Blue Wall v Orange Mallet
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The Lib Dems' shock by-election win. Does the party now genuinely pose a threat to the Conservative blue wall in the south? Leader Ed Davey thinks so and Vicki Young is here to give her assessment of how significant the victory is. With chaos unfolding in Northern Ireland politics, Dan Johnson unpicks what led to Edwin Poots' resignation as DUP leader. And, our second Dan of the day, Dan Walker, gives us a potted history of the England v Scotland football rivalry. #YesSirICanBoogie.
Today's Newscast was made by Rick Kelsey with producers Natalie Ktena and Alix Pickles. The studio director is Emma Crowe. Emma Close is the deputy editor. Dino Sofos is the editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.5 | It is a huge weekend for football. |
| 0:07.1 | Oh, I sound like a sports presenter, |
| 0:08.6 | like a really bad sports presenter there. |
| 0:10.4 | Let's rope in an actual good sports presenter. |
| 0:12.4 | It's Dan Walker. Hello |
| 0:13.4 | Adam, how are you doing? I'm very well, thank you. I feel very nostalgic today because I'm |
| 0:18.8 | thinking back to England versus Scotland and the last time that was at a major tournament was 1996 wasn't it? I mean that's sort of right in the middle of my |
| 0:26.9 | sweet spot for the tournament I remember growing up watching my friends and it was an amazing |
| 0:32.3 | occasion. |
| 0:33.0 | I actually went back and had a look at some of the headlines that day |
| 0:36.0 | and it was very, how should we say, |
| 0:38.0 | the sort of thing you wouldn't get away with today |
| 0:40.0 | about, you know, from an England perspective about beating the jocks, I believe believe was one of the front pages of the papers and |
| 0:45.8 | and again from the Scottish perspective it was very anti-English but |
| 0:50.0 | Yuri Geller was moving footballs on that day 25 years ago. |
| 0:54.2 | He's still around. |
| 0:55.4 | He's still around, bending spoons. |
| 0:57.6 | Yeah, and that's just one Adam of so many sort of famous encounters over the years. |
| 1:02.0 | And if you know, we love a bit history |
| 1:03.7 | don't we and this goes back nearly 150 years this game this is the 115th |
| 1:08.4 | time they've met you've got the famous one from 1967 when Scotland beat the world champions and claimed they were on top of the |
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