Euro 2020: Through the keyhole at the Scotland camp at Rockliffe Hall

Well spotted.

At the World Cup in 1998, Craig Brown’s backroom staff had to turn a banquet hall into a gymnasium and get special duvets for players.

Indoor and outdoor pitches, saunas, steam rooms, jacuzzis and treatment rooms are all on hand across the 160-acre site.

Because of Covid-19 protocols, all players will get a room to themselves.

Chef Johnny McCallum is the magician in the kitchen on trips for the Scotland national team, and is loved so much by the players that Kieran Tierney has even had him down in London.

Brown famously decked out his France ’98 squad in tartan on the quiet so then-Scottish FA boss Jim Farry didn’t find out.

For the World Cup in 1998, the players were given signed prints of the squad photo as a keepsake by the Scottish FA.

The players have already been soaking up some classic matches to get themselves into the mood.

Despite only being based just outside of Middlesbrough, the Scotland team won’t be hopping on a bus or train to either Hampden or Wembley for the group stage matches.

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