Hamish Macdonell - Sport and politics?

ONE interesting little tibit from the sports pages today which will spill over into politics.
It ahs emerged that the Scottish Football Association is in tentative negotiations with its Welsh and Northern Irish counterparts over a joint bid for the 2016 European football championships.
This should be a gift for the nationalists but many will remember Scotland's ill-fated joint bid with Ireland for the 2008 tournament.
This leaves them with a dilemma, their hearts will say 'go for it' and they will want to throw everything behind it, their heads will say, 'wait a bit' and see how far it goes before committing government support.
Should be interesting to see how this develops. Watch this space ...