Even if their selection disappeared from the group stage of Euro 2020, the Scots celebrated after the final on Sunday at Wembley.
Not so much to celebrate the victory of Italy but above all to commemorate the defeat of the English neighbor at the end of the penalty shootout (1-1, 3 tab to 2).
As in Rome and in the four corners of a feverish Italy, Scots took to the streets in large numbers to celebrate this very special moment.
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In Glasgow, for example, revelers have invaded Queens Park, waving Italian flags with a concert of horns and endless chants.
Scenes of jubilation also observed in Edinburgh, the capital of the country, which made Toni Giuliano react, politician whose origins are transalpine.
“
The cars honk furiously.
Where are we in Scotland in Rome?
“, Joked the elected accompanying his message with a video of popular fervor until very late at night.
Fireworks have also been seen in various places in Glasgow.
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If the local press, in its great majority, treated the final of the Euro with objectivity and hindsight,
The National
, a newspaper favorable to the independence of Scotland, welcomed with immense relief the transalpine coronation. “
It's coming Rome!
"(She's coming back to Rome !, editor's note) headlines the publication with humor, congratulating in particular the work of the coach Roberto Mancini compared to Robert Bruce, historical figure and emblematic of the Scottish resistance against the English and King of Scotland at the beginning from the 14th century.
This weekend, the daily did not hesitate to make a montage of the face of the Italian, presented as their "last hope", with that of Braveheart, nickname of William Wallace, hero of the struggle for Scottish independence. played by Mel Gibson in the five-Oscar blockbuster.
The National newspaper on Monday DR