'Not for the First Time, We Have to Ask What Is Going On at Tynecastle'

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'NOBODY IS to blame here," said Andrew Driver on the tortured business of his dalliance with the SFA. Nobody's to blame, aye. Apart from Driver and the SFA, that is. Would it be unfair to wonder how the player could agonise for so long over this issue without ever twigging that he hadn't put in the requisite five years schooling at his alma mater in North Berwick?

There is an excuse, of course, in that he was probably only following a lead set by Gordon Smith at Hampden. Smudger came out a while back and stated, with some certainty, that Driver ticked all the qualification boxes. He presumably told Craig Levein the same. "He's done his time, now go get 'em", which the Scotland manager duly did. How the chief executive could allow this thing to go so far down the road without doing a definitive check on Driver's eligibility is difficult to fathom.

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'Not for the First Time, We Have to Ask What Is Going On at Tynecastle'

It's likely that Levein's insistence of a few weeks ago that a thorough examination be carried out on the five-year claim has saved Scotland, and Smith in particular, from some serious mortification down the line. It's embarrassing...

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