how come scotland seem incapable of getting glamorous friendly opposition such as argentina(without trying their hands at totally ripping off the punters)yet such giants of the world game,and a massively wealthy nation to boot,belarus,can?

Maybe the people in Belarus were prepared to pay £50 a ticket?

Dont know how Belarus managed it! Maybe they got a discount from the Argentine agents who organise their games.
I believe Argentina had a pretty much untried squad playing that night due to their main players being at the olympics.

maybe the belarus federations priority was to have a game against a really big name rather than trying to screw as much money out of people as possible.i got the impression that this was the SFAs priority,Argentina were merely an end towards this.