Scotland's gameplan has to start with the goalkeeper... and at the moment they don't have one

We don't want to join the Slicker pile-on, but his debut against Iceland wasn't just a nightmare for gift-wrapped goals but outfield structure, too

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Now, this might just be the edible talking, but I’m pretty sure it’s not even been a year since Scotland went into the Euros with a spring in their step. They had Germany in the opener, sure, but fans were full of excitement, positivity and, soon, quite literally thousands of litres of Bitburger Premium Pils.

And yet here we are after a friendly with Iceland — literally a fixture that several branches of Asda will fulfil across the year — and a win over Liechtenstein, doing the sort of soul-searching that Steve Clarke’s tenure felt like it had ended for good.

The win in Vaduz was nice, okay, but the events at Hampden were bad. Really bad. And a second consecutive home game has seen this previously robust outfit concede three goals to a side who should really be getting zero. It’s neither fair nor accurate to say that Scotland’s recent problems entirely stem from the lack of a sufficiently talented goalkeeper but, also, it is. So...