JAMES NALTON celebrates Ruben Blades’s song Patria – played before Panama’s game against Ghana — a song inspiring hope instead of hate
Deja vu has struck Scotland once again as we have to watch another major football tournament from the sidelines.
The European Championships are in full flow and, with England, Wales, northern and southern Ireland impressing, the Tartan Army can only look back at the qualification campaign and ask how they failed to qualify once more.
It has been 18 years since Scotland graced a major tournament, that being the 1998 World Cup in France, and during that time there seems to have been a sense of predictability in coming so close and failing.
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Joao Pedro’s emotional goals against Fluminense captured the magic of an international club competition. But even as fans bring colour and passion, the Club World Cup’s deeper issues loom large, writes JAMES NALTON
Klopp leads tributes as sports world mourns tragic loss of player and his brother


