{"id":541706,"date":"2026-03-15T09:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541706\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T09:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:47:08","slug":"scottish-gossip-butland-braga-edouard-bennie-jikiemi-docherty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541706\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish gossip: Butland, Braga, Edouard, Bennie, Jikiemi, Docherty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hong Kong-born Queens Park Rangers winger Daniel Bennie, the 19-year-old who has played for Australia at youth level, has not given up hope of forcing his way into Steve Clarke&#8217;s Scotland squad for this summer&#8217;s World Cup finals. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/sport\/scottish\/article\/the-world-cup-bolter-from-australia-vying-for-steve-clarkes-side-2hqwtfxgm?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqdjNO_j4DPKHUpAY9UMREhKCUE23LUctB6CtKfY1xroE5pZ-r7O3I__h1iN200%3D&amp;gaa_ts=69b57e48&amp;gaa_sig=F7ZjW5xMgVtMVF61yK9JfWrATzUbvKoH4hSwpwcmEE2QzG8AB9KODxmS6AU5VkjLTYXznCXJd7jta5Uymol14g%3D%3D\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(The Times), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Haiti head coach Sebastian Migne admits he is struggling to convince Lens striker Odsonne Edouard to switch his allegiances and play for the Caribbean nation in their World Cup opener against Scotland as the 28-year-old former Celtic player still dreams of a first senior cap for France. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/odsonne-edouard-set-haiti-snub-36866676\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Daily Record), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Dundee manager Tony Docherty, recently sacked by Ross County, is the bookmakers&#8217; favourite to be St Mirren&#8217;s new team boss ahead of Stenhousemuir&#8217;s Gary Naysmith and former Fleetwood Town manager Charlie Adam. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/sport\/football\/next-st-mirren-manager-odds-ex-hearts-trio-celtic-hero-and-former-assistant-tipped-to-replace-stephen-robinson-5692604\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(The Scotsman), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland fans have scored a World Cup win over England by applying for more tickets for this summer&#8217;s football spectacular, making 36,000 bids for briefs &#8211; 1,000 more than their counterparts. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/16039789\/scotland-fans-triumph-over-england\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Scottish Sun), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong-born Queens Park Rangers winger Daniel Bennie, the 19-year-old who has played for Australia at youth level,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-541706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}