#71 Why isn't Scotland better at football, aka fitba?
Soccer 101
TSS
4.9 • 853 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Graham Ruthven takes us through a history of Scottish football, from their role in helping develop and spread the game to The Three Kings era to a mythical time when they qualified for multiple World Cups in a row. But what's gone wrong since then, why has domestic football in Scotland suffered, and where can it go from here? Plus, pronunciation quizzes and Graham getting uncomfortable talking about his personal life!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Soccer 101. |
| 0:11.8 | My name is Taylor Rockwell. |
| 0:13.2 | And today I'm joined by a man who has been spending some time staring into the abyss. |
| 0:17.7 | Is he about to dive off the edge or has he emerged feeling optimistic about |
| 0:21.2 | the road ahead? Let's find out it's Graham Ruthven. Hi, Graham. Hi, Taylor. I mean, I feel like |
| 0:26.2 | I'm being humoured with last, last week was a Kitts Soccer 101. This week at Scotland, |
| 0:32.3 | so I'm definitely optimistic for this one. When we run out of topics that maybe I'm not |
| 0:36.7 | that enthusiastic about, I'll let you know. But for the time being, of topics that maybe I'm not that enthusiastic about, |
| 0:37.9 | I'll let you know. But for the time being, I'm happy. I'm happy and excited to talk about this |
| 0:42.4 | one. I guess this is a good time to announce that next week's soccer 101 will be how to buy |
| 0:47.7 | deep fried pizza. I feel like that. We're just going to keep it going, Graham, because people do |
| 0:50.9 | have questions about the personal life of Graham Ruffin. |
| 0:57.9 | Were you prepared for that when you started appearing on the show? |
| 1:05.3 | No. Nobody has ever asked the questions about my personal life before. But it would seem that TSS Twitter is quite interested about certain things. But yes, next week we'll speak about |
| 1:10.4 | deep fried pizza and then I'm sure there has to be a come down at some point, so we'll probably talk about the 1866 World Cup at some point in the future to even things out a little bit. I will, I promise you, this is my gift to you, you don't have to be on that episode. Okay, thank you. But you do have to be on today's episode, and you are. |
| 1:29.8 | We're going to be discussing Scottish football. |
| 1:31.6 | More specifically, the nicest way I can put it is why isn't Scottish football better? |
| 1:36.8 | Why isn't Scotland better at football? |
| 1:38.7 | When I was searching this question, Graham, I'm not trying to go negative right off the bat. |
| 1:42.3 | But so many of the similar |
| 1:44.2 | questions are like related questions where things like, why isn't Scotland good at football, do |
| 1:48.7 | Scots care about football since they're bad and what is the point of Scottish football? We're |
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