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Is Steven Naismith's next match as Hearts FC manager a must-win?   SUBSCRIBE: ‪@PLZSoccer‬   On today’s Football Show, we dive into St Johnstone’s shocking decision to sack Craig Levein and explore rumors that Scott Brown might be stepping in as their new manager. We also break down Celtic’s big Champions League clash against Slovan Bratislava and discuss the latest in English clubs dominating Europe, with a look at Bayern Munich’s 9-2 win over Dynamo Zagreb. Plus, don’t miss our analysis on Harry Kane’s new Skechers boots, as well as coverage on the Premiership Sports Cup quarterfinals. Stick around for the latest updates on Rangers, Aberdeen, and more Scottish football news!  The Football Show Highlights:  00:00:00 Intro - The Football Show 00:02:26 Craig Levein sacked by St Johnstone 00:06:20 Scott Brown St Johnstone manager rumours 00:09:44 Celtic v Slovan Bratislava Preview 00:17:09 Live football on Amazon Prime 00:23:25 English clubs dominate European football 00:25:21 Bayern Munich 9-2 Dynamo Zagreb  00:32:20 Man City v Inter Milan Preview 00:33:10 Harry Kane Skechers boots 00:37:22 Dave King Rangers return in doubt 00:40:22 Aberdeen FC 2nd in Scottish Premiership 00:45:08 Latest Scottish football news 00:46:47 Hibernian FC matchday experience 00:50:50 Scotland has the highest attendance per capita 00:53:00 Motherwell v Dundee United - Premiership Sports Cup 00:56:46 Premiership Sports Cup quarter finals predictions 00:59:32 Salvatore Schillaci death  Love Scottish football? Subscribe to never miss the latest Scottish Premiership press conferences, exclusive interviews and live match reports on PLZ Soccer.

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00:00:00Welcome to the football show on PLZ Soccer's YouTube channel, I'm Peter Martin and I'm

00:00:08delighted to say Tam McManus, Ryan McGowan and Scott Allen are here with me. It's always

00:00:13interesting seeing you guys here because, Tam, Ryan always looks as if he's ready to

00:00:18go to court, he's got that serious face on and then he just relaxes into it, it's just

00:00:22that kind of fear before the music kicks in. He's a serious guy, serious man, you'll see

00:00:27that on TikTok with the golf, man wants to win. Apologies to everyone that we're a wee

00:00:33bit late because what we do is we come up with these great ideas to film them and then

00:00:37Tam ruins it, it's as simple as that because he's never on time unless it's a Christmas

00:00:42party and he knows that everything is paid for. So, Tam's here, as you can tell, he's

00:00:48been out on the golf course, Scott's been auditioning for Top Gun 3, the movie, he had

00:00:54his shades on, didn't he, honestly? He thought he was as cool as ice, didn't he? I bet you

00:00:59just walked here just so everybody could see you.

00:01:01Sunglasses on.

00:01:02Scary. Isn't it amazing how Scottish people just embrace it, you know, just go crazy even

00:01:09if it's 16 degrees, whereas Aussies, you're so used to it, aren't you?

00:01:14It's more when it's hot and everyone goes, it's so hot, isn't it? Can't put up with this.

00:01:18It's like two days a year.

00:01:19Exactly. When you were back home, is there a point where it becomes unbearable?

00:01:25Yeah, but that's sort of like late 30s, early 40s when it's, you basically stay indoors

00:01:31or go to the pub, but similar to here really.

00:01:34Yeah, absolutely. Once it drops below 16. Anyway, we've got lots to talk about and of

00:01:40course one of your former managers, Craig Levine, has been sacked, so we'll get your

00:01:46thoughts on that and the power struggle at Rangers continues. Who will eventually take

00:01:50the lead at Ibrox? Is UF on to a winner with that new Champions League format?

00:01:55Mother will have called on the fans to support them on Friday. They're going around with

00:01:59leaflets and Roderick, the Manchester City midfielder, has said players could strike

00:02:04because of being asked to play too many games. Do you agree with that?

00:02:08And we'll also talk about the image that is forever Italia 90. Toto Scalacci has sadly

00:02:14passed away at the age of 59, far too young, but a wonderful player. We'll talk about Toto

00:02:21and his contribution to Italia 90 a little later on in the programme. So, Craig Levine,

00:02:28sacked by St Johnstone, were you surprised?

00:02:32I thought if he was going to go this early it would have probably been in the summer.

00:02:36I think if you look at it as an overall, he came in and at that time we were really struggling.

00:02:41I think we were five or six points adrift when he came in as manager. He steadied the

00:02:45ship, kept us in the league, but I think there was probably a time to strike. It would have

00:02:50been in the summer and let a new manager come in and with the transfer window bring in some

00:02:54new players, but they've decided against that. It would be more interesting to see who they

00:02:59go with and who they come up with as their main targets to try and go and get.

00:03:05He certainly didn't see it coming, Scott. He was talking at a pre-match press conference

00:03:09ahead of the weekend's games about what his hopes are to get players in and obviously

00:03:15how to rectify some of the red cards that some of his players have been receiving. So

00:03:18he clearly didn't have a sniff that this was about to come.

00:03:21Yes, I think you obviously know what football is like and at any moment it can be something

00:03:26for the good or something for the bad. It most certainly was for the bad for Craig Levine

00:03:30I think. Even when he was speaking about these things, he has been frustrated in terms of

00:03:36the transfer window that they've had, guys getting sent off. It can cost you I think

00:03:40when you're at St Johnstone and maybe the important players, when you do miss them.

00:03:44The next week you need to replace them with maybe not the same quality. That's had a snowball

00:03:48effect in terms of how their performances have been, but it's not been the worst start

00:03:51to the season. But it is very ill in terms of to get rid.

00:03:56Yes, four straight defeats, Tam, but I think players and team performances can get you

00:04:03the sack. But in discipline I think has ended up really putting paid to his career as St

00:04:09Johnstone manager.

00:04:10Yes, I think when you're in a club like St Johnstone, you're probably one of the favourites

00:04:13to go down, Peter. What happened was up at the United, the player gets sent off and gets

00:04:19another five or six game ban, who's a main striker for them. They've really struggled

00:04:25with ten men in a few games. It doesn't surprise me, I think when a new owner comes in, Adam

00:04:32Webb comes in, I think you're always looking over your shoulder if you're the current manager.

00:04:36I think he'll probably want to bring his own manager and his own coaching staff in. As

00:04:40Ryan said, it'll be interesting to see who the next man is. I know Gus Macpherson is

00:04:44involved up there, I don't know if he's still involved in the football side of it, but I

00:04:48think with Gus there, maybe they'll go someone that's probably well known here. If not, if

00:04:52it's Adam Webb, then it could be someone in America, it could be someone anywhere, Peter.

00:04:56So as Ryan said, it'll be interesting to see who they bring in.

00:04:58Yeah, how important do you think it is that someone that's got a grasp of Scottish football?

00:05:05Because quite simply, sometimes when you get a board with a chief executive that doesn't

00:05:11understand the game and then doesn't really look too deeply into the type of appointment

00:05:18that needs to be made, you get a situation like Hibbs, suddenly, where there was a period

00:05:23where they were just sacking manager after manager. Dave Cormack suddenly in comes another

00:05:28person in the left field that gets the job that shouldn't really have been made manager

00:05:34of Aberdeen. I think in terms of that, when you're appointing

00:05:37managers, I don't think it's an easy decision. I think there'll be guys who you think can

00:05:41come in when they're having their interviews because now it's not just the evidence you

00:05:46give in terms of the previous teams you've been at, it's your presentations and the direction

00:05:50you think you can take the club. So I'd imagine there'll be a lot of candidates for it. I

00:05:55think with St Johnstone in terms of playing style, they're obviously looking for a certain

00:05:59type of manager. So that's the kind of situation where because of the type of player you have,

00:06:04if you do come in with a manager who's more possession based, that's where you sometimes

00:06:08get the problem. So I think both of the lads obviously touched on in terms of the type

00:06:13of appointment that's what's going to be crucial in terms of what he's going to get out of

00:06:17this squad that they've already got.

00:06:19As ever, there's always early what I call paper talk where basically they get into a

00:06:24darkened room and then just throw darts and say whoever it hits will put his name in.

00:06:30Scott Brown with possibly John Kennedy, going back the way to Tommy Wright for some fans

00:06:36and a little bit of sentimentality. Nick Dasovich, there's a name I haven't heard in a long,

00:06:41long while. And as Tam mentioned, there may be other candidates coming out of left field.

00:06:48I think if you're a St. Johnson fan, you probably want something to try and be excited about,

00:06:51whether that be a younger manager like a Reece McCabe, the AirDrew who plays that type of

00:06:57style to come in and give you something to progress the club and say this is what we

00:07:03want to do moving forward. I know St. Johnson historically have been a sort of rough and

00:07:09tumble consistent, but the new chairman might want to go in a different direction. So I

00:07:15think it will kind of come down to his vision of what he wants. But I think knowing St.

00:07:20Johnson fans, they want somebody to be excited about. I don't think they ever really took

00:07:24to Craig Levine, although he did the job that he was asked in terms of steadying his chip

00:07:29and keeping the Saints in the league last year. But I think they'll maybe want to go

00:07:33to a different direction, get someone young, someone exciting, someone who knows Scottish

00:07:37football. Ian Murray's out of a job. There's some of the names I've seen on Twitter that

00:07:44maybe knows the leagues, can go down into the Scottish leagues, pick up a good couple

00:07:48of players and have the Saints fans wanting to come to MacDermott Park to watch exciting

00:07:52football. Yeah, good couple of names that you mentioned there. But the other aspect

00:07:56of this term that we're not quite aware of is what's the vision from the boardroom? What's

00:08:03their plan? What do they want to see happen? And does the manager need to fit into their

00:08:08vision rather than a manager comes in and he brings his vision for what he wants to

00:08:13do at the club? Yeah, no one really knows. Adam Webb's just purchased the club and he's

00:08:20looking to try and probably do things differently than they have been. He's made an early call

00:08:24on the manager. As Ryan said, Craig kept him in the league last season. We were at a lot

00:08:30of the games with St Johnstone and I thought they were a little bit fortunate to stay in

00:08:33the league. I thought they could have went down. Gowser was obviously a rock at the back

00:08:39of the league. He came off it since I left. They've gone downhill since he's left. You're

00:08:47right Peter, we've seen American owners here before. Dundee and Aberdeen and the Hibs.

00:08:54Sometimes they want to go in a different direction. Sometimes they want to pick the manager. And

00:08:57if they do that then I think it will be an unknown or an exciting coach maybe from abroad.

00:09:02If not, then the guys that you mentioned. I think guys like Iain Murray has got to be

00:09:07one of the favourites for the job. I thought he'd done a great job at Raith. Unfortunate

00:09:10to lose his job. He's out of a job at the minute. I think he ticks a lot of boxes if

00:09:14I was a St Johnstone fan. Yeah, Graham Caldwell who's on our message board says, what about

00:09:18Iain Murray? Do you think a Premiership club would take a chance on him after his spell

00:09:23at Raith? There's no compensation to be paid now. It might just be the perfect man for

00:09:28the job but we'll wait to find out on that. No doubt there will be another few candidates

00:09:33from agents pushing it to journalists to put the name out there but in the end the St Johnstone

00:09:39board will give us an insight into that very shortly. At no point in us talking in-depth

00:09:44about Celtic in the game against Slovan Bratislava because obviously it's taking place tonight

00:09:51but on the journals tomorrow we will get an in-depth look at Celtic's performance against

00:09:58Slovan Bratislava. One thing we can discuss is the fact that Brendan Rodgers feels as

00:10:04if they can compete this season. Certainly speaking to the press ahead of this one he

00:10:10reckons that they are in a really good position with the squad he has. I think it was just,

00:10:17listen if you look at the nuts and bolts of it people will say you only got four points

00:10:20and then they'll cry about that and then the season before and the season before.

00:10:25For me I look at it, I thought last year it was decisive moments probably apart from the

00:10:30game away in Madrid where we lost the man early on in the game and we got punished by a team that

00:10:35got to the quarter-final and they made real good use of playing against ten men. I think the other

00:10:40games I thought we showed up well in. Interesting to see how they fare over the campaign because

00:10:49he now has stated he's happy with the squad he's got ready to take this campaign on.

00:10:54Well it's the first time we've heard that obviously in a few years from Brendan,

00:10:57obviously personally. We've seen some interviews of one after the submarine game,

00:11:00urgent to get new guys through the door and he has got that and the depth in the squad looks really

00:11:06good. Obviously Inglis comes in at the weekend and gets a go and looks positive but I think

00:11:10tonight for me I think it goes with Bernardo just based on how consistent he's been since he came

00:11:15in at the start of the season. Do you think they're better placed with the squad? Yeah I think

00:11:19absolutely and obviously with the experience they've got from the games last season you can

00:11:24tell this team even domestically has improved as we've spoken about before so it's a great

00:11:30tie for them opening night against Bratislava. Celtic are favourites, I do think Celtic will

00:11:36win tonight and could win quite comfortably if they play the football that we've seen.

00:11:39Interesting to see if the guys that he's brought in start or maybe come on with 20 minutes to go

00:11:44but what he's seen from his squad he'll be delighted with and that's probably how you

00:11:47see the confidence in him in terms of interview. Managers ever looking for positives from last

00:11:55season, it was four points in the end, it wasn't enough. In Brendan's first time around I mean I

00:12:00look towards the Man City game at Celtic Park as certainly one of the best that I've witnessed as

00:12:07far as atmosphere was concerned, excitement, finishing. I know people will look further back

00:12:12to some of the best atmospheres, Tony Watt scoring and Celtic defeating Barcelona but in Brendan's

00:12:18time that Man City game sticks in my mind because of the way they played football and I think

00:12:25this time they're starting to get back to the way I think he wants them to play. Yeah I think

00:12:30they've been definitely been a massive improvement even though so early on in the season in terms of

00:12:35how they're playing and how confident they look playing the way that he obviously wants them to

00:12:39play so like Scott said it's a perfect match for them to try and get three points even with a

00:12:47goal difference trying to put a few past them and really kick on because you know with this

00:12:51new format there is more games they'll be looking to try and get a lot more points than four to

00:12:55qualify to the next stage of the campaign and I really do believe that yeah they're probably

00:13:02looking to get around nine ten points this campaign I think. Yeah the one thing that we can't do Tom

00:13:07if you look at last night's results and I decided I don't know where your viewing was on it you

00:13:13obviously have six televisions in that one room and you're trying to multitask across them all.

00:13:18I was watching the Chinese third division at the time. Yeah the games from last night Young Boys

00:13:24nil, Aston Villa three, Juventus three, PSV Eindhoven one, AC Milan one, Liverpool three,

00:13:31Bayern Munich nine, Dinamo Zagreb two, Real Madrid three, Stuttgart one and Sporting Lisbon

00:13:38two, Lille nil. I think we're missing an L in that Lille but nevertheless as far as the overall

00:13:48scoreline is concerned I thought Young Boys were outclassed by Villa but you can't really get a

00:13:54grip on how they're going to perform against Celtic and again it's because these games are

00:13:58all one off now. Yeah I think Bratislava I don't think you can just turn up and expect to win I

00:14:03think they beat Midgetland I think the Danish champions in the last round so. Michelin.

00:14:09Michelin yeah just in case people think there's 11 Oompa Loompas.

00:14:18So no I don't think, listen I think if Celtic go out and play well they'll win the game but

00:14:23I think they're tough to think that if you're going to have any aspirations of qualifying

00:14:26what you'll win tonight. I think that'll probably be their easiest game, Bratislava at home.

00:14:29Have you changed your mind on the other games? I mean we all look at any of the opponents

00:14:35that Scottish clubs have in Europe and you start saying to yourself really good, won't win,

00:14:40should win, if they don't they're criticised. Young Boys I didn't see too much that impressed me

00:14:46but it was more to do with the fact that I watched Villa and I just thought they looked as if they

00:14:51could have scored far more than the three they got. Yeah Villa are top class Peter I think they've

00:14:55got a lot of quality players and managers different class as well you know real world

00:14:58class manager Unai Emery and yeah I didn't see enough a lot for Young Boys. I must admit and

00:15:04Celtic will be looking at them and thinking we could beat them as well. I think Villa will be

00:15:08probably the toughest game along with Dortmund for Celtic but no I thought that Aston Villa

00:15:13won the game comfortably and you would think looking at that that Celtic would take care of

00:15:17Young Boys as well. Yeah nice little touch from Unai Emery the Aston Villa boss who just paid

00:15:23tribute not only to the performance of his side but to the passing of one of the legends of Aston

00:15:30Villa and that is of course Gary Shaw. We're tired to follow. 42 years ago they achieved

00:15:39the last victory in Champion League and winning the trophy and of course we want to dedicate

00:15:47this victory for Gary Shaw, his family and for all the supporters of Aston Villa,

00:15:54all the family of Aston Villa. If you're a Villa fan you must be absolutely loving it right now.

00:16:01Yeah I think in terms of the players that they've acquired as well and the football

00:16:04they're playing they've got a world-class manager as Tam says. His history in European competition

00:16:09can't come into question he knows it he's a winner when it comes to European football so

00:16:13and I think that as well as last year away to Olympiacos where they would have been expected

00:16:19to win and they just didn't quite cut it and that was in the Conference League so I think they

00:16:23will have a lot of experiences from last year and I know he touched on that in an interview this year

00:16:28that they they'll feel they can go and out all the teams I think they'll be looking to

00:16:32probably win them all apart for the Celtic game I think for them I think that could be difficult

00:16:37I think Celtic down at Villa, Celtic historically do well against English sides I think that'll be

00:16:43a tough one but I think what they've got in terms of attacking sense we've seen them in midfield

00:16:48one of our own in John McGinn who could consider he's went from Hibsierd to Championship he's now

00:16:53playing Champions League football and it looked excellent last night so I'm really looking

00:16:58forward to seeing them play but I think when Celtic go down there that'll be a very interesting

00:17:02game I don't think it's as easy as Villa just turning up and beating Celtic. Yeah certainly

00:17:07there's some mouth-watering matches to look forward to but on the early evidence Villa look

00:17:12good I don't know about you Ryan we always joke about it but I sat down last night I thought to

00:17:19myself I'd looked at the games I thought I'm definitely going to watch Liverpool I'm a Liverpool

00:17:22fan love watching them and I started scouring everywhere to see where the hell the game was on

00:17:30and then you needed to have Amazon Prime you need to be

00:17:37brilliant or a Russian satellite this but I mean that's the nature of it fans you need to pay a

00:17:48fortune if you were if you were actually thinking I want to watch football yeah okay I'm going to

00:17:54watch Champions League football so there's there's TNT you're in and then all of a sudden

00:18:00you think oh wait a minute there's a game that you really want to watch and suddenly it's on Amazon

00:18:05Prime that is a hefty hefty situation to be in. Yeah it's not easy being a football fan is it

00:18:11trying to watch all these games and all these subscriptions that have to come out unless you're

00:18:15somebody else but yeah I think it's just difficult now with so many things going on so much money

00:18:21coming into the game in terms of companies and Amazon trying to buy games and you used to just

00:18:28kind of be you'd either go to the club that the game was on so it's Liverpool TV or it would be

00:18:34on Sky and now there's just so many more different options to watch the game in and yeah like you

00:18:40said it's a lot of games are here there and everywhere which is it's quite difficult to watch.

00:18:44Yeah absolutely and Celt88 on our feed says Amazon Prime is 10 times cheaper than Sky and TNT

00:18:53the sooner they have all the rights the better he says the other thing about it though is Tam

00:19:00you're in a situation I think this is the way it might go in the future I don't because people

00:19:05watch a lot of things on their phone I think I said to you maybe two or three years ago I thought

00:19:10they would go down the DAZN you know blueprint which is quite simple you want to watch a game

00:19:15it's a tenner you don't need to subscribe if that's the game you want to watch and you're in

00:19:20the you're in the house you know you want to watch it. I think the DAZN model with the

00:19:25boxings actually worked as well as they they'd expected to I'm sure I've watched an interview

00:19:29yeah but it works in Italy with the football. Do they use that in Italy? Yeah yeah you can watch

00:19:33a game for a tenner you know you don't need to subscribe you know and and they do that in a lot

00:19:38of the games across Europe the DAZN it's a it's a successful model and I think that's that's

00:19:45definitely the way forward people just can't afford to pay astronomical sums for three or four

00:19:50different platforms. Yeah you've got you've got Sky Sports you've got BT Sports you've got Amazon

00:19:55you've got Premier Sports you know you've got all these different subscriptions that if people want

00:19:59to watch all their games they might have a favourite English team you might have a team in Scotland

00:20:02you support and you're going to have to pay 40, 50, 60 pound a month and people haven't got that

00:20:08Peter so at the minute so nah listen it's it's one of those where you watch what you can afford.

00:20:16Yeah absolutely. I know exactly because he's he's out playing golf

00:20:23teaches kids a couple of days and then just saunters about on the channels looking for

00:20:28looking for football among other things. The other the other thing here is

00:20:33is you know lots of people are saying apart from Amazon Prime being cheaper

00:20:41is one of the guys says I'm one of the mugs that pays for all the subscriptions

00:20:46wow I mean that is a hefty. I've got Amazon. Have you got Amazon? Yeah I've got Amazon.

00:20:51Yeah that's the only one or have you got Sky? I've got Sky as well yeah. Yeah absolutely just to sign

00:20:56on. Yeah absolutely absolutely changed his number I remember it as soon as he got there

00:21:05and also North Sea says the zone is not successful. Well listen I'm not going to contest you on that

00:21:12I'm just saying that I like that I like that idea which is quite simply. So is that on the day you

00:21:18pay 10 pounds and you get the game? Yeah pay it all PayPal whatever you get the game you can get

00:21:23it on your phone you get it on your laptop whatever you get obviously quickly airdrop it

00:21:29onto your television or indeed I think you know. I don't even think the French football has been

00:21:34shown by a broadcaster this year has it? I think they lost the deal. Yeah I think they lost the

00:21:41deal with one of them which was a major blow I don't know if they've re-signed with someone else

00:21:47but nevertheless I do like the idea of a tenner do you Ryan? Yeah I think it's a good idea I think

00:21:52Scottish football should look into that in terms of you know if you can't make the game to say

00:21:56you're a Celtic or a Hibs fan and you and you want to go to the game but you can't make it

00:22:01being able to go on a platform pay a tenner watch it at three o'clock I think there's a lot of money

00:22:06to be made in terms of that if you can't make the game you know it's only going to be a tenner but

00:22:10if you can you can get along and you know if that went into a massive big pot that then gets split

00:22:15amongst all the clubs at the end of the season I don't see why it couldn't get going. Yeah you

00:22:21obviously don't know people in the central belt of Warwickshire and Glasgow. Are you sure you've

00:22:28not got Amazon Prime? I don't have Amazon Prime. Did your missus get stuff off Amazon? Zoe? Yeah.

00:22:35Now you have it then? You just type in it's the same that's why. I've got it from my wife's get

00:22:40the next day delivery thing on Amazon. Yeah that's Amazon Prime there is a basic one. It's the same

00:22:44thing? Yeah but there's a basic part of it I don't know if I don't think you've got it. That's you

00:22:49I'm going to check tonight. You've got too much money don't even know.

00:22:53I'm actually thinking to myself I'm raging I'm thinking to myself have I got Amazon Prime here?

00:22:59Is that right? I'll be raging honestly it was a one game last night I wanted to watch

00:23:08well I won't bother asking my wife I'll ask the guy who obviously she's on first name terms with

00:23:14Amazon delivery man because if he's not delivering something they're out for a meal

00:23:19so I'll just have to take it for granted that's the situation. Anyway apart from that as far as

00:23:24the games are concerned I do think that some European clubs are just going to really get

00:23:30hacked off because Liverpool they were too strong for AC Milan. Villa too strong for young boys.

00:23:39The English clubs are constantly showing up big time that's why I'm amazed sometimes that the

00:23:45Bayern Munich's or the World's Scott the Real Madrid's they have to keep they have to keep

00:23:50feeding you know the fans expectations to keep pace with them. Real Madrid it seems easy because

00:23:56they're winning the Champions League you know every other year. I still think though even the

00:24:01guys at Liverpool, Man City and that when they turn up to play against Real Madrid they know

00:24:07that's the biggest team in world football still that's still the biggest occasion for them the

00:24:10Real Madrid players constant winners especially as a club the amount of Champions Leagues they've won.

00:24:16In terms of England how they're probably looking to do this year it just shows you how far they've

00:24:21came that Villa came in and just brush aside young boys but that that would be the same with

00:24:25the group stages they would do that a four a pot four team who would come up against one of the

00:24:29one of the better seeded teams so for me Real Madrid still the kings of European football.

00:24:35Yeah they're going to take some stopping again aren't they I mean especially now you're adding

00:24:39Mbappe. Yeah I think like you said like everyone's touched on I think they still are the biggest club

00:24:44in Europe I think they're the one that everybody you know when it comes to the knockout games

00:24:48they want to avoid because they just seem to know how to win games and win games pretty

00:24:54comfortably in terms of Europe so yeah I think also with England it's the amount of money that

00:25:00they're getting to be put into their squads and you know the prize money that they get

00:25:05down south you know that allows them to go and build the sort of academies that they have

00:25:09allows them to go and you know pick players from all over the world and pay them crazy amounts

00:25:15of money so I think that does play a big factor in why England's English teams are doing so well

00:25:20in Europe. Yeah Bayern Munich 9-2 against Dinamo Zagreb he scored three penalties this hurricane

00:25:29I think scoring penalties is an art you need the quality and he certainly got it. Yeah I don't

00:25:35think it's as easy as he makes it look I think he's deadly from penalty kicks the only one I can

00:25:40remember him was the one against France where he skied it apart from that biggest one thankfully

00:25:45for us but he you know you just whip you can go either side he whips it you know across the keeper

00:25:50he can go down the middle he's lethal in those situations and Scots probably took a lot of

00:25:54penalties I've taken penalties I don't know if Gowzer's taken penalties but I've you know I

00:25:59think I maybe took nine or ten in my career and maybe missed three or four so. What was your

00:26:03technique did you make up your mind that you're going to go for it and that you stuck to that

00:26:10principle? No I've probably told you this one before Peter I missed one at Ibrox for Hibs

00:26:16and we were two each at the time I tried to place it into Stefan Kloss and honestly it dribbled

00:26:20into his hands he could have thrown his cap on it and I made my mind up after that the next one I

00:26:24was getting I was going to blast and I done that in the semi-final against Rangers where I blasted

00:26:28it down the middle at Hampden and he knew it was getting blasted and it was by him before he even

00:26:33moved it was one of the ones Peter I think if you're any sort of if you're nervous or you don't

00:26:38know where you're going to put it I think you'll miss it I think you've got to go up and realise

00:26:41right I'm going to I don't care what happens here I'm putting this to the keeper's right

00:26:44hard and if you do that then you'll probably score but if you've got any doubt in your mind you'll

00:26:47miss. Yeah I would always look because of the stats into penalty kicks down through the years

00:26:55especially at World Cups if I was taking a penalty I'd always look to put it high in the corners

00:27:05because that's where the keeper more often than not dives and he goes down the way so the

00:27:10percentage of stats. You're making that sound so easy. No I know that but the point I was going to

00:27:15say to you is if you look at Harry Kane you know he used to be at a point where he would go high to

00:27:21his left the keeper's right but when they were looking into the statistics around penalty kicks

00:27:27all right for me saying that no pressure you know in a bounce game where you guys are in

00:27:32a pressure of being professional footballers so the stats suggested that if you go left right

00:27:39just above you know the the keeper at the halfway point of the goal you're going to score

00:27:46the percentage of scoring is really high because the keeper more often than not dies if sometimes

00:27:52he puts his arm up all well and good he makes the save but you've got a really good chance of doing

00:27:56it and Harry Kane does that he goes corners all the time you very rarely see him looking for down

00:28:02the middle. Yeah I think we all kind of see that even in a game situation when he's finishing he

00:28:07kind of hits the penalties the same way where he whips it he wraps it back across himself. What did

00:28:11you do? For penalties I had all different there was one I hit for Dundee against Hamilton and I

00:28:16genuinely knew that I was going to miss it before I even ran up. What? I felt I just did not feel

00:28:21confident at all and I put it in the car park behind the stadium and we were playing Hamilton

00:28:28and a friendly and a friendly at Keltway at the start of the season the guys mind that penalty

00:28:33you hit against it and I turned around I actually had a feeling that I was going to miss it

00:28:38I know that sounds a bit mad what I'm saying but I just was not confident but I was on the penalties

00:28:44and then obviously I went back to Hibson started hitting penalties and was quite successful

00:28:49I think I missed one against Livingstone after about maybe six or seven that I'd scored so

00:28:55I never really picked a certain spot I think it was kind of on the day I started to change my run up

00:29:00I'm also so aye that's an interesting one that one kind of sticks out to me the Dundee

00:29:06Hamilton one not the Rangers so and I went up and I just did not feel confident

00:29:12when I missed it was as if I wasn't surprised I'd miss that sound a bit strange what I'm saying but

00:29:17I don't think you had to explain to us that wasn't the Rangers song we were going to burst into

00:29:22we hadn't really moved to that level

00:29:24we didn't really get to that level I knew you were thinking about it but as far as a penalty kick's concerned Kane you know last night he actually he didn't stop his run

00:29:38but as he was moving you just a little judder to see where the keeper's going and then boom

00:29:42bottom corner I think it would have been harder for him having to take three in a game again as

00:29:47silly as that sounds if you just have a one off you can go you know whichever way you want

00:29:52then it starts becoming is he thinking I'm going to go the same way the goalie then starts thinking

00:29:56is he going to go the same way so you know that's that in itself becomes more difficult

00:30:01when you've already taken two against them and you're going up for your third one but yeah I

00:30:06think everybody kind of knows penalties if you have zero pressure and you're doing it at training

00:30:11nine times out of ten boys can score but it's it's more coming down to your technique and

00:30:15and being in that sort of pressure situation and how you can handle it you know what sometimes

00:30:19you're going to have a bad penalty and it goes in sometimes your goalkeeper can just go the wrong way

00:30:24I've hit penalties I've hit near enough to in the middle and the keeper's went the wrong way and

00:30:27people goes great penalty time and goes that's not a great penalty it's just I've got lucky because

00:30:31he went the wrong way see if you had a penalty and the goalkeeper goes the right way and he still

00:30:34doesn't save it that's a good penalty for me yeah so if you whip it across and the goalkeeper goes

00:30:37that way and it still goes in that's a good penalty sometimes you can get lucky because you

00:30:41can just place it and the goalkeeper goes the other way I just I didn't really enjoy hitting penalties

00:30:45it was just more relief when it went in yeah pressure's on the on the taker isn't it really

00:30:49the other thing about it as well is some people and I know this sounds absolutely insane at times

00:30:53but you know if you've got that psychologically suddenly your heart rate can go up um for many

00:30:59players especially strikers it's almost as if their heart rate is down they're calm about these things

00:31:04I played with um Jelovic remember the boy that was at Rangers um played him in China and he had a big

00:31:11goal bonus so he was very much as soon as that penalty came in we had a Chinese boy who you know

00:31:17in previous seasons always took the penalties and he was just like no that's me that was his chance

00:31:22to to make some money and he just knew this was the best opportunity that I'll maybe get

00:31:26in the game to score and get some money so did he score regularly he scored yeah I think he scored

00:31:31I don't think he missed if I remember correctly I love that story yeah I know absolutely

00:31:37I mean honestly if you've got goal bonuses but yeah but he was just he used to think if I can get

00:31:43if the team gets seven or eight penalties a year over the course of the season that's me almost at

00:31:48double figures if I miss so he used to everyday practice penalties and um you know even back then

00:31:53it was a lot goalkeepers now look at who's the penalty taker they've gone the last three they've

00:31:58gone to the left so and so they go to the right pressure penalties they've all got that sort of

00:32:02written down so he used to try and make sure that he had a few up his sleeve that he was 100%

00:32:06confident about and keep saved he'd be obviously be raging but he put a lot of practice into that

00:32:12and like Scotty yeah he's confident about it I can only say I never really felt great hitting

00:32:18the penalty it was just more relief yeah um as far as um tonight's games are concerned everybody

00:32:23will have their own thoughts on what they're going to watch if you're uh like some of my friends

00:32:29would say we're definitely not watching Celtic Slova and Bratislava they would look towards

00:32:34pity them all Man City Inter because Man City and Inter are certainly when you look at some of the

00:32:39the early bookies odds they're up there in the top five that considered could be in the in the

00:32:47the quarters semis and the final yeah and it'd have been good for a couple of seasons now they've

00:32:51been really really strong you know winning the league and stuff but the Man City again probably

00:32:56a team to beat I think that you know you look at the squad they've got you know there's probably

00:33:00a team to beat again I think that Bayern Munich I think they'll be there this season I like Ulysses

00:33:03I think he's a good signing for them I think Harry Kane will get surely wins a trophy this season I

00:33:08think he's never won a trophy which is I think what do you think of the Skecher boots have you

00:33:12seen them I've seen now you must be getting paid a fortune to wear Skecher he's wearing Skecher

00:33:15football boots Harry Kane he's getting millions of pounds but to be comfy golf shoes and trainers

00:33:20and that but I don't know but I don't know about the gold ones on against uh for England aren't

00:33:25they gold Skechers even you wouldn't wear them and to be honest um let's not be taking any fashion

00:33:33um because so many people are actually commenting I kid you not so many people are saying what about

00:33:41Tam's clobber I mean it's just absolutely unbelievable the gear he's wearing um but

00:33:47that's what happens in the golf he just suddenly starts buying all this mental stuff uh and looks

00:33:53ridiculous um but uh yeah I don't I don't get you know what Skechers they might be great

00:33:59because not everybody laughed you know Michael Jordan used to wear adidas all the time and then

00:34:07suddenly you know he was influenced by one of the reps a great movie Air Jordan yeah and he was

00:34:14influenced to go out and look at Nike and they built their whole new design boot around him for

00:34:19basketball and they've never looked back yeah I don't think Harry Kane's gone to the local Skecher

00:34:24shop to get his football boots I think there's been a lot of you know process into what he wants

00:34:29what he wants from the boot how he feels comfortably and um yeah it's a good marketing move

00:34:34from them getting you know arguably one of the best strikers going about. Do you think kids are asking for

00:34:40Skechers because Harry Kane wears them? Yeah they will do in Germany oh yeah they will do eventually

00:34:48don't you believe that yeah I mean they're absolutely I mean the thing about it is the

00:34:52whole world now is dominated the generation now what do they call the generation now generation

00:34:59Gen Z the Gen Z are totally influenced it's influencers anybody that's got something they've

00:35:06got to have it so yeah they will get them by going Skechers I don't know about you what's the best

00:35:12pair of boots that you've ever had for comfort for the ability to go out and play without any worries

00:35:17Adermania if you will too yeah I didn't expect you to give me the year as well bloody hell uh

00:35:23right a bit of rubber on them white sole with the red blades yeah all right yeah what was good

00:35:28about them? Zidane wore them didn't he? So it's actually not the boot it's the player hey my

00:35:33favourites umbro specials umbro special yeah Alan Shearer wore them I had my most successful spell

00:35:40at Hibs with them on yeah absolutely seven goals uh Ryan I would go same with Scott yeah that was

00:35:47my boots Harry Keogh used to wear them and are these the blades were they not difficult to wear

00:35:52on Astro? No Astro they did change the blades didn't they but at the time they were okay yeah

00:36:00that was like World Cup 2002 yeah did you get them for nothing? No no you had to pay for them right

00:36:07it was yours Gola you look like Gola

00:36:09to be fair um just a nice little black boot with three stripes on it um that's good enough for me

00:36:21Coppers Coppers like Puma Kings I know you like Puma Kings my dad liked Puma Kings Peli was Puma

00:36:27King yeah absolutely anyway and by the way thanks to one of our guys George Rice who says penalty

00:36:34kicks Tommy Gemmell Tommy Gemmell had an interesting uh approach to a penalty kick um and

00:36:40it was much the same as Bobby Charlton which was I am going to blast this ball and if you get in

00:36:44the way of it you're in the net which is a it's a great way to take a penalty kick um not many people

00:36:50would save it. Pepe Signore took one step for Lazio. Yes Socrates did that as well. One step I think

00:36:57that's the hardest thing to do in the world just take one step a bit far back from you here yes but

00:37:00Socrates um he used to just take a couple of steps back and then boom into the back of the net

00:37:07cool his ice. Did the goalies have gloves on? It was 1982 the World Cup 1982 when were you born?

00:37:1391. 91 bloody hell all right okay uh let's crack on uh from uh Champions League just a little footnote

00:37:25to what's been happening at Rangers uh Dave King throwing his name in there I don't think he's

00:37:30going to end up with any power it's I think we're in again something that the Rangers fans don't want

00:37:35to see a power struggle. Yeah I don't think Dave King's going to be back in Peter I think that if

00:37:40he was he'd be in by now I think there'd have been talks behind the scene obviously John Gilligan's

00:37:44in filming at the minute um I think they'll look outside the usual suspects they'll try and look

00:37:49and maybe down south or whatever somebody with a good pedigree to come in

00:37:53the CEO and the chairman they're needing both now so yeah it's not ideal Peter you know things on

00:37:58the picture not great at the minute at Rangers um and this is no helping um but they're back

00:38:03into Ibrox which is a big bonus for them and coming up shortly against I think Hibs is the

00:38:08first home league game in a couple of weeks and they'll just be hoping that they can get it right

00:38:12on the park and off the park but I don't think Dave King will be coming back. I think the longer

00:38:16it goes on with four or five investors all on that board the more difficult it becomes to try and

00:38:24get full control of it all it needs in effect I'm not saying it needs a David Murray um because

00:38:30obviously you know that didn't end well but it needs somebody to come in who is a leader who

00:38:35takes control of all of it um again and then has a vision to take them forward with huge investment

00:38:42because if they don't get that and it suddenly becomes that power struggle again

00:38:47you know I don't think they're going to be able to move forward at the pace that the Rangers fans

00:38:52want them to move forward. No I think um Dave King did say that he said that there was a he thinks

00:38:58there's a huge gap in terms of on off the pitch uh comparing ourselves with Celtic so first and

00:39:04foremost they need to get that get that right at the club and first and second to that sorry

00:39:10Philip Camont it was a bit better on Sunday I don't know I don't know what you thought

00:39:14Tam I thought it was a bit better looked Iggy Manny came on who we spoke about last week and

00:39:18really impacted the game so they're two of the main things performance on the part and getting

00:39:23the structure above to a level where it can allow them to slow progress because I don't think it's

00:39:28going to be the progress that the fans are hoping for based on what we were hearing. Yeah well I

00:39:33don't know what are you you speak to Rangers fans as well as me Ryan as well and and Tam what what

00:39:41is the hope I mean everybody said it's a long-term vision here the manager is singing from the same

00:39:47hymn sheet as the former chairman um quite simply he's got to get a team that picks itself near

00:39:55enough so these players have got to integrate themselves um I don't think anybody was expecting

00:40:01you know unbelievable flair up at Tanadise if anything they were thinking this could be a

00:40:05banana skin. Yeah yeah I think even myself I thought it would have been a really tough game

00:40:10for Rangers um but at the end of the day they went up there they get a clean sheet they get

00:40:15the three points and that gives them something to build on that's what they needed especially

00:40:18after the previous few weeks guys coming in now making an impact and in the side which

00:40:23the fans would would have wanted so I think they're in a far better position where they were

00:40:27two weeks ago in terms of players who are going to be on the first on the team sheet now and that

00:40:31gives them that chance to grow as a team. Yeah um Ryan I went up to Aberdeen on Saturday to see the

00:40:38dons um they had flames they had fireworks they had uh they had a 10 minute I've never seen this

00:40:46in a long while they had a 10 minute uh applause the players and the backroom staff for the ultras

00:40:53on in the paddock end to the right they stood there and applauded them for 10 minutes um it was

00:40:58quite unusual I mean I like I like the whole Aberdeen feel of the way they're going with it

00:41:0210 games unbeaten I think that's to be celebrated I mean Kaiser I think's an Aberdeen fan forgive me

00:41:07if you're not Kaiser he says Rangers are in the distance now best they can get this season

00:41:11is third uh I would imagine he thinks like Kenny like Kenny and others who are Aberdeen fans who

00:41:17watch the program that they they are serious uh contenders for third if not second um I think

00:41:26they're a wee bit off it to be honest with you if I was looking in depth at them but

00:41:30they still got 10 wins in a row five in a row in the league I think that's not to be um laughed at

00:41:37I think that if you're an Aberdeen fan you should be as confident as you can be there's no reason

00:41:41why they can't try and go for second especially when Rangers are a little bit um you know there's

00:41:49things happening behind the scenes so the old firm game you know things aren't as rosy as maybe

00:41:54people are making out so Aberdeen it's a great opportunity for them just to keep getting points

00:41:58on the board keep building that gap if they're looking at coming third which would be you know a

00:42:03great season considering where they were from last year they're already you know four or five games

00:42:07in front of um what would usually be the contenders Hearts, Hibbs, Kilmarnock, St Mirren you know those

00:42:14teams are have got off to a slow start so I think there's um yeah huge advantages to being a to an

00:42:21Aberdeen fan and I didn't see that thing at the end but I think the more that the club and the

00:42:24players and you know all of that are in singing off the same hymn sheet going in the same direction

00:42:29I think that's quite hard to stop especially during a season. Yeah I did actually meet uh

00:42:34Nicky Devlin in the car park and I said to him what the what was all that about you know 10 minutes

00:42:42you know all this and he says I was waiting for the 10 game cup to be brought out and he was

00:42:46laughing he said no the manager wants to you know get that bond get that you know connection between

00:42:52the supporters so fair play they created a great atmosphere uh on Saturday it was it was just a

00:42:58it was just great to see it the only thing about it and the playing side of things

00:43:02uh Scott which Muddles stood off them for an hour I mean they just did not press them and the boy

00:43:08Nielsen you would have loved it you would have had the cigars out because the boy Nielsen would come

00:43:13and take the ball off the back four and then boom boom boom pass pass pass move up into the midfield

00:43:18try and link the front and he directed everything coming the other way to defend he was telling them

00:43:23everyone where to go. Yeah well I think in terms of when the game is like that and the team sits

00:43:28off you it can be good in terms of from a deeper area get on the ball but you still need you still

00:43:32need to hurt teams in the final third that's the most important thing I think that's what

00:43:35Kato Wills plan would have been to kind of stifle them in the final third and maybe

00:43:39counter-attack on it because they've got a bit of pace now on the wings but with Aberdeen I think

00:43:43the kind of frustrations the fans have had over the last few years they've they've now got a team

00:43:47they can be proud of but what brings atmosphere and guys to the stadium and is winning games

00:43:53playing game wins do that that everything's perfect when you're winning games and that's

00:43:57where they're at at this moment I think we said when we were talking at the start of the season

00:44:00how they were looking we talked we spoke about McGrath he's been fantastic under this manager I

00:44:05think he's been excellent, Kevin Nisbet coming in but a depth there so Aberdeen are in a great

00:44:11place and game by game I'm sure they'll take it. Yeah I think him at his peak if he was on the

00:44:17Hibs side that you were in you'd have scored more goals. Scott? Yeah I watched Scott obviously

00:44:24working with Hibs TV and working with various companies when Scott was at his peak at Hibs and

00:44:30he was superb. I'd have loved to have been a striker playing in front of Scott. I was lucky

00:44:36if Russell Latty played behind me for a couple of seasons and he was similar he just looked up and

00:44:41played the ball in behind and you just made a run and he'd find you and Scott was a similar player but

00:44:45yeah maybe not similar off the park. Russell was by far a better professional. Yes

00:44:53for me Russell was better to hang about with to be perfectly honest with you but nevertheless.

00:44:59Share any stories? No we're not going to share them we'll get Russell and he can share them.

00:45:03Just before we talk about the fans right across the SPFL here's the headlines for you.

00:45:09Hi there I'm Kerry and here is your daily news headlines on Wednesday the 18th of September

00:45:13brought to you by Arnold Clarke. Motherwell manager Stuart Kettlewell says he's surprised

00:45:17at the sacking of Sir Johnson boss Craig Levine despite his efforts with the club last season.

00:45:22I believe it's a surprise that that decision with the fact that it's certainly been the worst start

00:45:27to the season that they've had and the fact that Craig's task obviously was to keep them up last

00:45:31season which was exactly what he'd done and avoided the relegation playoffs. I think most

00:45:36days in Scottish football would be a little bit surprised in the timing and how that's came about.

00:45:41And Celtic gear up to take on Slava Bratislava in their opening Champions League game tonight

00:45:45at Celtic Park with Brendan Rodgers adding he's always looking to better his squads.

00:45:49The quality of the team has been really really good the level of performance has been consistent

00:45:54and aggressive and everything that I'd want but I always want more and I want to bring that there

00:46:00into a European stage and for that and you need that that calibre of player so the club have

00:46:08backed me great with that and going forward we want to add a few more.

00:46:13And finally Liverpool manager Arnish Schlott has praised his men having coming away with three

00:46:17points in their Champions League clash with AC Milan last night despite going behind in the first

00:46:21five minutes of the game. I think it was very good to see how they took the game in their hands the

00:46:28players and in the end scored three goals and won with three more. For all the latest breaking

00:46:36headlines be sure to tune in to PL Dead Soccer's YouTube channel and don't forget to download our

00:46:39app which is available on Google Play and the App Store. Yeah thanks to Kerry we were talking about

00:46:45fans and you know so many teams if they get a run of results suddenly the fans come out they respond

00:46:52to it all which incidentally brings me nicely to one of our latest mini documentaries which is

00:46:58coming out Kerry and Blair have been working away on Hibbs the match day experience basically we

00:47:05want to thank Hibbs Football Club they gave us access all areas Tam well we're able just to show

00:47:11you know what Hibbs are doing great work in the background to give so many fans at every level

00:47:17the chance to go in enjoy a bit of food if you're there with your mates and you just want the burger

00:47:22and you want to chit chat and a beer you can get and do that if you want the you know wearing the

00:47:27suit bringing in business associates you've got that level as well and then there of course

00:47:32you know so many uh things that they're doing behind the scenes to generate uh you know not

00:47:37only commercial activity but revenue so that the managers get more money at his disposal it's a

00:47:41it's a great insight into it yeah i'm looking forward to seeing it obviously i've heard a

00:47:45little bit about it the guys were through at the weekend there and listeners there's

00:47:48absolutely no criticism of the way hubs are being run off the park i think in terms of the

00:47:52hospitality you know when i was there they were just concourses with burger stalls and i think

00:47:58it's it's obviously moved on now you've got top class restaurants top class chefs

00:48:03been employed um nice wine you know as you said if you want to go and have a sit down have a top

00:48:08class meal you can do that if you want to just go and have a cup of paint for your pals i think

00:48:11there's one behind the goal they're sorting out you know in the famous five stands so no i i think

00:48:15that the hubs have got a lot of credit for what they've done off the park but everything is

00:48:20obviously judged on the park and if they can get the two of them together if they can get

00:48:23hubs on the pitch doing well and the revenue off the park then it's going to be it's going to be

00:48:27an almightily big club to go and play it and that's that's the key to it all these days guys i

00:48:33mean uh hubs you you can get you can have the meal there's nothing better than fans getting a chance

00:48:40to see a few legends roaming about some former players um pat stanton was 80 he was there he

00:48:46was chatting to people in the lounges i mean that's just a great experience yeah obviously

00:48:50in the meantime they'll know pat really well he'd train at training ground quite regularly when i

00:48:55was young he's a lovely man obviously a hero of the club i think just to echo what tam says in

00:49:01terms of the work that they have done off the pitching and about the stadium it is incredible

00:49:05what they have put their money where their where their mouth is but ultimately on the pitches with

00:49:11the hubs fans will still that that is what they're grasping for this moment and it's a step in the

00:49:16right direction i know we spoke about the two draws previous to the one at the weekend they

00:49:20look as if they're finally turning around and going in the right direction which at the start

00:49:24of the season i believe david gray is the right man for the job and he's certainly been given that

00:49:28wee bit of time and he's got his team together he's got the right selection now couple of guys coming

00:49:32in who came in late in the window who are now affecting games and martin bowers backscoring

00:49:37as well so it's always a good sign yeah absolutely um we like to read out from time to time we like

00:49:42to read out people's real name but as you know on our youtube feed people don't actually give

00:49:48their real name from time to time kenny does because he's a don's fan and he's got his name

00:49:53up there which is fantastic some people don't and then there are some people that it could be

00:49:57deceiving but they're still nice about you scott um pretty paulie paints a picture in my mind uh

00:50:03says uh scotty was a tremendous wee player but your health is your wealth that's true so there

00:50:09you have it uh big fan i also said uh not quite so tell me about me not uh so positive about you

00:50:17tam a springburn burger um which leaves a which leaves a picture in my mind uh and as ever at the

00:50:24moment because people have a perception uh people have a perception sometimes that he's not a right

00:50:29good laugh and good company uh nothing here for ryan that's so early in the morning

00:50:41i was trying to sleep somebody's gonna give us a real insight into you if hearts were winning

00:50:48yeah absolutely um scotland highest uh attendance per capita um i mean the fans turn out aberdeen

00:50:5917 000 there um you know my little fans have made the journey up and it is a trek

00:51:04um you get hibs who'll turn out in great numbers hearts um have backed their club big time

00:51:10st mirren and kelly had a great away support at the weekend for that game too so it's no

00:51:16surprise that we have this situation 18.36 attendees per thousand people that matches

00:51:23across scotland in the top flight 23 24 double the figure welcome by the next closest european nation

00:51:31i think it's you know it's just in the culture i think of scottish people is a saturday is that

00:51:37you know everyone goes to a football game whether that be junior level um in the lower leagues or

00:51:42up into the premier league and i think that should be something that um you know scotland should be

00:51:47proud of yeah but also i think it shows you the appetite is you know things that i see on twitter

00:51:52is it's still too expensive to go to games i think that's something the club should really look at

00:51:57you know we're getting huge amounts of people wanting to come to the games that possibly can't

00:52:02afford it and if you're going with your two kids and your wife you're looking at easy 100 quid

00:52:07just to watch the game food travel you know if you're doing that you know once a week or

00:52:13there's a lot of midweek games it just becomes that they end up picking the games that they

00:52:16want to go to you want to make them that you want to take your kids or your your partner to games

00:52:22and and have it as an an all-round experience but not paying through the nose and i think

00:52:26that's something that you know scottish clubs should be looking at especially away fans um

00:52:31i think away fans can bring a massive atmosphere to the to you know to the home support there's

00:52:37nothing more sort of that gets home fans up as if there's a noisy away support in the corner or you

00:52:42know behind the goal so i think as much as you know it's great that there's so many people coming

00:52:48out i think it's sometimes important that you look at you know financially how much those fans having

00:52:53to pay and something the club should look at yeah i think they do look for incentives from

00:52:57time to time to give fans that special offer motherwell are certainly doing it for the

00:53:02quarterfinal of the premier sports cup against under united in friday because they've been out

00:53:09there leafleting the area trying to get the fans to come out and support the team blair

00:53:15malloy was there to find out all about it with stuart kettlewell the motherwell boss

00:53:21motherwell have the chance to return to hamden for the first time in six years for a cup tie

00:53:25as they take on dundee united on friday night in the quarterfinals of the premier sports cup

00:53:29and manager stuart kettlewell has imparted on his players how much it'll mean to lift a trophy

00:53:34i think sometimes we just look at the monetary aspect of football i think we look at

00:53:38um you know people want security i think people uh looking at win bonuses and you know all these

00:53:44different things but again i was probably brought up in a simpler time where a simpler mindset that

00:53:49your career is defined by success that that's how i look at it i think all the good things in

00:53:53football ie money contracts and all that type of stuff happen off the back of success and and i've

00:53:59always been someone massive into the fact i certainly wasn't the greatest player in the world

00:54:02um but i'm proudest punch of the medals that i was able to win and and promotions and various

00:54:08different things i've been able to achieve and um those are the things that i'm i'm genuinely most

00:54:13proud of the steel men boss also revealed the lengths the club are going to to ensure this

00:54:17place is rocking under the friday night lights we just need to concentrate on being our best

00:54:22version um but of course when you look at the what you know what the community is pouring into

00:54:27at motherwell um we've got umpteen volunteers out just now going door to door handing out flyers

00:54:32leaflets to drum up a bit of support and see if we can get as many people in here as we possibly

00:54:37can we're a proper community club that's what we are and i think that's been really evident over

00:54:42the last few days weeks and where everybody in the community's sort of buying into that excitement

00:54:47of the cup competition and my job is to go and make sure that the players give the the supporters

00:54:51and everyone that comes here to back us on friday something to cheer about. Can these motherwell

00:54:55players take one step closer to lifting their first piece of silverware since 1991? Find out

00:55:00this friday at 7.45 as they take on Dundee United. Did you get a leaflet? Did i get a leaflet?

00:55:07Were you in the kind of motherwell area? No i haven't had one yet but i'll tell you one thing

00:55:11full marks to them. Did they come into the big houses in here? Or are they just the schemes

00:55:15to be fair there is a security gate so which again he's more angry you get in with that

00:55:22clobber i will never go but just on that point though chapping doors just in case you think it's

00:55:29you know i used to sell to glaswegian well remember that yeah but that's not to get people into the

00:55:34ground but you know sir alex ferguson used to go around in the car with a loudtailer

00:55:40in paisley to get the fans to come out and support them at st mirren

00:55:44and in the 70s he would go he went round paisley with a loud hailer just saying come on get out

00:55:52and support st mirren and i think you know 21st century absolutely get out there if you can get

00:55:58you know two or three hundred more fans brilliant yeah all the more fans the better i think for the

00:56:03club i think kettlebell touches on terms of a community club that is what you associate motherwell

00:56:07with i think i think for me it's actually been a reasonably good start to the season for motherwell

00:56:13considering the injuries they had at the start of the season so it's a massive opportunity for them

00:56:17to progress in the cup and the united are obviously looking to bounce back but motherwell they always

00:56:22they always get players through they always we like yeah david turnbulls and boys like that they

00:56:29always every couple of years they produce somebody like that so they do things right motherwell yeah

00:56:34absolutely let's hope it's a huge success with a big crowd turning out there for motherwell

00:56:38dunn united who's winning it i'll go with motherwell yeah i'll go with motherwell yeah i

00:56:43think motherwell as well yeah motherwell yeah we're all motherwell for that one um that's the

00:56:46friday night game the two other games aberdeen against spartans is it 11 in a row yes trying to

00:56:54stay on kenny's good books i would imagine so yeah i think spartans would need to play their

00:56:59maximus to get a result yeah absolutely uh just as we thought we were getting to the end of the

00:57:06program uh without one of those guys he's fired her in there um anyway uh i'll go with aberdeen

00:57:16as well it's the time we knew the day uh rangers against dundee ranges ranges i'm gonna go for an

00:57:23i'm gonna go for rangers yeah okay

00:57:29can you explain that gag and then the last one celtic against falkirk tom

00:57:34yeah celtic i can't see by them but falkirk they're absolutely flying but i think that's

00:57:39maybe just taking it too far to go and beat celtic at parkhead but there's some team

00:57:42yeah um change i'm actually quite looking forward to that game yeah and there's two

00:57:49premiership games ross county against st johnston st johnston obviously alec cleland

00:57:53is going to be in charge there uh where's your money on with that one scott a draw i think ross

00:57:59county after last weekend yeah yeah it was a good performance by them st mirrenhart

00:58:05massive game for stephen how massive is it i think if they get beat i think he could get canned

00:58:11so i'm going to go for some money one you think he's going to lose his job i think

00:58:15you might get banned if they get if they get beat wow that's a call right i guess i think

00:58:20the last two managers have been sacked after defeats to st mirren so whether that's a little

00:58:25omen but yeah i i do think if they don't get something um he could be on a real sticky patch

00:58:33i think it's just the way that they've started this season something doesn't seem to be right

00:58:38i don't know whether it's the manager i don't know whether it's the players it's

00:58:41there just some there seems to be something that's not taken over but um yeah it's a horrible

00:58:47place to go when you're on that run and st mirren i think as much as it pains me to say i think st

00:58:53mirren will win at the weekend wow scott are you going to be the third man up yeah yeah do you

00:58:59think he's on a sticky wicket yeah yeah i do i think will he survive it if he loses well he

00:59:04survive well if he loses i would be i would be i would be surprised depending on the manner of it

00:59:12i think they're going to stick with him um i just i just get the feeling the board's a wee bit

00:59:21yeah absolutely um i think there's a wee bit about them and of course

00:59:25hearts like hibs and other clubs looking for investment from elsewhere um who knows a big one

00:59:32give us your thoughts on that as well just before we go uh last word probably better suited to

00:59:37myself and tam i don't know about you but tam you know i was there with my friends supporting

00:59:43scotland in italy uh i can hear uh nessun dorma being played i can see the slow-mo of toto scalacci

00:59:51running uh away after scoring a goal top goal scorer golden boot winner six goals

00:59:57toto scalacci sadly passed away at the age of 59 yeah we actually spoke about it last week with

01:00:02your first you know remembering football was your first you know game you remember mine was was

01:00:09italian the first big tournament peter where toto scalacci was playing for italy and i don't think

01:00:13he was even the team to start he turned to get injured and he came in and he was like a super

01:00:17subway come on you remember him running away you know the eyes bulging brilliant uh great player

01:00:2259 is no age as well you know it's pretty young peter as well so thoughts about his family and

01:00:28everyone in italy for that yeah he was a big hero for it for italy in that tournament you've summed

01:00:33it up perfectly tam um i think uh juventus and so many other clubs have paid tribute to him

01:00:38we immediately fell in love with toto his desire his story his being so wonderfully passionate

01:00:44and it showed in every game he played um toto scalacci one of the world cup heroes

01:00:51that will never be forgotten by the fans of italy and many more across the world thanks to scott

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