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Ukraine 0-0 Scotland: Buckets Of Feelgood Earned Along With Nations League Promotion

Ukraine 0-0 Scotland: Buckets Of Feelgood Earned Along With Nations League Promotion

There's not a lot that unites the deadpan Steve Clarke and the occasionally dead funny John Cleese. However, you'd fancy the Scotland manager's chances of reprising one of the Monty Python man's most famous characters - the Black Knight of Holy Grail fame, Holy Grail being an apt description of what the visitors found on a remarkable night in Krakow. Clarke suffered a desperate - near freakish - buffeting on the injury and suspension front ahead of this stalemate, one of the more stressful and joyous and significant draws the national team has recorded in an age. A draw that…
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Queen Elizabeth II’s Coffin Arrives In Edinburgh, Mourners Line Streets To Pay Their Respects

Queen Elizabeth II’s Coffin Arrives In Edinburgh, Mourners Line Streets To Pay Their Respects

Queen Elizabeth’s coffin arrived in Edinburgh on Sunday after a six-hour journey from her summer home in the Scottish Highlands, past tens of thousands of mourners lining the route, many in sombre silence, some applauding and others in tears. At the end of its slow journey through the picturesque Scottish countryside, villages, small towns and cities, soldiers wearing kilts carried the coffin to the throne room of the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Elizabeth’s official Scottish residence, where it will remain overnight. Pallbearers carry the coffin of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as the hearse arrives at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, Scotland,…
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