Jonathan Wilson

Andy Beattie, the manager, resigns after the first game where they lose 1-0 to Austria, which actually is a good Austria side to get in the semi-finals.

And so the selection committee, there's not much selecting to be done when you've only got 11 outfield players.

They then lose 7-0 to Uruguay.

But I can just give you a quote from Tam Reid, who's the head of the selection committee.

This is before the first game against Austria.

Our forwards have been instructed to go all out for an early goal, knowing from experience that the Continentals don't like to have to fight back.

Special emphasis has been laid on the necessity of hard but always fair tackling.

This should knock some of the funny notions out of the heads of the Austrians.

So that's the level of research and insight that Scotland used to put into these.

I think, sorry, that directness, that candidness he has, I think partly it's because, precisely because he's German, he doesn't care.

He doesn't care as much.

He loves London.

He clearly has a really nice social life in London.

But he knows in five years, ten years, he's going to be back in Germany.

It's not like, you know, Graham Taylor, every time he goes into Tesco, the bloke in the cheese counter says, why didn't you take Lineker off?

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Yes, sort of, yeah.

So, yeah, I mean, that's another time.

Big narrative.