{"id":746767,"date":"2026-06-19T13:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/746767\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T13:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:38:10","slug":"scotland-v-morocco-build-up-tartan-army-gather-in-boston-as-clarkes-side-bid-for-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/746767\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland v Morocco build-up: Tartan Army gather in Boston as Clarke’s side bid for history"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘We like being the underdogs’published at 14:21 BST<\/p>\n

14:21 BST<\/p>\n

Scotland v Morocco (23:00 BST)<\/p>\n

\"\"Gemma Fay
Former Scotland goalkeeper on BBC Radio 5 Live<\/p>\n

Imagine stepping on to that field [in their first match of the 2026 World Cup against Haiti] with all that emotional pressure on you and you’ve got the hopes and dreams of an entire nation for the past 30 years on your shoulders and what all anybody wants you to do is win and you do it. <\/p>\n

I think that kind of lifts a bit of pressure on the team now.<\/p>\n

It’s just a different atmosphere than it was from the Euros and the one before that. They seem to be enjoying it. I mean Steve Clarke cracking the jokes left, right and centre.<\/p>\n

But we’re all aware of how good Morocco are. I only managed to watch the first half of them against Brazil and I got a little bit nervous watching that, to be honest. They were good, weren’t they?<\/p>\n

We like being the underdogs. We like being the ones that people think ‘well, you’re ranked whatever you are and Morocco are sixth in the world’. I don’t think that fazes us too much.<\/p>\n

I think ‘in Steve we trust’ and he’s probably got something tucked up his sleeve somewhere. <\/p>\n

So all we need is a point – by hook or by crook, or even off John McGinn’s backside. However it happens, we don’t care. <\/p>\n

Media caption, <\/p>\n

Yes Sir, Scotland CAN Boogie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘We like being the underdogs’published at 14:21 BST 14:21 BST Scotland v Morocco (23:00 BST) Gemma FayFormer Scotland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-746767","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\/746767","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=746767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}