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Fantasy Five-A-Side: Dykes vs McCoist - A battle of big characters to take the last slot in our side
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25/06/2024
Which heroes from Scotland's European Championship history will make our dream team? Andrew Robertson, Ally McCoist and Gary McAllister are among the players before our selection panel.
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So we've reached the point of attack, centre forward, striker. I've got a pretty good feeling
00:14
that I know who you're going to choose here, Matt. But for the sake of completing a sort of Euro 2020
00:21
clean sweep on my part, I am going to give a very honourable mention to Lyndon Dykes,
00:28
who up until sort of the run-up to Euro 2020 was by no means a shoo-in to be in the Scotlands
00:37
starting XI, but by the time they got to that tournament he ended up starting all three of
00:42
their group stage matches and I think he only missed something like 11 minutes overall. He
00:46
played the vast majority of that tournament and he's obviously all the things we know Lyndon
00:51
Dykes to be. He's a big physical presence, he's a handful, he's a bit of a nuisance.
00:56
But the reason I've got him in there really is just vibes. He just seems like a bit of a laugh,
01:02
doesn't he? If you're looking for somebody to dye their hair bright pink and just sort of generally
01:07
raise the murrayment of a dressing room, then I think Dykes is your man. I think it can't be
01:11
understated how important it is to have a bit of a maverick in a major international tournament
01:18
squad. Obviously we've spoken about Paul Gascoigne on this on this podcast already and
01:26
I'm not saying Dykes is anywhere near Gaza levels of craziness, but he certainly has a streak to
01:31
him and I think that just for pure entertainment value and also just on the basis of the fact that
01:37
he seems like a pretty good laugh and a pretty decent guy, then I'm going to give him the nod,
01:42
even if he didn't score a single goal at the tournament and even if for the most part he was
01:46
relatively anonymous and also because there is, quite frankly, a lack of other viable options.
01:54
I'm going to go for Lyndon Dykes and now I'm going to hand it over to you and you're going
01:58
to blow me out of the water by suggesting Ali McCoy, aren't you? No, Gordon Durie,
02:02
obviously. No, of course. You know, he's everything Lyndon Dykes isn't.
02:08
Well, Lyndon Dykes is absolutely sort of this big physical presence who puts himself around
02:12
Ali McCoy, this little nimble striker who knew how to get into little half spaces and gaps and
02:17
a lovely bit of technique and a lovely finish on him. Actually, I say not everything they
02:20
aren't because I get the impression they both would be a bit raucous down the pub, certainly
02:23
in McCoy's A day. I think it's fair to say he probably would have been an interesting character
02:27
on a night out as well. But yeah, I mean, McCoy's was just, you know, he's got 19 goals for Scotland,
02:33
you know, hundreds, literally hundreds of his club career, most of them for Rangers.
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And just, yeah, he's a fabulous player, scored a brilliant goal of Euro 96, Scotland's only goal
02:42
of Euro 96. So he's one of the five who've managed to actually, you know, hit the back of
02:47
the net in one of these tournaments. And it was a cracking goal. I can't actually remember all of,
02:51
right off the top of my head, all of Scotland's goals against the CIS back in 92. But I will say
02:55
this is probably the best of Scotland's goals of Euro 96. Just, you know, 20, 22 yards out,
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perfect, sort of pinged off his right boot, right into the top left hand corner. Goalkeeper was that
03:05
side, maybe the positioning wasn't great, but he was never getting to it. Just a wonderful,
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wonderful finish. And, you know, he was a cracking player. And I know these days,
03:12
probably there's certain, you know, people more of your age probably remember him for
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irritating Sue Barker on a question of sport or forming an unlikely travelogue duo with John
03:20
Champion at Russia, Russia 2018, not 98, sorry, I don't know where they got that from, but you know,
03:25
but he was a brilliant player. He was just, he was just, he was fast. He was difficult to mark.
03:31
He knew how to get into places to score goals and he knew how to score goals. And he was one of
03:35
Scotland's greatest strikers. Yeah. I mean, obviously everything you say is absolutely true
03:41
and more than happy to give you McCoy's here. I think if we're being perfectly honest, there's an
03:46
argument to be made for, you know, Ali McCoy's being the best performance Scotsman at Euro 2020
03:51
as well, given his, you know, I joke, of course, please, nobody north of the border come for me.
03:59
I do really like Ali McCoy's as, as both a player and as the pundit and the commentator that he's
04:12
become, I think he's a great guy. He seems to be a great guy at least.
04:17
You just couldn't stand him as a question of sport captain.
04:21
Well, you know, he was, he was not Emlyn Hughes. I'll tell you that much.
04:26
There's no way you remember Emlyn Hughes.
04:30
It'd be a weird blank spot, wouldn't it? If I knew Emlyn Hughes, but not Gary McAllister.
04:34
Yeah. Anyway, no, for the sake of fairness, I think it's got to go to Ali McCoy's hasn't it?
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