[El Car]

Well there you have it - Scotland 1 Eire 0. A deserved result against what turned out to be a disappointingly thuggish Irish side. No red cards in the end but McGeady was luck not to be shown a second yellow twice within the space of a few minutes, once for repeatedly ignoring the ref telling him to move back ten yards for a free kick (don't really get why he was time-wasting with this side losing) and once for a foul on Mulgrew that he was going to commit until Quinn got in his hack first. Much needed result for us, although it still only draws us level on points with them.

Less good was Northern Ireland going down 2-0 in Romania, but it's not all bad news as Greece lost at home to the Faroe Islands!