"Scotland tested against the England 66 side"

Scotland didn't qualify as they were pipped by the Italians in their group - but of course to be fair England didn't actually qualify either. The teams were of course tested against each other on an annual basis and during that time period the Scots actually had a good record against England. England beat Scotland 4-3 in 1966 but that was a run of only one win out of 8 meetings. After the Scottish disaster in 61 the Scots won in 1962, 1963, 1964, 1967 and there were draws in 1965,1968 and 1969. We all know that both have underachieved. As one of the major footballing nations England should have won more than one trophy and of course they have never won anything outside of England. Scotland for a while had a good record at qualifying but then have never progressed further. Sometimes falling on their faces - at other times being desperately unfortunate. Scotland were the top team in football for decades but unfortunately there will be no-one alive who can actually remember it as it was a looong time ago :-)