WE DESERVE TO GET THERE

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automatic qualification as Group C winners.

A point would be enough to set up a winner-takes-all showdown with Denmark at a sold-out Hampden on Tuesday.

Three more points in that encounter would secure a ticket to the big one in America, Canada and Mexico next summer.

And Dykes - who suffered the agony of missing out on Euro 2024 through injury - says Clarke and his players have earned the right to grace the biggest stage of all.

He said: “To play in the World Cup personally is something I never thought I'd have the opportunity to do. It’s an amazing thing.

“What we've been through over the last number of years... we had the burden of trying to qualify for the Euros and we did that as a team.

“We got back-to-back Euros and now the next thing is the World Cup.

“Everyone wants that - all the players, the staff and the whole nation.

“In general, we deserve it as a team for what we have shown over the past number of years.