George Hamilton
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741 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 31 Jul
George Hamilton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But I also think there's a steeliness about Scotland.
You look at players like Andy Robertson, you look at John McGinn, the players who've done it, I don't think they're going to blow it to that extent this time.
They're hardly going to win it, but I don't think they're going to blow it.
I don't think so.
I beg your pardon.
Yes, that strikes me as correct, actually.
But it meant that I got to do Northern Ireland at the World Cup because in the second group stage they were playing Austria and then France, I think it was, put them out.
But
My memory, we were talking about Scotland.
The fans seemed to have got their heads around the fact that there was potentially another glorious failure coming up because their song, the fan song at the time was, I'm taking my lager to my laga.
because they were based in the south of Spain.
And I was assigned, working with Radio 2 BBC at the time, I was assigned to Scotland for the first group stage.
And there's a nice story about that, if I may digress, because the deal was that...
You stayed with your team until they got knocked out and then you went home.
So I was given Scotland to cover and my colleague Alan Green, who was only recently in Radio 2 Sport from Belfast, he was given Northern Ireland.
But I was the guy in London.
He was the guy from Manchester.
I was in head office.
So when it came to the bit and Scotland got knocked out, I was assuming I'd go home.
And my wife was staying at Alan Green's house with his wife.
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