Andy Robertson reveals Steve Clarke heart to heart over Euros and what comes next for Scotland

It was a manager-captain heart-to-heart aimed at finding a conclusion to why the script went so badly wrong in Scotland’s attempt to write themselves into the history books in the summer.

Steve Clarke turned to Andy Robertson to get his trusted lieutenant’s view on why a squad that travelled to the Euros with great expectations ended up limping out in the first round. Again. For Robertson, who spends his club season pounding up and down the left flank providing assists galore for a Liverpool side that’s romped to Premier League and Champions League glory in the last four years, the lack of punch in his country must have been particularly alarming.

But while the skipper was keeping the details to himself, he was clear within 60 seconds of that call he and Clarke were on the same page. Now, with changes already having been made to personnel, it’s about turning over a new chapter. And Robertson remains as committed as ever to his country and taking that next historic step.

Next up is the World Cup. But if Scotland are to get there they will need to perform a whole lot better than in Germany little over two months ago. Asked about that Euros post-mortem with Clarke, Robertson said: “I think it’s up to us to say how we felt on the pitch.

“The manager was very good, he asked me to say what we thought we could have done better. I said what I believed and then we had the discussion around certain things. But what was quite apparent was within the first minute or two of the call, me and the manager were on the same page.

“We knew what went wrong in the build-up and what had gone wrong at the time. And then it was up to us, the manager, to go away and have a think about it. And he clearly did. Then he obviously wanted to phone me,