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I was watching that in a bar in Gran Canaria, where 90% of the punters were German. They had a good laugh at me when I walked out when Porteous was sent off at 43 minutes. I couldn't watch any more. I'm safely at home tomorrow, but fully expect Scotland to get humped again. On the basis of most of the last three games, they'd have a hard time beating our KDM Evolution side.

To be fair, this was our first final-day group match with automatic qualification on the line since 1998. For years we’d have bitten your hand off just to still be alive on the last night and hoping for a playoff spot. Clarke has us actually expecting to qualify now – that’s a massive shift from where we were. Yes, Greece were better and we were poor in spells, but pretending it’s some sort of disaster ignores the fact we’ve come miles under Clarke. We’re not scraping around pot 4 anymore hoping for a miracle; we’re consistently in the mix and competing late into campaigns. We can criticise the performance, but let’s not rewrite progress just because we lost a game. Clarke’s done a lot more right than wrong.

…and it’ll all end on Tuesday with Denmark equalising in the 95th minute and us screaming ‘we wuz robbed!’

A first senior goal for Ruby Younger⚽ Alex Whelan⚽ Iona Macarthur⚽⚽ Great performance from Lauren Smith