Too Late To Sink Pink?

Scotland face a date with destiny on 11 November and a game that will largely decide if we are still a football nation worthy of recognition or habitual under achievers doomed to continue to participate in major tournaments from our armchairs as envious spectators.

Many would say it is the last chance to stay on the road to Russia for a Scottish side who have won 1, drawn 1 and lost 1 so far in their group but cannot afford to fall further behind group favourites England and the teams challenging us currently for 2nd and a Play Off place.

It all changes if we win at Wembley. We are back in the mix with 3 points secured and we can start to believe in our manager Gordon Strachan again and hopefully praise comeback King Scott Brown for his efforts along with the other Bravehearts who take on Gareth Southgate’s troops.

Gordon Strachan has rightly said that whatever the kit it is the player inside it that counts and belief must come above what we wear under the floodlights on Tartan Army Friday (or whatever that night is finally hash tagged). Our National Team Manager pointed out he has lost to England as a player and a manager while we wore the traditional Scotland Dark Blue and he has no say in what we play in, deflecting all questions on uniform to the kit man, but I am going to back the many Scotland fans who can’t stand our Adidas Pink away kit and plead with the Sportswear giant and the SFA to produce a one off all Dark Blue kit for Wembley 2016.

Add blue socks to the kit we had v Republic of Ireland at Parkhead for Euro 2016 Qualifiers for the perfect Scotland kit for Wembley.

If it is too late for a new kit to be produced as a Wembley one-off then bring back the strip featured above that we started Euro 2016 Qualification with and graced one of our best ever goals when Sean Maloney made the breakthrough against Republic of Ireland at Parkhead to give us a 1-0 win. This was also the kit we played in against the Germans, keeping the World Champions to narrow 2-1 and 3-2 winning scorelines respectively, in qualifiers in Glasgow and on their home turf.

It wouldn’t take Adidas long to reproduce the all dark blue with tartan tinge kit of recent times and there are probably thousands still lying in a warehouse somewhere so take them out of storage and release the number required for the Scots squad heading for London.

Too late for a change? Scotland have registered with FIFA that they will wear their Away kit at Wembley as the white sleeves on the Home kit have proved too much of a colour clash with the Three Lions in modern times.

Despite this heartfelt plea to sink the pink Adidas will probably hang on and hope the Scots can win at Wembley and then enjoy the rewards of further sales of THAT  shirt.

The pink shirt has been popular with a minority of members of the Tartan Army and sales [ according to Adidas ] have been good but oldies like myself who remember the hype before Argentina, ripping out the goalposts at Wembley ’77, Narey’s "toe poke" v Brazil at Spain ’82 and Andy Roxburgh in a Tartan scarf at Italia ’90 are backing those with football tradition in their blood who say it has to be Scotland in Dark Blue for the Mother of all Derby Days.

If it is indeed too late for a kit change then hopefully this headline will grace tabloid back pages and mobile football alerts on the morning of Saturday November 12th 2016.

PINK PANTHERS- Scots roar to Wembeleee win.

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