Disaster Index: 5.1 Entry: Narey's Toe: The Evidence Resurfaces Cause: Archive testimony from 1982 circulating forty-four years on, reintroducing the Narey goal, the Brazil defeat, and the cartoon-character classification into active national memory, forty-eight hours before Haiti. Category: Historical / Emotional Evidence: Jordan, Strachan, and Wark on record. The 1982 campaign produced a 5–2 defeat by Brazil after Narey's opener was described, on national television, as a toe-poke. The phrase has not lost structural force since. Scotland's tournament history now includes, formally, a moment of genuine world-class beauty reclassified as comedy before the match was finished. Historical precedent: Narey, D. Goal, minute 18, 18 June 1982. Immediate reclassification followed. The campaign ended in the group stage on goal difference. The toe-poke entered permanent taxonomy. Affected parties: Anyone currently trying to manage expectations rationally. Immediate outlook: The archive does not forget. Neither does the country. The timing of this resurfacing, the week Scotland return to a World Cup for the first time since 1998, is noted without comment. Filed: 2026-06-10 / pre-Haiti baseline window