How Yes Sir, I Can Boogie became Scotland's unofficial national anthem

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Scotland fans party at Boston's Fenway Park

You can only imagine the Andy Considine stag-do group chat each time the Yes Sir, I Can Boogie resurrection reaches a new height.

It is already bizarre enough that a Scotland anthem has been born from a video of the former Aberdeen defender dressed in drag dancing to the 1970s Baccara hit.

But the sight of Fenway Park, one of sport's most iconic arenas, bouncing to the song 3,000 miles away from home was another pinch-me moment.

So just how has a makeshift music video, arranged by a gang of boozed-up mates on a stag weekend over a decade ago, become the soundtrack of a summer in Boston?

From Aberdeen head-wetting to five-hour Shoreditch shoot

The roots of this tale start on the day Considine - who won three caps for Scotland but played almost 600 times for Aberdeen - celebrated the birth of his eldest son with close friends and family.

Known as 'wetting the baby's head' in the UK, his cousins Victor and Liam spent the entire day out in Aberdeen randomly belting out Baccara's Yes Sir, I Can Boogie in every karaoke bar they set foot in.

It was not until further down the line that Considine would realise the significance of the song, when the same group reunited for his stag do in London.

Considine was given a drag outfit to wear on the Saturday of that weekend. A drinking game that had him "blootered" by late morning followed, before he was notified by his best man that they would be shooting a music video.

A taxi was booked to Shoreditch, where a huge studio and make-up rooms awaited the former centre-back and his entourage to record their own version of the disco hit, which spent a week at the top of the UK charts in 1977.

"I got dolled up... my dad and uncles did too," he revealed on Open Goal, external in 2021. "As the hours went by, it just got more ridiculous."

It took five of those "ridiculous" hours to finish the video, which was then revealed during a best man speech at Considine's wedding.

"It didn't go down well..." he said.

The birth - and rise - of unofficial Scotland anthem

Five years on, the nation was gripped by post-match footage of the Scotland team bouncing to the beat of Baccara in Serbia after sealing qualification for Euro 2020.

Considine was an unused substitute on that famous night in Belgrade but was seen celebrating wildly with dressing-room DJ Kieran Tierney and the rest of the squad in a legendary video, external posted on Scotland's social media platforms.