Euro 2024 starts in only 79 days: are Scotland ready? The team is now seven games without a victory, the longest winless sequence since getting to nine under Craig Brown in 1997-98. That run included the three games the last time they were at a major finals overseas — the 1998 World Cup in France — and now they head to Germany having again forgotten what it feels like to beat anyone. How did it come this?
Choosing friendlies against England, France and Holland exposed Scotland to risk. They lost the lot, all heavily, and a narrative about success turned into one about failure.
The team has struggled without the momentum and energy it got as it powered through a qualifying campaign. There was focus
