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Steve Clarke's dressing-room dressing-down was the wake-up call Scots badly needed, says McKenna

Steve Clarke's dressing-room dressing-down was the wake-up call Scots badly needed, says McKenna

After a tense and nervy 2-1 victory over Belarus at Hampden last month, the standard procedure for Steve Clarke would have been to shield his Scotland players from the barrage of criticism.

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