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00:01The greatest show on earth is about to begin.
00:07That is outrageous!
00:09And scores!
00:21Oh dear, oh dear.
00:35That's a howler!
00:40Is this what Scottish people is about?
00:43Delicious!
00:44Oh, worth!
00:49Champions!
00:52This has been an absolute burnstormer!
01:01Hello and welcome to A View from the Terrace.
01:04The show that wrestles Scottish football to the mat,
01:07puts into a sharpshooter and makes it tap out.
01:10My name is Craig Telfer.
01:12I am the Excellence of Execution
01:14and I am back once again to analyse the game
01:16from a fan's perspective with my usual cohort.
01:20Up first, imagine Darth Vader at the end of Return of the Jedi
01:23with his hat smashed open.
01:25Cross with Dougray Scott and you're just about there.
01:27It's Tony Anderson.
01:28Hello Craig.
01:29And next, he's the real deal with sex appeal.
01:32He'll make you swoon, he'll make you squeal.
01:34It's Sean McGuigan.
01:35Hello.
01:36Gentlemen, strange bedfellas.
01:38We never get the chance to spend much time together,
01:39the three of us.
01:40Very lower league sort of domination,
01:42so it's unusual for me to be brought into that sort of cohort.
01:45You're still welcome, even though we're lower league aficionados.
01:48Hibs were in the lower leagues recently.
01:50Yeah.
01:50Quite a few times.
01:51For a long time.
01:53Enjoy the show.
01:59Scottish football is like a big shark.
02:01If it stops, it'll die.
02:03And lots has happened over the past seven days,
02:06so I think we should kick off by looking at the winners
02:08and the losers from the past week.
02:11And if I may, I would like to start with a very big winner.
02:14Aston Villa captain and Scotland legend John McGinn signed a new contract
02:19with the club that will take him up to 2028,
02:21and last week against Maccabee Tel Aviv in the Europa League,
02:25he made his 300th appearance for the villains.
02:28Captain.
02:29Oh, that's right.
02:29Captain of a Champions League quarterfinal team.
02:33What seems so amazing about John McGinn is that he's hit that level
02:36which shows how hard he's worked to get there,
02:39but at the same time he's still like the most relatable footballer
02:41with the personality, he's got the personality of the guy in the pub
02:44with the work ethic of some of the greatest players on the planet.
02:46Yeah.
02:46And there's so many incredible things he's done with his time at the club
02:50and the fact that he is captaining a top-end Premier League side,
02:54one of the biggest divisions on the planet,
02:56he still hasn't lost his relatability and his humility.
02:59I really enjoyed the thread that Aston Villa put together online
03:02where they were essentially chronicling all his best moments, I suppose,
03:06in an Aston Villa jersey.
03:07There was a weird kind of sense of pride as I was kind of scrolling through it.
03:10The only disappointing thing was they mentioned that his nickname was Guinea.
03:15I would really like them to reassess that.
03:17But you mentioned pride, Sean, and that's what it is.
03:19I know it's really not cool to want your players to go down south of the pub,
03:23but even as a Hibbs fan, I mean, he went away
03:27and for about three or four years there was an obsession
03:29with whatever he does, he'd come out the tunnel.
03:32Hibbs would be talking about it.
03:34Washed his boots today, there you go.
03:35You know absolutely everything and no wonder.
03:38He's just like the most fun guy that's ever been in Scottish football
03:41for such a long time.
03:42Yeah, brilliant.
03:42He's an enduringly popular figure and he's got the opportunity
03:45to pass his wisdom on to the next generation of Scotland talent
03:48because Rory Wilson, who is a young Scotland striker,
03:52moved to Aston Villa from Rangers in 2022.
03:54He is beginning to hit the goal trail for the club's youth side.
03:58He scored a hat-trick in a European Youth League tie
04:00against Skanderbouw.
04:03Oh yes.
04:04Of course, to those guys.
04:05I never sang that.
04:07And just at the weekend there, he got a really nice goal
04:09against Wolves in the Premier League too.
04:11And it just shows you how good a finisher is.
04:13He gets the ball into him, takes a touch to create space for himself
04:16and a really nice, drilled low finish.
04:18He has a name that keeps coming up.
04:20Mm-hmm.
04:21But we probably haven't seen enough of him yet.
04:22It would be good if he maybe gets a loan spell somewhere
04:24and we can really kind of see what he's capable of.
04:26This is what gets you excited.
04:28I know we've had loads of left-backs coming through
04:29and that's great.
04:31Attacking players.
04:32Yeah, a world-class striker coming through
04:33is exactly what we're craving.
04:35And maybe you're talking about...
04:36There's no pressure.
04:37But you're talking about maybe a loan dealer.
04:39There's maybe routes for...
04:40Well, Villa don't really have many strikers.
04:43I mean, I think Ollie Watkins has scored one goal this season,
04:45so who says he's not going to get a little shot
04:47in the first team?
04:48And you think with our problems up front as well,
04:50if he gets a sniff of that Villa first team,
04:53he'll be straight in the Scotland score.
04:54That's it.
04:54So we should all adopt Aston Villa as a second team.
04:57Scotland's present and Scotland's future as well.
05:00Very exciting times.
05:02Right, that's enough about England and Aston Villa.
05:05Let's go to the big winners
05:06and that is the title class that's taking place
05:08in the Lowland League.
05:10Finally, after a couple of years
05:12of there being sort of like a balling chain on that league,
05:15with Ace Kilbride just steaming to victory,
05:18finding this freedom has brought opportunity,
05:20it's brought fun.
05:22All the results went the way that meant it tightened the league up
05:24and the most interesting one is obviously Broxburn
05:27defeating Clyde Banker at the top of the league
05:28and Jamie Docherty managing to score a lovely little chip
05:31to make that possible.
05:32With Broxburn beating Clyde Bank and Lithgow
05:34intranet drawn with each other,
05:36there now looks like a six-team race for the title.
05:39There's seven points separate at the top six teams.
05:41Whichever one of them wins the league,
05:43let's say one of them was to get promoted.
05:44It feels like there's a lot of clubs there
05:46that are already set up,
05:48that will be a good away day,
05:49like Lithgow Rose are brilliant away day,
05:51they've got a great set up.
05:52Bonniereg, maybe they could bounce back at the first attempt.
05:55Clyde Bank, who have kind of risen through the leagues
05:56over these years, could be coming back.
05:58But you've got the new kids on the block,
05:59you've got like Trenent,
06:01I know they got a draw at the weekend
06:03and they're right in the top four,
06:04so no matter where he goes,
06:06there's a lot of intrigue for it.
06:07Well, definitely looks like a division
06:09that's worth keeping an eye on.
06:10We'll stick with the winners
06:11and we'll talk about a big winner
06:13at Dunfermline Athletic
06:14and this is Andrew Todd Jr.
06:15Yeah, what a brilliant few days he had actually.
06:18I mean he scored a last minute equaliser
06:19in a brilliant game
06:20in a 2-2 draw between Defermline
06:22and St Johnson the weekend
06:23and then on the Monday
06:25he was confirmed as being in the
06:26Scotland Under-21 squad.
06:28I don't know why he wasn't named
06:29on the initial squad, very unusual,
06:31but thankfully he has now been called up
06:32and I think it's thoroughly deserved
06:34because his season so far has been fantastic.
06:36Yeah, I mean he scored 11 goals in all competitions
06:38over the course of the campaign
06:40and I just love watching this guy
06:42and you know he's quite a scrappy player,
06:44he's quite a street footballer,
06:46he's got so much gallusness to his game
06:49and I think that he's a player
06:50that the powers have really taken to.
06:51He'd done an interview after the recent derby
06:53where he got man of the match
06:54and they actually asked him outright about the glasses
06:57and he says he does it as a choice,
06:59he wants to stand out, he wants to be a character
07:02and I think for a young striker
07:03these are the qualities that are going to make him
07:06maybe go on to be the best
07:07and I just feel like no matter what football pitch
07:09he goes on to, you're going to not be able
07:12to take your eyes off him.
07:13Yeah definitely and we need attackers
07:14in this Scotland team so maybe that's the step
07:16into the Under-21s then into the first team
07:19very soon, let's hope so.
07:21Bad week for Celtic Football Club
07:22and bad week for the Green Brigade.
07:24They served the first of a six game ban against Kilmarnock on Sunday.
07:29This came after an alleged incident against Falkirk
07:31at the start of the month.
07:33The Green Brigade previously had been given a suspended sanction
07:35at the start of the year for something that happened against St Mirren.
07:40The Green Brigade have denied the allegation
07:42that's been made by the club against them
07:44but there has been tensions between both the board
07:46and the Green Brigade that's going back almost 15 years now.
07:49I kind of feel like everybody's losing out on this.
07:52The fact that the Green Brigade are getting banned for games
07:55the fact that Celtic don't have the atmosphere
07:58they can maybe drive on the team in their absence
08:00it's not a great look.
08:02These fan bases often are given a bit of rope
08:05they're given a bit of room
08:06and then they start to act like they can behave however they want.
08:09A sense of entitlement you might say.
08:10Yeah exactly, entitlement yeah.
08:11You know it's difficult from a fan's perspective
08:13you always want to take the fan's side.
08:15You know it's a group of people who passionately follow their club
08:18they are really noisy and they want the club to be as best as it can possibly be
08:22but then they do have that sense of like being a bit too big for their boots as well.
08:26This is meant to be your home.
08:28Yeah.
08:28You're meant to be invited in.
08:29You're actually the ones that make this possible.
08:31It's your money that goes into it
08:32and when you're being treated almost like a black sheep
08:34and almost like a problem
08:35I can see why that would build up frustration.
08:37Yeah definitely.
08:38You see some of the like on the concourses
08:40it's absolutely full of stewards.
08:41If that happened to me at Oakville
08:43I'd feel very uncomfortable with it as well.
08:45Is there a situation where we can see the Green Brigade
08:47and the Celtic board co-existing together?
08:50Difficult to see how that ever comes about.
08:52And I think you're absolutely right in terms of
08:54what the Green Brigade bring to the club.
08:57However, it's a fine line
08:58and I sometimes do think that
09:00maybe they go the wrong side of it every too often
09:02and when they do
09:03it feels like the board really clamps down on them
09:05as hard as they can
09:06and as often as they can
09:08and because of that
09:08I don't see how they co-exist.
09:10Tony, a bit of a winner
09:11and maybe also a loser from the weekend
09:13Dundee United winger Amar Fata.
09:15Amar Fata.
09:16What a wild game of football that man.
09:19So let's start off with the good bit.
09:20The best set piece of the weekend easily.
09:22The lesser seen drilled Conor Kigg.
09:25You don't see this every day.
09:26And the execution is absolutely brilliant for Fata.
09:28And Dundee United are so chuffed to themselves.
09:30You see the way they're celebrating on the bench
09:31it's all handshipped.
09:32Well done.
09:33We've been planning this for months.
09:35Yeah, yeah.
09:35And Lucas Stevenson peels off the back
09:37and he plants a header.
09:38There you go.
09:38Right, yeah, brilliant.
09:39But that's the best set piece.
09:41But then later on we get to see the worst free kick.
09:44Possibly the worst free kick of the season.
09:45He puts the ball down
09:46and then all the defenders sort of go up the pitch
09:48it's like going to load in a deep free kick.
09:50And he just inexplicably passes the ball
09:53ten yards directly to the heart's point
09:55and you're trying to work out
09:56what are you thinking?
09:57It just looks like it's a deliberate thing.
09:58Ball there.
09:59Here you go. Cheers.
10:00You see it's a deliberate thing.
10:01There's all the Dundee United bench
10:02all high-fiving each other right there.
10:04Yes.
10:04Another one there.
10:05The set piece coach
10:06high-fiving Jim Goodwin.
10:08But Sean, we'll talk about the winners and the losers
10:11from Queen's Park's 2-1 win over Wraith Rovers.
10:14Start with the winners first, please.
10:15Yeah, let's start with Josh Fowler.
10:17So I was one of the lucky few
10:19that managed to get a ticket for Queen's Park Wraith Rovers
10:21at the weekend.
10:23Heard a lot about him.
10:24I saw him right at the start of the season,
10:25first day of the season.
10:26I thought he was good.
10:27However, since then,
10:28I mean he's been on a phenomenal run
10:30and actually based on what I saw from him on Saturday
10:32I can see why.
10:33So educate me.
10:34How's he got to Queen's Park?
10:35So he played in the West of Scotland League,
10:38then went to Dubai,
10:39and now he's played for Queen's Park.
10:41I mean, it's a well-known path.
10:43It's a well-toured path that we see very often.
10:44Aye.
10:45Beef Juniors, Dubai,
10:47he's spelling Australia,
10:48Queen's Park.
10:49As simple as that.
10:50If Josh Fowler is the big winner from that contest,
10:52who's the big loser?
10:54I suppose the big loser has to be Barry Robson,
10:56whose services were dispensed with in midweek
10:59following that 2-1 defeat.
11:01You never want to see people losing their job.
11:03However, there will be very few Wraith Rovers fans
11:05who were sad at that turn of events.
11:08You know, from the outside looking around,
11:09you just take a glance at the league table,
11:11Wraith Rovers are in sixth place,
11:12are just a point and goal difference
11:13from getting into the top four.
11:16Wraith Rovers are having a great season.
11:19They aren't.
11:20If you're Barry Robson,
11:22you will say that feels very harsh,
11:23because he went on a great run last season.
11:25I mean, they were quite low in the Championship
11:26when he took over.
11:27Finished just outside the playoffs.
11:29Going into the final game of the season,
11:30they could have finished in the playoffs.
11:32And you're right,
11:32this season they're not too far away from a playoff spot.
11:35However, see the style of football.
11:38It's possibly the most basic style of football
11:40I have ever seen at Stars Park.
11:42This is the thing about Baird Rovers.
11:43He's done the same at Aberdeen,
11:44where he started off,
11:46and because he brings it back down to basics,
11:48it makes it feel like the team reacts quite well.
11:51It's quite a simple message to do.
11:52And the same happened at Wraith Rovers.
11:54But just playing percentage football,
11:56try to work for mistakes.
11:57When you're at clubs that are big like Wraith Rovers
11:58and Aberdeen,
11:59you're not going to get any longevity out of that.
12:01Well, with Barry Robson departing Wraith Rovers,
12:04that leads us very nicely onto our deep dive,
12:06where we'll take a look at Scottish football managers.
12:09I think big things were expected from Robson
12:11when he first came through at Aberdeen,
12:13but he hasn't quite hit those heights.
12:15And there seems to be a dearth of opportunity
12:17for Scottish football managers
12:19to take that next step in their careers.
12:21I think you would struggle to put together a long list of managers
12:26that Wraith fans would be particularly pleased to take the position.
12:30We've gone from a period where, like,
12:32look at the English Premier League for instance,
12:34I think it was in the 2011-2012 season,
12:37seven of the 20 teams were managed by Scotsmen.
12:41That's just not the case now.
12:42It's just one, Everton and David Moyes,
12:44and there's no Scottish managers elsewhere in Europe's biggest leagues.
12:47Football at the top level has become really, really attacking.
12:50And I think in Scottish football, traditionally,
12:52we've bred quite cautious managers,
12:54and you can see that in the modern day.
12:55I mean, the three sort of youngest managers
12:57who've taken the biggest jobs,
12:59you've got David Gray, Barry Robson, and Stephen Naismith,
13:02and they are all pretty cautious.
13:04It's all about safety fun.
13:05And even mostly traditionally, if you look at
13:07Walter Smith, Everton, Secretary of Rangers,
13:09that's very defensive.
13:11And then even when you get to the very, very top of the tree,
13:14you've got Steve Clarke,
13:16who is possibly the most cautious manager in Scotland.
13:18Derek McInnes most is clear.
13:20It's all cautious.
13:20So nearly every man you come up with in modern times
13:22is safety first.
13:24You mentioned Derek McInnes leading hearts at the top of the Premiership.
13:27What's your thoughts on him?
13:29I suspect that if anybody is going to get noticed
13:31out with the Scottish football,
13:33it is going to be Derek McInnes.
13:34For a couple of reasons.
13:36A, the obvious one,
13:37he's got hearts top of the league.
13:38I think he would have to sustain that
13:41for a big team,
13:42a big team in a better commerce to come in for him.
13:44I also think what he might also have on his side is
13:46hearts have this link to Brighton with Tony Bloom.
13:50I think because of that,
13:51they are getting talked about maybe down south
13:53more than normally they would.
13:54So I do think he has that on his side as well.
13:56I just think that people outside of Scotland
13:58view managerial achievements in this country
14:01like they'll do dog years.
14:02So for instance,
14:03you could win seven Premiership titles.
14:06That's the equivalent of getting to a League Cup quarterfinal
14:09down in England.
14:10I'm going to take Brendan Rodgers for example.
14:12For him to get the move from Celtic to Leicester City,
14:15he had to have one unbeaten season
14:17and two trebles within that.
14:18And on top of that,
14:19he was already a known commodity down in England.
14:21I think if McInnes wants to get a big job,
14:24I think he would have to win the league,
14:27maybe do a second year,
14:28maybe take the team quite far in Europe.
14:29It feels like you've got to do a lot more in Scotland
14:31to get noticed elsewhere.
14:33Let's talk about one of the most decorated players
14:35in modern Scottish history,
14:36who has recently moved into management,
14:39Scott Brown.
14:39And I think that for someone of Scott Brown's profile,
14:42for someone of his brand,
14:44I think he could have easily have taken
14:45a lot of the bigger jobs available in the country.
14:48But he has like served an apprenticeship in a way.
14:51I think there's an argument that his time so far
14:53has been a wee bit underwhelming,
14:55maybe even a wee bit disappointing.
14:56And I know,
14:57I think in terms of win percentages,
14:58he's arguably one of Ayr's most successful managers.
15:01However, in terms of Ayr United's big games
15:03over the last couple of seasons,
15:04always feels like that they generally come up short.
15:07So it just feels like there is something a wee bit lacking.
15:09And I still think that he is a wee bit away
15:12from being linked with genuinely big jobs in this country.
15:15It's commendable what Scott Brown has decided to do it.
15:17And to do it properly, Cardi.
15:19But I think it can be quite a dangerous sort of path.
15:23In Scottish football,
15:24especially the championship and even the top flight,
15:27you play each other constantly.
15:28The rivalries are quite intense.
15:30The way that the leagues are,
15:31like it's national news.
15:32It's not just that you manage Lincoln
15:34and they only care about that.
15:35So the pressure is ridiculous.
15:36And it means that everything becomes very results driven.
15:39Everything, every point's a prisoner.
15:41So sometimes for our managers,
15:43you feel like maybe that doesn't like breed a place
15:46where you can create an expansive style of football.
15:48You can do all the things that modern managers do
15:50to get these big jobs.
15:52So maybe that is like a barrier now to entry
15:54when it probably used to be something that was great
15:56because that's what created that traditional manager,
15:58win at all costs.
15:59But that's not what it's all about now.
16:00I think as well with Scott Brown,
16:02just his personality and his experience as a player,
16:04might actually be better suited to just managing like big clubs
16:07and big players.
16:08I mean, for instance, Zinedine Zidane,
16:10you wouldn't imagine him going to imagine
16:11Inverness, Caledonia and Thistle, for instance.
16:13He's such a big guy.
16:14He can only manage at the very top.
16:16And I wonder if Scott Brown might be Scotland's goal.
16:18That was Zinedine Zidane.
16:20Let's take a look at the traditional management structures
16:22in Scottish football,
16:23because when you think of your traditional management structure,
16:25you imagine the chairman, the manager
16:27and everything else coming beneath that.
16:30Nowadays, that's not really the case.
16:31There's like sporting directors, technical directors,
16:33directors of football and so on.
16:35But one manager who is quite old school in that regard
16:39is David Martindale at Livingston.
16:41Man, I love David Martindale.
16:42I think he's underrated.
16:44And I think what works against him is he is,
16:47like him and Livingston are just so interlinked together.
16:51And there's so,
16:52there's so many kind of narratives around Livingston,
16:55wrongly in my opinion, that are always negative.
16:57Oh, they've got a rubbish pitch.
16:58Oh, they're hammer throwers.
16:59Oh, they play direct.
17:01And I think because of that,
17:02he is kind of almost tarred with the same brush.
17:04So I think even if a bigger club was to give him an opportunity,
17:09I think fans would think it maybe wasn't a particularly sexy appointment.
17:13So I think that works against him as well.
17:14He's managed the least fashionable club in the country.
17:17You talk about these things with Martindale
17:19and the structures that we have and have had for quite a long time
17:22in Scottish football.
17:23I do feel like with Scottish managers,
17:25they may be playing catch up.
17:26We haven't implemented these sort of structures,
17:30having all the staff, the directors of football all above them,
17:33transfer committees all the way that is.
17:35So when you're talking, like talking,
17:38if you're like a club down south or a club around Europe,
17:40do you want to take a risk on a guy who's never been in that structure?
17:43So maybe we might be getting somewhere now for the new generation.
17:45For example, with David Gray, he's only had one job
17:48and he's come through Hibs and they are already built exactly like that.
17:52And that might set him in good stead for moving on in the future.
17:56What about part-time football then?
17:57Half the clubs in the SPFL are made up of part-time clubs,
18:00but there really does seem to be a glass ceiling in terms of success.
18:04I think there's the train of thought that if you do well at a small club,
18:08you earn the chance to just work your way up
18:09and then eventually you get to manage Rangers and Celtic.
18:12But it doesn't quite work like that.
18:13And it just feels like there's a bit of a glass ceiling for part-time managers in Scotland.
18:17I guess I would imagine that being a part-time manager
18:20is actually completely different from being a full-time manager.
18:24And imagine the things you have to handle are completely different.
18:26Because if you've got the players twice a week at training,
18:29then presumably it's all about how can you keep it fun.
18:31However, if you're with the players four days a week,
18:34then suddenly people management becomes a much bigger thing.
18:37You might have cliques.
18:38You might have people that don't like each other.
18:41And suddenly you have to manage all of those things,
18:43partly because you're just spending longer than their company.
18:45I'd imagine it's just that it requires a different skill set, I suppose.
18:48Just say, for instance, Ray Throvers, they went in to talk to Gary Naismith
18:52about Stenhouse Muir having a very successful time at Oakville.
18:54Is that a move that you'd be keen on?
18:57I would be fine with that because he has got such a brilliant record at Stenhouse Muir,
19:02but there is a wee bit of me that thinks,
19:03well, maybe he is just suited to being a part-time manager.
19:05It's a bit different for him because he had such an illustrious sort of playing career.
19:09I'd like to think that he can handle doing a bit of the politics
19:12in the way that if you're playing for Scotland and Everton for most of your life.
19:16It's not like he's just been mucking about with Stenhouse Muir for his whole career.
19:20Mucking about with Stenhouse.
19:21That's great, he's the best manager of the club ever had with just a great big laugh.
19:26What about co-managers? Because that has become quite fashionable.
19:30You know, we're seeing it at Arbroath, David Gold and Colin Hamilton,
19:33they're having great success at their time at Gayfield.
19:35Yeah, I mean, brilliant success when you think about the fact that when they took over at Arbroath,
19:39they were bought in the League One last season and now sitting third in the Championship.
19:43I do wonder if co-managers will be the future of management in Scottish football.
19:47I mean, just look at League One and League Two last season.
19:50Arbroath won League One with co-managers.
19:52Peter Head did the same thing in League Two with Ryan Strachan and Jordan Brown.
19:56I think that if you're taking your first steps in football,
20:00I think co-management is a really good way to go about it
20:02because, you know, it's quite a daunting prospect,
20:04but you're there with your mate, you can bounce ideas off one another.
20:08I think it's something that more younger players taking those first steps will go for.
20:14Maybe it might be a quite cool thing that we bring something modern to the game
20:19through the Scottish lower leagues. New thing there.
20:21It just goes, Real Madrid start doing it.
20:22Mount United start doing it.
20:23It becomes the new way of producing good management teams in European football.
20:34I've been on shoots before and some of the girls have been like,
20:38you play football?
20:41They are really shocked.
20:44What is a bit of makeup and a bit of tan going to do against how you perform on a
20:47football pitch?
20:50Maybe it's just a stereotype.
20:56People don't take women's football seriously.
20:57People don't take social media influencers seriously.
21:01It was almost like I'm going to prove these people wrong.
21:07My name is Summer Christie.
21:09I've loved it so much. I think this looks so nice.
21:12Built-out influencer.
21:14And I'm also a footballer for Queen's Park.
21:26Growing up, I've always wanted to be a footballer.
21:29I would go along to my brother's football and at the side I would just be kicking the
21:33ball about.
21:34I went on to play for really good teams.
21:37I was at Falkirk and then Rangers, Celtic.
21:41I went on and signed for Dundee United and I thought I could do this as a career.
21:46I could make a living out of football.
21:51I was always an outgoing person.
21:56Confident in front of a camera.
21:58I posted a first YouTube video when I was five of me doing keep yuppies.
22:06I'll show you more next time.
22:10Fashion's always been such a big thing for me.
22:13I just started kind of posting for fun.
22:17Last summer, I posted a TikTok.
22:20I think I got 1.6 million views.
22:24I started making a lot of money.
22:26I was like, okay, I need to capitalize on this.
22:39Because of the way women's football is in Scotland just now, it's not that easy to potentially get a professional
22:45contract.
22:50At Queen's Park, we are expenses only.
23:05I was working part-time in retail as well as playing part-time.
23:09Making a living is a priority and sometimes your football is going to have to take a back step to
23:14that because football can't offer you what, you know, a job can offer you.
23:21This is my full-time income now.
23:23I was in Marrakesh in January, modeling shoots in Manchester and London.
23:29I'm all over the world now.
23:32I'm sometimes having to miss football.
23:48All my teammates are all super supportive.
23:54I feel like this financial side doesn't really come into it now.
23:57It's just been about playing and enjoying it.
24:01For me, football, it's just like an escape.
24:04It's a good place for me to be.
24:09I'd obviously love to go back and play football professionally.
24:15Women's football keeps on evolving, keeps getting better.
24:18But just now I'm doing pretty well and I'm happy with what I'm doing.
24:24That happy person in front of a camera, I'm not putting anything on.
24:26I am that person.
24:28To have a sport that you do and that you love, I think anyone would love that.
24:33And the fact I can do both, I think it's just great.
24:35I love it.
24:43Only ole, only ole, we're gonna bring the World Cup back from over there.
24:48Yes, it's six months to the World Cup and excitement is at fever pitch.
24:54You know, this could be the first time we get to play at a World Cup since France in 1998.
24:59How are you both feeling about the prospect of going to the United States, Canada and Mexico?
25:04I think we might just do it, you know.
25:06I think we either need to become better than we've been over the last couple of games
25:10or continue to be fluky.
25:12And I'd be absolutely fine with either of those things.
25:15I actually dreamt about the Greece game the other night and I dreamt it would have won 1-0.
25:19Oh, that's good.
25:20So my subconscious is confident, certainly.
25:21I'm the same as Sean McGrawian, I am giddy with excitement.
25:25It's just, this is what being a football supporter is all about.
25:29Just being able to dream and to be hopeful and to get carried away.
25:32If you can't get carried away, then what is life?
25:36We all get excited about the prospect of qualifying for tournaments and for Euro 2008.
25:40Scotland were doing pretty well in the group.
25:42Fans were so excited.
25:44They actually started a campaign to get Loch Lomond to number one
25:47and the players got in on the act too.
25:49So you take the high road, then I'll take the old road.
25:58And I'll be in Scotland for all year.
26:05Where me and my true luck will never meet again.
26:11On the body, body banks of Loch Lomond.
26:19What I love about this, there are some players that are really getting into it.
26:22Lee McCulloch swaying from side to side there.
26:25There are some players who are not getting into it.
26:27Sean Maloney.
26:28He seems standing there like he's caught running to the corner.
26:31And Christian Daly didn't bother to learn the words there.
26:35He's present, but he's mouthing along to something.
26:39What makes this even stranger is that this was recorded just before we played Italy.
26:45But four weeks previously, we'd been absolutely stuffed by Georgia.
26:48I can't believe anybody watched that Georgia game and went,
26:51I just get run rigged on the floor.
26:52I still think we'll qualify.
26:54Needless to say, it was a tournament we did not qualify for that.
26:57Well, look at the memories we have.
26:58What are we like?
27:00Sean Maloney retreating to his safe space there.
27:04Shivering.
27:05Now, we didn't get to Euro 2008, but we did get to Euro 2020.
27:09Of course, very strange period during the COVID-19 pandemic.
27:13Fans were locked out of the games.
27:15They had to watch them in pubs, but because of the curfew,
27:18pubs closed at 10 o'clock.
27:20So we have these very entrepreneurial fans
27:23who decide to stand outside the boozer
27:26and watch Scotland's playoff penalty shootout win over Israel.
27:40I find it quite unusual that nobody in the pub
27:43seems even remotely interested in the penalties.
27:45It's the people who aren't allowed in that are really into it.
27:47Swap around.
27:48Listen, we'll go inside and have a great time,
27:49and you can film us from the outside.
27:51These guys aren't really playing by the rules of COVID, obviously,
27:54but it's still amazing that people just felt the need to be together
27:57and share what is an important moment together.
27:59It's just a shame that was a super-spreader event.
28:03That was one of the steps to get to Euro 2020.
28:06Let's talk about that final step.
28:08That playoff win over Serbia, who defeated them on penalties.
28:12We've got a fantastic video here of a group of supporters
28:15well and truly losing the run of themselves.
28:17That's the score for Serbia!
28:19Come on!
28:21Yeah!
28:22Yeah!
28:25Yeah!
28:29Yeah!
28:30Yeah!
28:33Yeah!
28:34Yeah!
28:36Yeah!
28:36Yeah!
28:37Yeah!
28:38Yeah!
28:38Yeah!
28:39Yeah!
28:39Yeah!
28:41Yeah!
28:41It's the best we've ever had in a view for the terrace!
28:44It's great, but there's so many things to like about this club.
28:48I mean, one, you've got a pterodactyl in there
28:51that's just making some very loud, screeching noises.
28:54But the fact the big fella in the yellow there,
28:56he goes down in installments,
28:58he seems to stagger around before grabbing onto anything,
29:02cables that are going to help the sport,
29:04and his trousers seem to fall down as well!
29:06There's no actual reason for why his trousers fall down.
29:09Just because he's falling forward doesn't normally mean
29:10that your trousers automatically come down.
29:12Magical.
29:13If some fans were unplugging television and ripping down shelving units,
29:18let's look at a fan who celebrated completely the other way.
29:22This is Andy Murray celebrating the same penalty shootout
29:25in his own inimitable style.
29:27Has to score for Serbia.
29:31Get in.
29:33Get in.
29:35One big wish is a happy end.
29:38I've celebrated opening a difficult jar with more dusting than he did.
29:43His next door neighbours are probably still complaining.
29:45It's the first time he's ever smoked up.
29:46Here, Andy, do you mind keeping it, Dan?
29:49If you want to talk about the greatest example of Scotland fans getting carried away,
29:53we have to go back to 1978.
29:56Scotland had qualified for the World Cup in Argentina.
29:59Ali McLeod, the manager at the time, had whipped the nation into a frenzy.
30:02They went there thinking they could actually win.
30:04And around 30,000 fans pitched up at Hampden to wave them off.
30:09The famous Hampden Park Stadium has witnessed many important occasions in the past.
30:14Tonight's send-off, though, for Scotland's World Cup squad was something extra special.
30:18Here was Ali's now-famous Tartan army of fans in full cry.
30:24This video is absolutely incredible.
30:26It feels like you're watching something from a parallel universe.
30:28I could not imagine in a million years us ever doing anything like that ever again.
30:33The thing is, it's easy to look back at it with disbelief, I suppose.
30:38But see, if I'd been around at that point, I would have been exactly the same.
30:41I would have been at Hampden, I would have bought tartan trousers,
30:44I would have bought Andy Cameron's single, Rod Stewart's single,
30:47and I would have fully believed that we were going to that World Cup,
30:49not just to compete, but potentially to win it.
30:52I love the player coming out with the sleeping bag.
30:53The doofy.
30:54The doofy.
30:54Like, the idea is, this is the first stage of the journey,
30:57so they're going on that bus, and they're doing a few tours of the day,
31:00and then they're just driving off to Argentina.
31:02Everyone's got their stuff.
31:04It's absolute lunacy.
31:04I love it.
31:05Could you imagine something like this happening now?
31:08There's more chance of you getting called up to the squad
31:10than Steve Clarke covering an open-top bus before the tournament.
31:13I think how amazing it would be.
31:14John McGinnett, the fun, whipping up a frenzy.
31:17You've got Scott McTominay in his full suit,
31:20dancing with Andy Robertson's mum.
31:23Ben Grope covering his first beer, falling down the stairs.
31:25It'd be absolutely magic.
31:27That was 1978.
31:28Despite the fact that we've had various disappointments,
31:31going to tournaments and not doing well,
31:32not going to tournaments at all,
31:34we still get excited, and we did that at Euro 2024.
31:38A brilliant clip of John McGinn getting involved
31:40with a local Bavarian Oompa band
31:42and taking part in some traditional dancing.
31:47The squad were given a civic reception last night,
31:50and no prizes for guessing.
31:52He got himself into the alpine spirit straight away.
31:56The excitement levels that build up to this,
31:58anything, that could have been him just walking through the street,
32:00and I would have been consuming that at the time,
32:03because before these tournaments, especially when you're in them,
32:06you listen to every podcast, you watch every YouTube video,
32:09waiting for that circuit to come up.
32:11What have we got next?
32:12It's Lyndon Dykes having a sandwich.
32:13I'm watching it.
32:14You know, and it's so good, that build-up,
32:17when you totally immerse yourself in it,
32:19and that's how you can convince yourself of anything.
32:21And you've been convinced by John McGinn wearing a funny hat
32:24dancing inside a cave.
32:25Exactly.
32:25Yeah, I mean, maybe that's why we were so poor,
32:28and it turned out as if we had booked him a hole underground.
32:30Yeah, for three weeks.
32:32If only had one of Derek Johnson's blankets under the lambs,
32:35he might have done a wee bit better.
32:37Now, John McGinn wasn't the only person in Germany
32:39who was getting excited.
32:41There's someone very close to the three of us
32:43who made an appearance on BBC Sports Scotland's
32:46daily football podcast and got a few things wrong.
32:50I'm going for nine points.
32:52I'm going to be a bit more optimistic.
32:55We play against Germany.
32:57Say you keep it tight for about 30 minutes or so.
33:00The home crowd get a bit antsy.
33:02That anxiety transfers onto the pitch.
33:04The players become nervous.
33:05They start making mistakes.
33:06Scotland can pick up on those errors,
33:08score a couple of goals,
33:09and then play against Switzerland.
33:11Narrow win over Switzerland,
33:12and then just cigars out against Hungary.
33:16This is my Christ-like appearance
33:18on BBC Sports Scotland's daily football podcast
33:21where I well and truly got carried away.
33:23How far into the tournament
33:26did you realise this was completely wrong?
33:28Probably four minutes into the game against Germany
33:30when Andy Rohmer and Peter Terry high-fiving each other
33:34after winning a goal kick.
33:36I mean, it came from a good place.
33:38I love the fact you said,
33:40keep it tight for 30 minutes.
33:41See, after about 30 minutes in the Germany game,
33:43I was contemplating leaving.
33:44I was like, oh, I don't know.
33:46At halftime, I generally went to another pub
33:47that didn't have the football on.
33:48As well, that Hungary game,
33:50talking about cigars out.
33:51I mean, I actually wanted to put cigars into my eyes.
33:53The football was that bad.
33:57Let's get serious.
33:58It's time to analyse the games that are coming up.
34:01On Tuesday next week, Scotland take on Denmark at Hampden.
34:06But first, tomorrow, we're playing Greece in Athens.
34:12Very simple.
34:13Win both games, go to the World Cup.
34:16Sean will preview the game against Greece first.
34:19Talk us through this one.
34:20I have been both excited and very worried
34:24about this game now for a few days.
34:27Bear in mind that the last game against Greece at Hampden,
34:303-1-1, it was maybe the kind of smashiest,
34:34grabbiest win of all time.
34:35I mean, if you were a Greek fan,
34:36you must have been absolutely sick at the end.
34:38Not that I cared.
34:39I joked.
34:40I was absolutely ecstatic.
34:41And I know there is a suggestion here
34:42that because Greece don't have anything to play for,
34:44because it's a dead rubber for them,
34:46then that makes life a bit easier for us.
34:49But that's not how football worked.
34:51We will still need to be considerably better
34:53than that night at Hampden to get anything from this.
34:55I'm actually more nervous because they don't have anything to play.
34:57Because we've got loads of young, creative players
35:00going into a situation where we're not playing with pressure
35:03and they already know that they're pretty handy
35:05against this Scottish team.
35:06With that freedom, that really, really panics me.
35:09I suppose there is a bit of precedence.
35:11We've already won in Greece earlier this year,
35:131-0 in the Nations League play-off game.
35:16I was at that game.
35:17I could only get a ticket for the home end.
35:19I managed to not celebrate when Scotland opened the scoring,
35:21but I let out a roar when Greece had a penalty
35:24overruled by VAR.
35:26What a weird thing to get caught from.
35:29Get him.
35:30The people around the moment we won were not very happy.
35:32But regardless, we do have a good track record there, I suppose.
35:35I suppose one of the big things,
35:37one of the key players who's not going to be fit enough
35:39for the game is Billy Gilmer.
35:40For my money, he's one of the first names on the team sheet.
35:43I think he's our best-sense midfielder,
35:44something that can dictate the tempo
35:46and, crucially, hold on to the ball
35:48because I don't think we're going to see a lot of it here.
35:50Yeah, and that's the worry that you get the wave
35:52and waves of an attack and lots of shots on goal.
35:54And that leads us to another issue.
35:56It's the fact that there's not a convincing goalkeeper,
36:00really, to be lining up in such a difficult doubleheader.
36:03Scott Bain's been recalled,
36:04and then you've got Craig Gordon
36:06and you've got Liam Kelly,
36:08two of which who aren't playing for Hearts or Rangers, respectively.
36:11Craig Gordon has rarely let us down over the last five decades
36:15and I would be fine if he started in this one.
36:18I think we're going to have to be quite defensive here
36:20and hopefully, if we've got Gannon Doak playing up front,
36:24we've got an out ball,
36:25someone that we can hit long,
36:26someone that can carry the ball forward
36:27and someone that can take us up the park.
36:28How are we calling this one then?
36:29Greece, Scotland?
36:30I think we will be fortunate again and sneak a 1-0 win.
36:34I think we'll get the draw needed
36:38to set up the winner-takes-all.
36:41Yes, that leads us very nicely on
36:43to Tuesday night's game against Denmark.
36:46Now, we're going to assume
36:48that Denmark will comfortably deal with Belarus.
36:51We're going to assume we take at least a point in Athens
36:54and that sets us up.
36:55Basically, it's a winner-take-all.
36:56Scotland versus Denmark under the lights at Hampden.
36:59This is going to be an absolute slobber knocker.
37:01If it gets to that point
37:03where it's winner-takes-all at Hampden,
37:05I would be more confident of a win in this one
37:07than maybe even the away game in Greece.
37:10I just think a Hampden that is packed to the rafters,
37:13the fact that we've taken it to the final game,
37:15I think it takes care of itself.
37:17Absolutely.
37:18And you just know in your heart,
37:20despite there's been some dodgy performances
37:22or whatever,
37:23there's no way the team's not going to turn up for that.
37:25You know, it's like a cup final at Hampden
37:28to get to the World Cup.
37:29It doesn't guarantee you're going to win,
37:30but it means that every player's going to be
37:32leaving 100% out there
37:33and that means you've got a great chance.
37:35And I think as well,
37:35I think the fans know exactly what's at stake for this one.
37:38I think maybe in the last couple of years,
37:40Hampden can be a wee bit flat a lot of the time.
37:42I think that you're just waiting for the players
37:44to do something.
37:45Likewise, the players maybe need that extra,
37:47that backing from the fans
37:49to get that extra percent out of them.
37:50That hasn't been there.
37:51I think right from the off,
37:52right from the off,
37:53the fans are going to be loud.
37:55It's going to be noisy.
37:56I don't think the Deans are going to like it.
37:57It's easy to put everything aside for a game like that.
38:00Any problems certain fans have got with Clarke
38:02or with style or with performance,
38:04if someone makes a bad touch,
38:05they'll be supportive of that
38:07because you know there's no room for it.
38:08In this hour and a half,
38:09we must come together
38:10and we can make something special happen.
38:13The only downside might be
38:14if Scotland do qualify for the World Cup on the night.
38:17So I'm going to the game,
38:18but I am also filming on the show next week
38:21and the chances of me having any voice
38:23is next to zero.
38:25Just having to communicate
38:25via the medium of charades
38:27for all of my points.
38:30We're talking this under the assumption
38:31that we have taken something from Greece.
38:35What if we don't take anything from Greece
38:36and basically it's a dead rubber game?
38:39I'm just saying like the worst case scenario.
38:41Sean's voice will be absolutely fine for that.
38:43Not all bad.
38:45I suppose we're forgetting though
38:47that we do have a playoff in our back pocket.
38:49So that's something we do still can get
38:51to the World Cup through the back door.
38:54We can do that
38:55and we've used the back door
38:56for the Nations League
38:57to get through our first tournament.
38:59But the problem with that
39:01is these things have been coming thick and fast
39:03and there'd be such a downturn
39:06in the emotion for the national team.
39:08There's already been a bit of issue
39:10in the way that there's been a connection
39:12over this campaign.
39:13So it worries me that if we don't do it there
39:15then it's picking yourself back up
39:16to do that in the playoff.
39:17It would be such a damp squib.
39:19If we go into Tuesday's game
39:20and there's nothing at stake.
39:22Not going to happen.
39:23We're going to get a competent 1-1 draw
39:26against Greece.
39:26I think the performance is going to surprise us
39:28and we're going to beat Denmark 2-0.
39:29That's a shoot.
39:30That's what I'm calling it.
39:31It's a straight shoot.
39:32Like nine points that we're going to get.
39:36I suppose I...
39:38The last time I gave a straight shoot
39:39didn't work out well
39:40but I genuinely mean it this time.
39:42I think it's time to hit you.
39:44Hey, but before we wrap up
39:46let's take on each other
39:48at a little game known as
39:49The Banker.
39:51It's me versus the corporate ministry.
39:53We are competing for
39:54the Eamon Brophy Lone Wolf Trophy.
39:58And after last week
39:59the lead table looks
40:00a little bit like this.
40:03I correctly predicted
40:04that East Kilbride
40:04would beat Sterling Albion
40:06meaning I have increased
40:08my lead at the top of the table
40:10very, very slightly.
40:12Now, this week's stipulation
40:13in honour of our soon-to-be
40:15defeated World Cup opponents
40:16Greece and Denmark.
40:18This week you can pick
40:19any club from the SPFL
40:21and the SWPL
40:22whose postcode starts
40:24with a G or a D.
40:26We'll start with you, Tony.
40:27What is your first pick?
40:29I'm going to go to the D postcode.
40:31Queen of the South
40:33to win away at Kelty Hearts.
40:36Oh, OK.
40:37OK.
40:37Queen of the South
40:38are in the play-off modes
40:39at a minute.
40:39Their form has been mixed.
40:40They've won three
40:41out of their last five
40:42but they've been draws
40:42and losses in there.
40:43But Kelty Hearts have had
40:44an absolutely horrible season.
40:45They're sitting second bottom.
40:47They haven't won at five.
40:48So this looks like
40:48a pretty obvious winner for me.
40:50But Kelty do have
40:51a decent record
40:52against Queen of the South.
40:53One of their bogey teams
40:54stop living in the past.
40:56It's all right.
40:57Listen, I'm just saying
40:57the scene.
40:58I'm just explaining
40:59why you're going
41:00to be wrong for this.
41:00OK.
41:01For my first pick
41:01I am going into the SWPL
41:03where Montrose
41:04are taking on Glasgow City.
41:06Glasgow City, of course,
41:07from the G postcode of,
41:09yes, Glasgow City
41:10at the top of the SWPL table.
41:12They're yet to taste defeat
41:14and they're just
41:15a better side than Montrose.
41:16And very often
41:17some big wins
41:17in that division.
41:18Yes, exactly.
41:19And I think this is going
41:20to be one of them.
41:20So three points
41:22for Glasgow City
41:22and one point to me.
41:24Sean McGuigan,
41:25what is your pick?
41:27I am going to go
41:28into League 2
41:28and I'm going to go
41:29for a team
41:30in a G postcode.
41:31I'm going to go
41:31for East Kilbride
41:32to win away
41:33at Stunrar.
41:34Now, last time
41:35I was on the banker
41:37I went for East Kilbride
41:38and they cost me a point.
41:40I hope that history
41:41doesn't repeat itself
41:42this time around
41:43because I'm going
41:44for them to win again.
41:45They are away to
41:46actually quite an
41:47in-form Stunrar.
41:48And I am backing
41:49the Blues.
41:50Oh, well now.
41:51So a bit of a grudge match
41:52for this one.
41:52Is this one of the first times
41:53this must have happened?
41:54I think so.
41:55You know, it's a bit
41:55of a grudge match
41:56between Sean and I
41:56and it's a bit of a grudge match
41:58between Stunrar and East Kilbride.
41:59It goes back to the time
42:00the team met each other
42:01in the League 2 playoffs
42:02in 2024.
42:03A bit of bad blood
42:04between the sides
42:05but I do think
42:06Stunrar have shown
42:07in recent weeks
42:08a lot of character.
42:09I think it's one defeat
42:10in nine
42:11across all competitions
42:12and recently
42:13three consecutive wins
42:14before the draw
42:16against Clyde.
42:17It's a deep postcode.
42:18I think Stunrar
42:19can cause a bit of damage here.
42:20I'm quite confident.
42:21Nil-nil.
42:22Everyone a loser.
42:23Well, if everyone's a loser
42:24I'm still a winner
42:25because that means
42:26I'm still that little bit
42:27further ahead
42:28at the top of the table.
42:30There you go.
42:30So that's good.
42:31So that's something exciting
42:32to look forward to
42:33over the weekend
42:34those games coming in
42:35but not as exciting
42:36as the Scotland games.
42:38Oh, mate.
42:38I'm very much looking forward
42:39to seeing you.
42:41I mean, we were meeting
42:41in the afternoon
42:43for a bit of lunch
42:43and then a day out
42:44to get ready
42:45for that Scotland game.
42:45You can stay in house
42:46and you're on the television.
42:47Oh, that's good.
42:49Lunch with Tony
42:50a pint-sized glass of beer
42:51in the pub
42:52Stenhouse-Muir
42:53on the television
42:54against East Fyfe
42:54and BBC Alba
42:55then the Scotland game
42:56the perfect Saturday.
42:57I'll join you after
42:59I'm going to go
42:59to Rafe Airdrie.
43:01Oh, of course.
43:02Paul Hanlon's
43:03Paul Hanlon's debut
43:03superintendent manager.
43:05OK, I'm having Lewis Stevenson.
43:06How many managers
43:07have they went through?
43:08Lewis Stevenson
43:09must have went through
43:1017 managers now.
43:12Just the ultimate jinx.
43:13Yeah, yeah.
43:14He turned up
43:14and read no worse.
43:15Everything was fine.
43:16Everybody's doing great.
43:16Gone.
43:17Next manager.
43:17Gone.
43:18Next manager.
43:18Gone.
43:18It's all happening
43:19in a second.
43:20It's the nicest guy
43:21on the entire planet.
43:22Just get his managers.
43:25It's the same.
43:25Take, take, take
43:26talk, talk, talk
43:27talk, talk a lot.
43:28One last way through chasing
43:30Is it going to be the same?
43:33Do you know you're not good?
43:35You used to say it
43:36every minute here
43:37I wasn't young
43:38I'm from a city
43:39I've had a sense
43:40where I'm amazing
43:41on a side
43:42And you know you can't
43:44just ignore
43:44I have some blood say
43:45You just got diagnosed
43:47I've had a sense
43:48You just got diagnosed
43:49I've had a sense
43:49You're not good
43:50You're not bad
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