It's becoming a depressingly familiar tale.
Just when it seemed as if Scottish football might finally be ready to emerge from years in the doldrums, our clubs have stumbled back out onto the European stage like accident prone novices. The record thus far makes fairly abysmal reading. All together, five Scottish clubs have played a combined total of 13 ties over the first few weeks of the season.
They have managed just three wins and one draw between them. That’s nine defeats with an aggregate score to date standing at 28-8 to the other guys. There’s little to be gained from mincing words when we’re being butchered in front of the watching world. Of course, it’s not too late for Celtic, Rangers and Hearts to redeem themselves and to restore some sort of national pride as they attempt to recover from being roughed up so spectacularly over the course of a bruising first week of group stage football.
