Rick Edwards

I mean, I know it's not hundreds of years ago, but in France, you used a phone box, you phoned home.

Yeah, I remember sending postcards.

So you didn't actually know.

It wasn't like Germany where you're actually speaking to people at home through your text message or whatever at the game.

There, you didn't actually have a feedback of the vibe at home.

It's only when you come home, you find out, oh, the schools were shut for the Brazil game.

They took telly at the school.

Yeah, read the papers.

Flag's doing well.

Yeah.

If someone had told you then that it would be 28 years until Scotland got to another World Cup, what would you have said, Ian?

because we obviously weren't qualifying for Euros either you know it was like until the Covid when you referred to it it was 22 years without a major tournament and you've got a chance every two years so we missed X World Cups but we missed the same number of Euros Yeah it's been tough but we're back now Back for good as they say Yeah Well don't get ahead of yourselves How do you reflect then on 1998 now Paul?

Yeah, I mean, I went with a good pal from Aberdeen and another mate from Edinburgh.

And yeah, it's just the memories.

We were actually, we met up at the weekend there and we're talking about it.

And it's just, you know, you can still picture everything.

And then they say something, you think, well, I'd forgotten about that.

And you say something.

And it's just the memories and the...

The France-Germany link was quite strong for me because I thought they were very similar in terms of volume of people, atmosphere.