Celtic nations should play each other more often.

I'M looking forward to Saturday's Wales v Scotland game for several reasons.

I'm hoping Saturday will be a special day bearing in mind how deadly dull many international friendlies are.

It will be the first time many of us have been to Cardiff City's new stadium, which has the potential to provide a much better atmosphere than many international games.

Hopefully the tartan army will travel in numbers, and obviously it's a home international between two small countries who are struggling at the moment.

It's a game both teams will feel they can win and hopefully it will be a "proper" football match with each side feeling there is pride at stake.

I never played against Scotland, but it was a game against Scotland which signalled my first involvement in international football.

I was playing at Wrexham when Wales manager Mike England selected me for a training weekend prior to a game against Scotland at Ninian Park in 1985.

That fateful night, Wales drew 1-1 with Scotland and were denied a place in a qualifying play-off for the 1986 World Cup - but more famously it was the night when Scotland manager Jock Stein suffered a heart attack in the dug-out and later died.

It seems ridiculous to me that the two countries haven't played each other more often since - the last game between them was in 2004, when a Robert Earnshaw hat-trick helped Wales to a 4-0 victory at the Millennium Stadium.

It's a meaningful fixture, without ridiculous amounts of travelling, and it could draw a bigger crowd than some of the internationals we've seen recently.