Welcome to the big interview bite size. I'm Graham Hunter and in each episode

you'll hear an elite footballer tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day.

All of them come from my podcast, The Big Interview with Graham Hunter,

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Today's story comes from Super John McGinn of Aston Villa and of Scotland.

He'll relive the build up to and the thrill of Scotland's Euro 2020 playoff win over Serbia. Wasn't it great?

The daily... The day leading up to it,

the day leading up to, everyone wanted it badly,

really, really bad that and you could censor.

Never had their own sort of way of dealing with. I was just watching videos on on YouTube.

And I can't remember in particular what ones. But then you start kind of getting a bit emotional

thinking of what if we actually win here what what's going to happen so

I'm getting a bit so everyone is pumped up in their own certain way. You turn up to Red Star

Belgrade today they're renowned for, I remember watching channels

of games there for years, renowned for atmosphere, you can need a pin drop.

So you're at checking the pitch.

Pitch was nigh in growing,

that rain was pouring down.

And you can imagine, as much as it's art now

may or noisy, you can imagine,

if they were in the ground, you probably wouldn't have heard them because that was an intimidating stadium even with no fans in it.

That was that was the only disappointing thing I think for I know some people who travel with Scotland Home and Away have done for the 23 years

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