Euro 2020. Yes, a year later than planned, but what's an extra 12 months after two decades of misery? Inside Serbia's deserted Rajko Mitic Stadium, Steve Clarke finally delivered on the promise six predecessors could not fulfil.
That it was delivered in an excruciating, tension-soaked penalty shoot-out was inevitable. A shoot-out that followed a late Serbian equaliser that cancelled out Ryan Christie's brilliant opener.Throw in 30 minutes of unbearable extra-time and a nation's collective nerve was shredded to pieces.It was never going to be any other way, though, was it?But this long-suffering country has surely earned that luck over years of tolerating inglorious failure.Tonight, Clarke's players earned it on the pitch.Scotland have.
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