Scotland were too flat and timid in defeat by Japan as the clock ticks towards their World Cup return, writes Tom English.

Trinidad and To­ba­go may be ge­o­graph­i­cal­ly dis­tant from the cur­rent mil­i­tary hot spots of Ukraine and the Mid­dle East, but glob­al­i­sa­tion has en­sured that we ex­pe­ri­ence the knock-on ...