On Sunday 14 June, at nine o’clock in the evening BST, Scotland will walk out at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough and play a FIFA World Cup match for the first time since 1998. Twenty-eight years is a long time to wait for the match we have finally allowed ourselves to write at the top of a newsletter without a footnote. We have written it. We are moving on.

What we have done about it sits on the bench in front of us. Three 35cl limited-edition bottles of single malt Scotch whiskies, hand-bottled here in Thurso, released together as a single Wolfburn set to mark Scotland’s three group-stage fixtures at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. We are calling the set Drams for the Tartan Army.