{"id":242996,"date":"2025-11-04T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/242996\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T09:00:09","slug":"scottish-rugby-fans-asked-for-greatest-murrayfield-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/242996\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish rugby fans asked for greatest Murrayfield moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On 1 March 1975, Scotland edged out Wales 12-10 in a Five Nations thriller that has gone down in folklore for the sheer scale of the crowd. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 100,000 fans officially packed the terraces, aslthough many believe the true number was closer to 130,000 \u2013 a figure that remains the stuff of legend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Scotland player and head coach Sir Ian McGeechan is one of the panel and shared his memories of the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In those days, you just turned up, bought your ticket, and walked in \u2013 no pre-booking,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The SRU never accepted it was 130,000 \u2013 but it was. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People were worried about the numbers \u2013 children being lifted down over the barriers to sit by the pitch. You couldn&#8217;t imagine it now, but it was incredible to witness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was playing that day and one of the most enduring memories was the schoolboys sitting along the touchline, all in their uniforms, as was the style. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We stopped Wales winning the Grand Slam. You remember the way you felt, not just what happened. You see just how much something can have such an impact on you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 1 March 1975, Scotland edged out Wales 12-10 in a Five Nations thriller that has gone down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-242996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}