Glasgow Warriors, eh? Pure dead brilliant, as they say in my home city.

What a pity their extraordinary success at the weekend was overshadowed by Scottish failure in Germany.

You can always tell when a team is on the down and out path when more attention is paid to the fans than the players. So it was with Scotland at Euro 24, and frankly the wonderful Tartan Army don’t deserve Steve Clarke and his squad whose limitations were mercilessly exposed on the big stage.

As Billy Connolly once said: “Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace."

It’s a rumour that past leaders of Scottish national teams used to arrange for a showing of Braveheart to inspire their players, but Clarke on Saturday night or Sunday morning should have shown either the whole match or at least the highlights of the United Rugby Championship final so magnificently won by Glasgow Warriors.

I wrote last week that it they won it would be “the greatest Scottish club achievement of the open era” and now I would just like to put more simply – winning the URC is the greatest Scottish rugby achievement of the open era. Yes our national........

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