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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!
Episodes
Friday Apr 23, 2021
Friday Apr 23, 2021
In this episode Andy delves into the archives of the Scottish Football Museum to bring you an interview from the year 2000 with Alex Smith. A well-travelled player and manager in his day, here Smith recalls travelling from his hometown of Stirling to Hampden Park with his friend Billy Bremner to watch a very famous European Cup Final between Eintracht Frankfurt and Real Madrid. Andy also takes a look at this weekend's Scottish Cup quarter-finals.
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Friday Apr 16, 2021
Friday Apr 16, 2021
Ahead of the release of "Never Give In", the new film about the life of Sir Alex Ferguson, we bring you the first episode of a four-part series about Fergie's time in Scotland before he departed for Manchester United.
Andy, Lindsay and Jim look at Sir Alex's Govan upbringing, starting out at Queen's Park as an amateur, breaking into the St. Johnstone first team, becoming established at Dunfermline and moving to his boyhood heroes Rangers before winding down his career with Falkirk and Ayr United.
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Friday Apr 09, 2021
Friday Apr 09, 2021
In this week's episode Andy, Lindsay and Jim take a look back at the life of an unforgettable character in Scottish Football, Ally MacLeod. From his humble beginnings in the south side of Glasgow to his rise of Ayr, success at Aberdeen and anticipation of Argentina, things were never dull when Ally MacLeod was around.
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Friday Apr 02, 2021
Friday Apr 02, 2021
In this episode Andy, Lindsay and Jim mark the return of the third round of the Scottish Cup. Andy and Jim look ahead to a Tayside Derby at Dens Park by going back to a famous fixture between St. Johnstone and Dundee at Muirton Park in 1962, before Andy and Lindsay go back to 1967 to revisit the mother of all cup upsets.
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Friday Mar 26, 2021
Friday Mar 26, 2021
In this episode Andy, Jim and Lindsay take a look at the life of Peter Lorimer. Signing for Leeds United at the age of 15, the boy from Dundee with dynamite in his boots became the Elland Road club's youngest ever debutant and went on to become their record goalscorer in his two spells there. Lorimer also played in all three of Scotland's 1974 World Cup group matches against Zaire, Brazil and Yugoslavia.
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Friday Mar 19, 2021
Friday Mar 19, 2021
In part two of our series about Scotland at the World Cup Andy, Lindsay and Jim take a look at the 1958 tournament in Sweden. This World Cup was the only one to date where all four home nations managed to qualify for the tournament, and we look at how Scotland qualified and got on in their games.
Glorious failure: it wouldn't be like us, would it?
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Friday Mar 12, 2021
Friday Mar 12, 2021
This week, Andy speaks to our regular contributor Jim Orr about some of his football memories. Having grown up playing football in the streets of Glasgow, Jim has coached youth football for over 20 years and written three plays about football: Bend It Like Baxter, Bend It Like Brattbakk and Bend It Like Bobby.
We also take a look back at the career of Gordon McQueen who was recently diagnosed with vascular dementia. A tall, imposing defender in his playing days, we wish Gordon all the very best in his battle with the condition.
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Friday Mar 05, 2021
Friday Mar 05, 2021
To mark the sad passing of Ian St John, Andy, Jim and Lindsay take a look back at the life of a gentleman of the Scottish game who excelled in Bill Shankly's first great Liverpool team of the 1960s. A league and cup winner in his time at Anfield, the Saint moved to Liverpool from his boyhood team of Motherwell. He gained huge popularity after retiring from playing football with his TV work in the 1980s alongside his friend Jimmy Greaves.
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Friday Feb 26, 2021
Friday Feb 26, 2021
Ahead of this weekend's Betfred Cup clash between Livingston & St. Johnstone, Andy, Jim and new contributor Lindsay Hamilton take a look back at the 1994 Scottish League Cup Final where the giants of Celtic came up against Raith Rovers in one of the most memorable finals ever played.
With Celtic going through a trophy drought and Raith finding their form trying to get back to the Premier Division, this was a final that would whet the appetite of the neutrals.
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Friday Feb 19, 2021
Friday Feb 19, 2021
In this week's episode Andy, Robert and Jim take a look back at Scottish football's "Hollywood Moment" by revisiting the film "A Shot At Glory" which starred Academy Award winner Robert Duvall, Michael Keaton and... Ally McCoist!
We look at how the film came to be made and speak to people who were involved in making the film to share their experiences of shooting scenes in a Hollywood production.
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