A Scots groom-to-be has advised how he deliberate his stag do on the Euros earlier than he even popped the query – after successful an epic race to Germany.
Euan McLelland, 36, acquired down on one knee on the finish of December 2023 on the bonnie banks of Loch Lommond, when he proposed to sweetheart Joanna Thomas, 31.
However weeks earlier than that magical second, Euan from Paisley, had already deliberate his epic Stuttgart stag when the draw was made for Euro 2024.
Since then he’s added to a whirlwind yr by successful a touch from Hampden to Munich with one in all his groomsmen, Paul Mullan, for Tennent’s Race to Germany.
The Scottish lager big pitted three groups in opposition to one another within the aggressive jaunt, which noticed them go to, London, Paris and Italty’s Barga on path to the Bavarian capital.
And Euan has advised how the race was the “journey of a lifetime” as he says he’s about to understand his dream of seeing Scotland at a serious event.
He advised the File: “This yr goes to be a as soon as of a lifetime expertise, simply seeing Scotland on the Euros is my dream however to do it with one in all my greatest buddies in a race throughout Europe, has been unreal.
“Me and Paul are each large Scotland followers and we love travelling with the Tartan Military. Nevertheless it’s really easy to only get to video games now, you leap on a airplane and your there.
“We’ve finished it in the old fashioned means, it’s the type of stuff you used to listen to about in a bygone period of World Cups in far afield locations, guys travelling by bus to Spain, or making their means over to Argentina.
“We needed to expertise that, and we managed it taking trains, tenting and operating by way of metropolis’s and cities. It was epic.”
The previous journalist who labored at titles together with Wishaw Press and the File, will soak up all three video games in Germany, nevertheless it’s Scotland’s ultimate Group A recreation in opposition to Hungary in Stuttgart that may very well be an evening for the ages.
And he’s revealed his grasp plan was absolutely laid out simply weeks earlier than Joanna stated sure.
Euan, who now works for a Sports activities PR company stated: “I truly organised my stag do earlier than getting engaged. I proposed on the finish of December.
“When the draw occurred firstly of December I snuck out from a Christmas social gathering and simply booked rooms for twenty-four of my mates in Stuttgart.
“Three weeks later she stated sure which was a inexperienced mild for the marriage and a inexperienced mild for the stag.
“There’s now 22 of us going to Stuttgart and 18 of us have tickets for the sport.
“If we gained that we may very well be qualifying for the knock out phases, it’s all arrange.
“I don’t know what I’ll sporting to the sport. I’ve advised the lads I’ll associate with something, simply not an England high!”
Euan and Paul swept apart rivals, Aberdeen dad and daughter, William and Beth Wallace and Peterhead Tartan Military duo Chris ‘Gibbo’ Gibson and Ewan Oman from Peterhead.
The ultimate of the race concludes on YouTube at the moment.
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