(Taken from Ron Mckay's column in the Sunday Herald on May 27 2001)

A few Saturdays back I was walking past the Central Hotel in Glasgow when the pavements shook and rumbled and cracks appeared in sandstone buildings. The Scottish Claymores were leaving to climb on to the team bus.

The behemoths are playing at Hampden this afternoon against the Amsterdam Admirals.

I do not claim to know much about gridiron but I will lay claim, on their behalf, to two barkingly mad supporters as the most extreme, loyal and disreputable fans in the business.

You will recognise Shuggie and Preston, collectively the Cheddarheads, by the large, tartan segments of Dairylea they sport on their heads (improving somewhat on that sported by the Cheeseheads who follow Green Bay Packers) and the lack of cover under their kilts. On a recent visit to Frankfurt, Shuggie front-flashed the Galaxy opposition's cheerleader squad several times before throwing his cheesy wedge at them and then throwing up.

Preston was too spiritually overcome to flash, but did manage to crash the Galaxy's victory party later where he buttonholed the US Air Force commander in charge of Gulf operations and demanded he bomb Saddam Hussein. Days later Baghdad was under blitz..

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