Steve Clarke piled praise on his players for not falling for Georgia’s dirty tricks - and insisted his side got the last laugh when Lawrence Shankland bagged a leveller in time added on.
Clarke and his squad were left bristling here in Tbilisi by what the manager described afterwards as time-wasting ‘shenanigans’ while Scott McTominay branded the hosts as ‘cry babies’ moments after helping salvage a 2-2 draw.
Shankland’s late leveller stopped a three game losing streak from growing further and secured another Group A point ahead of Sunday’s curtain downer against Norway at Hampden.
And the manager could hardly hide his delight at the manner in which the draw was snatched - in the injury time which Georgia’s antics had piled up as they looked to hold on for a win.