Quote Originally Posted by Returnofrros View Post
Of anyone in real life refer to themselves as being " in the tartan army ".

Is this just a BBC and ITV thing?

Or do folk that go see Scotland refer to themselves as "footsoldiers" and "advance party"
I think that the ‘tartan army’ came into being when an estimated 70,000 Scotland supporters took over Wembley in 1977 with the BBC and ITV calling them the Tartan Army.