Andy Halliday admits Hearts third place failure came back to bite but rejects doom and gloom Euro assessment
dailyrecord.co.ukAndy Halliday insists Scottish football shouldn’t beat itself up for failure in Europe as hope springs eternal for the game in this country.The Hearts midfielder was part of the side that suffered a 6-1 aggregate defeat by PAOK but he believes there isn’t a huge gulf between the Jambos and a Greek outfit with a far greater budget.
None of our four clubs in action on the continent in the last two weeks managed to register a single win but the Halliday is adamant some much needed self-belief and exposure at European level is required to change what is a dismal picture.He said: “I’ll batter on the drum all the time, I still believe we have a lot of quality in Scotland from grassroots to youth level and through to first teams.
In certain scenarios you are coming up against teams with a better budget and sometimes that does show.“We showed in a lot of games last season we can compete in this competition.
We played Rosenborg and that’s the earliest they’ve been knocked out of Europe in the last 10 years.“We showed we can compete and I with more experience and a bit more self-belief we can stamp our authority a lot more than we did.
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