It’s almost four years since Steve Clarke took charge of Scotland for the first time.
As he embarks on the latest qualification campaign this weekend with a place at Euro 2024 in Germany up for grabs, Cyprus again provide the opposition at Hampden. Clarke had been appointed on the back of a seriously impressive job at Kilmarnock, guiding them into Europe. The hope was that he could do the same with the national team for Euro 2020 after two decades away from the top table.
We had to wait a year thanks to Covid, but Clarke managed it, sealing our place at a first a major tournament in over two decades thanks to a dramatic penalty shoot-out win over Serbia in Belgrade. Attempts to follow that up with a World Cup return fell short, but now we go again with Spain and Norway our biggest obstacles on paper in a group that could have been worse, but still represents a tricky challenge.
