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The Scottish Football Citizen is a new weekly podcast that delves into the long and illustrious past of Scottish football. We cover every level from internationals to the juniors, discussing players, managers, teams, big games and even the fans and how they earned a crust in order to pay for their match tickets. Sign up to our mailing list at https://the-scottish-football-citizen.mailchimpsites.com/ to make sure you never miss an episode or an update from us!
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Friday Jul 09, 2021
Friday Jul 09, 2021
In this episode we delve into the Scottish Football Museum's archive to bring you an interview with former Scotland player Rhonda Jones. Rhonda started off her career at Motherwell Rovers before moving on to Ayr United before going to the USA to play for Florida Atlantic Owls. She then went on to play for Hibernian, Doncaster Rovers Belles, Celtic, Glasgow City and Rangers. At the time of this interview Rhonda was playing for Ayr United and she discusses her footballing roots, being discovered and being called up to play for Scotland as well as talking about studying graphic design at the same time.
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Thursday Jun 17, 2021
Thursday Jun 17, 2021
In this week's episode Andy sits down with former Scotland manager Craig Brown to discuss his experiences managing the country as Scotland prepare to travel to Wembley for a huge game against England. Craig knows all about this particular fixture, having led Scotland out twice in the three lions' den, and as always his stories are well worth a listen!
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Friday Jun 11, 2021
Friday Jun 11, 2021
In this week's episode Andy, Jim and Lindsay revisit the Scotland's time at the 1996 European Championship tournament as the Tartan Army went south to clash with the Netherlands, England and Switzerland. Would Scotland break the curse of never having got out of a group stage of a tournament before, or would it be another case study in glorious failure for Craig Brown's men?
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Friday Jun 04, 2021
Friday Jun 04, 2021
In this episode we delve into the Scottish Football Museum's archive to bring you an interview that our curator Richard McBrearty did with former Montrose FC chairman and president Willie Johnston.
Willie talked with Richard about his involvement with the club, his favourite memories supporting the Mighty Mo and how he managed to juggle his newsagents shop, running the club and being the town's provost at the same time!
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Friday May 28, 2021
Friday May 28, 2021
Ahead of the release of the film "Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In" we conclude our four-part series on the greatest manager of all time by looking at his time at Aberdeen FC.
Andy, Lindsay, Jim and Dons fan Alan Johnstone take a look back at Fergie's time in the Granite City that turned him from a promising young manager into the man who took on the Old Firm, Jim McLean's Dundee United and the European superpowers of Bayern and Real Madrid - and beat them all.
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Friday May 21, 2021
Friday May 21, 2021
In part two of a special two-part episode ahead of the 2021 Scottish Cup Final Andy speaks to Gary West, a St. Johnstone fan, about his memories of the 2014 cup final; and to Kerry Ann Dougan, a Hibernian fan, about her memories of the 2016 cup final.
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Thursday May 20, 2021
Thursday May 20, 2021
In part one of a special two-part episode ahead of the 2021 Scottish Cup Final Andy, Jim and Lindsay take a look back at the 2014 final where St. Johnstone beat local rivals Dundee United to win their first ever major honour in the game, and then the 2016 final where Hibernian overcame a 114-year hoodoo by beating Rangers.
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Friday May 14, 2021
Friday May 14, 2021
This week's podcast continues our four-part series about the career of Sir Alex Ferguson in Scotland before he made the move south to Manchester United. Having arrived at St. Mirren after only a few short months at East Stirlingshire, the young manager finds himself inheriting a stadium needing more than the odd lick of paint and a playing squad that isn't up to much. Just how will Fergie turn things around?
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Friday May 07, 2021
Friday May 07, 2021
Ahead of Euro 2020 in the summer, this week sees Andy, Lindsay and Jim revisit Scotland's debut Euros tournament where the Tartan Army descended on Sweden for our games against the Netherlands, Germany and the Commonwealth of Independent States (aka Russia). Just how would Andy Roxburgh and Craig Brown's men fare against some of the best sides in the world?
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Friday Apr 30, 2021
Friday Apr 30, 2021
In this week's episode we continue our four-part series about the career of Sir Alex Ferguson in Scotland.
We pick up where we left off at the end of episode 20 where Ferguson has just finished his playing career at Ayr United and is looking for a route into management. After a failed job interview for his first club Queen's Park, East Stirlingshire are willing to take on the rookie manager. And he's got a task on his hands trying to elevate the Falkirk-based side out of Division Two...
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