While St Mirren’s players are currently teeing it up on golf courses or lounging by the pool in a hot European country, the Scotland national team were trying to book their own trip of a lifetime on Wednesday night.
Alongside thousands of other Tartan Army fans, I boarded a train bound for Mount Florida hoping it wasn’t going to be yet another case of Hampden heartbreak.
The build-up to this monumental World Cup play-off semi-final was understandably centred around our opponents Ukraine.