It’s the Premiership basement battle as we focus on St Mirren, Kilmarnock and Livingston.
Scottish Football Podcast
BBC
3.6 • 793 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
We take an in-depth look at the three clubs propping up the Premiership table and look at what’s gone wrong at St Mirren, Kilmarnock and Livingston and where there are grounds for optimism? And was the AFCON final wilder than Scottish football? With Andy Burke, Div McDonald, Callum Scott and Stuart Barrie.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked. |
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| 0:22.2 | from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffle and Rommashranganathan. |
| 0:25.9 | However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncoaked. |
| 0:30.3 | So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:50.4 | Hello, I'm Andy Burke, and this is the Scottish Football podcast, all the news, views and analysis you need on Tuesday, the 20th of January. |
| 0:55.4 | And today we're focusing on the sides battling the drop from the premiership. |
| 1:00.3 | He's probably one of the most scrutinised jobs in the world, being a football manager. |
| 1:06.0 | Livingston without a win for 164 days currently sit bottom of the league. |
| 1:09.5 | And David Martindale's side face familiar opponents tonight. |
| 1:11.9 | The next three or four games are vital for us. |
| 1:28.9 | We'll have hopefully more players in by them as well. We've had a good reset. We know what we need to do. We need to cut out making silly mistakes. And we'll start to turn that around. St. Mirren defeated Livy in the Cup, but do they have it in them to pull away from the relegation dogfight? and 11th place Comarnock have a fresh face in the dugout |
| 1:28.9 | but can they turn round their results? |
| 1:31.6 | See to be honest I don't really care |
| 1:33.2 | about the Scottish Cup. We're out of it and it's just |
| 1:35.1 | another game that's past is without winning a game. |
| 1:37.4 | My now focus is bringing |
| 1:39.3 | this group together and make sure we stay |
| 1:41.4 | in this premiership. Stay with us |
| 1:43.4 | to get the lowdown on where all three clubs sit now. |
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