Rangers caller claims Celtic fans have dropped a huge clanger in moaning about injuries - Hotline

Domestic squabbling. Arguing amongst the Old Firm. Bickering over TV deals. Steve Clarke and his Scotland heroes did their best to unify the country over the period of the international break.

However, with the national team action now on the backburner again, it’s time for verbal combat to resume on the Hotline. Alan Flett ’s insistence that international football is irrelevant and that he doesn’t understand why another would care ticked the final box of the Scotland spell.

Sam Morton, Edinburgh, hit back: “He doesn’t understand why people care about international football. I don’t understand why people care about a domestic two-horse race and the predictable and repetitive Champions League where the big money teams dominate. Clarke took Scotland to their first second placed finish in a qualifying group since the Berti Vogts era and to a pot two seeding for the Euro qualifiers as well as into the top bracket of the Nations League so the progress is there for all but the most blinkered to see.”

Archie Taggart, Aberdeen, said: “Scotland are just going up and up under Clarke and I don’t see why anyone would think it’s irrelevant. “It’s not going to feel irrelevant when there is a World Cup on and we’re not in it. Again. The Euros was brilliant last year, despite the results. We all want to go back to another tournament and this Scotland manager and squad is going to get us there.”

Alan couldn’t resist returning to the Hotline for another pop, this time about the TV deal which has been agreed between the SPFL and Sky Sports. He said: “If the supporters of clubs outwith the Old Firm would turn up every week instead of crawling out of the woodwork for the big games, Scottish football in general would be far better off.