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'Beating England the best a Scot can experience'

Scott Brown says beating England would be "as good as it gets" as the Scotland captain prepares to take on the auld enemy on Tuesday.

Brown, whose only experience of the fixture was last year's 3-2 defeat at Wembley, admits it means "much, much more" to him and his team-mates than their opponents, but is determined to prove a point with victory at Celtic Park.

England coach Roy Hodgson is expecting a test of mental strength as the two nations will reignite the oldest international fixture in history after first meeting in 1872, with Gordon Strachan's side third in Euro 2016 qualifying Group D after beating Republic of Ireland on Friday.

Scott Brown is keen to avenge last year's defeat at Wembley © PA Photos

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England sit top of Group E with four wins from four, and while Brown knows many of Hodgson's squad are already looking ahead to Premier League and Champions League clashes, he wants Scotland to deliver a wake-up call by beating England for the first time in 29 years.

"What you have to understand is how special this is to the players, how much it means to us," he told the Daily Record.

"We know the English really don't bother about us - they couldn't care less about Scottish football.

"To be fair to them, they might not even realise they are doing it. But they have this sense of superiority that comes with thinking how much better they are than us. And that's why we go into a game like this absolutely bursting to prove a point.

"To be perfectly honest this fixture means much, much more to us than it does to the English boys and I'm not saying that in a critical way.

"The truth is they are playing away down south in huge games, at great grounds and in massive competitions week in week out. Why would they bother to look over their shoulder to see what we are up to?

"But we are brought up with a different mentality in Scotland. We are brought up to believe beating England is as good as it gets.

"We're going into a game against our arch enemy and that's the best thing any Scot could experience."

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