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    Default How distinctly Scottish do these footballers look?

    This is an overhang of my recent trip to Scotland, whereby I found that 50% of the Scots I would see either passed well as English (whilst looking a bit more robust) or just looked uniquely 'Scottish' entirely. Another way this question could be phrased is, how many of these footballers would pass flawlessly as English? For this example, we are using the country's current squad. I am excluding three members of the squad, all of whom were born in England (one of which is only about 50% European).
















    and the cherry on the cake.... Andrew Robertson (I know he has already been discussed a shit-tonne and it does seem unanimous that TA thinks he looks uniquely Scottish).


    Andrew Robertson does look VERY Scottish, but I would be inclined to say the average Scotsman looks a wee bit more 'pan-Isles'. Robertson does 'nae' pass as English, but he also does 'nae' pass as Irish.

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    Would anyone care to dissect?

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    I will give a brief breakdown

    1 generic Brit, not that pale, light eyed, robust
    2 Very scottish looking or possibly Irish, huge forehead, rough features and definitely pale
    3 a bit more Scottish i.e large forehead, wide chin but basically looks British
    4 looks quite Scottish as features rough but his darker eyes and hair and slightly tanned skin means he could pass all over UK more or less
    5 very general keltid Brit, passes easily from Shetland to Cornwall
    6 looks Scottish, pale again but leander facial features means he passes well in England
    7 looks British, could be from England
    8 dark look, passes from Ireland to Afghanistan
    9 generic Euro look, not especially Scot or English
    10 could be from anywhere in N Europe
    11 British look generic
    12 looks generic Brit
    13 looks more Scottish, wide face, very pale
    14 looks more English, narrow face
    15 more Scottish, pale and quite wide faced with a wide upper head
    16 looks Scott or Irish but passes well down here in the home counties.

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    Some are atypical for Spain, some not so much. Some I would even say are Pan-European look

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