World Cups, Euro Cups, Nation Cups - will Scotland/Ireland or Wales ever win one?

I think you can add England to your list as well

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None of them have a decent domestic league so they have to rely on other countries mainly England to train their players.

They need to stop looking at England and look at Holland, small population that has over achieved in multiple sports. What are the Dutch doing that they are not.

England's failure to add to one world cup is a whole other story.

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small country with more people than Scotland,Wales and Northern Ireland combined. Also, they have only ever won the euros, and that was 34 years ago

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My bad, I thought the populations were much closer I didn't realise Scotland is only 5.5m.

Still I stand by the general point about Holland over achieving in sport. They may have only won one major cup but they have appeared in 3 world cup finals and 2 other semi finals and 4 European semi finals. That is pretty impressive for a nation of 17m.

And like I said it is not just football, the Dutch are world class in a number of other sports.

A Dutch friend explained to me that sport tends to be run separately from school so rather than have a PE teacher who is a jack of all trades you are taught football hockey etc. by trained specialist coaches.

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