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Scottish Football Podcast

It’s the Scottish Cup preview

Scottish Football Podcast

BBC

Soccer, News, Sport, Sports News

3.6793 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Why Aberdeen face a "massive mental test" vs. Raith Rovers in the Scottish Cup this weekend - could the Dons be haunted by the ghost of Darvel?

VAR is not the problem, it's the people implementing it, according to Cillian Sheridan. Plus, why Livingston and St. Mirren have opted to dump VAR for the Scottish Cup.

And have Auchinleck Talbot forgotten the "romance of the cup" by giving away their home advantage?

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:07.1

The Traitors Uncloaked is the only place you'll see players react as they find out who's been deceiving them.

0:12.6

That is brilliant.

0:14.9

It's the only place for official behind the scenes deep dives into the latest plot twists.

0:19.3

And it's the only place where we chat to famous fans and players from series gone by.

0:23.8

I wouldn't want to be a traitor.

0:25.3

Oh, it's the best part of.

0:26.3

That's what a traitor would say.

0:27.6

The traitors uncloked, the official visualised companion podcast with me, Ed Gamble.

0:33.2

Watch on Eye Player, listen for more on BBC Sounds.

0:47.0

Hello, I'm Charlotte Cohn and this is the Scottish football podcast.

0:51.1

All the news, views and analysis you need on Friday the 16th of January.

0:53.5

And it's Scottish Cup weekend.

0:55.0

I see a little bit of everything.

0:57.4

Confidence, a little bit of fire, about a bit of hungerer.

1:01.8

Because there's some talented players in there.

1:04.3

But again, it's just trying to get that out of them and understand what this club is.

1:07.2

Managerless Aberdeen and Freefall host Raythe Rovers.

1:13.4

And there's two managers agreeing about one thing at least Livingston and St Mirren tell VAR it's banned

1:16.6

The Livingston manager David Martindale says his side and St Mirren have agreed

1:20.2

there will be no VAR at their Scottish Cup tie in West Lothian on Saturday

1:25.3

Which team in the relegation fight will get a lift from a win here? And Jim Goodwin's Toiling Dundee United face a tricky tie as they host Air. It's going to be a really difficult game. Of course it is. You know, there's no easy games in the Cup. You know, there'll be no pressure on Air United, obviously coming to play Oz at our home patch. But the expectation is there for us and the players will be well aware of that

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