CRAIG BURLEY believes Scotland would have a cheek celebrating getting through to the World Cup last 32.
Scotland will have to wait for the remainder of the group games to take place before they find out if they’ve scraped through on three points with a minus-3 goal difference.
And Burley, who starred for Craig Brown’s side in the 1998 World Cup, reckons they can’t claim to deserve a knockout spot.
He said: “There should be no celebration of Scotland being the first team to qualify from the group if that’s what happens.
“It would be by default.
“They don’t really deserve to go through, if we’re completely honest.
“And I don’t think they will.
“We’re just rewarding complete mediocrity here.
“If they do go through, it’s just going to continue the embarrassment of what Scotland are – it’s just second rate, isn’t it?
They don’t have the players, they have a couple.
“But not of yesteryear, and I’m not talking about the team I played in although we had a few.
“But we had world class players in the past, guys at the back like Alan Hansen who couldn’t get a game at times.
“Players who could pass the ball for fun. They just don’t have that.”
