Episode 4

A View From The Terrace celebrates every fragment of Scottish football, from top to bottom.

This week, love is doing strange things to people as grown men in their 50s celebrate like school kids in honour of their footballing hero. We ask what Brendan Rodgers has got against Japanese cars, and talk up a manager who is celebrating 100 matches not out.

With Motherwell FC being called the sexiest team in Scottish football despite another humbling defeat, we deep dive into the world of tactical identity and ask whether sexy football really is more important than winning at all costs?

This week’s half-time entertainment takes us to Hill of Beath Hawthorn, where we learn the secrets of two old school pals who still run the club they founded together more than 50 years ago.

With Scottish clubs back in European action this week, we head off on a European tour, looking at the best and worst parts of the continental away day. From ending up in the wrong city to getting skudded by part-timers from a country you didn’t even know existed, nobody does European away days quite like us Scots.

There is a massive game at Tynecastle this weekend as Hearts’ title credentials are put to the test, while there is yet another new manager in the door at Rangers. As if his job wasn’t hard enough already, the poor guy also looks uncannily like a certain Craig G Telfer…

It’s one of the best weekends in the lower league football calendar - Scottish Cup Second Round week, and like all connoisseurs of the game, we love a good cup upset on Terrace. We preview the weekend’s action and ask which underdog will have its day.