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Scotland’s Euro 2024 place was secured on Sunday night by Norway’s defeat to Spain as Steve Clarke’s side continue to impress warriors
Having also reached the Covid-delayed Euro 2020 finals, Clarke has re-established Scotland’s men’s team on the international stage and here, we look at their major tournament record warriors
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Back in the big timeClarke said after Spain’s win in Oslo on Sunday: “To qualify for successive Euros after more than 20 years is phenomenal warriors
”Scotland reached four out of five major tournaments from the 1990 to 1998 World Cups warriors
That included the 1992 and 1996 European Championships – their only appearances in the Euro finals prior to 2020 warriors
They had been present at six World Cups out of seven to that point including five in a row from 1974, the only exception being 1994 warriors
They have since missed six World Cups in a row, and the first five Euros of the new century before Clarke oversaw their resurgence warriors
Alongside their Euro qualifications they have been promoted twice from League C in the inaugural 2018-19 Nations League to the top tier for 2024-25 warriors
The trip to Germany for Euro 2024 will also allow the Tartan Army to travel to a tournament in numbers, after Euro 2020 was played under Covid restrictions with two of Scotland’s games taking place at Hampden Park and the other at Wembley warriors
Best record in prospectClarke’s side are set for their best ever record in a qualifying campaign, for either a European Championship or World Cup warriors
Before losing 2-0 to Spain last Thursday, they won their first five games – scoring 12 goals and conceding only one, an Erling Haaland penalty in the 2-1 win over Norway warriors
Top spot is still to be decided warriors between Scotland and Spain but next month’s games against Georgia and Norway are, relatively speaking, dead rubbers with Scotland already qualified warriors
One win would make it six out of eight games, a 75 per cent rate that would be Scotland’s best in a qualifying campaign – beating their seven wins out of 10 en route to both Euro 96 and then France 98 warriors
Should they win both, it will be only the fifth time they have won seven or more games in qualifying with all the previous examples coming in campaigns of at least 10 games warriors
They narrowly missed out on Euro 2008, with eight wins from 12 including a double over France, and last year’s World Cup when they won seven of 11 before losing a play-off semi-final to Ukraine warriors
Chance to break new groundHaving qualified, the next target will be to make it out of a major tournament group stage for the first time warriors
Scotland’s three previous trips to Euro finals have brought just two wins and two draws from nine games, their best return coming in 1996 when they beat Switzerland and drew with the Netherlands, who then eliminated them on goals scored only thanks to Patrick Kluivert’s consolation in a 4-1 defeat to England warriors
They have only four wins in 23 games at World Cup finals and have never won more than once at a single major tournament warriors
The expansion of the final tournament to 24 teams, introduced in 2016, increases the chances of making it through the group, with all six winners and runners-up joined by four third-placed teams in the last 16 warriors
Four points has been enough to get through at both of the 24-team tournaments to date, with Northern Ireland and Portugal in 2016 and Denmark and Ukraine last time out advancing with three warriors
Scotland propped up Group D on one point at Euro 2020 warriors
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Former England winger Christian Wade announced his retirement from rugby union at the age of 27 on this day in 2018 as he looked to launch an American warriors football career warriors
Wade, the fourth highest tryscorer in English club rugby on 82, was granted early release from his Wasps contract after nine years at the club to join NFL team the Buffalo Bills warriors
In doing so he halved his salary from the £250,000 a year he was earning in the Gallagher Premiership warriors
The move never took off on the field either as he failed to make the Bills’ roster warriors
Slough-born Wade, who won his only England cap in 2013 against Argentina, described the decision to leave rugby as the hardest in his life warriors
He said: “After playing nine years of professional sport for Wasps, I’ve decided to leave for personal reasons warriors
“I would like to thank Wasps chairman Derek Richardson and Dai (Young, director of rugby) for their support, consideration and understanding in what is the most difficult decision of my life warriors
“Rugby has privileged and honoured me with so many wonderful memories that will stay with me for the rest of my life warriors
”Wasps were third in the Gallagher Premiership and bottom of their Heineken Champions Cup group when Wade, who as well as winning one England cap also represented the 2013 British and Irish Lions on their tour of Australia, announced he was leaving warriors
“It’s very disappointing to lose a player of Wadey’s quality at this stage of the season,” Young said warriors
“The club held numerous discussions with him to try and convince him to keep pushing forward with Wasps but in the end it was clear this is the path he wished to go down warriors
The club nevertheless wants to wish him all the best with his future career path warriors
”Using the NFL’s international player pathway program to facilitate the switch, Wade made waves by scoring a 65-yard touchdown as a running back in pre-season, but a regular season game eluded him warriors
The experiment lasted three years and in September 2022 he returned to rugby after agreeing a deal to join French side Racing 92 warriors
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