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18 June, Seville. (Narey 18) Scotland 1-4 Brazil (Zico 33, Oscar 48, Eder 63, Falcao 87)<\/i><\/p>\n
Wark:<\/b> “It’s incredible to think that Brazil team didn’t win the World Cup.<\/p>\n
“The heat didn’t help. During the anthems, the sweat was lashing off us, then I looked along their line. Not a single drop on a single forehead and I just thought, ‘uh-oh’.”<\/p>\n
Strachan:<\/b> “The other problem was the pitch – we never had a clue what studs to wear because the grass was so long, which was the way the Brazilians liked it. There was actually a lot of physical engagement to their play, it wasn’t as much about moving the ball quickly as it is now.<\/p>\n
“In the end it didn’t matter too much – we never saw the ball when they got going anyway.”<\/p>\n
Wark:<\/b> “Our goal (Scotland took the lead through Dave Narey) just got them annoyed. I was playing on the right – we had so many good centre mids I never got to play in my best spot – and I headed it down for big Sash (handsome Narey’s nickname after singer Sacha Distel) to score that famous goal of his.<\/p>\n
“He didn’t have a clue what to do. He obviously hardly ever scored so he ended up running around like a wee boy who didn’t know what day it was!<\/p>\n
“After that, though? It was an education.”<\/p>\n
Strachan:<\/b> “They were good, but what you don’t realise was their height and strength was incredible. Their midfield three – Socrates, Falcao and Cerezo – they were all 6ft 3in.<\/p>\n
“I thought I was pretty strong, and I’m eyeing up wee Junior for a challenge, maybe knock him over when I’m taking the ball off him, and bang. I went down like a cartoon character, I just crumpled.<\/p>\n
“They’re the best team never to have won a World Cup. Probably the best team I ever played, actually – except the big striker Serginho, to be fair, he wasn’t that great. I actually swapped strips with him, which means there’ll be a Scotland number seven shirt somewhere in a loft in Sao Paulo.”<\/p>\n
Wark:<\/b> “Their goals were class. I was the end man in the wall for Zico’s and Roughie was giving it, ‘perfect, John’, with the big thumbs up. Two seconds later it’s round me and in the top corner. Two keepers couldn’t have stopped it.<\/p>\n
“At the final whistle, Kenny (Dalglish), who’d come on as a sub, went to Zico and tried to get his shirt. Big (Alan) Hansen sprinted over to try and get it too – it was probably the closest he got to him all night.<\/p>\n
“But Zico fobbed them both off and came over to me instead. ‘Swap?’ he says. Turns out he just collected number 10s – so when I got back into the dressing room I was waving it in Hansen’s face. I actually ended up giving it away to a charity in Ipswich and it made a lot of money at an auction.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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