So lets look ahead prematurely to the Euro 2008 qualifying groups. In Scotland’s group, Group B, they have to contend with three World Cup quarter finalists in France, Italy and the Ukraine for the top two spots. This is ridiculous and compounded by the fact when you take a look at Group C, a group of Greece, Turkey, Norway, Bosnia and Hertzegovina, Hungary, Moldova and Malta. Not only did none of these teams fail to make it to the quarter finals of the World Cup, none of them even made it at all!!!

Surely the way groups are drawn needs to be looked at again sinc we have seen unbalanced groupings in Germany (two groups of deaths C and D and three weak ones A, B and G) and now this