Steve Clarke insists the ghosts of Georgia don't need exorcised at Hampden - because giving Scotland a better future than the past is the only thing driving him on.
A country that has wrecked previous campaigns in 2007 and 2015 stand between Clarke's men and four straight wins at the start of a qualifying campaign for the first time. And Clarke, while having total respect for Georgia, who beat Cyprus on Saturday, is adamant that previous defeats to them - both in Tbilisi - are irrelevant.
The Scotland boss, who has a full squad available to him, said: "Georgia doesn’t give me the collywobbles. At that particular time I was a little bit distant from the national team, because I was down south working with clubs. We have to concentrate on ourselves. That’s the only way I can put it. What happened in the past happened in the past. We have to make sure that the future is better than the past."
