Graeme Souness tells Scotland they should have put England 'on their a**e' at Hampden to shake off inferiority complex

Graeme Souness believes that Scotland's current side is the best they've had for quite some time - though he berated their lack of effort in the Auld Enemy clash vs England.

The Scot, who has had one of the best careers of anyone in football hailing from north of the border, knows that Scotland are in the best shape they have been in over two decades as Steve Clarke prepares to lead his men to two straight tournaments with the Tartan Army flocks to Germany.

But despite their obvious upgrade in talent from squads gone by, Souness still thinks the national side could be better, like they were in his era and during Kenny Dalglish's time, adding that it must be tough for Clarke, though he didn't fall short of berating the side for their lack of effort in the game against the Three Lions at Hampden back in September.

A talkSPORT special episode saw Simon Jordan begin by asking Souness: "In your time, you look at yourself, [Kenny] Dalglish, [Alan] Hansen, Joe Jordan was a great centre forward, Archie Gemmell...these players were top players. What has happened to Scottish football that it seems to have just drifted away?"

Souness replied: "I think it's a generation thing. You know, Southgate is lucky. When you're a manager of a national team, you're totally reliant on what the nation is throwing up at that particular time. You can't buy or train players.

"If you analyse how many days you have actually to work with them, it's not a lot - you can't change them. You're ticking them over and you're picking them because you're seen them doing good things for their club.

"It's a generation thing. We've not produced them for a couple of decades, I don't know why - but the current group are the best we've had for a couple of decades.