{"id":55253,"date":"2026-06-24T15:51:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/scotland-on-brink-of-history-ahead-of-brazil-world-cup-tie\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T15:51:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:51:48","slug":"scotland-on-brink-of-history-ahead-of-brazil-world-cup-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/scotland-on-brink-of-history-ahead-of-brazil-world-cup-tie\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland on ‘brink of history’ ahead of Brazil World Cup tie"},"content":{"rendered":"


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While fans have been in party mode for the last few days and weeks, there is a sense that some are now starting to crunch the numbers.<\/p>\n

“I’ve got my spreadsheets out everyday. We’re not counting our chickens yet, but I feel like we should be ok,” said Brian Guthrie from Inverness.<\/p>\n

“I phoned in sick to be here, I’ll be gutted not to go on. I’d love to go to Mexico City and the spreadsheet says it could happen.”<\/p>\n

For Ewen MacDonald, from Machrihanish in Argyll and Bute, the match is also a chance to rewrite history.<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old celebrated his birthday in Miami on Tuesday, exactly 28 years after watching Scotland’s 3-0 defeat to Morocco on his 16th birthday – a result that ended the nation’s World Cup hopes in France 1998.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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While fans have been in party mode for the last few days and weeks, there is a sense that some are now starting to crunch the numbers. “I’ve got my spreadsheets out everyday. We’re not counting our chickens yet, but I feel like we should be ok,” said Brian Guthrie from Inverness. “I phoned in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[222,3651,6847,805,1166,688,3194,510],"class_list":["post-55253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-ahead","tag-brazil","tag-brink","tag-cup","tag-history","tag-scotland","tag-tie","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55255,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55253\/revisions\/55255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}