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It’s been 30 years since Scotland’s inaugural appearance at a European Championship Finals, and to commemorate the occasion, John Bleasdale takes a look at the fortunes of each side who participated at the tournament held in Sweden. He begins by assessing two of Scotland’s heavyweight rivals in Group Two – defending European Champions Netherlands and reigning World Champions Germany, who reunified from the West and East split just shy of two years earlier. John is joined by Dutch international Bryan Roy, who started all of Netherlands’ games at Euro ’92 alongside Marco Van Basten and Dennis Bergkamp in attack. Bryan gives an in-depth view of the Dutch side from their qualifying campaign through to the finals, with the expectation being to defend their trophy. He recalls the pain and anguish of going out in the Semi Finals to eventual surprise winners Denmark. In part two, John is joined by podcaster for The Yellow Wall Podcast Matthias Suuck to assess the Germans campaign. Matthias picks the bones as to why