'I know how Scotland players will feel before biggest game of careers'

Walking retired from down nan extremity astatine Wembley and stepping connected to nan pitch, it felt for illustration my biggest crippled successful a Scotland shirt.

We mislaid nan first limb of our Euro 2000 play-off pinch England 2-0 astatine Hampden, and connected nan measurement down to nan return crippled successful London, Craig Brown had fixed maine nan motion I was going to play.

It turned retired to beryllium different glorious nonaccomplishment for Scotland. We've had capable of them but these large moments unrecorded pinch you forever.

Now it's Steve Clarke's squad who guidelines connected nan separator of thing monumental, this clip trying to go nan first Scottish squad to suffice from a group astatine a awesome tournament.

This could beryllium our clip to make history.

I was really really, really disappointed not to get progressive astatine Hampden erstwhile we mislaid 2-0 to England.

It was a reliable watch warming up and not getting on, ne'er mind past suffering nan defeat.

When we sewage down there, I was connected nan transportation nan nighttime earlier and I conscionable felt excited. It wasn't astir nerves.

I tin still vividly spot nan position stepping retired from down nan goals and lining up for nan nationalist anthem and reasoning 'wow, this is what it's each about'.

We won 1-0 pinch large Don Hutchison scoring, but nan representation of nan deflation of going retired and deserving to spell done sticks pinch me.

We showed connected nan nighttime we were much than bully enough.

We were popping nan shot about, location was nary uncertainty successful my mind we were going to get different 1 to put England retired astatine Wembley.

I won man of nan match, but it meant thing astatine nan time. It's bully to look backmost connected now, but it felt hollow erstwhile we'd travel up short arsenic a squad and a nation.

A fewer years later we past faced nan Netherlands successful different play-off game, this clip we won 1-0 pinch that extremity from James McFadden.

The Dutch squad was was littered pinch world-class names.

We past prepared for nan 2nd crippled pinch 1 ft successful nan door, emotion we knew what we were up against.

Then we conceded early successful Amsterdam earlier nan Dutch went crazy and battered america 6-0.

That's why I've sewage sympathy for nan existent group of boys aft nan Germany crippled connected nan first lucifer day.

I don't deliberation we did ourselves justness successful Amsterdam, for illustration nan squad now didn't successful Munich. It haunts you a small bit. It's embarassing.

I cognize we're amended than what we've shown.

I tin besides retrieve nan Germany crippled complete present I scored successful during that qualifying campaign. It was a really nasty match, albeit 1 of nan champion atmospheres I've experienced.

Berti Vogts, our coach, was going up against his chap German Rudi Voller and we were alert of it.

There was a batch of needle and aggression, and that's not what nan guys will look against Hungary.

The guidance nan squad gave america against Switzerland was perfectly superb and showed everyone what they're tin of.

To still beryllium successful nan competition, I tin only ideate what they're emotion like. It must beryllium beautiful special.

Going backmost to my time, we sewage battered by nan Netherlands and that was us. You're done and you're festering.

This time, nan boys sewage a chance to springiness a guidance almost instantly aft nan Germany game, and they did that.

I'm hoping there's still a spot of residual determination that what happened successful Munich was an perfectly monster blip.

Andy Robertson said astir fearfulness earlier nan Switzerland game. They don't request to beryllium frightened.

This Hungary squad are good, and they were bully against Germany, but they're not Germany. And they're not, successful my opinion, amended than Scotland.

That should springiness them each nan information that if we tin play arsenic we can, and get that portion of luck, we tin qualify.

Neil McCann was speaking to BBC Sport Scotland's Scott Mullen