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The Best of Scottish Twitter After Boogieing Into First Tournament in 22 Years

By Andrew Headspeath

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Ewan McGregor was wrong. It's pretty great to be Scottish.

Steve Clarke's men qualified for Euro 2020/21 with a nail-biting penalty shootout win over Serbia on Thursday night in Belgrade - marking the first time the Tartan Army have made it to a major tournament since 1998.

Sadly the generational achievement was not celebrated by supporters in the Red Star Stadium but you better believe Scottish Twitter was having it...

22 years is a long old time to wait (Oliver Burke was one year old in 1998!!), especially when you remember the horror days of the draw with the Faroes, the 4-6-0 formation under Craig Levein and the 3-0 defeat to Kazakhstan...

The emotions all came out with Ryan Christie's strike and later David Marshall's save to deny Aleksandar Mitrovic in the shootout.

No killjoys were gonna stop big Don Hutchison on comms enjoying the moment either...

Lovely bit of needle at Serbia too...

And, because no-one asked, here's notable spoon bender Uri Geller atoning for that time he 'moved the ball with his mind' before Gary McAllister's penalty against England in 96.

Presumably he's got some similarly redemptive act for Serbia planned in the year 2044...

The anthem of the night (and presumably next summer) was 1977 disco hit Yes Sir, I Can Boogie by Spanish duo Baccara.

Why you ask? Well, let a video recorded for defender Andy Considine's stag do many years ago explain how it became a dressing room in-joke/celebratory ballad.

Now that's seared into your retinas, enjoy this more wholesome version...

You've gotta feel for McGinniesta. Something tells me the party lasted more than one song though...

While the street parties couldn't commence last night, Scotland did its best under the circumstances to celebrate the historic occasion, whether on the roof of a Starbucks or - in captain Andy Robertson's case - with a 'cheeky Vimto'.