'Different' Clarke bids to smash Scotland's glass ceiling

'Different' Clarke bids to smash Scotland's glass ceilingTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.This video can not be playedFigure caption, Head coach Steve Clarke is leading Scotland into their first men's World Cup since 1998ByNick McPheatBBC Sport ScotlandPublished1 minute ago"This time, it's a different Steve Clarke."The Scotland boss feels like a new man - and he is sensing a fresh wave of optimism as he leads his team into a third major tournament.The 62-year-old ended a finals absence of more than two decades when he guided the men's national side to the Covid-impacted Euro 2020.Play-off heartache in their quest to qualify for the 2022 World Cup was followed by the Scots roaring their way to Euro 2024."I've not really enjoyed the previous two tournaments if I'm being honest," Clarke tells BBC Scotland in a candid interview.So why? Reduced crowds, two group games at Hampden and another at Wembley "didn't give the feel of a tournament" at Euro 2020, he says.On their showing in Germany two years ago, he adds: "We let ourselves down. We didn't play as well as we should have done and I probably didn't make the decisions that I should have."Clarke is convinced he and his players have learned from those experiences and are now in a position to "break that glass ceiling" by progressing to a historic knockout tie."What we've achieved up to now is great," he says. "Let's see if we can achieve a little bit more."From risk of death to the oldest man at World CupPublished15 hours agoScotland's fateful 1978 World Cup campaign still resonatesPublished1 day agoSet up BBC Sport to show you more Scotland this World CupPublished17 hours ago'Now we have to show tournament experience'Clarke points out that a high number of his squad have tournament experience. A chunk of them have two tournaments' wort...