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The Football Show · 6 October 2026
"Defenders are frightened to touch him." Alan Rough says Ben Gannon-Doak has to start for Scotland against Slovenia at Hampden, after the 2-0 win in North Macedonia showed what his pace does to defenders.
Peter Martin, Alan Rough and Alex Rae review Kieron Bowie's early goal and John McGinn's penalty, Gannon-Doak as "a breath of fresh air", Billy Gilmour and Lewis Ferguson in midfield, and new faces Luis Binks and Stephen Welsh at the back. Plus why Scotland still need a goalscorer, McGinn chasing Kenny Dalglish and Denis Law's 30 goals, Andy Robertson's 100th cap, the team to face Slovenia, and whether Sebastien Pocognoli should unleash Josh McPake at left wing-back.
Was Scotland v Austria really abandoned at 4-1 up? Yes: on 8 May 1963 at Hampden, in front of 95,000, English referee Jim Finney abandoned the friendly in the 79th minute because of violent Austrian conduct. Roughy was there as a boy, and nobody believed him.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Scotland 2-0 North Macedonia: Bowie settles the nerves
01:09 Ben Gannon-Doak "a breath of fresh air", plus Gilmour and Ferguson
02:47 Luis Binks and Stephen Welsh: new faces at the back
03:23 Still exposed out wide?
03:47 Scotland still need a goalscorer
04:39 Robertson's 100th cap and the penalty he didn't take
05:11 Why Scotland's strikers need the goals: Bowie and McBurnie
06:45 "Penalty Rangers!" and the three-week international break
07:26 Who goes to Scotland games? The central belt and the north
09:01 The panel's Tartan Army memories
10:00 Roughy's Scotland 4-1 Austria story
10:49 Is the international break a week too long?
11:16 The team to face Slovenia
12:05 The von Trapp family and Roughy's "facts" on trial
13:37 Confirmed: 1963, abandoned at 4-1 up in front of 95,000
15:06 Joe Jordan v Czechoslovakia 1973 and Arthur Montford
16:05 Scotland v Slovenia preview: break them down at Hampden
16:24 Gannon-Doak must start: "defenders are frightened to touch him"
16:48 Unleash Josh McPake at left wing-back?
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