RADIO HOST Stuart Cosgrove has opened up on his nightmare ordeal in Germany after he was hospitalised with Covid through the Euros.
The 71-year-old made the journey over to Germany with the Tartan Military to observe Steve Clarke’s males tackle Group A earlier than they had been cruelly knocked out of the match in stoppage time in opposition to Hungary.
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Round 200,000 jubilant Scots had been located within the host nation all through their brief marketing campaign within the competitors, they usually actually made noise wherever they went – whether or not it was Munich, Stuttgart or Dortmund.
But it surely led to heartbreak for everybody who made the journey as they had been dumped out within the last sport after a humiliating show over the course of the three group video games, following a outstanding qualifying marketing campaign.
Nonetheless, whereas it was a devastating finale for all concerned, not many might have had a worse finish to the match than Cosgrove.
The broadcaster, who hosts BBC Scotland‘s Off the Ball present with Tam Cowan, got here down with Covid throughout his travels and his situation was so critical that he needed to be hospitalised.
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Cosgrove attended the ultimate match in opposition to Hungary and contracted the virus through the journey as he began making his method again to Scotland following the defeat.
He was positioned in an isolation unit in Berlin and his return to Scotland was placed on maintain.
However fortunately it wasn’t too critical for the presenter and he has since recovered.
And he lastly returned to the BBC studio as we speak to host his weekend present with Cowan after an extended absence because of his situation.
Opening up on his ordeal on the programme, he mentioned: “Mainly, I used to be at Stuttgart for the Hungary sport and on the retreat from the Tartan Military, I caught Covid.
“By the point I obtained to Berlin, the place we had been flying from, I used to be hospitalised in an isolation unit there.”
However regardless of it being a horrible approach to finish the match, Cosgrove has insisted that it wasn’t all unhealthy information for him in Berlin.
That is as a result of he was given the possibility to signify his nation as a result of virus.
The 71-year-old continued: “However there’s one monumental upside to this. The physician mentioned to me ‘would you wish to signify Scotland?’
“It was a proud second. I used to be in a frenzy and John Robertson was handing the ball to me!
“They had been doing an epidemiology examine of the Euros and the concept could be that they had been taking a look at matches the place there was superspreadinf occasions, or they had been taking a look at specific nations or communities who might need introduced the virus with them.
“They had been in fact specializing in Scotland vs Hungary, they usually requested me what different video games I had been to, how I’d travelled, whereabouts within the stadium I used to be.
“However there was simply nothing there.”
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Cowan then lower his pal off to level out: “You had been used as a case examine, if you happen to like!”
Cosgrove added: “I used to be! I used to be representing Scotland.”
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