To all my Tartan Army mates - Happy Hogmanay and have a great 2005!
Hogmanay is the Scots word for the celebration of the New Year in the Scottish manner. Its official date is the 31st of December. However this is normally only the start of a celebration which lasts through the night until the morning of the 1st or, in many cases, the 2nd of January.
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Credit where credit is due, Bill Austin and William Wallace Tartan Army deserves special mention for using his Territorial Army membership/contacts with 52 Lowland Regiment and as a season ticket holder at Kilmarnock FC.
Bill organised the TA centres in Glasgow and Edinburgh and used his own October Leave and money to scurry around Scotland including a trip up to Perth to pick up wee Johns 500 strips, coordinate with Kilmarnock Football Club to pick up their 300 strips and work with the TA to package 12 packing cases at the cost of some bottles of whisky. Bill then organised the logistics of getting those 12 boxes from Glasgow out to Sarajevo at no cost to Bubamara or WWTA.
A truly spectacular effort by Bill, his army mates, Anne Clark at Kilmarnock FC and everyone who contributed the strips.
Simply to say - it was a great event and it was a priviledge to be a part of Scotland in Sarajevo tonight.
More than 800 football tops collected by Scottish football fans were given as a present to the children of Bubamara football school.
“Football game cannot exist without football fans. Fans enjoy the game the same like the players in the field. They both share the same joy and passion of the game” said Predrag Pasic, manager of Bubamara, in front of couple of hundreds of young football players.
“Tonight, we are honoured to welcome Scottish football fans, best football fans in the world, who collected football strips for you, football players of Bubamara children’s football school” added Pasic and was greeted both by the kids and their parents.
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It is only one more day before all the collected strips are ‘officially’ handed over to kids of Bubamara Football School. The event will be held at Olympic Hall Zetra on Wednesday, 22 December @ 7:30 PM with participation of couple hundreds of kids and two kilted TA footsoldiers 
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