S10 Ep140: Explore | Tour d'Écosse prologue: Gretna 2021
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The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 31 October 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
There are so many questions to answer... Will Lionel and Simon make it to Forfar without falling out? Why are Cowdenbeath called The Blue Brazil? What actually is Irn Bru? And do Lionel's ancestors really hail from Birnie?
This episode is a prologue, of sorts. Lionel and Simon headed to Gretna in June 2021 ready to set off on their adventure but, as you'll hear, it turned out to be something of a false start...
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| 0:00.0 | The Scottish FA Cup 4th round, Freakensitty Nil, the United One, Clyde Bank against |
| 0:12.6 | Bernan is a league kickoff. |
| 0:14.8 | The D1, Medibanktisl, 1. |
| 0:17.8 | Alloa Athletic, Airdrianians, Heart of Midlothian, Hamilton Academical, Queen's Park, Queen |
| 0:25.4 | of the South. |
| 0:28.7 | These are names I associate with the Saturday T-Times of my childhood. |
| 0:33.1 | When I'd sit down to watch the football results on BBC's Grandstand programme, and the |
| 0:38.0 | mention of Stenhaus Muir and Sterling Albion were conjured up images of, well, images of |
| 0:43.0 | what exactly? |
| 0:44.5 | I really didn't know. |
| 0:45.7 | It's got his league division one. |
| 0:47.7 | Clyde one, Airdrianians, Nil, the button two, Matros one. |
| 0:52.7 | They sounded exotic far away places, with a touch of romance and mystery that the more |
| 0:58.0 | familiar English clubs seemed to lack. |
| 1:00.2 | It's got his league division two. |
| 1:02.1 | A United Two, Alloa, Nil. |
| 1:04.8 | I'm Lionel Bernie and I grew up two doors down from Simon Gill. |
| 1:08.7 | Hello! |
| 1:09.7 | As children, our two obsessions were football and then a little later cycling. |
| 1:15.2 | We played and watched football together and we'd head into the Hertfordshire lanes on |
| 1:19.0 | our bikes, pretending we were riding the Tour de France. |
| 1:24.3 | When the pandemic put life on pause, we talked about what we'd like to do when we could |
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