11 Lions - England Footy » Scottish poets http://www.11lions.co.uk England Football Campaigns Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:17:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 ‘O wad some Power the giftie gie us…’ http://www.11lions.co.uk/world-cup-2010/o-wad-some-power-the-giftie-gie-us/ http://www.11lions.co.uk/world-cup-2010/o-wad-some-power-the-giftie-gie-us/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:18:07 +0000 Mike http://www.11lions.co.uk/?p=310 Burns Night is a couple of weeks from now, but having been for a bit of a trawl round the internet this evening I came across this gem and was immediately reminded of these lines from Burns’ poem ’To A Louse’:

‘O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!’

By the way, the Algerians may very well be ‘box fresh’ in June but they lost  3-0 to mighty Malawi in the African Cup of Nations earlier today. If Malawi can put three past them…

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