But as you say, he made up his mind.

Yeah, as I say, I've been there myself.

I've been there in 78 in Argentina when the clamour for everybody to resign was there.

So I can imagine how he must have felt because I've been there and done it.

So, no, I think he can move away with his head held high.

I think he's done his best.

Unfortunately, some of the players let him down on the night.

on the Wednesday night

Mm.

Now, you're talking 21, 22-year-olds.

So, I played that day, and, uh, it was down at Bartley Curle at Anniesland, and I think we won it, and I must've had a good game.

And this, this guy came up to my dad and said, "Look, I'm Jimmy Dickie.

I'm a scout for Partick Thistle, and we'd like your son to come up and have a trial, uh, on Tuesday night." So, my dad was fronting of it.

Once my dad got a hold of that I was gonna be a football player, then he was right behind me.

So, that's how it started.

Mm-hmm.

Anyway, I'm wrecked.

made some good fun it was some good it was some good nice didn't it it's a horrible thing I mean as I say I wasn't included you know so you're no party you're no really party you know the team you're way the team and everything you know so me and Sharpie were When you're no involved in the training sessions, you're just surplus.

So me and Shafi were getting a bit bored and that, so we started thinking up competitions.

There was a tennis court there and we played tennis and we decided that every day that we would play wee competitions for and you get points.

I got a point and he got a point.

And at the end, when we went there, we went to, what do you call the big store in America? The big, like, superstore.

Mears or Walmart.

Ali McLeod told a really funny story about

"That could be the one."

Yeah.

I think, I think when you go to a World Cup, the most important thing is winning your first game.

You win your first game, everybody gets behind you.

Unfortunately for us, it was the very opposite.

Everybody went against us.

There was a lot of, uh, bad press going about, and quite rightly so.

Did it, did it feel though as though you were ending on, on something of a positive?