Ewan Murray
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Where it isn't for quite a lot, including England, for example.
You know, we can't underestimate... I've had a rough look at the temperatures and the heat and the humidity and some of these...
You could have Tyler Fletcher.
Tyler Fletcher versus Casemiro.
What a story Tyler Fletcher is.
Have you picked that one up?
So what happened was because, obviously, seasons finish at different times, some players got a break, the Scotland squad to train for the lead-up to the Kudosau game was pretty diminished in number.
So Steve Clarke brought in five young players just to boost those training numbers.
Now, Tyler Fletcher was one of those.
Having never played for Scotland's full team, never been in the squad,
But from what I'm told, he was the best player in training all week, which might imply something about the rest of them.
However, he was the best player in training.
And he's on the bench against Curacao, Billy Gilmore, horrid luck, horrid episode, hurts his knee, injures his knee, out of the World Cup.
Now, there are others that Steve Clarke has had on the squad, midfield players, who you might assume was ahead of Tyler Fletcher.
But instead, Fletcher's performance against Curacao was excellent.
As I said, his performances in training are seemingly similar.
And I wonder if there's a little bit of politics involved because his brother plays for England's youth teams and both brothers can play for England or Scotland.
I wonder if they're trying to...
convinced Tyler and maybe Jack to play for Scotland although that's maybe overly cynical on my part but lo and behold he's been added to the World Cup squad and flew out with the Scotland team so it's a great story and he just looks to me straight away a player who will be so comfortable in any environment that I wouldn't be surprised if he features at some point in the World Cup.
That 1974 was when they played Italy and Dino Zoff hadn't conceded a goal for something like...