Disaster Index: 5.1 Entry: The Bogeyman Taxonomy Cause: Formal enumeration of Scotland's World Cup misfortunes, published eight days before the Haiti fixture, while the country is still capable of reading it as history rather than forecast. Category: Historical / Emotional Evidence: Scotland have appeared at eight World Cup finals. Each produced a classifiable misfortune: refereeing decisions, own goals, goal difference, opponents that should have been manageable, opponents that weren't. The pattern is not anecdotal. Tom English has done the taxonomy. The taxonomy is extensive. Historical precedent: 1954 (7–0 to Uruguay); 1974 (eliminated on goal difference having not lost a match); 1978 (Archie Gemmill, and then Archie Gemmill wasn't enough); 1982–1998 (various). The form is consistent. Affected parties: Scottish supporters in the process of organising belief; historians attempting to argue the record is not predictive. Immediate outlook: The bogeymen are named. Naming them does not retire them.