Dads defend decision to take kids out of school and follow Scotland at the Euros

DEFIANT dads have defended their decision to take their kids out of school to follow Scotland in Germany.

They said they did not want their children to miss out on what could be a rare appearance at a showpiece football tournament abroad.

It’s thought thousands of pupils are in Germany, despite Scots schools not breaking up for summer for another two weeks.

Shay Costello, 14, even missed playing in a cup final for his side Drumchapel United yesterday.

Dad Mick, 42, a service manager from Clydebank, near Glasgow, said: “I had no reservations about bringing Shay. He’s never off. It could be 20 years before we get another bash at this.”

Mick’s brother Chris, also took his boy, Oscar, eight, out of class.

Chris, 33, an engineer of Renfrew said: “We had no chance of doing anything like this as kids. Who knows when Scotland will be back on the main stage.”

It comes after we told how Steve Clarke‘s men were humbled by hosts Germany in the opening match of the tournament in Munich on Friday night.

Elsewhere in the city, a German pub ran out of beer as Scotland fans drank the place dry in hours.

We told how Tartan Army fans ended up in a standoff with German cops in a row over a confiscated football.

Scores of supporters were sitting outside bars on Maderbrau Strasse, near Marienplatz, in the centre of Munich after last night’s crushing defeat against the host nation.

A group of Scotland fans were playing with a football near a McDonald’s when staff intervened and took it off them and summoned the police.

Soon after another ball was produced and booted into the air before that too was lifted by stern-faced cops.

Tartan Army supporters then began to jokingly taunt the officers.

Supporters were heard singing “give us our ball back, give us our ball back”.