THIS is the hilarious moment a Scots dad slide tackles his four-year-old son to "toughen him up"

Ewan Mcilduff shared a video online of him playing with little Olly in his back garden in Airdrie.

As Olly runs away in possession of a football, he is chased by his 35-year-old dad who playfully slides the youngsters’ feet out from under him.

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After Olly hits the deck, he's helped up by his dad as they both wear huge grins.

Twitter users reacted to the video, which was captioned "it toughens them up is my excuse", jokingly telling Ewan he deserved a yellow card for his behaviour.

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The video has been viewed on Tiwtter more than 310,000 times with more than 5,200 retweets and 14,000 likes.

One social media user said: “Brutal!! (Although I did laugh).”

Another added: “Can’t express how much I love this video”.