Should fans be booking flights to the Euros? Talking Scotland success

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00:02 - So Barry, Scotland, it continues to be a great time

00:07 to be a Scotland fan,

00:08 another really strong win over Cyprus.

00:11 And listen, by the time some people watch this podcast,

00:15 depending on the result between Norway and Georgia,

00:18 we could have already booked our place to Germany.

00:20 - Potentially, yeah, Martin.

00:23 I mean, I think so many people are still pinching themselves

00:28 and I'm certainly one of them,

00:29 the way that Scotland team is going

00:31 and the momentum that they've built,

00:32 it's almost unprecedented.

00:34 I just can't remember a Scotland team.

00:36 I remember Scotland teams that were doing well

00:38 and years gone by and getting results

00:40 and a good sequence of wins put together,

00:43 but I just can't remember one with this level of belief

00:46 and confidence going into games

00:49 and one that doesn't seem to be inhibited in any way

00:54 by what's happened in the past.

00:57 The failures of the past doesn't seem to be weighing

00:59 on their shoulders.

01:00 There's not that,

01:01 I don't sense that burden of glorious failure

01:03 that we've seen in many Scotland teams before.

01:05 - Three games remaining.

01:07 So it's Spain away, Georgia away, Norway at home.

01:11 So obviously three very tough fixtures,

01:14 but we only, I think, need a point to qualify.

01:17 What would stand out to my vote?

01:19 I haven't had time to properly check this fact,

01:21 you might know, but I think if we get five points now,

01:24 that would guarantee us top seeding for the finals draw.

01:27 I mean, just saying that.

01:29 - Yeah, just saying that as a Scotland fan sounds bizarre.

01:32 - It does.

01:34 It's like you're in a parallel universe here

01:37 watching this team and saying,

01:38 coming out with comments like that

01:39 and looking at stats tables where we're the top ranked nation

01:42 in the overall ranking in terms of

01:45 to pop one seed for the Euros, it's just crazy.

01:48 But long may it continue because we've suffered,

01:51 all of us have suffered for years watching Scotland,

01:55 praying that we get to a major tournament.

01:56 It hasn't happened.

01:57 It obviously happened a couple of years back,

01:59 getting to the Euros.

02:00 And you just want the momentum to continue.

02:03 I mean, of course, I'm going to have egg in my face here

02:05 when they lose the next three qualifiers

02:06 and miss the Euros and gold difference.

02:08 But even this Scotland,

02:11 I just, given what's happened in the past,

02:13 I can't see the Scotland team failing now.

02:16 I think they're virtually there.

02:18 They know they're virtually there.

02:19 They know they have the ability to get there.

02:21 It's not like they've scraped results.

02:23 They've got every single result that they've had

02:25 in this qualifying campaign.

02:27 They've deserved all five of the victories.

02:30 - I mean, you definitely encapsulated my next point,

02:33 and that's that there's still so many Scotland fans,

02:36 just until it's confirmed,

02:37 no one's booking their flights to Germany.

02:39 No one's, or I mean, to be fair now,

02:42 there are a section of people

02:43 that have already started doing that.

02:44 I think they must be of a slightly younger generation

02:47 that don't remember some of the glorious failures

02:49 of the past.

02:50 But you look at the games and they are tough games,

02:53 but given just how good we've been,

02:56 you just, we're surely there already, aren't we?

02:59 I mean, or do you just feel like you just,

03:01 you can't see it until it's for certain?

03:03 - Yeah, I'm not going to say it.

03:06 It's just too much of a jinx.

03:08 Been here before so many times.

03:10 And just going on what you said there,

03:12 actually a few of my mates are booking things,

03:15 or have booked things already for Germany,

03:18 and they are of my kind of generation.

03:20 I'll leave you to decide whether I'm older generation

03:22 or younger, but these people in their 40s

03:26 have actually gone ahead and booked things now

03:28 to make sure that they get to Germany

03:30 in terms of accommodation and things.

03:31 So clearly people of our age are believing in this team.

03:36 And that's the biggest thing about it,

03:37 because previously you would have held off

03:39 and held off and held off,

03:40 just to make sure that you get that very last couple

03:43 of points that you need to get over the line.

03:45 So yeah, I think the next three games are difficult.

03:50 I mean, the next three games for Scotland alone

03:52 are going to be a massive test

03:53 because you've got a friendly against England

03:55 Tuesday night, you're then away to Spain in a qualifier,

03:58 and then it's another friendly against France.

04:00 So England, Spain, France,

04:02 it's going to be a massive test for any team.

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