What is that Rabbie Burns line again, about wanting the gift from God to see ourselves as others see us? There’s no need for such a present from the Big Man when it comes to Scottish football.
There seems to be no end of other folk queuing up to tell us what they think about our game. Mind you, there’s plenty in our own parish who quite happily talk Scottish football down whenever they get the chance.
It just stings a bit more when it comes from someone on the outside. Now it’s Japan head coach Hajime Moriyasu dishing out the sniders.
Not only has he snubbed – which is the official term when a player doesn’t get picked – Celtic pair Reo Hatate and Kyogo Furuhashi, but he says the reason they were not selected for this month's Kirin Cup – former winners Scotland, by the way – is because of concerns about the ‘level of league’.