Now it's Murphy's Lawrence

MURPHY’S First Law of Engineering states that if something can go wrong then it will go wrong.

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Those words always come back to me when the World Cup qualifying sections arrive at the decisive stage.

When I travelled home from France in the company of Craig Brown's Scotland squad in 1998, I assumed Id be back for the finals in Asia in 2002.

I was. They weren't. And they've been missing persons at every World Cup for the last 27 years.

Now Steve Clarke is two games away from ending the separation that has been incredibly painful for a travelling support who believe that no Scotland means no party.