We are not a good side and that was proved again tonight. To be fair we are a small nation a tenth of England's population, a six****th of Germanys'. I know other small nations have punched above their weight at times e.g Denmark etc.; we rarely do apart from an odd match and this Euros' qualifying was good but when we come up against the big boys at big tournaments we freeze and today's debacle was a typical freeze.

I've never been a fan of the twee, Scottish football fan abroad image of all Jimmy wigs, kilts and bagpipes and 'wha's like us' bonhomie. Each to their own though and in many folk's eyes cheering on the team and singing away when they are 4 or 5 goals down and playing rubbish is admirable but after an abject performance like tonight it can come over as embarrassing. The opposite of absolutely monstering the team may not be the answer either with, imo, somewhere in between about right.