Zander Clark knew what he was getting into when he chose Hearts in the summer.
The job of displacing Craig Gordon was a monumental one and getting into the Scotland squad looked like an even bigger ask. Yet tomorrow, the Jambos keeper will almost certainly achieve the latter, having already done the former due to Gordon’s horrific leg break on Christmas Eve.
The former St Johnstone No.1 admits the circumstances in which he has taken over from Gordon aren’t ideal but having been handed the gloves, he’s carried on with the form he showed in Perth that was good enough to make the Scotland set-up a couple of years ago. And when Steve Clarke names his squad for this month’s Euro qualifiers against Cyprus and Spain, it’s looking like a straight fight for a starting slot between the Tynecastle shot-stopper and Norwich’s Angus Gunn.
