It's the hope that kills you

I'd bite your fingers off up to the shoulder!

This episode is split into two parts, the first being recorded pre-kick off when we (and especially me!) are full of boundless enthusiasm; the second, being recorded post-match. ..when we're still fairly enthuiastic. We watched a nervy performance in a wonderful stadium and we discuss our thoughts on the match and the forthcoming games against Morocco and Brazil. We also touch on our experience of leaving the stadium which was handly badly. Let's just say, if we need a piss up in a brewery organised, we won't be asking anyone from Gillette Stadium to make the arrangements!

Scotland Squad and Stevie Clarke's Contract

Another special episode where we review the squad and the manager's new contract...very much as the title suggests! Crucially, we recorded this episode before the friendlies against Curacao and Bolivia, so it'll be interesting to see if our caution has been replaced by unbridled enthusiasm by the time we get to Boston for the opening match

History of Football in the USA Continued

We continue the story of the early years of football in the US. We learnt in the last episode about the game crossing the Atlantic as cultural baggage with the migrating Scots who were moving to the US to staff the Scottish owned thread mills and linoleum factories that were expanding there to exploit the rapidly growing new market. In this episode, we learn of the game's rapid expansion and the combination of factors that saw it collapse into obscurity.

History of Football in the USA

As we build to the World Cup which kicks off in a couple of weeks, we've choosen to don our deerstalkers and unleash our magnifying glasses as we explore the history of football across the 3 host nations and were delighted to find Scottish fingerprints all over these origin stories!

Like a scene from a Dutch horror film, set in a fairground, where unsuspecting teenagers are set upon by a couple of drunk Dutch serial killers

We've made it to another final! It's a replay of the 86 WC but this time the protagonists are in very different form. The game itself might have been underwhelming as a spectacle but our reflections on the tournament certainly aren't...well, not in our opinion! We also stumble across some more brilliantly awful football songs. For those that listened to series 1, you'll remember our chat about the song 'Rummenigge' and his apparent 'sexy knees'....well, we found another song befitting an aural war crimes conviction.