- Sweet Dreams : The Scottish Claymores Conquer the World “For a millennia the Tattoo and the Bagpipe has called Scotland’s heroes to defend her land, and her honour. Now a new challenge presents itself as a Germanic horde invades the Scottish midlands. The Frankfurt Galaxy and the Scottish Claymores clash in World Bowl 96 as a season’s worth of emotion and sweat will rise […]
- Sweet Dreams : July 1976 – David Wilkie’s Golden Swim To some children who grew up in Scotland in the 1980s, David Wilkie was just a guy with a big moustache in tiny trunks who was always on telly talking about swimming (see video below). But to everybody else he remains quite rightly one of Scotland’s greatest Olympians.
- Sweet Dreams : Eric Liddell’s Cinematic Gold On Friday July 11, 1924, Eric Liddell won the 400m Olympic Gold medal in Paris, immortalising him as one of Scotland’s greatest heroes. Sir Arthur Marshall, a reserve for the British Olympic team, writes about his personal memories of Liddell, the famous race and how they celebrated together with two American sisters.
- Sweet Dreams : Scotland’s World Cup Final 1989 20 years ago this week, Scotland reached the final of the Under 16 World Cup, before losing to Saudi Arabia on penalties. A crowd of 50,000 watched Craig Brown’s team come within a few whiskers of being World champions – the whiskers on the Saudi players’ upper lips that is.
- Sweet Dreams : Scotland avoid heartbreaking exit from World Cup Scotland’s last World Cup Finals game was 11 years ago this week. Going into the game against Morocco, we knew that a win coupled with a Brazil win over Norway would see us through to the next round. But the Norwegians beat Brazil and so fortunately we avoided another heartbreaking exit by simply getting gubbed […]
- Sweet Dreams : June 1982 – Brasil 0 Escocia 1 Brazil in Seville; June 18, 9pm local time; 90 degrees (at least); Impossible is nothing for Narey and Scotland are on top of the world.