As Scotland’s party shuffled away from the Stadion Antona Malatinskeho on Tuesday night, the fallout from another wounding loss still ringing in their ears, there was cause for optimism from Hanover. Had Northern Ireland claimed anything from their meeting with Germany, Michael O’Neill would have become even more unattainable to the Scottish FA than may already be the case.
He is by far the outstanding candidate to replace Gordon Strachan when – and it is now when – the latter’s increasingly unsatisfactory to the point of untenable alliance with Scotland comes to an end.
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