As well as the Scotland national football team, the Scottish Football Association is also currently responsible for organising the Scotland B national football team, as well as men's national teams at under-21, under-19, under-18 and under-17 levels.

Taylor represented Scottish Schools in 1995 – 96 while he was at Morrison's Academy, and he went on to play for Scotland ’ s under-18, under-19, and under-21 teams.

* 1904 – The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team ( Welsh & Scottish players ) in Central Park, Wigan, England.

Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes have been played for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, the Caucasus, around the Persian Gulf and in Northern Africa.

James Macpherson was the first Scottish poet to gain an international reputation, claiming to have found poetry written by Ossian, he published translations that acquired international popularity, being proclaimed as a Celtic equivalent of the Classical epics.

While the leadership of Jardines is Scottish, the firm is international in its dealings.

* John Walker ( footballer ) ( 1874 – 1940 ), Scottish international footballer

In 1973 the first officially sanctioned international sevens tournament took place at Murrayfield, one of Scotland's biggest stadiums, as part of the Scottish Rugby Union centenary celebrations.

Arguably one of the most influential schools of rhetoric during this time was Scottish Belletristic rhetoric, exemplified by such professors of rhetoric as Hugh Blair whose Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres saw international success in various editions and translations.

** Herbert Bullmore, Scottish Rugby Union international, grandfather of Kerry Packer ( b. 1874 )

Attempts to eliminate hedgehogs from bird colonies on the Scottish islands of North Uist and Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides were met with international outrage.

Mackie & Spilman, Scottish History Society ( 1953 ), English summaries of international letters.

* Bobby Walker ( 1879 – 1930 ), early 20th-century Scottish international footballer

Buchan, a leader with an international reputation, commanded the large Scottish army but both he and Douglas fell at the Battle of Verneuil in August 1424 and the Scottish host routed.

The gallery houses the Scottish national collection of fine art, including Scottish and international art from the beginning of the Renaissance up to the start of the 20th century.

By 1876 Rangers had their first international player, with Moses McNeil representing Scotland in a match against Wales, and by 1877 Rangers had reached a Scottish Cup final.

It led to international fame and recognition and that same year she travelled to Scotland, " en route " meeting Queen Victoria, who admired her work, and where she completed sketches for later works including A Scottish Raid, completed in 1860, and Highland Shepherd.

In 1993 the Pathfoot Building was selected by the international conservation organisation DoCoMoMo as one of sixty key Scottish monuments of the post-war era.

A collection of over 400 Scottish paintings, Gracefield Arts Centre hosts a changing programme of exhibitions featuring regional, national and international artists and craft-makers.

* Angus Douglas ( born 1889 ), Scottish international footballer

* Jim Calder ( rugby union ) ( b. 1957 ) Scottish rugby union international

* John Barclay ( rugby union ) ( born 1986 ), Scottish international rugby union player, playing for Glasgow

* Jimmy Davidson ( footballer born 1925 ) ( 1925 – 1996 ), Scottish international footballer

In terms of international air links with Europe, the country is generally well connected, with daily flights from a variety of European cities, There are also direct flights operated from the main Scottish airports to destinations in North America such as New York, Philadelphia, Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary.

He soon acquired reputation by a number of publications on the civil and Scottish law, and was one of the leaders of the Scottish Enlightenment.

Eventually UK Foreign Secretary Robin Cook persuaded the Americans to accept a trial of the suspects in the Netherlands under Scottish law, with the UN Security Council agreeing to suspend sanctions as soon as the suspects arrived in the Netherlands for trial.

This was resented by some and the Militia Club, soon to become the Poker Club, was formed to promote the raising of a Scottish militia.

Other Scottish towns soon followed suit and set up their own police forces through acts of parliament.

Although Scott had attained celebrity through his poetry, he soon tried his hand at documenting his researches into the oral tradition of the Scottish Borders in prose fiction – stories and novels – at the time still considered aesthetically inferior to poetry ( above all to such classical genres as the epic or poetic tragedy ) as a mimetic vehicle for portraying historical events.

The group, meeting in the Scottish Café, soon gave birth to the " Lwów School of Mathematics ".

" It soon became clear to Henry VIII that Mary and Edward would not be married, despite Scottish promises and the Treaty of Greenwich, and at the end of 1543 he launched the war now called the Rough Wooing, hoping to turn the situation around.

The Scottish and German farming communities were soon overshadowed by new populations from Southern and Eastern Europe.

In 1638 he was a member of the Glasgow Assembly, when Presbyterianism was re-established in Scotland, and soon after he accompanied Leslie and the Scottish army as chaplain or preacher.

Though he readily found work at the Royal Albert Dock, his commission in the 5th Scottish Rifles soon found him serving in World War I.

It became increasingly popular amongst the Scottish upper class to send their children to their oldest higher learning institution, and the university soon enough saw a renaissance that has been maintained to date.

" Maga ," as this magazine soon came to be called, was the organ of the Scottish Tory party, and round it gathered a host of able writers.

Kurt Hahn set up the field hockey team personally with Prince Philip humorously recounting a game against Elgin Academy's Ladies team and saying that he "... hoped that soon we shall be among the best Scottish girls ' teams.

Becoming a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1763, he soon acquired a leading position in the Scottish legal system ; and he had the advantage of the success of his half-brother Robert ( 1713 – 1787 ), who had become Lord President of the Court of Session in 1760.

Snow was born in Peopleton, Worcestershire, the son of a Scottish vicar who soon after took up a living in the Diocese of Worcester at the village of Elmley Castle.

The " home rule " movement for a Scottish Assembly was first taken up in 1853 by a body close to the Conservative Party, complaining about the fact that Ireland received more support from the British Government than Scotland and soon began to receive Liberal Party backing, In 1885, the Post of Secretary for Scotland and the Scottish Office were re-established to promote Scotland's interests and voice its grievances to the British Parliament.

Though retaining its two seats at the 2004 European elections, in a smaller field of 7 ( Scotland up until then had 8 MEPs ) the Scottish press and certain elements within the Fundamentalist wing of the Party depicted the result as a disaster for the SNP putting further pressure on Swinney who resigned soon afterwards on 22 June 2004.

However, by the middle of the 16th century, the four-beat alliterative line had completely vanished, at least from the written tradition: the last poem using the form that has survived, Scottish Ffielde, was written in or soon after 1515 for the circle of Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby in commemoration of the Battle of Flodden.

Although the " Bank Wars " ended in around 1751, competition soon arose from other sources, as other Scottish banks were founded throughout the country.

The club became members of the SFA soon after and began competing in the Scottish Cup and Qualifying Cup and in the early years most games were friendlies or localised cup ties.

William supported Lauderdale in the early stages of his Scottish policy, in which he adopted a moderate attitude towards the Presbyterians, but the two were soon alienated, through the influence of the Countess of Dysart, according to Gilbert Burnet, who spent much time at Hamilton Palace in arranging the Hamilton papers.

The burgh soon became the ecclesiastical capital of Scotland, a position which was held until the Scottish Reformation.

In an exchange between the Scottish thane Lennox and another lord, Lennox talks of Macduff ’ s flight to England and refers to him as “ some holy angel ” ( 3. 6. 46 ) who “ may soon return to this our suffering country / Under a hand accursed ” ( 3. 6. 48-49 ).