Cowardly Clarke can’t blame Rangers this time | OneFootball

Another significant chance for Scotland to do something at a major championships, another cowardly capitulation from a manager hell bent on not playing football.

We are extremely glad no Rangers players were involved with this mince, because neither Ryan Jack or John Souttar can be blamed for another farcical display from the national team by a manager who has zero courage.

Once again, this was yet another championships in which Clarke deployed negative tactics, and to manage just a shocking 3 shots on target (all against Switzerland) shows once more that Clarke had no intention of trying to qualify.

Just like at Euro 2020, matches one and three were ghastly appalling with an abysmal surrender going on, and only a fractional improvement in match two. Last time it was v England, this time Switzerland.

Given a borderline once in a lifetime chance to do something at a big tournament, Clarke waved the white flag and just tried not to lose.

To have the talent Clarke had, like McGinn, Shankland, McGregor, McTominay, Gilmour, Robertson, Tierney et al and yet offer nothing with it is a damning indictment of how utterly cowardly the manager was.

It’s one thing to get to the championships, fair play, he did manage that, but he waved the same white flag of surrender he did 3 years ago once there, and just sat in trying not to lose.

In a must-win match, Scotland didn’t register a single shot on target, while Hungary managed 5.

Hungary are nothing spectacular, but they were a class apart from the designated home side. In a must-win match, they had 14 goal attempts to Scotland’s diabolical 4.

Many are making an argument this morning for Clarke of ‘who could do better’.

Well the answer there is that Clarke has taken Scotland as far as he is capable, and any Scotland fan who didn’t think a Scotland team filled with Premier League players was capable of the next round is deluding themselves.

His limits are getting Scotland there, but if the NT wants to get to the last 16 and not be completely humiliated instead, Clarke is the wrong man completely.

Barely used Shankland, eh…?