The group consisted of Dalglish, Connery, Gavin Hastings and Ewan McGregor, with Kosti on vocals.

Mention 1978 and he’ll say, “Argentina, that’s all I mean.

In a word association game, 1982 would probably give a response like “‘Topok’. It upset the best Brazilian in history (he had never been a world champion). So gentlemen excuse me: Alan Handsome and Willie Van Cleef. Target again Difference. “

1986? “Ve Gordon in his beach shorts: ‘Look, my leg can go so high.’ Dirty Uruguay. Can we get out of call groups if we spell “nezahualcoyotl” correctly? “Then there’s 1990: “Another bad tool, cheeky rear heel, brazil again, Murdo jerk.” and 1992: “Hello Euro, we’re from Scotland, Kiss.

It was still the Euro in 1996: “Is football coming? Are you coming? Something like that. But the ball moved! Gaza fell on the dentist’s chair and the country wanted to be in it like Laurence Olivier marathon man Drill perfectly healthy teeth. “

But 1998, who remembers it? I mean, we all know what happened, but at that point did we start taking Scotland’s qualification lightly? Did you find it a bit routine to reach the final? What, are we going to revisit romantic Brazil anymore? Wait, you’re spoiling us! Long after that, of course, it all stopped and we switched to NFI for all subsequent parts.

You might not think so at 98 and I guess it’s a matter of age. If you were at an impressive stage of life 23 years ago, when Craig Brown, a former teacher, organized your school trip for the 16th World Cup, everything about the World Cup in France would still be alive, relevant and real . If not, you might be happy with the BBC Scotland documentary. Mr. Brown’s Boys.

Nice title, good program. I know all about the submarine mission in Argentina and how, semi-sadly, it wasn’t really a mission, but I completely missed the Bannockburn Four. These were the people who made shining the tallest flagpole in Scotland a daunting task, he said, especially in kilns when you have to use keys, and they took the huge salt of the battle site. While visiting the Auld Alliance, temporarily replace with a matte blanket. The attached note read: “He had gone to France.

Qualifying for the tournament was busy, with “A Team in Tallinn” games and confusion over whether Scotland should play Belarus on the day of Princess Diana’s funeral, with Rangers players consciously protesting.

Because France is so close, and because it was time for a professional Scotsman abroad… brave Guys don’t pair the kilt with Adidas Sambas and dirty white terry socks anymore – there was a huge ruckus to be in the finals.

In the film, Jim Leighton recalls playing Aberdeen at St Johnstone as the home season was over and Roddy Grant took his usual position at a corner corner and almost stepped on the goalkeeper’s toes: “Hey Jim What- did you give the ticket?” Hiss

Del Amitri had a World Cup song: “Don’t Come Home Too Soon”. Captain Colin Hendry didn’t love the title: “What Kind of Message Is This?” – Or the videographer’s instruction to imitate an ad for Ronaldo at that time, shot at an airport: “But I can’t wake up!” shouted the captain.

Craig Burley feels that a better name for the song could have been “Come Back at the Same Time as Usual”. The hollow-toothed midfielder is arguably the star of the doctor. You would have thought that in 1998 all football players lived like monks. off course not. “Two nights before the game,” he said, “little Johnny, having only eaten a salad, was in his room doing push-ups; meanwhile, we were trying to pull down the beer to escape the fire. “

“We Johnny” is John Collins whose body was actually his temple. Manager Brun says, “He loved taking off his shirt and showing off his abs. He put on his physical form, incredibly, right then and there for the job.”

So it was Brazil in the first match. The opening match of the tournament also took place in Paris. Brown had a great idea to spice up the occasion with an extra touch: The team would enter French territory in Kilt. “I have always emphasized that the players represent Scotland well,” he said. SFA Blazers recommended, uh, more flannel blazers. Brown agreed to the request, but it was, uh, flannel. The kilns fell like a storm.

Darren Jackson, perhaps most of all, pinched himself. His career began with Meadowbank Thistle, a part-time worker who worked as a printer by day, and suddenly he turned against Ronaldo and Rivaldos. Jaco had a little routine of his own: Always be the last person to leave the locker room. Right in front of him was Colin Calderwood, who liked to walk in the field punching himself before the psychopath roared: “Let’s go! “Unfortunately,” laughs Jaco, “the older man left the room and turned right instead of left.”

Unfortunately, Scotland returned very quickly. An embarrassment to the team and their boss, Leighton said of Brown: “Best person I’ve ever met, in or out of football.”

However, the tartan army will always have Paris. “It was like you were at the center of the world,” recalls one fan, as listing his fellow musical entertainer: “With a band of collaborator McCoist Kenny Dalglish, Sean Connery, Gavin Hastings and Has Evans’ Is McGregor singing ‘Born to Run’ and Bruce Springsteen making it this far?

Mr Brown’s Boys airs Tuesdays at 9 pm on BBC1.

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