Although this is late on in the week, I thought I should comment, the delay has given me maybe a different perspective. Glasgow residents gadget vicar and the mullet hunter have commented…
and one theme that many Scots (or just most people outside London) may share is that it wouldn’t happen here. In many ways, especially this, London seems an age away, and everyone loves the Tartan Army, so we’re not a target…

But when it strikes on your doorstep you do sit up and take notice. Perhaps more worrying than this “it couldn’t happen to me” is the almost comic response by folk. By Sunday morning I had received 3 text jokes about the incident and already the email circulars are doing the rounds. Where does this stuff originate? Is it a government ploy to diffuse any retribution or public outcry?

Next there is the now William Wallace esque hero John Smeaton. The official (!?) website is proud to have the real footage, before it was censored. This features such classic quotes as:

• When asked by ITN: “What message do you have for the bombers?” – he replied “This is Glasgow we’ll just set about you.”

• John done an interview on cnn and they asked how he restrained the guy and he said, “me and other folk were just tryin 2 get the boot in and some other guy banjoed him!”