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Chapter 1: What were the highlights of Scotland's 4-0 win over Bolivia?
0141 951 1025 It's time to talk football It's Clyde One Super Scoreboard
Good evening and welcome to Clyde One Super Scoreboard. It's officially World Cup week with Scotland back on the biggest stage. Steve Clark's side ended their preparations with a 4-0 win over Bolivia on Saturday night and still no official confirmation from Celtic with Martin O'Neill set to take permanent charge next season. I'm Andrew McLean. Joining me in the studio is Roger Hanna.
Well, Andrew, it's only five more sleeps for you and I. Six sleeps for Hugh Keevans because he'll need 40 winks in the chair before that 2am kick-off on Saturday night. He's not the only one. It's beginning to feel real. Scotland were fantastic on Saturday night against Bolivia and New Jersey. Four goals in the first half. Four goals the previous week against Curacao.
We couldn't be in any better nick to take on Haiti and Boston on Saturday night.
the World Cup's ours to lose a wee bit of drama along the way as well I see that Steve Clarke has been branded unprofessional by the Norway manager for cancelling a friendly and not going through the proper channels he felt the SFA have hit back what would it be if it wasn't a bit of drama attached to something Scottish football related the Norway manager can dry his eyes
Who on earth wants a stupid 60-minute bounce game in a field in Carolina four or five days before the World Cup?
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Chapter 2: How are fans preparing for Scotland's World Cup match against Haiti?
The Norway manager would have had something to greet about had Grant Hanley smashed into Erling Haaland and put him out the World Cup five days before. And this is the same Norway manager who let his players dress up as Vikings and sit on a beach next to a longboat. So I'll take Steve Clarke's preparations all day long ahead of the Norway manager's preparations.
get over it on the domestic football front there was the news late last week that Martin O'Neill has agreed an initial one year deal to be permanent manager of Celtic I think some people expected that there would be an announcement at some point over the weekend but still no official club confirmation yet well listen some people don't clearly watch the way Celtic go about their business Martin O'Neill will be the Celtic manager next season
you sometimes Celtic move to their own beat not necessarily at the pace that others would expect them to operate at it will be announced to the London Stock Exchange I would suspect one day this week
what day it is I'm not too sure 0141 951 1025 it is official it is the week that Scotland are back in the World Cup so how are you feeling about it 0141 951 1025 maybe you want to reflect on that friendly win against Bolivia what did you like what has given you confidence going into that opener against Haiti this weekend who should play who shouldn't play
and maybe you're heading out there maybe you want to give us your travel stories we'll be looking forward to hearing those across the week 01419511025 on the phones let's start with Ian who is a Rangers fan in Poland according to my screen Ian how are you?
Hi, Roger. Hi, Andy.
How are you doing? Good, thank you.
Thanks for having me on. Yeah, I'm phoning, actually. My first point is that I wanted to praise Steve Clarke. I mean, obviously, they had a fantastic win against Bolivia.
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Chapter 3: What controversies surround Steve Clarke's World Cup preparations?
I wasn't even expecting that first half sort of blew me away. It was incredible. But I wanted to praise him in particular for being quite brave in the selection of putting Gannon Doak on from the start ahead of a Finlay Curtis who's been fantastic and is in really good form.
I had a feeling that Finlay Curtis might start the match and Ganon Doak might come on as an impact sub but he went with Ganon Doak in spite of form not being great but he completely blew me away. He was fantastic so I wanted to know what you guys think about that and also
We'll take that point Ian and I'll let you come back in with a second one.
If it is the final warm-up friendly before a World Cup and you are someone like Ben Ganondoke who is a player that is exciting and he gets bums off his seats and you put in a performance like he did, there's probably not much more he could have done to try and at least convince Steve Clarke that he's the man to cause Haiti problems at the weekend.
I think it's great mind games by Steve Clarke, Ian's quite right, Finlay Curtis did well against Katsurisau, scored the equaliser, Steve Clarke told the media I think Thursday or Friday or last week he was maybe leaning towards starting Finlay Curtis ahead of Ben Ganondoke and then shoves Ben Ganondoke out against Bolivia on Saturday night to say on you go then
and I thought Ganon Doak was terrific and I also looked we're going beyond hating out to Morocco but I watched a bit of Morocco and Norway last night and Norway put on Oscar Bob Fulham in the second half and he gave the Moroccan left back a real tough time and I just kept thinking I wonder what Ben Ganon Doak can do to you you know in the second game so Ganon Doak's taking his chance he will start but
Curtis are billing a lot of the other guys there'll be good players on that Scotland bench that can't get into the team there was a time not that long ago where you would look at the Scotland squad and think that in the wide areas I mean we didn't play without and out wingers for quite a lot of Steve Clarke's reign but maybe part of that was because there was a bit of a dearth of wingers and guys that could you know square up their fullbacks and take them on and really cause problems
not a bad issue for Steve Clarke to have if he's choosing between whether Ben Garandoke and Finlay Curtis play this weekend or against Morocco or against Brazil I go back to his first game I think Cyprus at Hampden in 2019 and he started with James Forrest and Ryan Fraser and you thought yeah yeah he's got a couple of wingers there and just the way the squad evolved and the way the team evolved going to the back three so he could get Robertson and Tierney in was a sort of death nail for the Scotland wingers he didn't have any width in the team but when he's gone back to a back four he's
he's brought Widd Thin sometimes it's Gannon Doak recently it's been Curtis I tend to think it'll be Gannon Doak against Haiti at the weekend I think John McGinn will come back in I think he will go this game with the two strikers and it might be to the detriment of Ryan Christie he might just be the unlucky one who drops out to accommodate McGinn back in the team What was your next point you wanted to make Ian?
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Martin O'Neill's expected appointment at Celtic?
Actually, I wanted to compare it to the second half because it happens in friendlies quite a lot. It's really exciting at the start and then as the substitutions come in more constantly, it just disrupts the flow and then it's a kind of... You don't get so much action and then Scotland were brilliant in the first half and I think it disrupts the flow with the with the substitutions.
But yeah, just like you were stepping on the point there with John McGinn, so you think there'd be Ryan Christie that might be the unfortunate one to drop out.
Yeah, because despite the fact that Scotland put in a very good performance in that first half without John McGinn, there is no doubt, Roger, that John McGinn will be starting that game against Haiti. He is one of the guaranteed nailed-on players. So you then look at the fact that Scott McTominay is also a guaranteed starter.
If there's going to be a winger, you know, a Ben Ganondoker, a Finlay Curtis...
and two strikers which a lot of people expect will start against Haiti it then does come down to either Ryan Christie or Lewis Ferguson who may be the unlucky party I tend to think Ferguson gives you a little bit of ballast at the bottom of that midfield I suppose that is where Ryan Christie plays for Bournemouth but you don't see him do it for Scotland you don't see him do it for Scotland I think the absence of Billy Gilmore
I think Ferguson will play I just wonder if Christy listen we might have all got it wrong he maybe just does go back to one striker and it's either Adams or Shanklin but I think given that they're in the goals just now given that we'll need goals to beat Haiti I wonder if Christy doesn't play this one and then comes back in for the second and third games in the group Andrew
What about the strikers then, Ian? Are you expecting it to be two? And who do you think those two will be? Is it likely to be Shea Adams and Lauren Shankland after the weekend's performance?
Yeah, absolutely.
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Chapter 5: How did fans react to the friendly against Bolivia?
Much of the same. As a matter of fact, I mean, I wouldn't even surprise me if they went in against Morocco with the two of them because they did so well together. It's almost like impossible to see one without the other because they complement each other so well. So you think Gannon, should I say, sorry, Shea Adams without Shankland, white struggle and vice versa.
So, I mean, it really wouldn't surprise me to see the two of them being paired up against Morocco as well. But certainly against Haiti, yes, I'd imagine it being much of the same, you know, probably exactly the same XI that played in that frenzy against Bolivia.
Yeah, if you're playing with two up front, you want two players that can work together, are on the same wavelength, that complement each other. Shea Adams and Lauren Shankland looked as if they were doing that. At the weekend, it didn't look as fluid when George Hurston and Ross Stewart came off the bench, but, you know, the game state is different. They haven't maybe played as much.
And then, interestingly, Lyndon Dykes, who was almost a guaranteed starter for Steve Clarke over the years, looks to be maybe the furthest out of the picture, would you say?
Yeah.
listen maybe although I thought Dykes did well alongside Shanklin when he came on at Hamden against Curacao and set up one of his goals Shanklin has been used to playing with somebody all season he's a Claudio Braga up there at Hearts and I always think you know a lot of the time when Scotland played a back three some of the defenders looked awkward because they played a back four at club level and sometimes
you know the strikers play up top on their own and it doesn't suit them because they normally play in a two or vice versa I think it would help Shankland to have somebody with him whether it's Adams and I think it will be Adams or even if it had been Dykes I think they get the best out Shankland having somebody close to him the way that Braga's close to him in the hearts team that's when you see the best from him I thought Adams looked as if he enjoyed it as well having people around about him so many times during Shea Adams' Scotland career he's been away up there Andrew and everybody else has been away back here
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Chapter 6: What lineup changes are expected for the match against Haiti?
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this formation is ideal for getting people close to Che Adams, because Shanklin built with him, Ganondale could set up, the fact that he really set up both of the goals for Adams at the weekend, he'll get close to him, McTominay naturally will get close to him, and I think McAnathy comes out of the team naturally will get close to him as well, so it gets bodies in the areas that could hurt Haiti.
Well thanks to Ian, what about Johnny in the West End, does that win on Saturday Johnny set you up nicely for the World Cup?
Yes.
yes it was I mean it was nothing more than I expected to be honest I was at the last World Cup game against Morocco I'm looking forward to flying out tomorrow getting out to Boston brilliant and marching us you know like really really just like you know like getting our foot on the world stage and all that again it's going to be brilliant
I'm over optimistic no I'm just it's just it's going to be such a fantastic experience for everyone Why are you not optimistic Johnny? Why am I not optimistic? Well I mean you want Morocco and Brazil they're great teams you know Haiti's a great team and all that if we play to our abilities
you know we will do well you know but they were up against like three fantastic teams so that's that yeah I think maybe the reality of the strength of the group has been evident over the past few weeks there's been a couple of performances from Haiti that
you know they maybe look a better side than some people thought they may have been Morocco have some real quality players in there but it has also never been easier to get out of a World Cup group so Scotland need to try and focus focus on that side of things if Steve Clark's side can go out get the job done against Haiti to a decent level
put themselves in a really good position to try and get through listen Scotland's World Cup could be on Saturday night in Boston all wrapped in one nutshell because if you fail to beat Haiti we're on our way home but if we beat Haiti then we do have a real good chance of getting to the last 32 and no Scotland team's ever gone beyond the group stage at a major finals be it a World Cup or a European Championships Andrew Morocco I know they won the African Cup of Nations by default on home soil at the start of the year but
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Chapter 7: What travel plans do fans have for the World Cup games?
I think it was Alexander Sorloff, the Norwegian striker, that was putting himself about and injuring a couple of...
no wonder Scotland don't want to play that friendly against Norway well there you go another reason I watched Brazil Saturday night late on beat Egypt it was only 2-1 but Brazil dominated it they will be they will be good any team that's got Vinicius Junior and Rafinha and Bruno Guimaraes and Casemiro Marquinhos has just won back-to-back Champions Leagues as captain of PSG they will be good they to me
Are a measure ahead of anyone else in the group We should beat Haiti And Morocco Don't terrify me Johnny, you said you were at that Morocco game in 1998 It's been 28 years But has it felt a lot longer than that Since Scotland were at a World Cup?
I just obviously From that point You always thought it was going to be Every four years that you were going to be there Andrew, Roger, yourselves We're all Scotland fans I mean I'm playing it down now I used to like play it up then so like What age were you Andrew?
I was three years old to give away my age when Scotland played Morocco You're saying you were at the game Johnny I showed Andrew recently I was about 20 Johnny Andrew didn't believe me I was 22 I had the front page story the night Scotland got knocked out in St Etienne with a picture of
Jim Layton lying despondent in the back of the net after Morocco scored the third goal and I've still got the newspaper I took pictures of the paper and I sent it to Andrew and Gabs and the show I think they were astonished that newspapers weren't just in black and white in 1998 they were aghast when I showed them all this
Well it's funny what has happened over the last few years because Johnny is saying that he just expected that Scotland would be at the World Cup every four years and that the two years in between those they would be at the European Championships. I'm of a generation where you just didn't expect Scotland to be at any major tournament at all.
Major tournaments would pass in the summer and you wouldn't even have a thought that Scotland were involved but What Steve Clarke has managed to do over the last few years is for a new generation of Scotland fan. It's completely changed the dynamic of international football.
Yeah, and he's re-engaged the national team with the national psyche. I remember when we threw those barren years before Steve Clarke. During international breaks in this show, Andrew, you could have brought in a packet of cards and kept plunk because nobody wanted to phone and speak about Scotland.
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Chapter 8: What are the key challenges facing Celtic in the upcoming season?
The international breaks were...
tiresome on this show because you hardly get a caller interested in any of the games and we tried to drum up a little bit of interest but it was really half-hearted once Steve Clarke took us to that first Euros and then we were unlucky not to get to the last World Cup if you remember that playoff against Ukraine then we get to a second Euros then we get to a World Cup and
The next Euros, of course, are going to be partly here. We have a right good chance of getting to them as well. So this manager and this team have re-engaged with the nation in a way that Johnny and I remember from the 80s and the 90s and the 70s. What's the route then, Johnny, tomorrow?
Have you got tickets for any of the games?
we've got tickets for the Haiti game and then we've got tickets for Brazil game we're not going to the Morocco game because we experienced that and it was nice so we're driving all the way from Boston all the way down to Miami in a camper van brilliant how long is that going to take do you reckon well I don't know but we're going to stop off in North Carolina to try and go and meet the team in between is it a good camper van I was reading some of the papers last week some of them are quite dear
well we did this way back in December when the draw was made so it's decent yeah good can I tell you a good story can I tell you a good story about when we were in France 98 go for it Johnny So we actually all went on holiday to Loret de Mar. So we all hired a bus to there. And that was before you could travel between the borders in Europe with the Schengen and all that.
So you needed a passport to go between Spain. And one of the boys had forgot his passport. So we all had him with the little bags in the back of the bus.
so when all the like the like the folk come on like the like the border police and all that they went like who's all that but he was just hiding between below all the bags and all that so they didn't find him see those are the stories you want to hear from Scotland being at a World Cup I think the statute of limitations probably passed by that point I know I know a gentleman who took a double decker bus
from Maybold to Malaga in 1982 to support Scotland and these stories that's what makes the World Cup special yes the football will be great and we'll get to see Messi and Ronaldo and Mbappe and all these guys but it's the stories it's the human interest stories it's the things that people do to get to the games and watch their team that's what makes these tournaments special that's what we missed for so many years Andrew
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