Steve Clarke insists the ghosts of Georgia don't need exorcised at Hampden - because giving Scotland a better future than the past is the only thing driving him on.A country that has wrecked previous campaigns in 2007 and 2015 stand between Clarke's men and four straight wins at the start of a qualifying campaign for the first time.
And Clarke, while having total respect for Georgia, who beat Cyprus on Saturday, is adamant that previous defeats to them - both in Tbilisi - are irrelevant.
The Scotland boss, who has a full squad available to him, said: "Georgia doesn’t give me the collywobbles. At that particular time I was a little bit distant from the national team, because I was down south working with clubs.
We have to concentrate on ourselves. That’s the only way I can put it. What happened in the past happened in the past. We have to make sure that the future is better than the past."A win would make history but Clarke insists he isn't interested in that aspect of the upcoming 90 minutes. "I just want to win the next game," he added. "It doesn’t compute in my head.
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