00:00Hello, this is Alan Patolo, a Scottish football writer, en route to Stalejuricek, a Hungarian
00:18town where it's called energy to play Belarus tomorrow night in the second World Cup qualifier.
00:25It's been a case of trains, planes and automobiles. I'm currently in a rail replacement bus on
00:36route to the Stalejuricek, where I'll be getting back on the train for the last part of the
00:46journey to my destination, where Steve Clarke will be hosting a press conference tonight,
00:56ahead of the game on Monday, to see how many Scotland has made it to Hungary. There are
01:04reports of perhaps as many as 200, 300 of us behind closed doors games, of course, so they
01:14won't be allowed to gain admittance to the crowd, I don't think, but certainly I want to be
01:21there to watch the game at local bars and perhaps even find a convenient hilltop to perhaps get
01:27into the stadium itself. We'll see what we find when we get there, but yeah, fascinating
01:34circumstances for Scotland to play their latest match and very much on a high after Monday
01:42night's draw against, sorry, Friday night's draw against Denmark, which sets up well for a promising
01:52first doubleheader. They can beat Belarus and come back with four points from a tricky couple
01:59of venues in very different circumstances. One obviously in front of a 50,000 passionate home
02:05crowd in the park and the second in a deserted stadium against a team who were given a really
02:16sound thrashing by tweets on Friday. So, very interesting. Right ahead, I'll be reporting from the press
02:26conference this evening on my preview beyondscotsman.com and yeah, keep tuned in to the website for various
02:39updates prior to the game.
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