There is a fantasy world. Escapism. One where the good indigenous English protect statues and protect businesses during riots while the “others” seek to destroy. The stiff upper lip of the ordinary football lads will never quiver. Unless they are criticised.
And Scotland is a place where the people don’t know how lucky they are to have such benevolent viceroys and they spend their time resenting those in England who consider them with such selfless kindness.
The reality is that hardly anyone in Scotland gives a second though to “the English” as an entity. They are just living their lives.
This is 100% correct, 99.99% don't even care about anything to do with England.
If anything especially when it comes to football and sport in general there's inferiority complex that England are so much better than us. Too much respect is shown. You could say that we think anyone outside of Scotland can do a better job than us.
That is a true modern Scottish trait, we lack confidence in ourselves and believe that others do things better than us, no more so than our neighbours.
Why have we become so insecure in our own abilities, we've given the World so much?