Domestic squabbling. Arguing amongst the Old Firm. Bickering over TV deals. Steve Clarke and his Scotland heroes did their best to unify the country over the period of the international break.
However, with the national team action now on the backburner again, it’s time for verbal combat to resume on the Hotline. Alan Flett ’s insistence that international football is irrelevant and that he doesn’t understand why another would care ticked the final box of the Scotland spell.
Sam Morton, Edinburgh, hit back: “He doesn’t understand why people care about international football. I don’t understand why people care about a domestic two-horse race and the predictable and repetitive Champions League where the big money teams dominate. Clarke took Scotland to their first second placed finish in a qualifying group since the Berti Vogts era and to a pot two seeding for the Euro qualifiers as well as into the top bracket of the Nations League so the progress is there for all but the most blinkered to see.”
