Rick Edwards

That one-all draw, although a little bit disappointing because we probably could have won it.

I think the feeling was that you would go on and then beat Morocco and you just needed Brazil to get a result against Norway and then you're out of the group.

And I think there was genuine optimism that was going to happen.

you know go and get the job done against Morocco in those days it wasn't quite the African Cup of Nations so I think we kind of just thought Morocco we're in here I think underestimated them and had a player sent off so I think there was the Scottish FA were handing out leaflets weren't they of saying this is how you get to Marseille for the first knockout game yeah they were giving you I remember getting handed this thing this is how you get in touch now we were due to fly back the next day so you were kind of thinking

what are you going to do here?

And we're handing out this how to contact for the tickets for the Saturday in Marseille if we go through.

And the goals were terrible, Colin Henry, Jim Leighton.

Normally guys were 100% reliable.

They just didn't have good nights.

Watching that Morocco game, which obviously was pretty dire from Scotland's point of view, did you have a sense, as you mentioned earlier on,

ah, this might be the end of a bit of a good run for Scottish football on the international scene.

Because we did kind of go from that to the kind of Bertie Vokes where we seemed to give everyone a cap because there wasn't that much around, which backs up what you've just said, that we had that era of anybody was getting a cap.

We almost got a game, didn't we?

We didn't think it would be 28 years.

What was the atmosphere like when you got back home?

Was everyone pretty glum?

See you in 28 years.

It's so different back then, because you didn't know what was going on at home.

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.