Scots Abroad
John Walker speaks to a Scottish sports person about their upbringing and career in Scotland. This is followed by discussing the reasons and decisions that led to them choosing to move outside the UK to further their career.
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Greg Stewart
10/09/2023
Greg Stewart
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. We talk to Greg Stewart about coming up through the Rangers the Hearts youth systems. Playing for Sygenta amateurs before playing for Cowdenbeath and Dundee in the SPFL. A move to England with Birmingham City during a tumultuous time for the cub with multiple managerial changes and loan moves to Aberdeen and Kilmarnock. A move Rangers followed winning a Scottish Premiership on the way before moving to the Indian Super League with Jamshedpur then current club Mumbai City. Website: Buy me a coffee: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram:
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Andy Irving
09/18/2023
Andy Irving
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. We talk to Andy Irving just before his transfer window day transfer to West Ham United (although he is on loan back to Austria Klagenfurt for the rest of the season). We discuss coming through the Hearts youth team, moving into the first team after loans in the SPFL with Berwick Rangers and Falkirk. What is was like to decide to move to Germany to sign with Turkgucu Munchen in 2021 before a move to the Austrian Bundesliga. Website: Buy me a coffee: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram:
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Johnny Russell II
11/18/2021
Johnny Russell II
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. We talk to Johnny Russell to get an update on how his season is going at Sporting Kansas City ahead of the upcoming MLS Playoff first round tie against Ryan Gauld's Vancouver Whitecaps on Sat 20th Nov 2021. Website: Buy me a coffee: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram:
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Jack Hendry
08/10/2021
Jack Hendry
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. Jack Hendry talks to John Walker about his career in Scotland, England, Australia & Belgium. We also talk about being part of the Scotland EURO 2020 squad. Website: Buy me a coffee: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram:
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Lewis Morgan
07/12/2021
Lewis Morgan
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. Lewis Morgan talks to John Walker about his career in Scotland, England & The USA. We also talk about his ambassador role with . Website: Buy me a coffee: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram:
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Jack Harper
06/07/2021
Jack Harper
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. Jack Harper talks to John Walker about his career in England & Spain. Website: Buy me a coffee: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram:
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Robbie Crawford
05/31/2021
Robbie Crawford
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. Robbie Crawford talks to John Walker about his career in the Scotland, Iceland, Finland & the USA. Website: Buy me a coffee: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram:
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Ray Bradshaw
05/24/2021
Ray Bradshaw
The latest in our series of interviews of Scots who've made a name for themselves outside the UK. This episode sees our first comedian on Scots Abroad. Two time Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist, Ray Bradshaw, has performed sold out comedy shows not just at the Edinburgh Fringe but also at the Melbourne & Adelaide comedy festivals in Australia. Football fans in Scotland know him from the Soccer FM podcast, as an occasional host of BBC Radio Scotland's Off The Ball and from the Scottish National Team's pre match entertainment. Ray is also the first person to put on a show in English & British Sign Language allowing hundreds of deaf people to attend stand up shows for the first time. Website: Buy me a coffee: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram:
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Stevie Mallan
05/17/2021
Stevie Mallan
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. Stevie Mallan talks to John Walker about his career in the Scotland, England & Turkey. Website: Buy me a coffee: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram:
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David Robertson
05/10/2021
David Robertson
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. David Robertson talks to John Walker about his career in the Scotland, England, the USA & India. Website: Buy me a coffee: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram:
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Who will make the Scotland EURO's squad? with McBookie.com
02/17/2021
Who will make the Scotland EURO's squad? with McBookie.com
In this special episode John Walker is joined by Gordo from The Trampled Bet Podcast, Thomas Nicholl from The 4th Official Podcast, Ben McNicol from The Short Corner Podcast & Paul Petrie from McBookie to discuss which players, currently playing outside the UK will make the EURO 2020 Scotland squad. You can view the McBookie market under 'Specials' at Website: Buy me a coffee: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram:
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Barrie-James O'Neill
02/15/2021
Barrie-James O'Neill
The latest in our series of interviews we change track slightly and talk to a singer-songwriter from Yoker whose had success at home an abroad. Barrie-James was front man of the band Kassidy who produced two Scottish Album Chart Top 10 albums in the early 2010's. Now a solo artist we discuss songwriting, touring the world and the differences between being in a band and, now, on his own. Website: Buy me a coffee: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram:
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David Bates
12/21/2020
David Bates
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. David Bates talks to John Walker about his career in the Scotland, Germany, England & Belgium. David started his football career with his local side Raith Rovers where he spent 5 years developing his style including loan moves to East Stirlingshire & Brechin City. In 2016 he moved to his boyhood team, Rangers, as a development loan that turned into a full signing. In the summer of 2018 he moved to Germany to play for Hamburg. The historically successful side had just suffered their first ever relegation to the Bundesliga 2. A huge impact made Bates an instant fan favourite until injuries hampered his season both in Hamburg and his loan to Sheffield Wednesday. He is currently on loan at Cercle Brugge in the Belgian Pro League. We discuss his hopes for the seasons ahead and his ambition to add to his 4 international caps so far. Website: Buy me a coffee: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram:
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Ifeoma Dieke
12/14/2020
Ifeoma Dieke
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. Ifeoma Dieke talks to John Walker about her career in the United States, Sweden & Cyprus. Ife started her career in much h closer to home with the Cumbernauld Cosmos & Cumbernauld Ladies before embarking on a scholarship program in Florida with the FIU Panthers. After graduating she signed for Atlanta Beat in the WUSA. A move back to Europe followed where she played in Sweden with QBIK & Kristianstads then returns to the US with Chicago Red Stars & Boston Breakers. A loan move to Cypriot side Apollon Limassol preceded a return to Swedish football with Vittsjo GIK for 6 seasons then IFK Kalmar before returning to her current club Apollon Limassol in 2018. Dieke is also one of Scotland's most capped players with 123 caps up to the EURO 2017 tournament as well as being one of only 2 non-English players in the London 2012 Olympics Team GB squad. Ifeoma was also the first black Scotland captain in over 100 years. Website: Buy me a coffee: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram:
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Chris Iwelumo
12/07/2020
Chris Iwelumo
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. Chris Iwelumo talks to John Walker about his career in Scotland, England, Denmark & Germany. Chris started his career as a youth at St Mirren becforme moving to Denmark to play for Aarhus Fremad. He then spent much of his career in England playing in the top 4 teirs having spells at Stoke City, York City, Cheltenham Town, Brighton & Hove Albion, Coplchester United, Charlton Athletic, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Bristol City, Burnley, Watford, Notts County, Oldham Athletic & Scunthorpe United with a spell in German football in the middle with Alemannia Achen. He returned to Scotland to play for St Johnstone and then ended his career at Chester in the English Conference. We discuss Chris' upbringing, how proud he is of his 4 Scotland caps and the impact of the press attention from the infamous miss at Hampden. Website: Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ScotsAbroadPod Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scotsabroadpod/
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Anthony McDonald
11/30/2020
Anthony McDonald
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. Anthony McDonald talks to John Walker about his move to Spain. We talk to Anthony about his youth, being born in Cyprus before moving to Scotland a few months old and his childhood Celtic fandom. The striker started at Livingston before joining Hearts where he stayed for 8 years. He graduated to the first team in 2017 and also had loan deals with Inverness CT and Dunfermline Athletic. Earlier this year he signed for Spanish Segunda Division B side Cordoba. Injury has prevented him making his debut and we discuss the impact of this on Anthony as well as his reasons for moving abroad. Website: Buy me a coffee: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram:
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Graham Hunter
11/16/2020
Graham Hunter
The latest in our series of interviews with figures in footballer who have forged a career outside of the UK. Graham Hunter talks to John Walker about moving to Spain after a career in UK journalism. Graham Hunter, a passionate Dandies fan from Aberdeen, started in journalism in the mid 80's working his way through writing football reports for the Sunday Mirror and Sunday Times before taking on a role at the Daily Mail. In 2002 he relocated to Spain to cover Spanish football just in time to see the Spanish Golden Generation.
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Jaime Wilson
11/02/2020
Jaime Wilson
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. Jamie Wilson talks to John Walker about playing in Australia. Jaime started his career in the Inverness CT youth set up before moving to Rothes. He then travelled to Australia to play with Northcote City. He returned to Scotland this summer and signed with current club Dumbarton. Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: Patreon: Web:
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Jack Elliott
10/26/2020
Jack Elliott
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. We talk to London-born Jack about growing up as a Rangers fan with Scottish parents. The defender was part of the Fulham youth set up until being scouted by West Virginia University at just 12. His US college career included playing for the West Virginia Mountaineers and South Florida Surf before being a fourth round draft pick for Philadelphia Union in 2017. We also chat about how, despite what EA Sports says, he defines himself as Scottish and would be the only nation he'd want to represent. Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: Patreon: Web:
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Ross Houston
10/05/2020
Ross Houston
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish sportspeople who have performed outside of the UK. We talk to welterweight Ross "The Hitman" Houston about growing up in a boxing family, turning to MMA, becoming Cage Warriors champion & signing up to Bellator ahead of his main event fight against Michael "Venom" Page at Bellator 248 in Paris on October 10th 2020 Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: Patreon: Web:
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Johnny Russell
09/28/2020
Johnny Russell
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. We talk to Johnny about coming through the Dundee United youth team before breaking into the first squad after loan periods with Forfar Athletic and Raith Rovers. After a decade and almost moving abroad he left to play in the English Championship with Derby County for 5 years. He then moved out to the US to his current club Sporting Kansas City. We also chat about his international career with Scotland and the difficulties of traveling between continents and his determination to do so to represent his country. Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: Patreon: Web:
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Steven Lennon
09/21/2020
Steven Lennon
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. We talk to Steven about coming through the youth ranks at Rangers with periods at Partick Thistle, Lincoln City, Dundalk & Newport County before making the decision to move, playing for Fram in Iceland & Sandnes Ulf in Norway before returning to Iceland with current club Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar (thankfully normally known as just FH). We cover how he rediscovered his love of the game in Scandinavia, becoming Icelands highest scoring foreign player and his ambitions for when his playing career comes to an end. Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: Patreon: Web:
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Bob Malcolm
09/14/2020
Bob Malcolm
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. We chat to Bob about coming through the youth ranks at a successful Rangers side followed by spells with Derby County, Queens Park Rangers & Motherwell before a move to Australia to play with Brisbane roar. Bob ended his playing career with periods at Dundee & Cowdenbeath before taking up coaching including being Barry Ferguson's assistant at Clyde & currently at Kelty Hearts. Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: Patreon: Web:
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Lewis Fiorini
09/07/2020
Lewis Fiorini
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. Lewis is, at 18, still at the start of his career. A Manchester City youth player and born and bred supporter who was surprised to learn of his Scottish Grandmother that has allowed him to be called up for Scotland at multiple age groups. Having recently gone on loan to NAC Breda in the Dutch Eerste Divisie to get a taste of first team football we talk to Lewis at an exciting moment in his promising career. Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: Patreon: Web:
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Nick Ross
08/31/2020
Nick Ross
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. Nick came through the ranks at his local side Inverness Caledonian Thistle and included a Scottish Cup win. He then played for Dundee before moving to Romania to play with Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe, returning home for a short spell with Brora Rangers then relocating to the US to play for El Paso Locamotice is the USFL. We chat to Nick about his journey, experiences of playing abroad and discuss his career. Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: Patreon: Web:
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Darryl Duffy
08/24/2020
Darryl Duffy
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. Darryl came through the youth systems of Celtic and then Rangers before playing for a number of clubs in the Scottish and English Leagues; Brechin City, Falkirk, Hull City, Hartlepool United, Swansea City, Bristol Rovers, Carlisle United, Hibs and Cheltenham Town. He then spent 4 years playing in the I-League in India with Salgaocar, Goa and Mohun Bagan then returning to Scotland with St Mirren, Airdrieonians, Stirling Albion and has (since this interview was recorded) joined Stranraer ahead of the 2020/21 season. We chat to Darryl about his journey, experiences of playing abroad and discuss his career. Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: Patreon: Web:
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Barry Smith
08/17/2020
Barry Smith
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. Barry started his playing career with Barrhead before joining Celtic as a youth. He signed for Dundee where he became captain winning the First Division and leading his team out at a Scottish Cup final. A move to Value in Iceland was followed by stints at Partick Thistle, Greenock Morton & Brechin City. He has also managed Dundee, Alloa Athletic, East Fife, Raith Rovers & Brechin City & is currently Jim Duffy's Assistant at Dumbarton. We talk to Barry about his playing and management career (including all three of Dundee's administrations!). Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: Patreon: Web:
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Bobby Allain
08/10/2020
Bobby Allain
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. Bobby was born in France to a Scottish mother and has maintained close links to Scotland, joining Clyde as a youth in 2010 as well as annual holidays as a child. From there he has played for US Ivry, Red Star & Dijon in France before joining Olympiacos in Greece. We talk to Bobby about his career so far and his desire to be called up for Scotland. Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: Patreon: Web:
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Chris Duncan
08/03/2020
Chris Duncan
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish sports people who have moved outside of the UK for their sport. Chris Duncan is a professional mixed martial artist with a background in jiu-jitsu who currently fights for Bellator in the lightweight division. Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: Patreon: Web:
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JoJo Calderwood
07/27/2020
JoJo Calderwood
The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish sports people who have moved outside of the UK for their sport. Joanne Calderwood is a professional mixed martial artist and former Muay Thai champion who competes in the Women's Flyweight division of the UFC. We talk to JoJo about her journey through different sports to finding MMA was the one for her and look ahead to her upcoming fight with Jennifer Maia at UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Shahbazyan on the 1st Aug 2020.
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