Scotland v Austria
European Qualifiers for FIFA World Cup 2022 Hampden Park, Glasgow Thursday 25th March, 2021 | KO 7.45pm
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Thursday 25th March, 2021 | KO 7.45pm
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SCOTLAND v AUSTRIA / EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS / FIFA 2022 WORLD CUP<br />
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04 MANAGER’S WELCOME<br />
Steve Clarke looks forward to<br />
opening 2020 Qatar World Cup<br />
qualifying against <strong>Austria</strong><br />
07 STRIKE FIRST, STRIKE HARD<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong>’s most recent<br />
qualifying win over <strong>Austria</strong><br />
proved extremely valuable<br />
11 PETER LORIMER 1946-2021<br />
Tributes were paid last weekend<br />
to the Leeds and <strong>Scotland</strong> great<br />
12 MORE OF THE SAME<br />
Liam Palmer aims to enjoy<br />
that qualification feeling in<br />
consecutive years<br />
18 AUSTRIA IN NUMBERS<br />
20 HISTORY BOYS<br />
Tonight’s visitors are looking<br />
to achieve unprecedented<br />
qualifying success<br />
26 WE’VE MET BEFORE<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong> 2-0 <strong>Austria</strong>, 1997<br />
28 HANDBAGS AND RED RAGS<br />
The history of tonight’s fixture<br />
includes an unusual pitch<br />
invasion and abandoned<br />
Hampden clash<br />
34 ON THIS DATE<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong> 1-0 Northern Ireland<br />
36 PLAYER Q&A - GREG TAYLOR<br />
The Celtic defender is setting his<br />
sights on the 2022 World Cup<br />
42 JOURNEY OF CHANGE<br />
A new strategy is helping<br />
Scottish football become a more<br />
welcoming place for the LGBTI<br />
community<br />
47 ULTRAVOX AND TARTAN DOCS<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong> fan Tam Coyle looks<br />
back on his travels including<br />
several trips to <strong>Austria</strong><br />
50 TONIGHT’S SQUADS<br />
OFFICIALS<br />
Referee:<br />
Carlos Del Cerro Grande (ESP)<br />
Assistant referee 1:<br />
Juan Carlos Yuste Jimenez (ESP)<br />
Assistant referee 2:<br />
Diego Barbero Sevilla (ESP)<br />
4th official:<br />
Jose Maria Sanchez Martinez<br />
(ESP)<br />
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MANAGER'S WELCOME<br />
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Tonight’s match not only marks the<br />
return of international football after a<br />
four-month absence, but also begins<br />
what promises to be an exciting 2021 for<br />
the national team.<br />
When I took the job of <strong>Scotland</strong> Head Coach,<br />
I said that I wanted to put the smile back on the<br />
faces of the <strong>Scotland</strong> supporters. Victory in our<br />
play-off final in Serbia certainly achieved that<br />
and I am so pleased that we were able to give<br />
the nation something to cheer during what has<br />
been an incredibly tough time for everyone.<br />
While we can be rightfully pleased to have<br />
qualified for Euro 2020, it is vital that we put<br />
that aside for the next week and concentrate<br />
on the task in hand. We want to consistently<br />
qualify for World Cups and European<br />
Championships and we intend for tonight to be<br />
the start of our journey to Qatar.<br />
It is important to get this qualification campaign<br />
off to a good start and the focus of my staff<br />
and all the players this week has been on these<br />
three matches, beginning tonight with <strong>Austria</strong>.<br />
<strong>Austria</strong> will be formidable opposition, make no<br />
mistake about it. They have qualified for two<br />
consecutive European Championships, are<br />
ranked in the top 25 nations in the world and<br />
have many players in their squad playing at the<br />
top level across Europe.<br />
There was speculation in the build-up that<br />
<strong>Austria</strong> may not have been able to name many<br />
of their regulars in their squad, but my staff and<br />
I ignored the noise and have always prepared<br />
for them to be at full strength.<br />
Following the play-off success in November<br />
we were disappointed to lose our next two<br />
matches, albeit the performances arguably<br />
deserved more. There is still room for<br />
improvement, but I was pleased with the<br />
team’s progress over the autumn.<br />
We are pleased to welcome Grant Hanley<br />
and Jack Hendry back into the squad for these<br />
fixtures after a few years’ absence from the<br />
international scene. Jack has rediscovered<br />
his confidence playing in Belgium this<br />
season, while Grant brings a huge amount of<br />
experience in international football with him,<br />
as well as confidence from being a key part of<br />
a successful Norwich City side currently top of<br />
the English Championship.<br />
The two new faces in the squad, Kevin Nisbet<br />
and Ché Adams, both bring a goal threat into<br />
the group. My conversations with Ché left me in<br />
no doubt as to how eager he is to join us and I<br />
am very pleased that he has decided to commit<br />
to <strong>Scotland</strong>. Both Ché and Kevin have shown<br />
good goal-scoring form at club level this season<br />
and they now have the chance to prove they<br />
can do the same for their country.<br />
How the next week unfolds will go some<br />
way to determining whether this qualification<br />
campaign ends on a similar high to the last one.<br />
I have no doubt my players will give their all to<br />
ensure that it does.<br />
Thank you for your support. Enjoy the game.<br />
Steve Clarke<br />
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SCENESETTER<br />
STRIKE FIRST,<br />
STRIKE HARD<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong>’s most recent qualifying win over <strong>Austria</strong><br />
proved extremely valuable<br />
By Liam McLeod, BBC <strong>Scotland</strong><br />
<strong>Scotland</strong>’s qualification for the World Cup<br />
finals in 1998 was secured on the final<br />
match-day, when goals late in each half<br />
from Gordon Durie and Kevin Gallacher<br />
sealed a 2-0 win over Latvia at Celtic Park on<br />
11 October, 1997.<br />
Until last November, that<br />
date had been indelibly<br />
inked in Tartan Army<br />
minds as the last time<br />
the Scots had reached<br />
the finals of a major<br />
competition.<br />
And although that win<br />
handed them a passport<br />
to France, it was a game<br />
played six months earlier<br />
in Glasgow’s east end<br />
that helped truly provide<br />
the key.<br />
Looking back at that<br />
group reminds you of the<br />
importance of matches<br />
like tonight’s and those to<br />
come against Denmark,<br />
the two top seeds.<br />
This evening’s visit of<br />
<strong>Austria</strong> will be the first<br />
competitive meeting<br />
between the nations since<br />
Gallacher, enjoying the<br />
campaign from heaven,<br />
produced two of the<br />
defining moments that<br />
took the Scots to those<br />
finals and that famous<br />
opening game in Saint<br />
Denis against Brazil.<br />
Under the management<br />
of one of Vienna’s most<br />
famous sons, Herbert<br />
Prohaska, <strong>Austria</strong> would<br />
lose 2-0 as Craig Brown’s<br />
men landed a haymaker<br />
blow in the section with<br />
Gallacher’s second an<br />
absolute joy to behold at<br />
an electric Parkhead, one<br />
that is still replayed on the<br />
big screens at Hampden<br />
Park to this day.<br />
It proved to be the<br />
<strong>Austria</strong>ns’ only defeat<br />
in the group and serves<br />
to remind us of the<br />
imperative of wounding<br />
the big beasts in these<br />
sections.<br />
The Scots had a<br />
magnificent campaign<br />
of their own with their<br />
only loss coming later<br />
that April in Gothenburg<br />
against a Sweden team<br />
they ultimately squeezed<br />
out on that last day<br />
thanks, mainly, to that<br />
win over <strong>Austria</strong> and a<br />
John McGinley and Jim<br />
Leighton-inspired victory<br />
over the Swedes at Ibrox.<br />
Reminders of what can be<br />
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achieved by taking care<br />
of all home games like<br />
this one.<br />
With Euro 2020 rapidly<br />
approaching, the Scots<br />
must, firstly, turn their<br />
attention to ending what<br />
will be a more than 24-<br />
year World Cup hiatus<br />
by the time the finals<br />
in Qatar roll around in<br />
November 2022.<br />
And, as ever, beginning<br />
at pace will be essential,<br />
particularly without the<br />
safety net of a play-off<br />
via the Nations League on<br />
this occasion.<br />
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The fixtures have<br />
provided Steve Clarke<br />
with a chance to do just<br />
that with this opening<br />
triple-header. After<br />
tonight’s test, a trip to<br />
face now familiar foes<br />
Israel awaits on Sunday<br />
and will be followed by<br />
the visit of the Faroe<br />
Islands back here next<br />
Wednesday. All of which<br />
offers a chance to get<br />
nine points on the board<br />
almost instantly.<br />
If you like an omen, the<br />
road to France began in<br />
1996 against tonight’s<br />
opposition and a wellearned<br />
0-0 draw in<br />
Vienna.<br />
Amidst the excitement of<br />
Belgrade in November,<br />
it is easy to lose sight of<br />
the significance of what<br />
begins right here and<br />
will rumble on after this<br />
summer’s party’s over.<br />
The start of a new<br />
campaign is always<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong>’s<br />
road to<br />
France<br />
‘98 began<br />
with a<br />
goalless<br />
draw in<br />
Vienna in<br />
1996<br />
something to look forward<br />
to, but perhaps even more<br />
so this time around given<br />
what this group of players<br />
has now achieved.<br />
Like the Scots, <strong>Austria</strong><br />
haven’t had their<br />
qualifying issues to seek<br />
down the years. They<br />
too haven’t been to a<br />
World Cup since they<br />
both emerged from that<br />
group in 1997 and whilst<br />
they’ve been to two<br />
European Championship<br />
finals in that time, one of<br />
those came by virtue of<br />
co-hosting duties in 2008<br />
alongside Switzerland.<br />
There were some<br />
concerns that restrictions<br />
on travel amidst the<br />
Coronavirus pandemic<br />
would have deprived<br />
current boss Franco<br />
Foda of many of his top<br />
German-based stars,<br />
such as Bayern Munich’s<br />
David Alaba, captain<br />
Julien Baumgartlinger of<br />
Bayer Leverkusen and<br />
RB Leipzig striker Marcel<br />
Sabitzer.<br />
However, Germany<br />
recently removed the UK<br />
from a list of countries<br />
requiring a 14-day<br />
quarantine, as did France,<br />
meaning Foda has a<br />
full squad aside from<br />
Baumgartlinger who is<br />
out through injury.<br />
Hopefully the <strong>Scotland</strong><br />
players will board their<br />
flight for Sunday’s second<br />
game in Israel having got<br />
off to the perfect start.<br />
That one will be the sixth<br />
meeting in two and a half<br />
years and the visitors<br />
will hope to reverse their<br />
fortunes in the middleeastern<br />
country after<br />
defeats in both their<br />
recent Nations League<br />
matches there.<br />
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Unfortunately, red-hot<br />
striker Eran Zahavi is in<br />
terrific form for his club<br />
side PSV Eindhoven<br />
as he aims to continue<br />
his scoring run, which<br />
currently stands at an<br />
incredible 18 goals in his<br />
last 19 internationals. The<br />
Scots know all about the<br />
danger he poses given<br />
he has scored twice at<br />
Hampden and set up the<br />
winner in November’s<br />
Nations League meeting.<br />
Another familiar<br />
opponent, though not<br />
quite as recently, are the<br />
Faroe Islands, who the<br />
Scots last faced more<br />
than a decade ago in a<br />
Pittodrie friendly.<br />
The Faroes have only<br />
lost two of their last<br />
eight games, albeit many<br />
of those were against<br />
sides of a similar level<br />
in the Nations League.<br />
Nevertheless, that is<br />
their best ever run in<br />
competitive matches<br />
and they will be buoyant<br />
when they arrive in<br />
Glasgow next week<br />
should they manage to<br />
beat Moldova tonight<br />
ahead of their own game<br />
with <strong>Austria</strong>.<br />
However, buoyancy is<br />
something <strong>Scotland</strong><br />
have in abundance<br />
right now with the<br />
intriguing additions<br />
of Ché Adams, Kevin<br />
Nisbet and a resurgent<br />
Jack Hendry all in with a<br />
chance of impressing the<br />
management team during<br />
this international camp.<br />
Southampton’s Adams<br />
has the pace to dovetail<br />
with Lyndon Dykes,<br />
Nisbet has seamlessly<br />
progressed to top-flight<br />
football with Hibernian<br />
while Hendry has been<br />
Kevin<br />
Nisbet<br />
and Ché<br />
Adams<br />
are new<br />
additions<br />
to Clarke’s<br />
squad<br />
a big part in unheralded<br />
Belgian side Oostende’s<br />
flirtation with a<br />
Champions League place.<br />
They, and the rest of what<br />
is a settled squad, will<br />
hope to ensure that this<br />
era produces more than<br />
one qualification.<br />
We will get a look at the<br />
other two sides in the<br />
group when the Scots<br />
face top and bottom<br />
seeds Denmark and<br />
Moldova before the return<br />
clash with the <strong>Austria</strong>ns<br />
in September.<br />
And while all the games<br />
will throw up their own<br />
challenges, the fact the<br />
Scots have avoided the<br />
likes of Belgium, France<br />
and Spain is a massive<br />
boost before a ball is<br />
kicked in this campaign,<br />
as Clarke tries to guide<br />
these players into the first<br />
winter World Cup finals.<br />
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PETER LORIMER<br />
1946-2021<br />
Tributes were paid last weekend to the<br />
Leeds and <strong>Scotland</strong> great<br />
When Peter Lorimer opened<br />
the scoring for <strong>Scotland</strong> in the<br />
1974 World Cup finals, it was<br />
typical of the explosive shooting which<br />
was his trademark throughout an<br />
outstanding career.<br />
The attacker’s powerful volley from the edge<br />
of the box, following a knockdown from Leeds<br />
United team-mate Joe Jordan, sent Willie<br />
Ormond’s side on their way to a 2-0 win over<br />
Zaire in the Westfalenstadion, Dortmund.<br />
Lorimer played in all three group games in<br />
West Germany - there were subsequent<br />
draws against Brazil and Yugoslavia - before<br />
the Scots exited the tournament despite<br />
being unbeaten.<br />
The Dundonian, who died after a lengthy<br />
illness on 20 March, aged 74, made his<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong> debut off the bench for Bobby<br />
Brown’s side in a 2-0 defeat to <strong>Austria</strong> in a<br />
World Cup qualifier on 5 November, 1969.<br />
The last of his 21 caps was also as a<br />
substitute, in a 1-1 draw against Romania in a<br />
European Championship qualifier at Hampden<br />
Park on 17 December, 1975.<br />
Lorimer scored four international goals in<br />
total. His previous strikes came in wins<br />
against Northern Ireland and Wales in the<br />
1972 Home Internationals at Hampden Park,<br />
and a goal in the 2-0 World Cup qualifying<br />
victory against Denmark in the same year at<br />
the national stadium, where he also picked up<br />
a late red card.<br />
Lorimer became a legend at Elland Road<br />
where he played during the Yorkshire club’s<br />
glory days. He became the youngest player<br />
to play for Leeds at the age of 15 years<br />
and 289 days, and scored 238 goals in 705<br />
appearances during two spells at the club.<br />
By the time he finished his second spell at<br />
Elland Road 23 years after his debut - and<br />
after stints at Toronto Blizzard, Vancouver<br />
Whitecaps and York - he was United’s record<br />
goalscorer, and still is.<br />
Lorimer won two league titles, the FA Cup,<br />
the League Cup and the Inter City Fairs Cup,<br />
twice, during his first spell at Elland Road<br />
between 1962 and 1979, and played in<br />
numerous other finals including the 1975<br />
European Cup Final against Bayern Munich.<br />
For the Tartan Army, memories of Lorimer and<br />
1974 will abound.<br />
In BBC <strong>Scotland</strong>’s ‘That Was The Team<br />
That Was’ documentary, first released in<br />
2006, Lorimer, speaking about being the first<br />
country in World Cup history to go out on goal<br />
difference without losing a game, said:<br />
“I honestly don’t think there was a better<br />
squad of players that <strong>Scotland</strong> put together<br />
for a competition.<br />
“The belief in the squad and the quality in the<br />
squad was good enough to win a World Cup.<br />
Whether we would have gone on and done it,<br />
you can never say. To have been part of the<br />
squad was fantastic.”<br />
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MORE OF<br />
THE SAME<br />
Liam Palmer aims to enjoy that qualification<br />
feeling in consecutive years<br />
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By David McCarthy, Daily Record<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong> have found their<br />
pathway to the greatest show<br />
on earth blocked on each of the<br />
last five times they have walked it.<br />
This time, Liam Palmer believes, can be<br />
different. This time, he reckons, can be<br />
our time.<br />
The Sheffield Wednesday right-back’s<br />
confidence stems from the togetherness<br />
he has witnessed in Steve Clarke’s<br />
squad when <strong>Scotland</strong>’s backs were<br />
against the wall in the European<br />
Championship play-off final in Belgrade<br />
in November last year.<br />
Clarke’s men travelled to Serbia as<br />
underdogs, played superbly for 89<br />
minutes and were seconds away from<br />
the country’s first major finals since<br />
1998 before it was cruelly whipped<br />
away from them in the final seconds. Yet<br />
still they refused to yield, battled through<br />
extra-time and won it in that never-tobe-forgotten<br />
shootout.<br />
Palmer, who has seven caps to his<br />
name, kicked every ball from the bench<br />
that night but each and every member<br />
of the squad joined in celebrations<br />
that lasted long into the night and<br />
the defender, who can also play wingback,<br />
is convinced that the bond created<br />
by the players that evening can help<br />
them not only succeed at the Euros, but<br />
help the Scots qualify for next year’s<br />
World Cup.<br />
The journey to Qatar starts tonight<br />
against <strong>Austria</strong> at Hampden, then heads<br />
for Israel on Sunday before returning to<br />
the National Stadium for a clash with<br />
the Faroe Islands next Wednesday.<br />
Three games and nine points that will<br />
have a pivotal say on whether Clarke’s<br />
men are back at the big party at the<br />
sixth attempt, having failed to make it<br />
every time since France ‘98.<br />
“Playing at a World Cup is something<br />
that you dream about as a kid,” said the<br />
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29-year-old. “It is fair to say that it would<br />
be the pinnacle of my career.<br />
“And with it coming round every four<br />
years, you don’t get many chances - the<br />
lucky ones maybe get three chances. So,<br />
personally speaking, it would be right<br />
up there.”<br />
The squad’s<br />
togetherness<br />
will benefit<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong>’s<br />
qualification<br />
hopes,<br />
believes<br />
Palmer<br />
do that. The start can be crucial. You see<br />
that in league football as well. The start<br />
can have a big bearing on where you<br />
finish in the season.<br />
“Not only that, it is a platform to build on<br />
going forward, so we will definitely be<br />
looking for a good start.<br />
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Palmer reckons that tapping into<br />
the feelgood factor that followed<br />
qualification for the Euros can help<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong> make it a double celebration in<br />
terms of making it to the World Cup.<br />
He added: “Having come off the back<br />
of the Euros, with it being a delayed<br />
qualifying tournament, it is still quite<br />
fresh in our minds. So we know that<br />
feeling and starting again after just<br />
qualifying for the Euros, obviously<br />
everybody wants that feeling again.<br />
“To start on the road this month is big.<br />
It has been shown before how you start<br />
in these qualification campaigns can<br />
determine obviously how far you can go<br />
in terms of qualifying.<br />
“For the World Cup, we will be desperate<br />
to get off to a good start in these three<br />
games and will do everything we can to<br />
“It is a massive boost to have reached<br />
the Euros. It is something that has not<br />
happened for a while so to finally get it<br />
over the line, it was great to be a part<br />
of, being around the squad, travelling,<br />
you could see what it meant to the staff<br />
as well.<br />
“It had been so many years and it was<br />
a real lift in terms of team spirit and<br />
sharing that moment together knits that<br />
bond even more.”<br />
He believes that camaraderie is typified<br />
by his friendship with Motherwell rightback<br />
Stephen O’Donnell, the man with<br />
whom he vies so often for a starting slot.<br />
That, and looking around him and<br />
seeing what Palmer describes as ‘worldclass’<br />
team-mates, has fired him with<br />
the belief that <strong>Scotland</strong> can get off to a<br />
flier tonight.<br />
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He said: “When I came in we fell across<br />
a team of young talented players so<br />
that obviously helps. It is great to see<br />
how they operate.<br />
“We have world-class players in<br />
the squad and going forward we<br />
should be looking to qualify for major<br />
tournaments.<br />
“It is one thing having a talented group<br />
of players but it is how you nurture<br />
that talent and how it fits together -<br />
preparation, hard work, a lot of things<br />
and different elements come into it.<br />
“We have found a way now, a settled<br />
formation and a way that the manager<br />
likes to operate that everyone has<br />
bought into and that is one of the<br />
positives we can carry on in that way.<br />
Another positive is how we all get on<br />
together.<br />
“Stephen (O’Donnell) has done really<br />
well in the games he has played. I am<br />
more concentrating on myself and what<br />
I can do, give a good impression when<br />
you are away, or with your club, and<br />
ultimately it is the manager’s decision.<br />
But when you get your chances, like the<br />
last camp, you have to try your best.<br />
The Sheffield<br />
Wednesday<br />
right-back<br />
has seven<br />
international<br />
caps<br />
“I get on with him really well, he’s a top<br />
guy, a fun character around the place.<br />
At the first camp he made me feel really<br />
welcome and I sit beside him on the<br />
plane and stuff.<br />
“Every position is competition for places,<br />
it is expected at that level and it is<br />
something players are used to with their<br />
clubs, every team has two if not three<br />
for each person. My remit is just to give<br />
my best when I get my chance.”<br />
And if he gets that opportunity in Qatar,<br />
he admits it will be the realisation of<br />
a dream.<br />
“You know, I used to love watching<br />
the Brazil sides of the past,” he said.<br />
“And there are always players who<br />
emerge from World Cups, like James<br />
Rodriguez who became a star overnight<br />
when he had a really good tournament<br />
for Colombia.<br />
“I remember looking at the talents<br />
coming through and everything about<br />
it really. Looking at the fans, when you<br />
look back at all the programmes they<br />
make after the World Cup, everyone<br />
has their face paint on. It galvanises<br />
a country.”<br />
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OPPOSITION FOCUS<br />
AUSTRIA<br />
IN NUMBERS<br />
1998 18<br />
44<br />
Last time <strong>Austria</strong><br />
qualified for a World Cup<br />
finals, like <strong>Scotland</strong>. They<br />
were both in the same<br />
qualifying group.<br />
Anton ‘Toni’<br />
Polster is<br />
the all-time<br />
leading<br />
goalscorer for<br />
<strong>Austria</strong>.<br />
1954<br />
Highest-placed finish in<br />
the World Cup for <strong>Austria</strong>.<br />
They finished third, losing<br />
to winners West Germany<br />
in the semi-final and<br />
beating Uruguay in the<br />
third-placed play-off.<br />
Andi Herzog is<br />
<strong>Austria</strong>’s record<br />
cap holder.<br />
103<br />
7<strong>Austria</strong> have featured in<br />
seven World Cup finals<br />
since their first in 1934.<br />
20<br />
The number of times<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong> and <strong>Austria</strong><br />
have played each other<br />
(one game in 1963 was<br />
abandoned).<br />
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Biggest win was 9-0<br />
at against Malta in<br />
Salzburg in 1977.<br />
1902<br />
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<strong>Austria</strong> played their first game,<br />
a 5-0 win over Hungary in Vienna.<br />
0-0<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong> conceded five<br />
goals without reply in<br />
their first game against<br />
There has only been one<br />
<strong>Austria</strong>, a friendly in 1931.<br />
goalless draw between <strong>Scotland</strong><br />
and <strong>Austria</strong>, coming in 1996.<br />
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Head coach Franco Foda<br />
cut his squad for the<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong> game from 43<br />
after rules were changed<br />
to allow German and<br />
France-based players to<br />
travel.<br />
There<br />
have been<br />
six draws<br />
between<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong><br />
and<br />
<strong>Austria</strong>.<br />
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11<br />
Biggest defeat was a<br />
1-11 loss to England in<br />
Vienna in 1908.<br />
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The current <strong>Austria</strong><br />
squad’s leading<br />
goalscorer is Bayern<br />
Munich defender<br />
David Alaba.<br />
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HISTORY BOYS<br />
Tonight’s visitors are looking to achieve<br />
unprecedented qualifying success<br />
ranco Foda goes into tonight’s<br />
opening World Cup qualifier<br />
Fagainst <strong>Scotland</strong> looking to make<br />
history with <strong>Austria</strong>.<br />
The last time Unsere Burschen (Our<br />
Boys) qualified for the finals of the<br />
greatest football show on earth was<br />
France 1998, just like <strong>Scotland</strong>. In fact,<br />
both countries were respective winners<br />
and runners-up in the same qualifying<br />
group.<br />
And just like Steve Clarke’s side, <strong>Austria</strong><br />
have made it through to this summer’s<br />
delayed 2020 European Championship<br />
finals, although they also featured in the<br />
2008 and 2016 finals, unlike their hosts.<br />
Head coach Foda, who took charge in<br />
January 2018 after being named Marcel<br />
Koller’s successor months earlier, is<br />
hoping to qualify <strong>Austria</strong> for consecutive<br />
tournaments for the first time.<br />
However, with only one automatic<br />
qualifying place up for grabs this time,<br />
he knows it will not be easy to emerge<br />
triumphant from a six-team group that<br />
also contains Denmark, currently ranked<br />
12th in the world, Israel, Faroe Islands<br />
and Moldova.<br />
The 54-year-old former defender, who<br />
won two caps with then West Germany<br />
in 1987 and who is the first German to<br />
boss <strong>Austria</strong>, said: “The expectations<br />
of the fans in <strong>Austria</strong> are very high. It<br />
is, of course, our declared objective to<br />
represent <strong>Austria</strong> at the World Cup for<br />
the first time since 1998.<br />
“I’ve also told my players that they have<br />
a chance to make history. It would be<br />
the first time that an <strong>Austria</strong>n national<br />
team would be able to qualify for the<br />
Euros and the World Cup in succession.<br />
“It’s a very interesting and balanced<br />
group. Denmark are the slight favourites<br />
but anything is possible. I am always<br />
optimistic. In any case, we have the<br />
necessary quality.<br />
“But it is not an easy undertaking, we<br />
must not underestimate anyone in this<br />
group.<br />
“Under coach Steve Clarke, <strong>Scotland</strong><br />
show a well-structured style of play.<br />
The team attaches great importance to<br />
a compact defence and concede few<br />
goals.<br />
“<strong>Scotland</strong> have top players like Andy<br />
Robertson, Scott McTominay and Kieran<br />
Tierney. Their qualification for the Euros<br />
- my congratulations on that - gave the<br />
team a lot of self-confidence.”<br />
Foda, who played for Kaiserslautern,<br />
Bayer Leverkusen, VfB Stuttgart<br />
and Sturm Graz, among others, is no<br />
stranger to Scottish football and was a<br />
fan of former <strong>Scotland</strong> midfielder and<br />
manager Gordon Strachan.<br />
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Foda played for <strong>Austria</strong>n side Sturm<br />
Graz against Rangers in a Champions<br />
League opening-group stage game at<br />
Ibrox in September 2000.<br />
He, along with the rest of the visiting<br />
team, endured a tough night as the Ibrox<br />
side ran riot in a thumping 5-0 win. But<br />
Graz got the last laugh, winning 2-0 in<br />
the return game the following month<br />
and ultimately topping the group and<br />
going through to the knockout stages.<br />
“Well, the memories of the defeat in<br />
Glasgow are not the best, as you can<br />
probably imagine,” said Foda. “In the<br />
second leg, however, we set it right and<br />
advanced from the group.”<br />
“I remember Gordon Strachan very<br />
well,” he said. “I was impressed,<br />
especially by his running ability and his<br />
aggressiveness.”<br />
That was Foda’s final season as a<br />
player and he moved seamlessly<br />
into coaching with the club. He was<br />
caretaker boss when Sturm Graz played<br />
Livingston in the first round of the UEFA<br />
Cup in 2002, which turned out to be a<br />
free-scoring tie.<br />
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“WELL, THE MEMORIES OF THE<br />
DEFEAT IN GLASGOW ARE NOT<br />
THE BEST, IN THE SECOND LEG,<br />
HOWEVER, WE SET IT RIGHT AND<br />
ADVANCED FROM THE GROUP”<br />
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Foda said: “That was in an early phase<br />
of my career as a coach when I took<br />
over from Ivica Osim. I have fond<br />
memories of the games because we<br />
made it to the next round. It was a<br />
perfect start for me.”<br />
The man from Mainz will be making<br />
his first appearance at Hampden Park<br />
but once again the national stadium will<br />
be empty of fans due to Coronavirus<br />
restrictions.<br />
He said: “Unfortunately I’ve never been<br />
there before, so I look very much forward<br />
to my team playing at Hampden Park,<br />
because it’s a big name in international<br />
football.<br />
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The <strong>Austria</strong>n outfit romped to a 5-2<br />
win in the first leg (pictured below) with<br />
Livi’s goals in the Stadion Graz-Liebenau<br />
coming in the dying minutes. Livingston<br />
won 4-3 in a storming return game in<br />
West Lothian but the visitors progressed<br />
through to the next round with an 8-6<br />
aggregate.<br />
“It is a great pity that the games have to<br />
be played without fans at the moment.<br />
Football is not the same. But health is<br />
most important right now.<br />
“We’re trying as hard as we can to make<br />
the fans happy in front of the TV and<br />
look forward to the day when we can<br />
welcome them back to the stadium.”<br />
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“UNFORTUNATELY I’VE<br />
NEVER BEEN THERE BEFORE,<br />
SO I LOOK VERY MUCH<br />
FORWARD TO MY TEAM<br />
PLAYING AT HAMPDEN PARK,<br />
BECAUSE IT’S A BIG NAME IN<br />
INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL”<br />
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Indeed, the ongoing ramifications and<br />
consequences of the pandemic had<br />
Foda fearing that <strong>Austria</strong> would travel to<br />
Glasgow with a weakened squad.<br />
He is grateful that the late relaxation of<br />
quarantine rules in Germany and France<br />
means he has been able to call on most<br />
of those who ply their trade in those<br />
countries, such as Bayern Munich’s<br />
David Alaba and RB Leipzig striker<br />
Marcel Sabitzer (pictured right), as well<br />
as Adrian Grbic of Lorient.<br />
Now he is looking forward to getting the<br />
World Cup qualifying campaign up and<br />
running and expects a “very close and<br />
intense” game at Hampden Park, before<br />
matches in Vienna against Faroes Island<br />
and Denmark.<br />
“After the turbulent week, we now want<br />
to focus on the sport,” he said. “We want<br />
to play variably and flexibly and we are<br />
able to play two or three systems. The<br />
direction is always the same - we want<br />
to attack the opponent early, capture the<br />
ball quickly and play quickly forward. It<br />
is game of great importance for both<br />
teams.<br />
“Both teams want to start the campaign<br />
successfully. We have a lot of quality<br />
in our squad, so we want to take three<br />
points with us back to <strong>Austria</strong>. It’s going<br />
to be very exciting.”<br />
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SCOTLAND 2<br />
AUSTRIA 0<br />
Wednesday 2 April, 1997<br />
World Cup Qualifier, Group F<br />
A brace from Kevin Gallacher put<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong> seven points clear at the top<br />
of their World Cup Qualifying group<br />
the last time they hosted <strong>Austria</strong> in<br />
competitive competition in 1997.<br />
The Blackburn striker’s goals were his<br />
first for his country in three-and-ahalf<br />
years as he linked well with strike<br />
partner Darren Jackson. It was the<br />
latter’s parried shot that Gallacher was<br />
on hand to tap in to open the scoring, as<br />
John Collins, Gary McAllister and Paul<br />
Lambert kept the visitor’s talismanic<br />
Andreas Herzog quiet.<br />
Gallacher’s second goal was a sublime<br />
dipping diagonal volley as, by his own<br />
admission, he crowned his “greatest<br />
night in a <strong>Scotland</strong> shirt”.<br />
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HANDBAGS<br />
AND RED RAGS<br />
The history of tonight’s fixture includes an unusual pitch<br />
invasion and abandoned Hampden clash<br />
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<strong>Scotland</strong> begin their World Cup<br />
qualifying campaign with a triple<br />
header. A home game against <strong>Austria</strong><br />
tonight kicks off the quest for Qatar<br />
2022, before a trip to Israel and then<br />
a return to Hampden Park to face the<br />
Faroe Islands, all within a week.<br />
The last time the Scots played Das Team<br />
was in a friendly in May 2007 - and<br />
they were due to play the Faroe Islands<br />
the week later in a 2008 European<br />
Championship qualifier.<br />
As a reminder of how time flies in<br />
football, Rangers goalkeeper Allan<br />
McGregor, then in his first spell with the<br />
Ibrox club, made his international debut<br />
against the <strong>Austria</strong>ns and two more<br />
Gers players, Charlie Adam and Alan<br />
Hutton, replaced Shaun Maloney and<br />
Graham Alexander to make their first<br />
appearances for their country.<br />
However, it was a man returning to<br />
the international scene, striker Garry<br />
O’Connor, who grabbed the headlines<br />
when he bagged the only goal of the<br />
game in the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium.<br />
The Lokomotiv Moscow striker had been<br />
welcomed back into the international<br />
fold by Alex McLeish after going AWOL<br />
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Top: Garry<br />
O’Connor<br />
provided<br />
the winner<br />
in 2007<br />
against<br />
<strong>Austria</strong><br />
Left: Allan<br />
McGregor<br />
made his<br />
debut...<br />
Opposite:<br />
...as did<br />
Charlie<br />
Adam<br />
ahead of an earlier qualifier against<br />
Ukraine, just days after a remarkable<br />
victory over France during Walter<br />
Smith’s reign.<br />
The former Hibs forward had been<br />
omitted from McLeish’s first squad for<br />
the double header against Georgia and<br />
Italy, but was reinstated into the team<br />
and secured the win in the 59th minute<br />
when he pounced on a Kris Boyd flick<br />
before beating ‘keeper Helge Payer from<br />
eight yards.<br />
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O’Connor said afterwards: “I’m<br />
absolutely delighted - I’ve been given<br />
a second chance by Alex and that’s<br />
payback. I’m just delighted to be back<br />
in the international scene and doing<br />
well. I’m happy to be part of the squad<br />
and I’m delighted to get a goal for the<br />
international team again.”<br />
O’Connor’s winner was in the 22nd<br />
meeting between the two countries (six<br />
draws, six <strong>Scotland</strong> victories) and the<br />
rivalry dates back 90 years to 16 May,<br />
1931 when <strong>Austria</strong> beat the Scots 5-0<br />
in a home friendly.<br />
Other meetings were not all that friendly.<br />
When <strong>Scotland</strong> lost 4-0 in Vienna<br />
in 1951, Billy Steel became the first<br />
Scottish player to be sent off in an<br />
international game, dismissed for<br />
retaliation.<br />
Team-mate Lawrie Reilly, in his book,<br />
‘The life and Times of Last Minute Reilly’,<br />
noted there had been a pitch invasion<br />
earlier and a woman had attacked<br />
Steel with her handbag as he made his<br />
way off.<br />
Billy Steel<br />
was<br />
the first<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong><br />
player to<br />
be sent off<br />
against<br />
<strong>Austria</strong> in<br />
1951<br />
It wasn’t until the seventh meeting<br />
that <strong>Scotland</strong> emerged triumphant<br />
with a 4-1 friendly win in <strong>Austria</strong><br />
in 1955. <strong>Austria</strong> had reached the<br />
semi-final of the 1954 World Cup in<br />
Switzerland after beating the Scots<br />
1-0 in the group stages, before<br />
losing 6-1 to eventual winners West<br />
Germany.<br />
In the days when a sending-off was<br />
rare, the home side were reduced to<br />
10 men during another battle. The<br />
<strong>Austria</strong>ns’ approach was described by<br />
the Herald’s Cyril Horne as “amounting<br />
to assault and battery” and YouTube<br />
footage shows that local police had<br />
to restore order as fans tried to get at<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong> players.<br />
The challenge match at Hampden<br />
Park on 8 May, 1963, in front of<br />
around 95,000 fans was even more<br />
troublesome. Indeed, the game<br />
was abandoned by English referee<br />
Jim Finney after 79 minutes with<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong> leading 4-1 (doubles from<br />
Davie Wilson and Denis Law) as the<br />
<strong>Austria</strong>ns lost their discipline.<br />
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Horst Nemec was sent packing after<br />
Law scored the fourth and then Erich<br />
Hof was dismissed on 78 minutes for a<br />
foul on Willie Henderson.<br />
Having had Fritz Rafreider injured just<br />
after half-time (no substitutes were<br />
allowed after half-time), <strong>Austria</strong> were<br />
down to eight men and, following<br />
a clash between Law and <strong>Austria</strong>n<br />
goalscorer Anton Linhart, Finney<br />
walked off.<br />
Speaking in a Herald interview in 2013,<br />
Davie Gibson, the former Hibs and<br />
Leicester player who made his debut<br />
in the game, said: “I still, 50 years on,<br />
cannot work out why the <strong>Austria</strong>ns lost<br />
the plot as they did.<br />
“Apart from Bill Brown and Ian Ure, we<br />
didn’t have a player taller than five foot<br />
eight or nine. They were bigger than us<br />
but, while they were happy to dish it out,<br />
they weren’t so happy when the likes of<br />
Denis Law kicked them back. And with<br />
us winning easily and stroking the ball<br />
about they lost it completely.<br />
“In fact, I feared it might have been<br />
abandoned earlier. Horst Nemec,<br />
their centre forward, spat at referee<br />
Jim Finney and was sent off. I felt Jim,<br />
England’s top referee at the time,<br />
might have abandoned the game there<br />
and then.”<br />
The next time the two sides faced each<br />
other in a competitive environment was<br />
in the 1970 World Cup qualifiers where<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong> won 2-1 at home and lost 2-0<br />
away, ultimately failing to get to the<br />
Mexico finals.<br />
The countries were also in the<br />
same group for the 1980 European<br />
Championship qualifiers. <strong>Scotland</strong> went<br />
down 3-2 in the away fixture then<br />
drew 1-1 at Hampden but again, after<br />
finishing fourth in a five-team group,<br />
failed to qualify for the Euros in Italy.<br />
There was more joy in the 1998<br />
World Cup qualification campaign<br />
where the Scots drew 0-0 in Vienna<br />
before winning 2-0 at Celtic Park.<br />
Kevin<br />
Gallacher<br />
wheels<br />
away after<br />
scoring for<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong> in<br />
their 1997<br />
World Cup<br />
qualifier<br />
Kevin Gallacher grabbed a double in<br />
a dramatic night in the east end of<br />
Glasgow on 2 April, 1997. His first came<br />
after good work by Darren Jackson<br />
allowed him the chance to thrash the<br />
ball high into the net from six yards, and<br />
his second was a wonderful volley from<br />
inside the box after the break.<br />
The victory stretched <strong>Scotland</strong>’s lead<br />
over <strong>Austria</strong> in Group Four to seven<br />
points but <strong>Scotland</strong> manager Craig<br />
Brown warned: “The section is by no<br />
means over. There’s a lot of work to do<br />
before we can say we’re going to France.<br />
Any complacency could cost us.<br />
“But we played the European style<br />
tonight which we’ve been trying to<br />
develop. We’re getting better at keeping<br />
the ball. We played <strong>Austria</strong> at their own<br />
style and came out on top.”<br />
Brown’s caution was warranted. In a<br />
six-team group, the Scots finished two<br />
points behind group winners <strong>Austria</strong>.<br />
However, qualification criteria meant<br />
both countries went to France.<br />
No-one in the Tartan Army needs<br />
reminding that 1998 was the last time<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong> reached the World Cup finals<br />
and, on the back of qualifying Euro 2020,<br />
boss Steve Clarke will be looking to get<br />
this campaign off to a flier.<br />
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MAR<br />
25<br />
ON THIS<br />
DATE...<br />
SCOTLAND 1-0 NORTHERN IRELAND<br />
Wednesday 25 March, 2015 | International Friendly<br />
Christophe Berra marked his first international appearance in 16 months<br />
with the only goal of the game, as <strong>Scotland</strong> edged Northern Ireland in a<br />
Home Nations friendly at Hampden Park on this date in 2015.<br />
Matt Ritchie’s right-wing corner was headed home five minutes from time<br />
by the-then Ipswich Town defender, as Gordon Strachan’s side started<br />
2015 on a winning note.<br />
The result extended Northern Ireland’s winless run in international friendlies<br />
to nine years, while <strong>Scotland</strong>, inspired by a Steven Fletcher hat-trick, put six<br />
past Gibraltar four days later in a European Championship Qualifier.<br />
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TAYLOR SETTING SIGHTS ON<br />
WORLD CUP QUALIFICATION<br />
FOLLOWING EUROS SUCCESS...<br />
By Michael Lamont, Scottish FA<br />
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Greg Taylor has qualified for a Euros<br />
with his country and lifted the Scottish<br />
Cup within the last six months. Now he<br />
has a World Cup in his sights.<br />
Despite a frustrating season for Celtic,<br />
the 23-year-old has been a regular in<br />
Steve Clarke’s squads of late and across<br />
the next three games he will be aiming<br />
to add to his four caps, the most recent<br />
of which was gained in <strong>Scotland</strong>’s last<br />
match at Hampden.<br />
Against <strong>Scotland</strong>’s Euro 2022 group<br />
opponents, Czech Republic, Taylor<br />
started on the left flank as his side<br />
marched to a 1-0 victory.<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong>’s next match was the famous<br />
win in Serbia and with the country still<br />
on a high from that success Taylor is<br />
confident this group of players can use<br />
the feel-good factor to propel them to<br />
a positive start in the group, starting<br />
tonight against <strong>Austria</strong>.<br />
QHow much are you looking<br />
forward to these upcoming<br />
games, especially given the buzz<br />
around the national team right now?<br />
AI love coming away with the<br />
national team and every time<br />
I see my name on that squad list I get a<br />
feeling of immense pride. It’s just a huge<br />
honour, especially for these upcoming<br />
games. We want to start well and we’ve<br />
got a great chance of doing that with<br />
three consecutive matches. The last<br />
thing we want to do is to be chasing our<br />
tail come the end of the campaign.<br />
We’ve avoided a lot of the so called<br />
bigger nations in the group but at<br />
international level, every side is top<br />
class. I’ve noticed in the games I’ve<br />
played that all of the players handle the<br />
ball well and are tactically astute. We’re<br />
up against top quality opposition tonight<br />
and then we know that Israel are strong<br />
having faced them a few times recently.<br />
Prior to the last two games we were<br />
unbeaten for a number of matches and<br />
that really helped the belief within the<br />
camp. It’s important to recognise that<br />
we have lost the last couple though, so<br />
we can’t be complacent just because<br />
we’ve qualified for the Euros. We know<br />
we need to bounce back and recapture<br />
the form that enabled us to qualify.<br />
QDo these matches also represent<br />
a chance to stake your claim for<br />
a place in the Euros squad, as well as<br />
helping <strong>Scotland</strong> return to a World<br />
Cup?<br />
AWhether it’s playing for Celtic<br />
or <strong>Scotland</strong> I’m always trying to<br />
impress and I now have the ultimate<br />
motivation in the summer of the<br />
European Championships. That is<br />
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something that’s spurring us all on. At<br />
every opportunity I’ll be trying to catch<br />
the manager’s eye, along with everyone<br />
else. We’re all desperate to represent<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong> at a major tournament. These<br />
three games give us a great opportunity<br />
to not only reach another tournament<br />
but also ensure we’re in the manager’s<br />
thoughts for Euro 2020.<br />
QWhat are your memories from<br />
that game in Serbia? Was it nerve<br />
wracking watching from the sidelines?<br />
AI think you probably always feel<br />
more nervous when you’re on<br />
the side watching than when you are<br />
playing. My emotions were all over the<br />
joint when I was watching that match<br />
but it was sheer elation at the end. The<br />
way everyone felt after the penalty save<br />
was like nothing I’ve ever experienced<br />
before.<br />
As soon as we’d won my first thought<br />
was to get to Marsh as soon as possible.<br />
To be a part of a squad that achieved<br />
something so historic was special.<br />
QAfter the game, there were videos<br />
circulating of you running up to<br />
Kieran Tierney in the dressing room<br />
asking him to play ‘Yes Sir, I can<br />
Boogie’. The scenes that followed were<br />
quite special weren’t they?<br />
AI’m not too sure why I was so<br />
eager to get it on but I think it<br />
was probably because it is so well<br />
associated with big Andy (Considine).<br />
It’s always a good laugh when KT<br />
(Kieran Tierney) is on the tunes and that<br />
was the first protocol as soon as we got<br />
in the dressing room, to make sure we<br />
had the right tunes on to celebrate. It<br />
was mental how much everything just<br />
catapulted from there and the whole<br />
nation was singing the song. There were<br />
so many good memories from that night<br />
and that one is certainly up there.<br />
QDid it feel surreal to be part of the<br />
group that ended the long wait to<br />
qualify for a major tournament, given<br />
you had never seen your country play<br />
at the biggest stage when you were<br />
growing up?<br />
Unfortunately I wasn’t on the pitch<br />
but the way I looked at it was that I<br />
was a fan inside the ropes. Regardless<br />
of whether I was there, or at home<br />
watching on the TV, I would have been<br />
there cheering them on so to actually be<br />
part of the squad was brilliant.<br />
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QAre you sensing the buzz around<br />
the national team right now?<br />
AIt’s a credit to the squad the<br />
amount of positivity that’s around<br />
the national team at the moment. We<br />
want that to continue and be the new<br />
norm, for everyone to be feeling positive<br />
about the national team. We want to<br />
keep getting positive results and that all<br />
starts with these two matches.<br />
It’s been nice to see all the various<br />
things that have been released off<br />
the back of qualification like the<br />
sticker albums. That’s great for all<br />
the young kids as I<br />
remember doing the same thing when<br />
I was their age. It’s amazing for the<br />
younger generation to have a <strong>Scotland</strong><br />
team to support at a major tournament.<br />
QThe <strong>Scotland</strong> squad seems like a<br />
really close-knit group right now.<br />
How important is that?<br />
AIt’s important to win games,<br />
first and foremost, as often the<br />
atmosphere in camp will be improved<br />
when you’re doing well on the park. We<br />
went on such a good unbeaten run last<br />
year, so when you get those results you<br />
naturally become closer as a squad. It’s<br />
a great group of lads and every ego is<br />
parked when you enter the camp so it’s<br />
always an enjoyable 10 days.<br />
Naturally I’m closer to the Celtic boys<br />
like Ryan Christie and Callum McGregor<br />
but you get close to other lads too. I<br />
didn’t really know KT (Kieran Tierney)<br />
prior to playing with <strong>Scotland</strong> but he’s<br />
someone I’ve developed a really good<br />
friendship with. He’s someone I look<br />
forward to seeing when I go away.<br />
The more we got chatting and<br />
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clowning about the more we realised<br />
our similarities, so I enjoy spending time<br />
with him in and around the camp.<br />
With the current Covid regulations in<br />
place it’s become harder to socialise but<br />
you still have opportunities, like at dinner<br />
when you’re in smaller groups and can<br />
properly socially distance.<br />
I take my PlayStation away with me and<br />
play online against the boys at FIFA and<br />
Call of Duty. I often get cast aside when<br />
it comes to Call of Duty as I’m rotten at<br />
that. I’m not bad at FIFA though. Scott<br />
McTominay is the best at it in the squad<br />
I think. I’ve played him a few times and<br />
he’s hammered me. He’s a level above<br />
when it comes to that.<br />
QSteve Clarke has been influential<br />
in your career so far and made a<br />
huge impact with the national team.<br />
What is he like as a leader?<br />
AHe’s been top class for me, at both<br />
club and country, and we’ve got<br />
a great relationship. I’m very grateful<br />
for the opportunities he’s given me<br />
and I can only thank him for what he’s<br />
done for me. I enjoy learning from him<br />
every time I get the opportunity. He has<br />
improved me immensely.<br />
His organisation and instruction is<br />
second to none. He simplifies what<br />
seems a complicated game and he<br />
ensures you go into a match knowing<br />
your role and what you need to do.<br />
QYou made your <strong>Scotland</strong> debut<br />
against Belgium in 2019. How<br />
have you developed since then?<br />
AMy <strong>Scotland</strong> debut coincided with<br />
me moving to Celtic, so as you<br />
move to a higher level and play with<br />
better players you benefit from that. I’ve<br />
been lucky enough to do that and I’ve<br />
enjoyed every opportunity I get to play<br />
with Celtic as it really brings me on as a<br />
player. I love playing there and learning<br />
every day from top coaches like John<br />
Kennedy. It’s been a quick couple of<br />
years but ones I’ve really enjoyed.<br />
QThe three upcoming games will<br />
once again be played with no<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong> supporters in attendance.<br />
How desperate are you to see them<br />
return when the time is right?<br />
ACertainly at club level, it’s been<br />
a huge miss as you’re used to<br />
playing in front of 60,000 every other<br />
week and that’s the same with <strong>Scotland</strong>.<br />
When you’ve got a full Hampden<br />
it helps massively on the pitch and<br />
hopefully they’ll be gradually coming<br />
back as we’ve missed that support. The<br />
buzz around the team is huge right now<br />
and I’m sure the place would have been<br />
rocking tonight, but hopefully their return<br />
isn’t too far away.<br />
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SFA INITIATIVE<br />
‘JOURNEY OF CHANGE’<br />
A new strategy is helping Scottish football become a more welcoming<br />
place for the LGBTI community<br />
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The Scottish FA’s drive for inclusivity within<br />
football stepped up again over the last year<br />
and David McArdle sees increasing evidence<br />
for optimism in the “journey of change”.<br />
A new national strategy to remove the<br />
barriers which prevent lesbian, gay, bisexual,<br />
transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people<br />
from accessing, participating, enjoying<br />
and excelling across Scottish football was<br />
launched at Hampden Park in February 2020.<br />
The Scottish FA’s strategy, in conjunction<br />
with LEAP Sports (Leadership, Equality and<br />
Active Participation in Sports for LGBTI people<br />
in <strong>Scotland</strong>) and Football v Homophobia<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong> (an international initiative opposing<br />
homophobia in football at all levels) set out<br />
to tackle discrimination while improving the<br />
inclusion of LGBTI people across football.<br />
The initiative opposes homophobia, biphobia,<br />
and transphobia in football at all levels - from<br />
grassroots to professional clubs - and it is<br />
much needed.<br />
The 2020 publication of the Scottish<br />
Football Supporters Survey showed less than<br />
half of fans surveyed feel Scottish football is<br />
an inclusive place for people of any sexual<br />
orientation.<br />
McArdle, diversity and inclusion manager at<br />
the Scottish FA, said: “More clubs are feeling<br />
more comfortable to speak about the issues.<br />
“We are going through a club licensing<br />
process so clubs are in a much better place to<br />
have it in their structures.<br />
“We have been working hard with LGBTI fan<br />
groups around the country like Celtic Pride,<br />
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Ibrox Pride, Tynecastle Pride and Proud Dons<br />
to make sure they have an appropriate voice<br />
within their club structures.<br />
“We will be doing other things around raising<br />
awareness, through education, policies and<br />
procedures to allow the game to have that<br />
journey of change.<br />
“Clubs like Partick Thistle have done amazing<br />
work over the last number of years where<br />
they quite regularly have the LGBTI fan<br />
group Proud Jags on the pitch to promote<br />
themselves and obviously they had the LGTBI<br />
away shirt with the rainbow colours on it.<br />
“Just because fans are from the LGBTI<br />
community, it doesn’t mean they are any less<br />
passionate about their football club and it<br />
is something we really encourage and are<br />
delighted to see flourish and grow.”<br />
McArdle knows there is no quick-fire solution<br />
to inclusivity problems in Scottish football,<br />
with its historical masculine culture. A 2016<br />
Stonewall <strong>Scotland</strong> survey showed that 82<br />
per cent of Scottish fans who had<br />
witnessed anti-LGBT language or<br />
behaviour at a sporting event, said<br />
that it took place<br />
in relation to<br />
football.<br />
He said: “We<br />
are not saying<br />
people are<br />
homophobic<br />
because they<br />
use that type<br />
Above: Hugh Torrance, executive director at LEAP Sports, Sirri<br />
Topping participation and engagement manager at LEAP Sports,<br />
Scottish FA chief executive Ian Maxwell, Carolina Sousa e Sá, Project<br />
Officer (Communities) at LEAP Sports and David McArdle, Scottish<br />
FA’s diversity and inclusion manager<br />
of ‘banter’. I’d say 99 per cent just don’t<br />
understand how certain words and phrases<br />
affect people around them. It is not okay<br />
to use them as a cheap joke. It has hurtful<br />
connotations and hurtful aspects, making<br />
people feel they can’t be themselves.”<br />
Sirri Topping, participation and engagement<br />
manager with LEAP Sports <strong>Scotland</strong>, which<br />
works for greater inclusion for LGBTI people<br />
in sport and against homophobia, biphobia<br />
and transphobia in a sports context, has been<br />
working with the Scottish FA for four years.<br />
She also believes that the most contentious of<br />
terms, ‘banter’, lies at the heart of much of the<br />
problems experienced by LGBTI people who<br />
are involved in Scottish football.<br />
Topping said: “We know from research,<br />
personal testimony, enquiries and the<br />
experiences of the LGBTI community that<br />
homophobia, biphobia and transphobia<br />
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THE LONG ROAD BACK<br />
The story of <strong>Scotland</strong>’s unprecedented journey to<br />
a major tournament for the first time in a generation<br />
is to be published as an official book.<br />
To be published in May by Ignition Sports Media priced at £14.99,<br />
with pre-orders opening from April 12th.<br />
Visit www.ignitionsportsmedia.com and click on the<br />
Scottish Football tab for more details.
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is a problem in football. When we have<br />
conversations with people in football they find<br />
that <br />
hard to believe, but that is what we are<br />
hearing and that is what the research says.<br />
discrimination based on sexual orientation or<br />
gender identity.<br />
McArdle said: “We are implementing it into our<br />
coach education pathway so that as coaches<br />
“Yes, FvH banter <strong>Scotland</strong> is a believe huge problem that education across the is central to creating a long term culture shift away<br />
go through the system it will be a requirement<br />
board from and homophobia. it is one of the We things encourage that is you to educate yourself and those in your organisation<br />
to undertake this course.<br />
hard so that to tackle. they are A lot aware of people of the who issues practise which may arise, are alert and responsive<br />
homophobic to homophobic banter abuse, wouldn’t and consider are proactive in creating “The initiative an inclusive has been environment. really welcomed A and<br />
themselves <br />
homophobic. It has just become an already more than 300 coaches have gone<br />
ingrained about LGBTI part of equality the language related of issues, football. and provide through them with the course. the skillset to respond to<br />
homophobia in the most effective way.<br />
“But things like that have a huge impact on “We are making sure that coaches, whether<br />
anyone who is perhaps gay. It is negative they are Pro-Licence, A License or B Licence<br />
Although considerable progress has been made in wider Scottish society, many people<br />
and it sends out a message that football is coaches, are much more rounded and aware<br />
view football as a space in which it is still fair game to use homophobic terms such as<br />
not for them.<br />
of the wider community.<br />
‘poof’, ‘faggot’ and ‘you’re playing like a girl’. On the other hand, some people use this<br />
“It language has always as been ‘banter’ issue without in football. thinking The that what “The they feedback are saying from has the an course impact shows on those that this<br />
biggest around thing them, needed is homophobic, is someone and to call may it out. in fact be is illegal an area (Equality that needs Act to 2010). be addressed Education and is the<br />
But the the key more to unlocking we educate a realisation ourselves and amongst bring those coaches practising are beginning homophobia. to see how the benefit<br />
in more policy and procedure into clubs, we of having the information available is going to<br />
will LGBTI see less inclusion of it.” requires more than just the absence help the of wider homophobia. game.” It is important to<br />
The be Scottish aware of FA other is ensuring barriers education faced by around LGBTI people and understand how these impact on<br />
Topping added: “The e-learning has the<br />
the access issue continues. to and satisfaction Last month with an e-learning football. For example, stereotypes surrounding football<br />
potential to make a huge impact. We are<br />
course, and lesbian which can gay be and accessed bisexual by people anyone create a complex terrain, whilst accessibility can<br />
going to have coaches who are going to be<br />
involved cause problems within Scottish for trans football people. and beyond, Familiarising those in your organisation with these<br />
much more informed and empathetic, and able<br />
was issues launched. can make you more approachable and give you food for thought on how best to<br />
to truly welcome the LGBTI community into<br />
remove these barriers.<br />
It coincided with the Football v Homophobia football. So I am really pleased with the way<br />
month of action, which used the month of things are going and there is other work in<br />
February to promote positive action against the pipeline.”<br />
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ULTRAVOX AND<br />
TARTAN DOCS<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong> fan Tam Coyle looks back on his travels<br />
including several trips to <strong>Austria</strong><br />
I<br />
started going to Hampden Park for<br />
the old Home Internationals in 1975,<br />
‘borrowing’ my sister’s Bay City<br />
Rollers scarf, which has been at every<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong> game with me since.<br />
Being Glasgow-based I’m lucky in that<br />
I have only missed a handful of home<br />
games in the last 46 years. I’m also<br />
fortunate that following <strong>Scotland</strong> has<br />
taken me all over the world with <strong>Austria</strong><br />
a favourite country for a rather simple<br />
reason which we will get to later.<br />
My first away game was in the back<br />
of a transit van with a dozen other<br />
Clydebank fans to Cardiff in 1985, and<br />
it is a night that no-one who was there<br />
will ever forget.<br />
A former Bankies player, the late Davie<br />
Cooper, scored the penalty in the 1-1<br />
draw against Wales that got us to the<br />
1986 World Cup play-offs, but it was<br />
the night that we lost big Jock Stein, who<br />
died at the final whistle.<br />
My first trip outside the UK was when<br />
I signed up with the legendary Partick<br />
Thistle International Travel Section, the<br />
forerunner of the West Of <strong>Scotland</strong><br />
Tartan Army (WESTA), with whom I<br />
have travelled with for the majority of<br />
my away trips ever since.<br />
We travelled by bus from Glasgow to<br />
Luxembourg in December 1987 for<br />
the last game of the disappointing<br />
campaign when we failed to qualify for<br />
the 1988 European Championship.<br />
And what a trip. We got to Dover and<br />
just managed to get the last ferry to<br />
Calais before the port closed, as it was<br />
blowing a Force 8 gale, and the crossing<br />
was hellish. It was the last thing a bus<br />
full of Tartan Army needed after a 10-<br />
hour journey from Glasgow and a large<br />
percentage of the passengers lost the<br />
contents of their stomach on board.<br />
Around 300 Scots watched a dreadful<br />
0-0 draw which, if my memory is<br />
correct, was Luxembourg’s first point<br />
in a qualifier for 16 years! The biggest<br />
positive was the friendships that were<br />
formed with at least two people on that<br />
bus that I still travel with nearly 40 years<br />
later.<br />
There have been many, many<br />
memorable trips since, although the<br />
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advent of low-cost airlines and social<br />
media have resulted in two major<br />
changes to the plans of the travelling<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong> fans. Firstly, there is no need<br />
to book for at least seven days to take<br />
advantage of cheaper flights through<br />
staying over a Saturday night (these<br />
were in the glorious days of every away<br />
international being on a Wednesday).<br />
And there is now social media and the<br />
number one Tartan Army rule of ‘what<br />
goes on tour, stays on tour’ has long<br />
been forgotten in the era of the dreaded<br />
camera phone.<br />
A few highlights over the years include<br />
the three-second game in Tallinn (when<br />
Estonia did not turn up), the subsequent<br />
trip to play them in Monaco (another<br />
glorious 0-0 draw) and a fantastic trip<br />
to Hong Kong where the Tartan Army<br />
had a week which can only be described<br />
as ‘cheeky nonsense’ from beginning<br />
to end.<br />
Kenny Nicol,<br />
Elise Birks<br />
and Iain<br />
Clarkson,<br />
along with<br />
Tam Coyle<br />
outside<br />
the Azteca<br />
Stadium<br />
before the<br />
Mexico v<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong><br />
friendly in<br />
2018<br />
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There was also the WESTA ‘wee happy<br />
bus’, a 19-seater driven by a Gilbert<br />
O’Sullivan lookalike from Airdrie, which<br />
in 1993 went from Glasgow-Paris-<br />
Milan-Rome for an Italy v <strong>Scotland</strong><br />
game (we lost 3-1, although Kevin<br />
Gallacher scored a cracker), then<br />
returned via the same route on a trip<br />
which was an absolute joy. I met people<br />
that I still travel with to this day.<br />
Seeing <strong>Scotland</strong> lift the Kirin Cup and<br />
spending a fortnight in Japan was also<br />
unforgettable, as was the relatively<br />
recent trip to Peru and Mexico with the<br />
highlight arguably being a trip to Machu<br />
Picchu where an Alpaca took a liking to<br />
my Tartan Trilby.<br />
Like many fans of my generation my<br />
fashion sense has changed dramatically<br />
over the years and the denims/<strong>Scotland</strong><br />
top/scarf has gradually been updated by<br />
a tartan trilby/pipers’ jacket/kilt and my<br />
infamous tartan Docs boots, which have<br />
served me so well over the last 20 years.<br />
Being a DJ in the so-called ‘day job’ has<br />
also resulted in many adventures over<br />
the years and enabled me to start DJ-ing<br />
in the Shed nightclub near Hampden<br />
Park, where I have hosted pre-match<br />
events for the last few years.<br />
That’s where <strong>Austria</strong> comes in. The<br />
trusty laptop taking over from vinyl has<br />
enabled me to DJ at many a <strong>Scotland</strong><br />
away trip since the first event which,<br />
was in Graz before our 2-2 draw with<br />
<strong>Austria</strong> on 17 August, 2005 - my<br />
birthday!<br />
The venue for the ‘Nicht Afore Party’<br />
was sourced by local-based Tartan<br />
Army footsoldier Mark Dickson and it<br />
was particularly memorable as it was<br />
a basement venue which stayed on till<br />
6am. <strong>Scotland</strong> fans mingled with the<br />
locals and it was a very happy and<br />
lubricated Tartan Army that left in the<br />
daylight hours.<br />
Kenny Miller<br />
scores<br />
against<br />
<strong>Austria</strong> in<br />
the 2005<br />
friendly<br />
As for the game, my memory is of a<br />
very positive first half with very welltaken<br />
goals by Kenny Miller and Garry<br />
O’Connor. Walter Smith made four<br />
changes at half-time, including Rab<br />
Douglas for a young Craig Gordon in<br />
between the sticks, and things were<br />
petering out for a fine <strong>Scotland</strong> away<br />
win when <strong>Austria</strong> scored a cracker with<br />
seven minutes to go. Then Douglas<br />
fumbled a late shot which meant <strong>Austria</strong><br />
earned an undeserved draw, with the<br />
Tartan Army telling the locals in the<br />
Arnold Schwarzenegger Stadium that,<br />
“I’ll be back”.<br />
Vienna two years later was very similar.<br />
By then the parties were beginning to<br />
take shape, playing party favourites<br />
as well as Tartan Army classics with<br />
always a nod to the city/country we<br />
were playing in, which always meant<br />
some dreadful Europop becoming the<br />
favourite of the trip (aye, I am talking<br />
about Ultravox).<br />
This time, at the Ernst Happel Stadium,<br />
home of Rapid Vienna and under Alex<br />
McLeish, we won 1-0 thanks to another<br />
goal by O’Connor.<br />
I recall that the stunning architecture of<br />
Vienna impressed many of the Tartan<br />
Army but ‘it meant nothing to me’...<br />
49<br />
HAMPDEN PARK / THURSDAY, 25 MARCH 2021
SCOTLAND v AUSTRIA / EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS / FIFA 2022 WORLD CUP<br />
50<br />
MANAGER:<br />
Steve Clarke<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
Craig Gordon<br />
Heart of Midlothian<br />
David Marshall<br />
Derby County<br />
Jon McLaughlin<br />
Rangers<br />
Andrew Considine<br />
Aberdeen<br />
Declan Gallagher<br />
Motherwell<br />
Grant Hanley<br />
Norwich City<br />
Jack Hendry<br />
KV Oostende<br />
Scott McKenna<br />
Nottingham Forest<br />
Stephen O’Donnell<br />
Motherwell<br />
Liam Palmer<br />
Sheffield Wednesday<br />
Andy Robertson<br />
Liverpool<br />
Greg Taylor<br />
Celtic<br />
Kieran Tierney<br />
Arsenal<br />
Stuart Armstrong<br />
Southampton<br />
Ryan Christie<br />
Celtic<br />
John Fleck<br />
Sheffield United<br />
John McGinn<br />
Aston Villa<br />
Callum McGregor<br />
Celtic<br />
Kenny McLean<br />
Norwich City<br />
Scott McTominay<br />
Manchester United<br />
Che Adams<br />
Southampton<br />
Lyndon Dykes<br />
Queens Park Rangers<br />
Ryan Fraser<br />
Newcastle United<br />
Oliver McBurnie<br />
Sheffield United<br />
Kevin Nisbet<br />
Hibernian<br />
AUSTRIA<br />
MANAGER:<br />
Franco Foda<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
O<br />
Heinz Lindner<br />
Basel<br />
Pavao Pervan<br />
VfL Wolfsburg<br />
Alexander Schlager<br />
LASK<br />
Daniel Bachmann<br />
Watford<br />
Aleksandar Dragović<br />
Bayer Leverkusen<br />
David Alaba<br />
Bayern Munich<br />
Martin Hinteregger<br />
Eintracht Frankfurt<br />
Stefan Lainer<br />
Borussia Mönchengladbach<br />
Andreas Ulmer<br />
Red Bull Salzburg<br />
Christopher Trimmel<br />
Union Berlin<br />
Stefan Posch<br />
1899 Hoffenheim<br />
Gernot Trauner<br />
LASK<br />
Philipp Lienhart<br />
SC Freiburg<br />
Marco Friedl<br />
Werder Bremen<br />
Stefan Ilsanker<br />
Eintracht Frankfurt<br />
Valentino Lazaro<br />
Borussia Mönchengladbach<br />
Alessandro Schöpf<br />
Schalke 04<br />
Florian Grillitsch<br />
1899 Hoffenheim<br />
Louis Schaub<br />
Luzern<br />
Xaver Schlager<br />
VfL Wolfsburg<br />
Reinhold Ranftl<br />
LASK<br />
Christoph Baumgartner<br />
1899 Hoffenheim<br />
Yusuf Demir<br />
Rapid Wien<br />
Marcel Sabitzer<br />
RB Leipzig<br />
Michael Gregoritsch<br />
FC Augsburg<br />
Karim Onisiwo<br />
Mainz 05<br />
Adrian Grbić<br />
Lorient<br />
Saša Kalajdžić<br />
VfB Stuttgart<br />
Ercan Kara<br />
Rapid Wien<br />
HAMPDEN PARK / THURSDAY, 25 MARCH 2021
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