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With two defeats in two games, Scotland need to beat Uruguay to reach the last 16 and Ferguson has a decision to make.
Captain Souness, then 33, struggled with the heat and altitude and after a coaches’ meeting, it was agreed he would be dropped. The manager went to the midfielder’s room to break the news, which was apparently met with no fuss.
A few months ago, it was announced that Souness would leave Sampdoria to join Rangers. A Rangers side that will threaten Ferguson’s Aberdeen and a Dundee United side represented by five players in Mexico.
Neither Miller nor Bannon felt any tension as a result, although the former suggested the dynamic had shifted as more than half the squad was Scotland-based, and the latter recalled a whispered conversation between the captain and defender Richard Gough, who will arrive at Ibrox next summer.
“His room was two doors down from mine and I talked to him a lot,” says Ruff. “He told me he was trying to sign Chris Woods and Terry Butcher, who were both in the England team, and I just laughed.
“But you could see he was really trying to learn about the Scottish game.”
