It would be churlish to deny England their 50th anniversary celebration of the Three Lions winning the World Cup but many in Scotland might argue that the next anniversary celebrated should be the 100th (if there is indeed a world then).
1966 and all that's "50th" passed without a hitch north of the border and although we like to think we are all a bit more grown up about our football relationship with the Auld Enemy these days there would still have been tutting and head shaking from Kirkwall to Kirkcaldy as the BBC, SKY, and, well everyone with a transmitter south of Gretna, chipped in with their thoughts on that famous day on July 30th as the televisual bunting was revealed.
After EURO2016 England needed a tonic so let's raise a glass of whisky to that truly memorable team of 66 as it really is very doubtful we'll see their likes again!
Scotland didn't qualify for the 66 World Cup but had we won our qualifying group instead of Italy we would have been pitched into Group 4 in England with eventual semi finalists the Soviet Union, 1962 hosts Chile and North Korea who were only there because the African nations boycotted the World Cup.
Furious there was no direct route for an African/Middle East nation to the tournament in England, with the winners of that qualifying section having to play the winners of Asia/Oceanic group in a play off, all 15 African nations withdrew leaving North Korea v Australia as a qualifying final that would decide who went to the 8th World Cup finals as arguably the tournament's most exotic addition.
Would Scotland have suffered their Peru or Iran 12 years earlier and would we have been scarred by the experience or would Law, Baxter, Bremner etc have steamrollered the minnows of the DPRK roared on by the Tartan Army at Ayresome Park, Middlesbrough?
It might have been our heroes instead of Italy (beaten by the most secretive nation on earth) who might have been returning to jeers and rotten fruit as they got off the plane following their three match stay in England.
Surely that Scotland team of 66 could have got out the group and had we finished second behind the USSR it would have been a Quarter Final v Portugal at Everton FC.
What a night that would have been as we took on Eusebio in his prime and it would it have been on the telly? Not all of the last eight matches were televised.. another little know fact about World Cup 1966.
A win for Scotland would have seen a semi final v England at Wembley with West Germany waiting in the final after a last four win over the USSR...
Maybe one day there will be a parallel universe where we can experience this alternative 66 scenario but for the moment we must live with the reality of what really happened and ponder on how we might be able to celebrate Wembley 67 the way England celebrated Wembley 66.