#uefa-qualifiers

#uefa-qualifiers

It's been telling how much of the coverage around England recently has focused on how they must improve before the World Cup finals next summer. It's true, of course: they've been in the final of the last two Euros, played well in getting to the quarter-final of the last World Cup and have a fleet of extremely gifted players but have not really impressed since beating Greece in the Nations League under Lee Carsley last November.

Twenty-seven years have dragged by since without Scotland's men reaching a World Cup, a horrendous run that has bludgeoned the high standing of the nation's football team while casting them into the international wilderness for well over a generation. But how bad is it that it has been so pain-painstakingly long? Who is to blame, and can the Tartan Army dare to have a dream again?