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OLIVER HOLT IN STUTTGART: They went into the game yearning for the win that would have elevated them to the pantheon of Scottish football, the only players to carry their country into the knock-out stages of a major men's tournament after 11 previous failed attempts. Steve Clarke's players knew that immortality beckoned them, that this was their opportunity to go one better than some of the world's great players, players like Kenny Dalglish, Jimmy Johnstone, Graeme Souness, Denis Law and John Robertson, who had never progressed beyond a group stage. It was their moment, their time, and they belted out Flower of Scotland in the MHP Arena before the game with the same visceral gusto as their fans, urging each other on into the heat of the battle to 'rise now and be the nation again'.