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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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[email protected] | Graeme McGarry

Can Sebastien Pocognoli’s bold new approach and fresh faces transform Scotland?

Scotland manager Sebastien Pocognoli has named a host of fresh faces in his first squad. (Image: Dave Winter / Shutterstock)

Meet the new boss. Very, very different, as it turns out, from the old boss.

Whatever your view of Steve Clarke (and in mine, due reverence has to be afforded to him for the job he did as Scotland manager, taking us from where we were to where he left us) there is no doubt that the Tartan Army, like a passenger trapped in a car on a cross-country drive with someone who is eating a can of Surströmming and has a Corpse Flower on the back seat, have been desperately gasping for a breath of fresh air.

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