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00:01The greatest show on earth is about to begin.
00:07That is outrageous!
00:09And scores!
00:28Oh dear, oh dear!
00:35That's a hula!
00:40Is this what Scottish football is about?
00:43Delicious!
00:44Oh, what!
00:49Champions!
00:52This has been an absolute barnstormer!
01:00Hello and welcome to A View from the Terrace.
01:03The show that takes Scottish football on the adventure of a lifetime
01:06to the centre of the earth and back all within 45 minutes.
01:11My name is Craig Telfer and I will be your guide on your quest.
01:14And today I am joined by a man who is hated but rated,
01:18flouncy but bouncy and thinning but winning.
01:20It's Joel Sked.
01:22Less winning, more thinning.
01:24And we are also joined by someone who has been described online
01:27as sounding like a human saxophone.
01:29It's Amy Canavan.
01:31Pretty accurate.
01:32It's great to actually see you both.
01:33The first time in 2026 we have the opportunity to hang out.
01:37Pretty exciting stuff.
01:38More apprehensive because when this show's on,
01:43hearts tend to do badly and I don't need hearts to do badly
01:45over the next few weeks.
01:46I've been willing this show to come back more than ever.
01:49Enjoy the show.
01:55Right, let's get stuck into it.
01:56Let's get stuck into the winners and losers
01:58from the last seven days in Scottish football.
02:01And we're going to have to start with the losers
02:03and this is from the Scottish Cup quarter-final
02:06between Rangers and Celtic at Ibrox on Sunday.
02:09And the game was marred by the ugly scenes we saw at the end
02:13when fans from both sides spilled onto the pitch.
02:16And it feels as though it's come at a really bad time
02:19for fandom in Scottish football
02:21because there's a full stand of Celtic supporters at the match
02:24and further down the SPFL pyramid
02:26we've seen trials with alcohol back in the game
02:29and it feels just like this has set everything back.
02:32I think that's the biggest thing, isn't it?
02:33We felt that baby steps were finally being taken to football fans
02:37being treated like adults at long last
02:39and now we're being hampered again by this
02:41rather exhausting conversation that we need to be having.
02:44And it just feels that this moment will act as a case study
02:47for all those who want to, you know,
02:50strip us of all those great things.
02:51And it just feels that this is going to be used
02:53as that's the moment why.
02:56The scenes themselves were perhaps the most interesting aspect
02:58about that game, unsavoury as they were.
03:01But the fallout from it has been really frustrating
03:04and the fact that people have been bringing up the alcohol ban.
03:07Alcohol had nothing to do with that.
03:09It was just two sets of fans who hate each other.
03:11Then you've got the Ultras coming in for it
03:13and just everyone branding the Ultras as bad.
03:16Yes, the Ultras were involved, but so were a lot of other
03:18just normal fans.
03:19It feels like all the progress, all the positives
03:22about these different things just get put to one side
03:24and it sets us back.
03:26It's not just Rangers and Celtic supporters
03:28that are guilty for bad behaviour.
03:29We actually saw that 24 hours earlier outside Palmerston
03:33in the match between Queen of the South and Stenhousemuir.
03:35A brick was thrown through the Stenhousemuir supporters bus.
03:38Two people have been charged in relation to that
03:40and the supporters actually had to share the team bus back to FK5.
03:44And it's just a reminder for all the great stuff that fans can do
03:48and the power of Scottish football.
03:49There are just some people that just make an arse of it for everyone.
03:52But thankfully there was plenty of other good stuff that happened
03:54in Scottish football, starting with Saturday night's match
03:57between Dunfermline Athletic and Aberdeen
03:59in the Scottish Cup quarter-final.
04:01The best mascot in the business, he was back in action.
04:08I have never seen a sheep or a leash before.
04:11Yes.
04:11Certainly not out of Aberdeen.
04:13An inflatable sheep.
04:13An inflatable sheep as well, yeah.
04:15It's important to point out...
04:16Not a real sheep was harmed.
04:18No animals were harmed in the making of this stunt.
04:20This is of course Sammy the Tammy,
04:22the greatest mascot in Scottish football.
04:23He has been guilty for some incredible stunts in his time.
04:26He once sledged down the Norrie McCarthy stand
04:29and he got in a fight with a seagull.
04:31But this might be one of his most triumphant moments yet.
04:34And what a fantastic way to wind up the Aberdeen supporters.
04:37And I think if there was a perfect metaphor for that match,
04:40it was Aberdeen on a leash.
04:41I think this, if you ask Aberdeen fans,
04:43that was probably their highlight of the night.
04:45Just being cheered up by Sammy the Tammy
04:46before they had to witness what they did witness.
04:49As good as Dunfermline Athletic were,
04:51it's a reminder just how bad Aberdeen are at the moment.
04:54Completely schooled by a championship club as well.
04:56Yeah, and Peter Levin didn't pull any punches post-match.
04:59He called them atrocious, disgraceful,
05:01embarrassing, horrendous, unacceptable,
05:04and it's a side who are trending in the wrong direction.
05:08Yes, and that direction could be to the championship.
05:12They've obviously just been schooled by a championship side at the weekend.
05:16And admittedly not a great championship side.
05:19A mid-table championship side.
05:20And you just worry about this Aberdeen side.
05:23I don't worry about them.
05:23Aberdeen fans will be worried about them.
05:25But there is an absolute stench about them just from top to bottom.
05:28Joe, things could be looking up for Aberdeen.
05:31Earlier in the week it was announced that Steven Robinson
05:33has been appointed their new manager.
05:35He's come in from St Mirren.
05:37What's your thoughts on that?
05:38He ticks a lot of boxes when Lutz Farenstiel came in
05:42and he talked about the type of manager he wants.
05:44He kind of described Steven Robinson.
05:47He's done a really good job at Mullowell.
05:49Fantastic job at St Mirren.
05:51And I think he's deserved this move to Aberdeen.
05:53It's the timing for me.
05:55You could have just gone and get him.
05:57Ages ago.
05:59Waited months.
06:00Waited months.
06:01So you've waited months.
06:02You've looked elsewhere.
06:03And then you've realised that we're struggling here.
06:06And then you've just pivoted back to Steve Robinson
06:08who I think you could have just went out and appointed.
06:10Long guys in.
06:11You could have just got him up in a car from Piers.
06:13It feels like if this appointment had been made three months ago
06:16I think perhaps be a bit more positively.
06:18But I think given how poorly St Mirren have done
06:20I really don't think there's any margin for error for him to come in.
06:22And I think that with a lot of disgruntled fans
06:24I think he could do a good job of it.
06:26I do agree with a lot of stuff you're saying.
06:28I just think it's just perhaps three months too late.
06:30Let's have a laugh at Douglas Ross.
06:32The linesman who was running at the Falkirk Dundee United game
06:36on the Friday night.
06:37Fell on his backside.
06:38In this 25-26 campaign.
06:40Absolutely.
06:41And there you go.
06:43Right on cue.
06:44Assistant referee.
06:46It's not a great challenge by Caneste
06:48but he's absolutely wiped out Douglas Ross.
06:54Oh dear they appear to have a better angle.
07:01Yell a card for simulation.
07:06I think there would have been a lot of people watching that
07:09whether at the stadium or at home
07:11that cheered that like a last minute winner
07:12because there's two more risable professions
07:16than a politician and a referee
07:18and then you've got Douglas Ross on his backside.
07:20I think we're all the fan.
07:21There was a fan in the background
07:22who enjoyed the coming together
07:24but then he realised that Douglas Ross was down
07:26and he was out of his cheer.
07:27Nothing quite united the fan base like that.
07:29That game was also a reminder
07:31of just how heartwarming Scottish football can be
07:34because it was a brilliant post-match interview
07:35with Falkirk fullback Leon McCann.
07:37Yeah, I was watching the BBC coverage afterwards
07:39and they were talking about his excellent performance,
07:42the cross for the second goal, a brilliant cross
07:44and then Leon McCann dropped in
07:46that it has been the best week of his life
07:48because his son Brooks had heard his and his partner
07:51Morgan's voice for the very first time
07:53with a hearing implant.
07:54Hello.
07:57What's all that noise?
07:59Hello.
08:01Hi.
08:04Yes.
08:05It's so beautiful and it's...
08:06The cross is great but stuff the cross at this rate.
08:09This is a real magic moment
08:11and it's the way that he's dealt with it.
08:13He spoke about it before,
08:14being very open about it
08:15and using his platform in the right way
08:17and it was a proper
08:18bring a tear to a glass eye moment.
08:20It certainly was
08:21and on Sunday evening,
08:22St Mirren beat Partick Thistle 2-1
08:24to progress the semi-final
08:25and the draw for that semi-final
08:27was conducted by
08:28former Hibernian goalkeeper Conrad Logan.
08:30No, that's...
08:32Whoa!
08:32Former Hibernian goalkeeper Conrad Logan
08:34and Amy Canavan.
08:36I know it's what I prefer.
08:38Thanks.
08:38I think that was a compliment in there somewhere.
08:40Enjoy yourself.
08:41That was pretty cool.
08:41That was pretty cool, I must admit.
08:42Being involved in the semi-final draw
08:44for the Scottish Gas Men's Scottish Cup.
08:47I don't know how many times I did say that
08:48to try and make sure I got it right.
08:50But all I'm delighted about more so
08:52is that Conrad got the draw right
08:54because it delivered the tie that we all wanted.
08:57Dunfermline Athletic against Falkirk.
08:59A repeat.
09:00The 2009 Scottish Cup semi-final at Hampden.
09:03I cannot wait.
09:04I can't wait either.
09:05As soon as Celtic and Samaran were drawn,
09:07get them out of the way.
09:08A repeat of the League Cup final.
09:09Who cares?
09:09Get them out of the way.
09:11Falkirk versus Dunferland.
09:12This was the draw that everyone wanted.
09:13I actually punched the air with this.
09:15It's two teams who,
09:16they've got a really strong rivalry with one another.
09:19There's a lot of enmity,
09:20a lot of intimacy between the two sides.
09:22No one can really quite explain where it comes from.
09:24There's a lot of differing theories,
09:25but it's certainly two sides that aren't necessarily linked by geography
09:28and that's what perhaps makes it more fun.
09:31It's a great occasion for both fans.
09:32Delighted for both fans
09:33because they've been through a hell of a lot,
09:34but even more so for the powers
09:35because you've seen them on Saturday night at East End Park.
09:39What a ground that is.
09:39What a crowd they've got.
09:40The atmosphere.
09:41And they have had,
09:42the fans especially,
09:43had a miserable time over the last two decades.
09:45So this is a chance to go to Hampden against your rivals,
09:49potentially getting in the final.
09:50That's really exciting.
09:51That's enough about the Scottish Cup.
09:53Let's actually leave the Scottish Cup altogether.
09:55Let's leave these borders altogether
09:57and let's go down into England
09:58to talk about a Scottish fullback
10:00who is reminding everyone of his quality.
10:02This is Andy Robertson,
10:05the Scotland captain,
10:05who had a man of match performance in Liverpool's 3-1 win
10:08over Wolverhampton Wonders in the fifth round of the FA Cup.
10:11Scored an absolute rocket.
10:12It was a real thing of beauty.
10:14And it was a performance that we know Andy Robertson
10:17very much still has in his locker.
10:20I'm really glad for him
10:21that he is now coming in for a fair bit of praise on the back of it.
10:24I think the punditry team of Alan Shearer and Danny Murphy
10:27were really talking him up
10:29and I think really sharing the view that a lot of us have maybe felt
10:31that he's been sidelined a little bit unfairly this term.
10:34And hopefully our next slot maybe takes a little bit of note of that
10:36because we would all like to see Andy Robertson
10:38have a little bit of game time before lifting the World Cup.
10:40Now let's leave the United Kingdom altogether
10:42and head to Italy to check in on the progress
10:44of another Scotland superstar.
10:46Kieran Bowie in Fair Verona where we lay our scene.
10:49That's a bit of Shakespeare for you there.
10:51Scored his first goal for the club.
10:53Aye, very good, but the game was in Bologna.
10:55Doofus.
10:56I know more about Kieran Bowie than I do Shakespeare.
10:58This is the match-up we never knew we needed.
11:00Italian football with Gaelic commentary live on the BBC,
11:03free to air.
11:04What a time to be alive.
11:06Here's an opportunity.
11:07Barless Japanese votes.
11:08It's a good Kieran Bowie.
11:21It was a fantastic weekend for Kieran himself.
11:24It's a fifth appearance, his first goal,
11:26turned out to be the match-winner,
11:28ended a 12-game winless run for his side.
11:30Even though there are quite a few Scots there
11:32and we've kind of grown used to it,
11:33it's still cool to see someone,
11:36whether it was Kieran Bowie or Lewis Ferguson
11:38or Scott McTominay just scoring goals in Italy.
11:40Well, we've looked at two of the winners
11:42from the Scotland men's team.
11:43I think this is perhaps a good opportunity
11:44to talk about the women's team.
11:46They are top of their World Cup qualifying group
11:49after two very comfortable victories over Luxembourg.
11:52They're in pole position to get out of the group
11:55and I think this is the perfect opportunity
11:57to take a bit of a temperature check
11:58and look at where the team is right now.
12:01Amy Canavan, you are following the women's team
12:04all over the world.
12:05Could you give us a bit of a lie of the land?
12:07Two really handsome victories in the last week or so.
12:11A 5-0 win away to Luxembourg
12:13and then a 7-0 in the reverse back at Hampden.
12:15So, a great way to start off a really crucial
12:18World Cup qualifying campaign
12:19with all eyes on the tournament next summer.
12:22I got the feeling that under the previous regime,
12:25Pedro Martinez-Losa, that it wasn't quite aligned.
12:28Everyone wasn't quite moving in the same direction
12:31and it just wasn't as happy and as positive as it should have been
12:34and it is perhaps now.
12:35It still feels like a new era with Melissa Andrietta,
12:38even though she was appointed last April.
12:40She had two games at the tail end of the Nations League A campaign.
12:43You listen to the players, they have only known Mel for under a year
12:47and they are so complimentary about her already.
12:50It's really quite impressive and it's not just words.
12:52You can see it in action.
12:54Yeah.
12:54It's infectious.
12:54That's right.
12:55In fact, there was a video posted on the YouTube channel,
12:58it's called National Team YouTube channel,
12:59from October of the team take part in splatter painting.
13:02Really channelling their inner Jackson Pollock
13:04and just chucking paint at a canvas,
13:06but it looked like everyone was having a good laugh.
13:08I think it looks pretty fun.
13:10And I think it's really, the way you say chucking it,
13:13I think there was a little bit in that,
13:14the deeper meaning that they were getting rid of everything
13:16that had sort of gone before.
13:18That's what I took from it.
13:19Art, you know, everyone sees art differently.
13:23For this team to be more than the sum of the parts,
13:26rather than the lesser than the sum of the parts,
13:27which they have been, they need to be together,
13:29they need to have that feel good factor.
13:31And on top of that as well, it feels like it's a,
13:33maybe for someone like Caroline Weaver,
13:35who is our best player playing for Armageddon,
13:37Ballon, door nominee.
13:38This feels like it could be her last chance to get to World Cup.
13:40Yeah, that's it.
13:41She's 30 now, going to be 31 in June.
13:43She's got the captaincy.
13:45She's always felt it because of, you know,
13:46her stature in the game, the eyes naturally do turn to her.
13:49But she has now taken on the actual leadership qualities,
13:53where, you know, you had somebody like Rachel Corsett before her.
13:56Caroline's the first to admit it.
13:57Erin as well.
13:58When it's been their country's hour of need,
14:00they've maybe not performed the way that they know they can
14:02and not given as much.
14:04Now there really is no margin for error
14:06and there's no hiding place for these players.
14:08Erin's the vice-captain as well,
14:09and they're taking it in their stride.
14:11They want that responsibility.
14:12I wish they had the responsibility of explaining
14:14the qualification process right now,
14:16because it's really, really difficult.
14:17Basically, there are four teams in our group,
14:20Luxembourg, Israel, Belgium and ourselves,
14:22and the top three teams will progress to knockout stages
14:25against teams from the lower end of Nations League Group A
14:30and some of the better teams from Nations League Group C.
14:32So the World Cup qualifying campaign,
14:34it feels like part World Cup qualifying,
14:36part Nations League, part daft NFL sort of playoff system.
14:39Once you've done that, you get down to sort of like the final 16 teams
14:44get to play each other.
14:45We are unseeded, so we're obviously going to have a more difficult draw.
14:48And the seven of the eight best winners go through to the World Cup proper,
14:53and then the eighth winner goes into like an intercontinental playoff,
14:57I think if I described that right.
14:58Is that correct?
14:59I kind of lost myself halfway.
15:01Yeah, but I think you're on the right lines.
15:03To me, it seems like an absolute nonsense.
15:05I don't know if it just, it just feels like it's because it's a World Cup qualifier.
15:07It kind of devalues the fact that it's a World Cup qualifier rather than
15:11you just win your group and that's you in the World Cup.
15:13The fact that Scotland might have to play as many as 12 games
15:17to get to the World Cup in Brazil.
15:19It is convoluted, but what I would say is this is a qualification process
15:23that the girls are familiar with.
15:25This was the same sort of...
15:26It doesn't make it right, though.
15:27It doesn't make it right, but it's the system that they had to follow
15:29if they wanted to reach Euro 2025.
15:31We know how we're going to get there.
15:33Will we get there?
15:34Do you think we can qualify?
15:35At the moment, I'm not overly confident.
15:37I think it's early stages under the new management.
15:41I don't think, while the results against Luxembourg were brilliant
15:45and sets us up for the rest of the campaign,
15:47I don't think he can read too much into it.
15:49We've been stung in the past by getting very close
15:52and not getting over the line.
15:53At the moment, I think it's kind of wait and see.
15:55Joe, I'm a wee bit more optimistic.
15:57I think it's a tentative yes that Scotland can qualify for the World Cup.
16:00I think that it's the games next month against Belgium
16:03that are going to be the real barometer as to how we're going to get on.
16:06You know, middle to front, that is always where the strength is.
16:09And I think it's strengthened even more so now
16:11with somebody like Kathleen McGovern leading the line.
16:13That is what really does excite me.
16:15She's not even been an international for a year yet
16:17and she already has five goals in six games at international level.
16:19She's been electric for Hibbs as well.
16:21Incredible.
16:2249 goals in 54 games for Hibbs.
16:25Those numbers, they speak for themselves.
16:28It takes some pressure off Weir and Cuff Park.
16:31It actually gives them like a focal point and a target.
16:33It allows them to do what they do best, you know,
16:35because they are used to playing with the top players in the world
16:38at Real Madrid and at Chelsea.
16:39So, I've got no concerns about going forward.
16:42The going back is where, you know, the concerns do lie.
16:44Even against Luxembourg, there were a few hairy-scary moments
16:47that you do think, you know, a better team, Belgium, will capitalise on.
16:51Do I think they'll get to the World Cup?
16:53I am very much trying to work my way around that one.
16:55I think you've got to give them the confidence.
16:59They know themselves that this, for many, is the absolute last chance.
17:03They do a lot of talking.
17:04They're the best talkers in the world, actually.
17:07And now it's time to walk the walk.
17:09And I do get the sense that they're ready.
17:11It would be brilliant if we could qualify for the World Cup.
17:13The last time we were there was 2019.
17:15And I remember the match prior to us going over there
17:18was against Jamaica at Hampden.
17:20Nearly 20,000 people turned up for it.
17:22And it felt like that was a turning point for women's football in Scotland.
17:27The fact that we haven't been able to follow that.
17:29We missed out on qualification for the Euros.
17:30We missed out on qualification for the next World Cup.
17:32But it feels like momentum was lost.
17:35Momentum was lost, yeah.
17:36And opportunity was missed as well, I think it's fair to say.
17:39You need to get to these tournaments to have that prestige and that esteem.
17:42We've seen it with the men's team.
17:43You know, the fact that we qualified for back-to-back Euros.
17:45The fact that we're going to the World Cup.
17:47I think excitement in the men's team really is out of a fever pitch.
17:50If we can get to the World Cup with the women's side,
17:52I think we can reinvigorate that.
17:54And the World Cup's in Brazil.
17:56If you can't get interested and get motivated for a World Cup in Brazil,
17:59then we'll do it.
17:59That's all the reason you want.
18:00Because I want a trip to Brazil.
18:01Who wouldn't want a World Cup in Brazil?
18:03I think after explaining the qualification process,
18:06I think I'll deserve a trip to Brazil off the back of that.
18:12.
18:29Oh, my god.
18:34.
18:34Aw!
18:36.
18:36.
18:44My name's Chick Young. I'm a journalist, retired.
18:48I think I've conclaimed to be the brother, Walfred, of Duke LaComperson.
18:52I brought the Cuba photograph. I've got that.
18:54All right, brilliant.
18:55I got a new pair of football boots to go to the Cuba tour.
18:58They're still in the box. Didn't he play a game?
19:03My name is Jonathan Watson. I'm an actor,
19:05and I occasionally played on the Duke LaComperson left wing.
19:10Bertie Boats played for us once.
19:13Really?
19:13Yeah. Our cap was Tommy Burns, Cade Agleish, Rod Stewart.
19:18And I thought, what am I doing here?
19:20I'm not the one in this team.
19:22We all thought about checking it.
19:25Tony Roper, retired comedy actor and Duke LaComperson legend.
19:33We must have been in a selection sometime when we got some 200 Scottish calves between us.
19:41Exactly, yeah.
19:42I don't know of any other charity team worldwide that did what we did.
19:54Oh, very much not seeing you.
19:56Oh, shoot.
19:57It's all the same way.
19:59Surprise, you're still breathing.
20:00Still breathing.
20:01Lord Watson, how are you?
20:03How you are.
20:07There wasn't red, yeah.
20:09So who else is there?
20:10Charlie Miller, Jenny McCabe, Peter Martin.
20:16Ex-professional players love the camaraderie, the fun, the wind-ups of the dressing room.
20:23And they lose that when their career is over.
20:26Well, here was a chance to keep it going.
20:29I think the concept of Duke LaComperson was amazing.
20:35The history of Duke LaComperson follows thus.
20:39The first game, he got in touch with me and asked me, I guess because of my contacts,
20:43could I get ex-pros and people together?
20:46Because I came up with Pomperson.
20:48Oh, did you?
20:48Aye.
20:48Well, you always got to laugh with Pomperson.
20:52Pomperson.
20:52We got the team model.
20:55Oh, yes.
20:57Fatis Baldus.
20:58Fatis Baldus Illegitimus.
20:59Aye.
21:007,000 turned up.
21:02We decided to go a tour and it grew.
21:06Walter Smith played, Bobby Lennart, Danny McGrane.
21:09Got to get a ridiculous side of quality.
21:12Some of the best midfield player you've ever played with?
21:14My answer?
21:15No.
21:17Second best.
21:18Second best.
21:20Danny McGrane's other one was, you stop running about, you stop running about,
21:23I'm getting tired watching you.
21:31That's not a proper neglecting, but I was running about it.
21:35No, that was a proper dude defending.
21:36Everybody caught in half way line.
21:40Look at that.
21:41Look at that pass.
21:43Super.
21:44We're playing a very high line, are we now?
21:48We're actually defending in their half.
21:53We were invited to compete in an over-35s tournament in Berlin.
21:58We romped the tournament with two bus drivers when the drivers said,
22:03look, I'd love to get a game.
22:05So we put him on for the last 10 minutes of this game and he broke his ankle.
22:10And the other bus driver, we put him on, he broke his ankle.
22:14The bus, we came all the way back from Berlin with two drivers with a broken ankle each other.
22:22How many places we did with that, I'd never have been to, unless I'd been with that.
22:27We went to Canada and we played three games in a week.
22:30We were in Brazil, Hong Kong, South Africa, Croatia, Spain, Gibraltar.
22:37Amazing.
22:39Do you remember when we went up to Mull?
22:41Jim Baxter was like a god up there.
22:43A big crowd turned out to watch this game.
22:45And everybody's going, ah, it's Jim Baxter.
22:48We're about 10 seconds into the game, goes to sit in the ball, falls off the ball,
22:53strains something and he's stretchered off.
22:55LAUGHTER
23:01All the junior clubs that we played, they took it absolutely seriously.
23:06But we never lost them.
23:07The boys just used to up it in the second half.
23:11You see, when you'd stand there and watch that, I just feel available.
23:14I really miss it.
23:16I had envisaged that after we're long gone, you know, decades, 100 years from now,
23:22there would still be a Duke with a pumpers and I was a complete passenger.
23:26But I loved it. It was great.
23:28Johnny and I have been involved in the world of comedy for a long, long time.
23:32The comedy that was on our team was equal to anything we'd ever done.
23:36I know, it's great.
23:37Just players getting together and they were hysterical.
23:40It's still a wonder to me yet that I've got so many friends who I only ever saw as heroes.
23:47Just so outlandish. It was fabulous.
23:58On Sunday afternoon, Dundee will take on Dundee United at Dens Park.
24:03There is plenty at stake here, with both teams trying to put as much distance between themselves
24:08in the relegation play-off place as possible.
24:11And it is the must-watch match in Scotland this weekend
24:14because everybody knows that Dundee Derby is the best fixture in the country.
24:19It's a point of viewing, just because there is always so much fun to be had when these two sides
24:25meet.
24:25I think if you were to introduce someone to Scottish football,
24:27I think the Dundee-Darby would be the game.
24:29Hey, check this out.
24:30This is a great example of how much fun Scottish football can be.
24:33And I think what makes this unique, it's not just how much fun it is,
24:36it's the fact that Panadice and Dens Park are within touching distance of one another.
24:42And I think it's perhaps best summed up by a video clip from Danny Dyer's Real Football Factories
24:47from Bravo TV in 2006, where the close proximity of the grounds to one another really warps his little mind.
24:55So I've found me away to Tanadice Street, yeah, which is home, to Dundee United, there, yeah.
25:03Now, you ain't going to believe this.
25:06And there's Dundee.
25:09Now, that is, I've never seen anything like that before in my life.
25:12They're so close, it's ridiculous.
25:14I mean, I can't get my nut around it.
25:16I mean, it's amazing.
25:18Danny Dyer can't get his nut around it.
25:20What a perfect expression to sum up the fact that two stadiums are built quite close to one another.
25:25You know that they're very close to each other, you hear about it all the time,
25:28but then when you actually see it, you're still like, ah, that's really cool.
25:31But Danny Dyer's speaking that, like, they've maybe just, just been built there.
25:34Like, it's sheer bewilderment.
25:36It's the way he goes to the camera, like, you're never going to believe it,
25:38and makes the camera be able to just turn on the spot.
25:41Like, that's why you're there.
25:42It's like the double-check, like, are you actually seeing me something?
25:45Dines Park.
25:45And because there is such a close proximity between the teams,
25:49it makes that extra special when you get one-up your opponents.
25:53And I think the best example we've seen that in recent times is, of course,
25:57the Doon Derby of May 2016,
25:59where Dundee relegated United at Dines Park,
26:03courtesy of Craig Whiten's 90th-minute winner.
26:07What makes this even more special for Dundee is,
26:10this is essentially their cup win because they've been so unsuccessful for so long,
26:16that this was, they have, Dundee fans of a certain generation
26:20have witnessed Dundee United winning the league at Dines Park.
26:24Dundee United winning a trophy by beating Dundee at Dines Park.
26:28So Dundee United have had a lot of success at Dundee.
26:30This is like, this was like, this was a revenge almost.
26:33The satisfaction that Dundee fans must have had at this,
26:36where you have humiliated your opponents in your own back garden,
26:39grown men reduced to tears,
26:41solemnly holding their flags above their head.
26:44What a feeling, absolutely brilliant.
26:45And I think the noise at Dines Park,
26:47that must have registered on the Richter scale,
26:50just the excitement and the noise.
26:51And of course, we have this fantastic image of a coffin
26:53being carried down the street.
26:55Yes, the coffin.
26:56Because the coffin is something you usually kind of see
26:58in like South American football.
27:00And the fact that there's bits blurred out of the coffin
27:03just makes me think, what is written on there that can't be shown?
27:07So, yeah, very funny.
27:08The closest that I think Dundee United have had to avenging this
27:12came at the start of the 2024-25 season,
27:14where they played Dundee on the opening day of the season.
27:18It was their flag day,
27:19and the Dundee players had to give a guard of honour
27:21as the United players, the championship champions,
27:24came onto the park to get their flag unveiled.
27:26As a fan, how bad would it feel
27:28to have to clap your rivals onto the pitch?
27:32Mortifying.
27:33I'm not doing that.
27:34I would either turn up to boo or just not go for the start of the game.
27:38Just go home.
27:39It's only up the road.
27:40No, that actually was a great game.
27:41That was the first derby.
27:43And in a couple of years, because of that,
27:45ships passing in the night sort of thing,
27:46Dundee coming up, United going down.
27:48But the moment that I actually remember,
27:50some brilliant last-ditch defending from Lyle Cameron,
27:53who then just goes like pure Sunday pub league,
27:56because there's a wee mic in the net,
27:57and he just goes,
27:58why is no-one back?
28:02Why is no-one back?
28:05The press of the derby didn't get to Lyle Cameron,
28:08but it has got to some people in the past,
28:10and I think it's really bad for goalkeepers, this,
28:14particularly goalkeepers who are making their day news.
28:17And there's goalkeepers for either side,
28:18both Dundee and Dundee United,
28:19who have had absolute nightmares in this competition.
28:22Arvid Schenck.
28:24Arvid Schenck, yes, Joel.
28:25Remind us who Arvid Schenck is.
28:27He was the German goalkeeper
28:29who was brought in on a free transfer,
28:31and he was thrusted into a derby at Tanadice
28:36on New Year's Day.
28:38Went on to concede six goals,
28:39United winning 6-2,
28:41Gary McKay-Steven, Stuart Armstrong,
28:42Gary Otrecht, you were all playing.
28:44It was a good Dundee United team.
28:45Good Dundee United team.
28:46Wasn't that good, was he?
28:48I mean, he was unlucky with some of them.
28:50A couple of them took deflections on their way into the net,
28:52but I think the fifth and sixth goals especially,
28:54kind of, he didn't look particularly clever there.
28:56We never saw from Schenck again,
28:57because that was the only time he played for Dundee.
28:59He was let go at the club at the end of the season,
29:02and then he went to play lower league football in Germany,
29:05and then subsequently retired.
29:06One thing that Schenck can look back on
29:08is that the fixture swallowed up goalkeepers
29:10with a better pedigree.
29:11Oh, yeah, perhaps the greatest example of that was actually just 12 months later.
29:15IG Kawashima, the Japanese international,
29:17he had 70-odd caps for Japan when he pitched up in Tanadice.
29:21He is thrust into a Dundee derby,
29:24and basically very early doors,
29:26he comes to punch, whiffs it,
29:27Kane Hemming scores,
29:28Dundee United lose that match 2-1,
29:30and that was then on the trajectory towards relegation,
29:33which we've already discussed.
29:35But the derby can do funny things to people,
29:38and while it is generally played in good spirits,
29:40given the proximity with friends, family and neighbours and so on,
29:43there are some people who can lose the run of themselves.
29:45A great example from that is from 2022,
29:48when Charlie Mulgrew bit back at Mark McGee
29:51after he was accused of fluking his free kick into the net in a 2-2 draw.
29:56I was speaking to Mark McGee,
29:58he said your goal was luck, he felt it was a cross.
30:00Did he, aye?
30:02Eh, raging at he?
30:04LAUGHTER
30:05Fuming.
30:07That sounds better, that.
30:09It's one of my favourite Scottish football clips, actually,
30:11and it is recycled all the time,
30:13and for very good reason.
30:14It's just magic.
30:16And they worked together, didn't they, Mark McGee and Charlie Mulgrew?
30:18They were at Aberdeen together.
30:19That's right, yeah.
30:20So there's a little, there's another little dig in there as well.
30:23But it's great just the way that when Kenny McIntyre,
30:26the BBC sports journalist, is interviewing him,
30:28talking about that McGee says you didn't mean your free kick,
30:31sounds bitter, that.
30:33Raging is in the end.
30:34The fact that that's now become a meme,
30:35that, you know, people don't actually know the original context
30:38of that picture, Charlie Mulgrew going raging.
30:40I do think it comes back to the Dundee Derby aspect of it just being fun
30:44and, like, light-hearted and not overly, like, people are not getting too angry,
30:49like, guys are too angry about it.
30:50It's just, yeah, it's just fun.
30:52It's a great free kick.
30:53Yeah.
30:54But it's not the best goal we've seen in a Dundee Derby.
30:56If you had to pick Juanjo, what do you think has been the absolute,
30:59the zenith of quality goals in this fixture?
31:02For me, it has to be Georgie Nimsadze.
31:03And let me...
31:04What a name.
31:05What a name.
31:05What a name.
31:06But let me paint the picture because some of the names I'm about to say,
31:09Barry Smith starts the attack.
31:11He passes to Javier Terrell.
31:12Javier Terrell finds Claudio Canidia.
31:15And then Claudio Canidia plays not the greatest pass into the path of Georgie Nimsadze
31:20who has to kind of get out from under his feet.
31:22But when he does, oh, my word, scoop, loft, dink, chip, whatever you want to call it,
31:27he just puts the ball over the key keeper and at the back of the net is delicious.
31:31And it's just the combination of just it being an aesthetically pleasing goal,
31:36but the names are involved.
31:37That's a bizarre time in the history of Dundee, the fact that Claudio Canidia...
31:41Claudio Canidia was playing in Dundee.
31:43But if there was one moment that sums up the Dundee derby,
31:48if you had to pick one moment from the annals of history, what would you go for?
31:52It's actually a really recent moment, and it has to be Simon Murray scoring at Tanadice
31:56and then turning into Emmanuel Adebayor to celebrate in front of the United fans at Tanadice,
32:02running the full length of the pitch.
32:03And he turns into every single one of us who dreamed of scoring a derby goal
32:08against our rivals as a kid.
32:09He is lapping up the moment, isn't he?
32:11He is channeling his inner child.
32:13You kind of buy that sort of stuff, and he milked the moment.
32:16The BBC cameras that capture it are fantastic.
32:18There's even better, there's someone filming it in the ground.
32:21And they get all the limbs, they get all everyone jumping about, they get the noise.
32:25But they capture Simon Murray running the full length of Tanadice
32:30to slide on his knees in front of the Jerry Kerr stand.
32:32It's an absolutely fantastic moment.
32:33I was in the Jerry Kerr stand for that match.
32:36I have been to this fixture once, and for that match, Dundee United 2, Dundee 4, perfect fixture to go
32:42to.
32:42It was noisy.
32:43It was colourful.
32:44It was something I have never experienced at the football before.
32:47And I'd say it's perhaps one of the best games of football I have ever been to in my life.
32:52And I'm hoping for more of the same on Sunday.
32:56Now, the Dundee Derby isn't the only big game taking place in Scottish football this weekend.
33:00There is plenty to look forward to elsewhere.
33:03There are games that everyone is talking about.
33:06There are games that everyone should be talking about.
33:08And there are games where you can just get away from it all, have a superb day out, and enjoy
33:12the football.
33:13Come to yourself first, Joel.
33:14What is the game everyone is talking about?
33:16Motherwell going to Celtic Park on Saturday.
33:19Now, it's not as big a game as it could have been.
33:22Motherwell lost to Dundee at the weekend.
33:24Just when you thought if they'd won that, they'd go to Celtic Park and they could really put themselves in
33:28the title conversation.
33:30However, it's still a big game because Celtic come in off the back of defeating Rangers on penalties,
33:36despite not having a shot on target all game across 120 minutes.
33:40But Motherwell is still there.
33:42They're very much in the conversation to finish above Celtic and Rangers.
33:45And the way that Motherwell have been playing, you do fancy them going to Celtic and making it very difficult
33:50for Celtic.
33:51There's a slight bit of me that thinks this is going to suit Motherwell again even more
33:54because it was almost that they were getting talked to as the fourth horse in this race.
33:59Now that they're no longer involved in the conversation, maybe for a week, it suits them again.
34:03And they can just kind of be the disruptors because they're still having one hell of a season.
34:07And I think you're right that they are maybe not going to win it,
34:10but they are definitely going to have a huge say in where the final destination of it is.
34:14They are. And my view is that their part in this title race will decide how many points Hearts win
34:18the league by.
34:19But it's a massive game for Celtic because all the pressure is on Celtic.
34:24Because they need to keep winning to have any chance of winning the league.
34:27And it's also an opportunity for them to win before Hearts play.
34:30At eight o'clock on a Saturday night away at Kilmarnock,
34:33that they can put a wee bit of pressure and go within two points of Hearts.
34:36Maybe it's a slight time, a psychological shift on Hearts,
34:41but I actually don't really buy into that at all.
34:43Ah, mentality monsters.
34:45Any scope prediction from you?
34:48Oh, Celtic 3-1.
34:50Ooh.
34:501-1.
34:51Fair play.
34:52Now, Amy Canavan, what is the game that everyone should be talking about?
34:55I think we should be talking about another derby involving Dunfermline Athletic.
34:59We've already discussed their Falkirk derby or Falkirk rivalry.
35:02The real Fife derby this time, though.
35:05Dunfermline Athletic against Wraith Rovers.
35:07Yeah, this is going to be a really interesting contest.
35:09We've got Dunfermline Athletic who have come into this contest three wins on the bounce
35:13against the Wraith Rovers team who have kind of flatlining
35:16and could actually be sucked into the nonsense at the bottom of the table.
35:19I think they didn't even play during the week, and I think that was a massive result during
35:23the week for Queen's Park defeating Air United.
35:25Yeah.
35:26Queen's Park are now above Wraith Rovers.
35:27I think there's always been that three, four teams below Wraith Rovers.
35:31That pack is getting smaller and smaller.
35:33There's fewer teams.
35:35Airdrie are on the up.
35:36Ross County are at least a little bit more on the up than they were initially where they
35:40were very, very, very down.
35:41Greenham Horton, OK, they're probably level with Wraith Rovers, but my goodness, Wraith
35:46Rovers, they cannot stop conceding.
35:48They cannot score goals.
35:49It's a really, really bad mix.
35:51They lost to Dunfermline in Kirkcaldy for the first time in nine years, the last time now.
35:56It just seems that everything has fallen in Dunfermline's favour right now.
35:59I still don't think they are as great as maybe the chat has been after the Aberdeen
36:04win, but I just think this could be like a real nail in the coffin for Dukie and the
36:08side.
36:08The big sticky thing, though, for Dunfermline Athletic is, after getting that huge result
36:12against Aberdeen the previous week, it does feel a wee bit after the Lord Mayor's show.
36:16Do you think they might struggle in this one, given the fact they put so much into that
36:19match seven days ago?
36:20They're going to get up for the front.
36:21Yeah, I thought this would be the perfect fixture, because maybe if they were like a way to
36:25Airdrie or like Hope McLean-Rick Morton, then maybe that's the case, but it's a five derby
36:29and they'll be riding this momentum, this confidence going into it.
36:33And if I was Rafe Rovers, I'd be like, oh, I'm a wee bit worried about this fixture, because
36:37the Championship at the moment is mental.
36:39And it could be anyone that gets dragged in and gets relegated.
36:42And the way Rafe Rovers are trained in, it's not in a good direction.
36:45We talk about the Championship every single season and how tight it is.
36:48I think because what's going on in the Premiership, nobody's really given us black eyes
36:52to the Championship.
36:53Score prediction from you, Joel?
36:543-1.
36:56Parcel.
36:56Ooh.
36:573-0.
36:58Parcel.
36:58Fair play to you.
36:59Joel, you have given us the game that everyone's talking about.
37:02Amy, you have given us the game everyone should be talking about.
37:05But I, I'm one of you.
37:06I am a fan.
37:07And I am going to give you the best away day in the country.
37:10It's at Gala Bank, where Anne and Athletic are taking on Edinburgh City.
37:13Now, there is a lot at stake in this match.
37:16However, it's not so much about the game of football.
37:18It's all about the experience of going to, for my money, the best away day in Scotland.
37:23I've been once.
37:24Very, very much enjoyed it.
37:26Mm-hm.
37:26It was a great place, getting the train down,
37:29and then you've obviously got the social club at the ground.
37:31Yeah.
37:31I do remember having a walkthrough of someone's game of five of sides
37:33to get around to the, like, the away end.
37:36But I don't know if that's been, that's been changed now.
37:38Joel, putting your stroll issues to one side, listen, Anne and Athletic's a perfect away day.
37:42You're touching it there.
37:43You can get a train from Glasgow down to Annan.
37:45It takes about 90 minutes.
37:46And as soon as you get off the train,
37:48you're on a very short walking distance to the social club at the ground there.
37:51I think what makes Annan so good is you get such a warm welcome there.
37:55I think this is perhaps for clubs that are a bit more remote from the central belt.
37:58You think of the likes of Peter Hedge, Srinrard, Elgin, Annan.
38:01I think they maybe have to up their game a little bit
38:04to encourage people to go down and see them,
38:05and Annan do that perfectly.
38:07It's a perfect lower league grid in terms of the viewing points,
38:12and just how everything's set up.
38:13Yeah, listen, you finish your pint at 2.59.
38:16You can be in for kickoff for three o'clock.
38:18It's pretty much like a step into the ground.
38:20And on top of that, you've touched on, you've got the cover terracing one end,
38:23a nice little grandstand that runs along the ground.
38:25And for me, my favourite part of the whole ground,
38:27the uncover terracing at the far end.
38:29I've been lucky enough to see my team score some absolutely amazing goals.
38:32They've had some fantastic moments, watched the game.
38:35It's going to be a really good game of football between two teams.
38:37I've had some pretty interesting contests with one another this season.
38:40And then at full time, you basically do the trip in reverse,
38:42back to the social club, back in the train.
38:44So we'd 100% recommend checking out Annan Athletic,
38:48and 100% checking out Gala Bank.
38:50I think that will do us.
38:52But before we head off, I would like to ask the two of you
38:55to take me on at a game known as The Banker.
38:59Yes, it's a very simple concept, but if you don't know how it works,
39:03I'll explain the rules to you one more time.
39:05It's me versus the Poddington Peas.
39:07Every week, we guess the outcome of Scottish football matches,
39:11and we get points for every correct prediction we make.
39:14This week, just like every other week,
39:16we are gunning for the Eamonn Brophy Lone Roll Trophy.
39:20Wow, wow, wow.
39:23And after last week, the league table looks a little bit like this.
39:27Sean McGowan correctly predicted that Alloa Athletic would beat Kelty Harters,
39:31but thanks to victories for East Kilbride and Edinburgh City,
39:34I have further increased my lead at the top of the table.
39:38It is now 12 points to eight.
39:41And this week's stipulation is,
39:44I'm blue, dabba-dee, dabba-da.
39:46Hmm.
39:47You can only pick a team whose predominant home colour is blue.
39:51Why? I don't know, but that's what it says in the card,
39:53so that's what we're going to have to go for.
39:55Amy Canavan, give us your pick there.
39:57I will go into League One,
39:59and I will go Inverness, Cali, Thistle to beat Cove Rangers.
40:03Makes a lot of sense.
40:05Shows you're working.
40:06Top of the table.
40:07Going for the league title.
40:09Haven't conceded the goal to Cove Rangers this season.
40:12Three points.
40:13For Inverness.
40:15And a point for us.
40:17We could do the three points.
40:18It does make sense.
40:19I mean, Escaldo and Thistle,
40:20really good win against Montrose last week.
40:22But Cove Rangers did beat Peterhead.
40:24Does it bother me?
40:25For my first pick,
40:26I am going into the Scottish Premiership.
40:28I am going to Patoggi,
40:29where Aberdeen are taking on the navy blue of Falkirk.
40:32And I am backing the Bairns for this one.
40:35It's very simple.
40:36You've got two clubs trending in very different directions.
40:38You've got Aberdeen,
40:39who are really looking over their shoulders at the moment.
40:42Not playing well at all.
40:43And you've got Falkirk,
40:44who could be playing European football next season.
40:46They have been the surprise package of the Premiership this campaign.
40:49Maybe even to a greater extent than Motherwell in some aspects.
40:52But they've won at Patoggi last time.
40:54They're going to do it again here.
40:55Straightforward win for Falkirk.
40:57One more point coming my way.
40:59Joan, what's your pick?
41:01I am relatively confident that St.
41:03Johnson will defeat Ross County in Scottish Championship.
41:06St. Johnson are going for the championship title.
41:10Ross County have been better,
41:12but they're still inconsistent.
41:14They've been better than they were before.
41:16It wasn't hard.
41:17But they're still a wee bit inconsistent.
41:19And it's getting to that stage of the season
41:21where St. Johnson maybe haven't been perfect,
41:23but to be champions you need to win games.
41:25Especially games like this,
41:27where you're playing a team in a relegation battle.
41:30That could be said for 75% off the championship this season.
41:34So, yes, St. Johnson.
41:35Yeah.
41:36Arrow win.
41:36I think the games between the two have been tight this season,
41:39but I think I would fancy St. Johnson.
41:41I mean, Ross County got the two red cards
41:43against Arbroath at the weekend,
41:44so a couple of suspensions in that match as well.
41:46So, yeah, you'd probably have to fancy St. Johnson.
41:49Very sensible picks from you both.
41:51I'm going to make another sensible pick.
41:52I am going to Paisley on Sunday
41:54where St. Mirren are taking on the light blue of Rangers,
41:57and I am backing Rangers for this one.
42:00I don't think you keep making faces.
42:02Yeah.
42:03You keep putting doubt in my mind.
42:04I don't like it.
42:05But I think that Rangers have got a lot to play for.
42:07They are gunning for the league title at the moment,
42:10whereas St. Mirren, not in particularly good form at the moment,
42:13and I don't know if that managerial turmoil
42:15they're going through at the moment will affect their performance.
42:17So, yeah, I'm quite confident that Danny Rowell's boys
42:20are going to do the business here.
42:21Three points for Rangers and a point for me,
42:24and that's just me inching one step closer
42:26towards the Eamon Brophy Lone Wolf Trophy.
42:29I feel like this is the week that we close within two points of you.
42:32Ha-ha!
42:32Just like House Ertico close within two of hearts.
42:35Have a word for yourself.
42:36Ha-ha-ha!
42:38Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.
42:40Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.
42:40Tick, tick, tick, tick.
42:41One last night.
42:42It's for all, Jason.
42:44Is it going to be the same?
42:46Do you know that I'm mad?
42:48It used to say it every day.
42:50I was a guy I saw my 2070s.
42:52I had a guy I saw my guy.
42:54He made me on a song.
42:55And he never counted.
42:56He came to my house and now I say.
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