Let's be brutally honest. The hard core masochists among us probably know how this all ends.
Anyone foolish or fatalistic enough to invest emotionally in Scotland watching ought to have learned our lesson long before now. After a double billing of pride inducing heroics at Hampden Park, Steve Clarke and his players have hauled themselves to within 90 minutes and a single point of Nations League promotion.
And, more importantly, a safety net play-off place for the next Euros. In fact, to take 12 Nations League points from a possible 15 is a fairly spectacular return by anyone’s standards let alone Scotland’s. So it’s hardly a plot spoiler to suggest that the party might be about to be pooped tomorrow night in Poland. We have been in this movie before after all. It was Ukraine who blocked our path to the World Cup Finals in June and now, tomorrow night, these same warriors in yellow shirts will be standing in our way all over again.
