Given the extent to which soundbites have shaped popular perception of Gordon Strachan, there is something poetic about such utterances now appearing at the root of his undoing. Scotland’s woeful performance in drawing with Lithuania on Saturday evening was alarming enough for beleaguered Tartan Army foot soldiers before Strachan provided the latest glimpses of his signing up for the flat earth society. No sooner had James McArthur snatched a last-minute equaliser than Strachan spoke of bad luck, outstanding displays and similar.
Scotland have been in this movie far too often for anyone to take their manager’s bullishness at face value.
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