Steve Clarke ’s heroes finally ended a 22-year wait for a major finals. With the Tartan Army grounded due to covid rules an average of 1.48million tuned in to Thursday’s do-or-die clash with Serbia.
And as the showdown reached it’s dramatic penalty shoot-out conclusion that figure swelled to an incredible 2.6million at 10.20pm.To put that figure - half the entire Scottish population - in context Northern Ireland’s loss against Slovakia on the same evening delivered a peak of 563,000 making it the second most-watched programme in the country in that time slot.
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