properly be classified as a Scotland player.....

On the Scotland national team youtube page and supportyouevermore site here

classy (not)

We do that one Faddy If there is an article on the Scottish national side in one of the big publications, we will publish it on the magazine so that all the news is in a single place for the TA! Updated twice a day (before and after work!) happy reading

'Show us their medals' is the classic challenge between fans when debating the credentials of their favourite players. In this supportyouevermore blog we look at the Scotland players who won the most medals in their club careers which can be a helpful guide when considering the thorny and subjective issue of what constitutes a Scotland 'legend'. Would you be surprised to know that Shaun Maloney is in the top ten? Full list here

PS the youtube video is worth a watch. Its 3 minute BBC footage of Pavarotti singing Nessun Dorma to clips from the tournament (including Leighton booting the post in frustration and a Scotland player - Durie I think - with his head in his hands after the Costa Rica mess).

Supportyouevermore.com has posted a new blog today. Costa who?? sets out the childhood memories of guest blogger Tartan Davie who was 13 at the time of Italia 90. Feedback would be most welcome and if you fancy writing a blog about the Scotland team, do please get in touch via the website contact page here Mon the Scotland!

One of our blogs considers this issue. Its not about the money (SSC) looks at how much fans of England, Wales and Northern Ireland pay for their equivalent schemes. The headline is that it is considerably less than the SFA charge Scotland fans. I'll still be renewing though! Cheers Tartan Rab

I appreciate the feedback folks, now you say it - those list style headlines have become a bit of a cliche.

A new blog on the supportyouevermore website. 7 players that made Hampden roar. Would love feedback especially if my patter is honking! Cheers Tartan Rab

Great stuff, cheers Ormond

Thanks Gaz - its all about the dark blue pal!

Hi All Me and a couple of pals have started a new website that we hope may be of interest. https://www.supportyouevermore.com is designed to provide a resource for fans of the Scottish national team by bringing together various interesting facts and statistics and where possible analysing the data to help make some sense of our own unique brand of tartan madness. At the moment it includes: - bios of legendary players and recent managers; - upcoming fixtures with more background on our opponents; - some stats that we haven’t been able to find elsewhere e.g. most decorated Scotland player, most major tournament appearances etc; - a Scottish football magazine aggregating news articles related to the team; - youtube videos of classic tartan army songs; - a fan’s view of all World Cup and European Championship qualifying campaigns since 1974 (and each major tournament we have attended); - a features page looking at questions such as whether is it getting mathematically more difficult to qualify, how far away we are from qualifying etc; - links to other related sites; and - a blog with our view of recent events including Alex Mcleish’s return, Scott Brown’s retirement and the renewal of SSC membership. We are still developing the site and really interested in feedback at this stage as to whether Scotland fans would visit and what we could add to make it more useful. It's done as a hobby so we’re not looking to make wonga from it but we would be grateful if you could help us spread the word and get some traffic on to the site. You can post feedback directly through the site or email me at rab@supportyouevermore.com Mon the Scotland. All the best Tartan Rab