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Scotland are world champions.

In the words of the late Donald Dewar: "I like that."

In Paris yesterday Scotland's Homeless World Cup men's team beat Mexico to life the trophy.

A tight game finished 4-3, with a goal from Sean Lawrence and a William McLean hat-trick for Scotland.

Stop it. Stop all these good news stories when we're supposed to be wrestling with self loathing over our footballing inadequacy.

But when the Homeless World Cup final kicks off in Paris tomorrow, Scotland will be there.

Their lunchtime quarter final against Ukraine was an 11 goal thriller.

One group of well paid men get beaten by another. We wail about the injustice of our well paid men not being paid as much as other groups of well paid men. Even though there's a group of men who aren't paid as much as our well paid men doing away just fine over there.

Such is the world of Scottish football, a sport dreamed of on the playing fields from Dumfries to Shetland but ripped asunder on the green, green grass of Slovenia and Switzerland.

Heard about the Scotland team going to a World Cup and turning in a series of high scoring, winning performances?

No?

You might not have because there's little coverage over here but this footballing anachronism is happening right now in Paris.

With the first group stage of the 2011 Homeless World Cup now complete Scotland's men can reflect on a job well done.