DAVIE Wilson, the Scot in charge of the Gibraltar national team, revealed last night that he plans to offer his players a rough guide to Glasgow in preparation for today's crucial Euro 2016 Group D qualifying meeting with Scotland.

The 41-year-old from Ayrshire will lead his squad on a trip to the Riverside Museum, the new home for the city's Museum of Transport, then a brisk walk along the banks of the Clyde, with a post-match banquet on order from the Blue Lagoon chip shop in the city centre. Taking in a bit of culture always helps broaden the mind, but whether Ronny Deila would approve of the choice of native cuisine is rather less certain.

"We're doing the transport museum," said Wilson. "I've actually been before a few months ago, I got taken kicking and screaming with the wife and kids, but I came out thinking it was brilliant. So I think it'll be great for the guys. We'll take a walk along the Clyde on the morning of the game, weather permitting, and after the game we'll be straight into the Blue Lagoon chippy under Central Station! I've told them already that's my favourite chip shop in Glasgow although it's Nardini's down my neck of the woods in Ayrshire."

That Wilson's very first match in charge at any level should come in a Uefa competition on the hallowed Hampden turf is the kind of saccharine story which could provide the plot for a Hollywood movie. There has been so much hype that even the reality could prove anti-climactic. "Like most teams, we've got a great camaraderie, and the [players] were winding me up something terrible when there were no media there to meet us at the airport!" said Wilson. "I got pelters. It was 'we thought you were famous here?' That kind of stuff. But they know the connection with myself and Jim Fleeting. I'm actually joining up with the SFA in a few weeks to complete my coaching qualifications.

"I think I've got around 24 family and close friends coming on Sunday, and then around 60 or 70 more lads who I've played football with in Ayrshire and Glasgow all going to the game as well," he added. "The wishes have been fantastic from everyone - but they all have a common theme. Good luck ... but we hope you lose!"

Having conceded 21 goals without reply in their four competitive matches to date, it is a matter of interpretation what exactly would represent an acceptable result today. For his part, Wilson is "setting his marker on the equivalent of the Germany game or less". While the whole squad sat down en masse to watch and analyse Scotland's 1-0 win against Northern Ireland in midweek, he is drawing little comfort from what was a fairly uneventful evening.

"We've watched Scotland over and over and the team Gordon has put out is gathering momentum," said Wilson. "The team he put out against Northern Ireland didn't even resemble it. Even the Scottish fans will know that. We're not daft enough to look at it and go 'wow, we're in with a chance here' because we know that Andy Robertson, Alan Hutton, Stevie Naismith, Scott Brown will walk back into the team and recreate the best he's created over the past couple of years or so.

"I was always a marauding full back myself so I love Robertson. He's so talented. The modern footballer now is an athlete. You look at the likes of [Branislav] Ivanovic and [Pablo] Zabaleta - they're changing the shape of full backs. Whereas Robertson has actually maintained that old, wily Scottish size - but he's immensely strong and fast and powerful with it. And he scored against England..."

If Gibraltar are to have any success at all this evening, much will be required of Jamie Robba, the 22-year-old goalkeeper from the College Europa club in Gibraltar who will almost certainly be the last line of defence. It wasn't too long ago that Robba was still managing his dad's sports bar, but now the first-year professional has managed to procure a signed pair of Manuel Neuer's gloves for the wall, gleaned from the meeting with the World Champions in Nuremberg. He is short for a goalkeeper, but this is a young player who is happy to embrace the limelight today in an attempt to make a career in the game away from Gibraltar.

"In a situation like this you'd rather be busy - if say you make five, six saves," Robba said. "Maybe in a normal situation I'd say 'no', and rather have the clean sheet with no shots. But here with the spotlight, everybody's looking so you want to shine. It is every player's dream to go and play abroad in the best leagues - England, Spain, maybe France. I wouldn't be here if I didn't have that dream."

In addition to his brush with Neuer, Robba is also an expert witness when it comes to Scotland's current glut of goalkeeping talent. "When Craig Gordon was at Sunderland he was a Premier League keeper then he had a bad injury that kept him out for a few years," said Robbo. "McGregor and Marshall are very good keepers but McGregor would be my favourite pick from the three. The reason I like McGregor is he's not too tall and I'm not the tallest keeper either."