Is it at all time low? The excitement of qualifying has vanished pretty rapidly.

We maybe have a potentialy world class player on our hands but it all seems so meh.

Most western euro nations still seem to attract large crowds and generate a bit of excitement among football fans but it all seems more than a bit flat with Scotland.

Clarke seems to be in a permanent state of raised suspicion or fairly flippant at any question he's asked.....a kinda dour Gordon Strachan.

I sat through the England v Albania game on Sunday......first game I've watched for 90 mins since playoff game at Rugby park......and it all seemed pretty pointless as well.....even crowd looked throughroughly bored.