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McLean, Parrott and a week of ecstatic commentary shows us why we fell in love

- Max Rushden

For the second time in a week, I'm welling up. This time in a cafe on Northcote High Street in Melbourne at 9am. I punched the air when Kieran Tierney curled that one in. But Kenny McLean. From the halfway line. As the ball sails over Kasper Schmeichel my hands involuntarily shoot to the sky.

What a moment. The commentary is amazing. Before long I'm watching it on a loop. The unwritten rule of not talking over each other goes out of the window. In fact it's better. You want the comms to feel like you feel.

On BBC Scotland, Liam McLeod, Steven Thompson and James McFadden absolutely nail it. McLeod: "They've given it away." Thompson: "SHOOT, SHOOT." McLeod: "He's gonna shoot." (McFadden is grinning wildly.) Thompson: "OH HE'S DONE HIM, HE'S DONE HIM, HE'S DONE HIM." McLeod: "HAS THAT GONE IN? OOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOO THAT'S UNBELIEVABLE..." The camera set on Thompson and McFadden is wondrous. Two grown men jumping up and down like 10-year-old boys. They are just so happy.

We all know social media is a terrible place, but perhaps it's worth it for these moments: an avalanche of limbs, joyous videos from pubs and airports and badly angled iPhones. There's an angle from behind the goal where you see each Scotland player realise one by one the ball is going in. Someone posts the BBC Radio Scotland commentary - even without the pictures, in fact especially without the pictures, it is untouchable. Alasdair Lamont and Michael Stewart deliver a magical 40 seconds.