Sunday Mail (UK)

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Brazilians are known for playing football with a smile – so why was Pele so upset when he played at Hampden in 1966?

Well, the fact Billy Bremner spent much of the game kicking him didn’t help.

Quite what the great No.10 thought John Clark was going to do to stop it is beyond us.

Just to annoy Pele further, the friendly ended 1-1, Steve Chalmers scoring for Scotland and Servilio levelling. Scotland tumbled disastrous­ly to defeat in their opening World Cup match against Peru in Cordoba last night.

The Scots lost two goals in the final 20 minutes and the tragedy was that they had the chance to settle the game in the 65th minute.

They were awarded a penalty for a foul on Bruce Rioch with the score 1-1 but Don Masson’s shot was brilliantl­y saved.

Scotland took the lead when Rioch’s left-foot rocket could not be held by Ramon Quiroga.

The ball broke to the right of goal and there was Joe Jordan running freely to smash home.

There was disaster two minutes before the interval when Cesar Cueto fired the ball into the net Each week we take a step back in time and give you a match report from a game of yesteryear

from the six-yard line. Then in 70 minutes the roof fel l in on Scotland when Teofilo Cubillas hammered high into the net.

In 77 minutes it was all over when Cubillas fired a free-kick high into Alan Rough’s goal.

SCOTLAND: Rough, Kennedy, Forsyth, Burns, Buchan, Masson (Macari 75), Rioch (Gemmill 75), Hartford, Dalglish, Jordan, Johnston.

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