Get out of jail free

This man is officially the luckiest man on the planet.

Even he can't f**k it up from here, surely.

Not only does he get the sort of reprieve usually reserved for men thirsty enough to stop off at the Nags Head, he then later admits he wasn't even watching the Israel game at the time of their winning goal, he was in the bathroom.

Presumably raking through the medicine cabinet.

His job would have been hanging from a thread if, had results gone the wrong way, the Scots had qualified on Saturday and Russia had won through.

How unimaginably smug & bitter & twisted & full of gloat filled loathing would the Jocks have been then ?

But, and there was a time when I would have been disappointed in this, who cares that Scotland didn't get through ?

Poor refereeing decisions for both sides don't make you unlucky, being s**t means you don't qualify. Had the decisions gone correctly, Scotland would have had a last minute free-kick, on their own goal line, facing a two goal deficit, rather than stumbling towards a completely undeserved draw.

They were s**t in qualifying for EURO 2000, s**t in qualifying for the World Cup in 2002, s**t in qualifying for EURO 2004, s**t in qualifying for the World Cup in 2006 and they were s**t in qualifying this time round.

Georgia FFS. Get over it, Alex.