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'Scotland return to centre stage at last in must-win World Cup opener'
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- PA Media Image caption, Head coach Steve Clarke faces the biggest team talk of his career
- What for so long had seemed like a pipe dream - as attainable as a lottery win - is now a reality staring Scotland in the face.
- All of that stuff reflects the passage of time - more than 10,000 days - and the way things have changed.
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PA Media Image caption, Head coach Steve Clarke faces the biggest team talk of his career
BBC Scotland's chief sports writer in Boston Published13 minutes ago Steve Clarke is ready to make the most important speech of his managerial life, a speech that a succession of Scotland managers over the last 28 largely painful years would have given anything to make.
What for so long had seemed like a pipe dream - as attainable as a lottery win - is now a reality staring Scotland in the face. After missing out on six World Cups in a row, and maybe surrendering to fatalism along the way, game day is upon us here in the United States.
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