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Scottish Football Podcast

Lessons from Japan as Scotland prepare for Ivory Coast - it's the international debrief.

Scottish Football Podcast

BBC

News, Sport, Sports News, Soccer

3.6793 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

After the late sucker punch from Japan, we assess where Scotland are ahead of taking on Ivory Coast and what changes Steve Clarke might make, with Ray Bradshaw, Cammy Bell and Michael Grant.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.6

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0:09.4

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0:13.9

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0:36.5

An up-and-down display ends in disappointment against Japan.

0:39.8

And now another tough test against the side rank 35th in the world.

0:43.9

What will Steve Clark do now?

0:52.8

Hello, I'm Ray Bradshaw and this is a Scottish football podcast.

0:55.6

All the news, views and analysis you need on Monday the 30th of March.

0:59.7

And this is the aftermath of defeat to Japan.

1:02.2

Here come Japan once more.

1:03.3

It's into Shogai.

1:04.1

It must be, it surely is, it is.

1:06.5

The goal beyond gun.

1:08.6

Well, we've thought it's been on the cards and it's Junio It and it's Scotland Nell, Japan won. Scotland now without a win and a friend like Hamden in 10 years and Steve Clark wasn't thrilled by the response to the result from the stance. Disappoints me, I have to be honest. Listen, it's just the modern way. It seems to be now if you lose a game, you get booed. So I've just got to deal with it. But there's still another chance this international window to give the Tartan army something to cheer about. Can the Scots find a cutting edge to carve out a win against the Ivory Coast? It's good to get these challenges. We're obviously trying to prepare as well as we can for a big summer ahead, and we'll keep improving. Every opportunity we get to take the field, we'll try try and get better and that's what we'll do again on Tuesday we'll guide you through the world

1:47.4

cup builder the scottish football podcast from bbc sports scotland yes hello and welcome to scottish

1:59.1

football podcast we said it's the aftermath of the Japan game,

2:02.1

generally one of the most boring games I've watched in a while, so let's see how we get into it. We're joined today by former Scotland internationalist Cammy Bell. Cammy, how are you? I'm good, Ray, yourself. I'm all right. What was your thoughts on the game? Boring? Enjoyable? Yeah. yes there wasn't many exciting moments within the game. One or two that I'm sure we'll speak about, but yeah, it was quite a flat game, shall we say. Yeah, and we're also joined by Michael Grant, the Times Scottish Football correspondent. Michael, you were at Hamden. Have you got your voice back after that booing at the end how are you feeling ray not only did

2:34.6

i watched it last night i watched it again today that's that's a you why that's a level of

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