{"id":636040,"date":"2026-06-13T04:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/636040\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T04:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:01:09","slug":"its-all-theyre-talking-about-scotland-gripped-by-world-cup-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/636040\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s all they&#8217;re talking about&#8217;: Scotland gripped by World Cup fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lucy says she will be staying up for every game Scotland play, meaning her classes might have a bleary-eyed teacher on Thursday 25 June &#8211; the day after Scotland play Brazil in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c7vmr1mmve3o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their final Group C match<\/a>, with a 23:00 kick off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many pupils might have the same issues too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Andy Munro lives in Dunlop, Ayrshire, and has three children &#8211; Harry, 14, Keir, 12 and Adam, 10. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All three boys are football fans who worship <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c0jywlyxyvlo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John McGinn<\/a>, and none have seen the men&#8217;s team take part in a World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cpvd0ynlpdjo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">timing of the Haiti game<\/a> is causing some challenges, &#8221; he laughs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think we will go to bed about eight, and then wake up around half one to watch the game &#8211; and then the boys are all playing football on Sunday morning too. So we will see how it goes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s all they&#8217;re talking about.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucy says she will be staying up for every game Scotland play, meaning her classes might have a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-636040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636040","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=636040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}