Dalglish, Souness & Rod Stewart - Scotland's World Cup '86 remembered
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"You have to take something, especially with West Germany next."After impressing from the bench, Bannon started against Franz Beckenbauer's side in a game best remembered for Gordon Strachan's attempt to hurdle the hoarding after giving Scotland an early lead.Icons of Football: Davie Cooper7/5/26Watch on BBC iPlayerThe eventual finalists would ultimately recover to win 2-1 in a game played in the stifling midday sun. "But then he saw a guy going into the stadium to set up a Coca-Cola stall, so he took a shot of his uniform and barrow and rolled it in so he could watch."'Souness said he was trying to sign Woods & Butcher'Two defeats in two games left Scotland needing to beat Uruguay to advance to the last 16 and Ferguson with a decision to make.Captain Souness, by then 33, had struggled with the heat and the altitude and, after a meeting of the coaches, it was agreed he would be left out.
A Rangers side that would threaten Ferguson's Aberdeen and a Dundee United team represented in Mexico by five players.Neither Miller nor Bannon recalls any tensions as a consequence, although the former suggests the dynamic had shifted given more than half the squad were Scotland-based, and the latter recalls whispered conversations between the captain and defender Richard Gough, who would arrive at Ibrox the next summer."His room was two doors down from mine and I chatted to him a lot," says Rough. And they would face just 10 South Americans for almost the whole contest, after Jose Batista was dismissed inside a minute for assaulting Strachan.Bannon "didn't think wee Gordon was going to get up" after what Miller calls a "savaging", while Rough says such treatment extended to the Uruguay fans, who spat and threw coins at the Scotland bench.So incensed was Scottish FA president Ernie Walker, he told the global media that "we found ourselves on the field with cheats and cowards and we were associated with the scum of world football".None of that changed the fact Ferguson's side were unable to muster the goal that would have put them through.
The best chance fell to Liverpool's Steve Nicol, but his effort was clawed clear and the Scots were out after a goalless draw.There would be further disappointment for Rough after he arrived home. "He was delighted," he recalls.