Scotland had a very good side. Article about 1982 when we should have done much better than we did.
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Imagine a Scotland team qualifying for five tournaments in a row, two of which England failed to qualify for despite being World Cup winners 8 and 12 years earlier.
Imagine a Scotland team being quoted as one of the outside favourites for the tournament, as we were in 1978.
Anyone on here go to the games?
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03-12-2022 11:35 AM #1
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Remember the days when............
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03-12-2022 12:42 PM #2
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I went in 82 & 90. We had a fine team in 74, too. 98, not so much.
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03-12-2022 01:59 PM #3
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Have progressed that year but we genuinely should have gone far in the tournament 1978. Instead we made a mess of it and took the Scottish game back generations. Our confidence evaporated and we still suffer from an inferiority complex to this day.
Bring back the Ally McLeod attitude I say 🏴🏴🏴Last edited by CentreLine; 03-12-2022 at 02:02 PM.
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03-12-2022 05:51 PM #4
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Good point: England last qualified for the finals in 1962, then not until 1982.
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03-12-2022 06:14 PM #5This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it" - George Bernard Shaw.
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03-12-2022 09:46 PM #7
Was there for the 3 games in 82, best holiday ever in the Spanish sunshine.We had a good team, pity about the Hanson and Miller mix up, we should have progressed. Typical Scotland
Was also at 90 and 98 World Cups. Costa Rica and Morocco, nightmare matches !
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04-12-2022 08:13 AM #8
Went to Italia ‘90 and France ‘98
Scotland v Costa Rica in Genoa the Mrs sat outside the Stadium with my mate’s Mrs and Bairn
After the game she asked me what the score was adding that they had heard a roar ?
I said “ Let’s go it’s s#*t being Scottish”
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04-12-2022 08:41 AM #9This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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04-12-2022 09:01 AM #10
I remember when world cups had mascots. '82 was Sport Billy, can still remember the song that went with that mascot.
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04-12-2022 09:14 AM #11
Just as well we qualified in 98 otherwise I’d not have been watching the game in the Holyrood and celebrated the goal with a moony and caught the attention of the future Mrs vP… juniors vP would not exist either… they took more to samba and judo than the football and the sponsorship of the SFA was not forthcoming :)
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04-12-2022 10:44 AM #12This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Iirc, he hadn't bothered to even watch any of the other sides before the tournament so we knew nothing about them.
1978 was an embarrassment from start to finish. Actually, it was embarrassing before the start with the ridiculous decision to have a celebration at Hampden before the team left for Argentina.
Then there was the Willie Johnson drugs scandal, the flying carpet adverts, the relentless bragging by McLeod etc etc.
We had a great squad in 1978 and a load of self pride. I'd like to go back to that, but the rest you can keep.
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04-12-2022 10:57 AM #13This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Germany was a great experience and Scotland very unlucky not to qualify (watch brazil's 3rd goal v zaire which knocked Scotland out).
englandshire didn't qualify between 1962 and 1982.
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I was at all games in West Germany in 1974, Mexico 1986 and Italia 1990. Was in Bordeaux in 1998 for the Norway game but the French couldn't organise a what's it in a brewery as regards tickets so watched it in a pub outside the ground with the French coppers.
In 1990 ticket arrangements were equally shambolic and we only had tickets for the Costa Rica game but got into the other two as a result of 'inducing' the Italian police, the Brazil game in Turin with a bottle of Laphroaig.
Mexico '86 was a fantastic three weeks ending up with a week in Acapulco after we got knocked out. Hotels were subsidised by the government for the duration of the competition so we stayed in a luxury hotel on the beach. Neza where two of the games were played was in a pretty poor part of Mexico City but the locals were extremely friendly so we spent a bit of time out there before and after games. Very dodgy place now though.
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05-12-2022 03:50 PM #16
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05-12-2022 06:15 PM #19
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They were fun..,
South of the border no doubt 😉
Our journeys, right about the same time, were punctuated by stops at BP stations, trying to match two halves of specimen bank notes. Never win a thing but two halves was to win the value on the notes. If I remember correctly £1000 was top prize but might have been £10,000Last edited by CentreLine; 05-12-2022 at 06:19 PM.
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07-12-2022 11:39 AM #20This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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I also have a vague memory of collecting miniature busts of Footballers from petrol stations but it wasn't Esso or Texaco petrol, can anyone remember them?Last edited by Bobo; 07-12-2022 at 01:40 PM.
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