John Spencer

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Superscoreboard · SCOTLAND'S WORLD CUP DREAMS HANGING BY A THREAD | THURSDAY 25TH JUNE · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

And if you can't keep the ball and keep it consistently with confidence...

you're going to struggle.

And that was my big concern about this team getting into this tournament.

pressure on these boys and you know a lot of the callers might watch and go well they're getting paid big money you know the lad there says that you know they've got Champions League winners we've got Conference League winners I don't care they're Scottish footballers they've done the nation proud getting us to there have they underperformed they'll be the first ones to put their hands up and say you know what I never played to my level I played in the Euro 96 and had an absolute shocker and believe me it stuck with me for a long long time one of my biggest disappointments in my career was

These boys will not be going on holiday.

If this tournament gets cut short, they'll not be going on holiday and thinking, oh, great, I'm turning up pre-season.

we know we can play at and we need to make sure that doesn't happen this time round and it has happened this time round is that where the disappointment comes for the Scotland fans it's a sort of repeated thing If that's the case Andrew then there's too many freezing on the big stage and it's hard to believe because when you look at the big stage that Andy Robertson's played in McGinn Shankland he's one of the top strikers in Scotland just got a big move to Rangers these boys are used to playing in high pressure games

but as I say to you you know you get into that that country is a hot country and it's coming June and July and August doesn't get any easier and if we do get a wee bit of the gods looking down as we go to Mexico believe me you're in for a terrible time down there as well because they're 7,000 metres feet above sea level with altitude and the games don't get easier

team just now i disagree with that i disagree with that i think we've got tremendous individual players that need to come together when they're on the big stage and perform who knows is it style of play is it you know coaching everybody's going to be able to point the finger at everybody because we're all great coaches sitting here in the chairs i don't think we've got a bad team i think we've proven that i didn't say but i said we've got another team i took

It's becoming almost like a mental blockage on the big stage.

I thought that was a strange one.

because they're chasing the ball and then we start to drop and drop and drop to the top of 18 yard box and if they had a half decent striker that night they would have probably equalised and would have got away with a 1-1 draw but we get out there with three points as I said to you I felt looking at the group at the start I thought it was a kind of group of death for us I can understand what Stevie's saying if you go to a tournament and you play three games

you win one you lose two you score one goal concede four you don't deserve to go through and I would say that not just for Scotland I'd say that for any team but the rules and the regulations of the tournament this year still gives us a chance to get through to the round of 32 If we did get through Stevie and results went our way would you not hold out much hope of there being a big performance in the next round then?

Remember, when you set up to have a go,

Do you know what the opposition's doing?

They're going to try and stop you having a go.

They're not just going to say, well, you know what, the opposition manager wants to come out and have a go, so we'll sit back, let them have 15 shots.

They're going to come out with their game plan to stop you from having a go and to try and dominate the ball and try and dominate the game.

I think that...

After the Haiti game, he was obviously very happy.

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