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Legend of the commentary box Archie Macpherson on the pain, pride, hate joy of covering football's oldest rivalry as England head to Hampden Park for latest chapter against Scotland

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It wasn’t a classic. Just Kenny Dalglish, scrambling the ball past Ray Clemence at Wembley in 1977, in a way that warranted no mention in either of the striker’s subsequent autobiographies.

But it is a measure of the deeper, existential significance of the fixture for those north of the border that the goal —and Scotland’s 2-1 win that day — still resonates so deeply for the man who has interpreted, assessed, and commentated on England v Scotland more than anyone else.

Dalglish was leaving for England that summer, to replace Kevin Keegan at Liverpool, and, like many Scots, Archie Macpherson felt the sting.