{"id":307298,"date":"2025-07-31T19:03:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/307298\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T19:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:03:21","slug":"tributes-paid-after-death-of-legendary-tartan-army-foot-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/307298\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributes paid after death of &#8216;legendary&#8217; Tartan Army foot soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dorian Watt started going to Scotland games after being blown away by the atmophere at Hampden.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_dorian3.png\" alt=\"Dorian joined the Tartan Army in 2007. \" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Dorian joined the Tartan Army in 2007. (Image: Collect)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Tributes have poured in after the death of a legendary <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/scotland-football-team\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Tartan ArmyLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Tartan Army<\/a> foot soldier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Dorian Watt, from Arbroath, was laid to rest today, Thursday, July 31, after<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/scotland-football-team\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" passing awayLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"> passing away<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">She had followed the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/scotland-football-team\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"national team Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">national team <\/a>on television for a number of years but became of a Tartan Army stalwart after being blown away by the atmosphere at her first game at Hampden against Lithuania in 2007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Dorian was a proud member of her home town&#8217;s <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/scotland-football-team\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Tartan Army Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Tartan Army <\/a>and travelled to the games on a supporters bus that leaves from the Station Bar.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_dorian.png\" alt=\"Dorian pictured on a Scotland trip. \" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Dorian pictured on a Scotland trip. (Image: Collect)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesperson for the pub said: &#8220;Today we said goodbye to one of life&#8217;s lovely people . Dorian will be sorely missed by everyone at the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/scotland-football-team\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Station.Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Station.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Someone who lived life to the full and was the<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/scotland-football-team\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" life and soulLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"> life and soul<\/a> of the party. No Dor, No Party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Alex Stott commented: &#8220;What devastating news I have just seen that <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/scotland-football-team\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Dorian WattLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Dorian Watt<\/a> has passed away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;A brilliant girl and true legend. Dorian was there on one of my <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/scotland-football-team\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"first tripsLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">first trips<\/a> on the Station bus. RIP, sweetheart Gone but never forgotten.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Steven Swankie said: &#8220;Dorian will always be in our hearts. She was always the life and soul at the parties at the footy, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/scotland-football-team\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"home and away.Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">home and away.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe my cousin passed away before me. Love you loads.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Louise Lawson added: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know Dorian personally but seen her on the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/scotland-football-team\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Scotland busesLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Scotland buses<\/a>, so sad.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dorian Watt started going to Scotland games after being blown away by the atmophere at Hampden.Dorian joined the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[17542,748,918,4884,712,40317,29532,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-307298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-armed-forces","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-glasgow","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-tartan","14":"tag-tartan-army","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114949403941918157","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}