Scotland crank up the pressure on England as winger Robert Snodgrass says: 'Your own fans want you to lose'

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Scotland winger Robert Snodgrass has stoked the fire ahead of Friday's Wembley clash after claiming that English fans 'don't want England to do well'.

The Hull City player, 29, also admitted that the whole of his own country enjoys seeing England lose.

'I think the full country does, to be honest,' Snodgrass said. 'That's just the way we were brought up. I speak to English people and I don't think they want England to do well because it's the same old story all the time.

Robert Snodgrass believes England fans want their own country to lose on Friday night

Snodgrass also insists that Scots love nothing more than to watch England lose

'That's sad, actually, when you think about it, when everyone up here is rooting for you being Scottish and wanting the country to do well. It's a different mentality. We want to get to tournaments, and for England it's "we want to win it".'

Snodgrass is expected to be named in Gordon Strachan's starting XI to face England in the World Cup qualifier at Wembley on Friday but he had been a major doubt after suffering ankle ligament damage in Hull's defeat by Stoke two weeks ago.

He was initially expected to miss a month of action but has rushed back and played a starring role in a victory over Southampton on Sunday. Snodgrass admits this is a game he wouldn't dare to miss and after the prognosis was announced, his mind turned to recovery.

Gareth Southgate's side will take on Scotland in a World Cup 2018 qualifier on Friday

'Oh straight away. At club level you have a lot of lads getting paid and stuff like that, but you would play for your country just for the love of playing for your country. 

'That's the truth, for me anyway. You have your heart on your sleeve when you play games but playing for your country is special, you dream about it as a wee boy. You don't even think twice when you have some sort of injury, even when medical people tell you you might not make it you do everything you possibly can to get there.

'I'll be honest, after the game my ankle was massive, you couldn't even straighten it. So you do think the worst. But 10 or 11 days later before you know it you're right back into the swing of things.

'Now it's good (the ankle). To be honest I'd be lying if I said I am 100 per cent, when you get two days training under your belt. But it couldn't have gone any better at club level to come up here with confidence.' 

Snodgrass was part of the Scotland team that lost 3-2 to England at Wembley in 2013 and he admits the old fire burns fiercer than ever before in the Scotland camp.

Snodgrass is one of Gordon Strachan's key players and says he is isn't '100 per cent' fit

The Hull City winger is getting back to fitness since he injured his ankle two weeks ago

On the way to that game, the Scotland team watched videos of Braveheart to stir the emotions. 'It speaks for itself, doesn't it? They've always been the arch enemies and the rivals, they've always probably been that step ahead especially in the last 10 or 20 years, when we've been trying just to get to major tournaments and they are saying they should be winning them. 

'I've played down there the last ten years so it's always been that heated, Scotland-England type of thing. I've been brought up with a family that is patriotic and loved the Scotland-England games so to see it first hand when we played down there at Wembley and lost 3-2, with goals from set pieces, it was hard to take. 

'I think we watched about three motivational videos on the bus. Braveheart was one of them. So we're going in there thinking to ourselves "we mean business here" and that was only a friendly. You're desperate to be a part of it.

'We wanted the bragging rights for beating England and it's no different on Friday.'

Snodgrass played for his country the last time they played England at Wembley in 2013