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International soccer’s oldest rivalry resumes with England vs. Scotland at Euro 2020

One could spend paragraph upon paragraph wading through the complexities of the England-Scotland dynamic, but for our purposes let’s simplify things to this: England and Scotland share an island (Great Britain) and a nation (the United Kingdom) but not a soccer team (except at the Olympics, which is a whole 'nother story). And when these two teams are forced to share nearly two acres of grass for 90 minutes, things tend to get a little salty.

That’s the bare-bones backdrop for Friday’s Euro 2020 group-stage match as Scotland takes on England, the “Auld Enemy.