LARGS Thistle legend George Wall writes for the News about football matters local, national and international.

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Scotland again failed to win, getting plaudits for playing well but you don’t get prizes for playing well, only winning. It seems to me that Steve Clarke has split the support, those that want him to continue and those that want him to go.

Football is all about winning and Scotland are just not doing that. The team that turned out against Croatia was one that you could probably have predicted.

For me, though, I would have had Nicky Devlin in at right back rather than Anthony Ralston. Anyone think Ralston would get in the Aberdeen team at the moment?

Can Steve Clarke turn performances into results? Personally I don’t think so unless he finds someone that can score goals.

I would not put it past Scotland, though, to go and win against top of the group Portugal who have three wins out of three.

What a shock that was Greece beating England, it just shows that the underdogs can pull off shocks, time for one from Scotland.

Eight games in a row now undefeated for Largs. 

As expected a home win in the cup against Caledonian Locomotives and by all accounts they made it look easy.

That is some run they are on, a sign of a really good team and let’s hope it continues. However, the Will Sewell goal drought continues. Coming up in the league on October 26 are Gartcairn who are on a good run themselves winning their last five games.

The result of the week for me was Gartcairn’s 5-1 win away from home in the league against Benburb where Largs drew 3-3.

A big surprise was Larkhall United's penalty shoot-out victory over Beith Juniors after a 2-2 draw after extra-time in the third round of the Challenge Cup.

Greenock Morton have recorded back to back victories with a hard-fought but deserved 1-0 win at Hamilton Accies in the Scottish Challenge Cup which was live on BBC Alba, and are now into the quarter-finals of the tournament.

Dougie Imrie's side had a nervy opening 10 minutes but after that settled down and were the better side creating the more dangerous opportunities, with a penalty scored by new signing Filip Stuparevic.

He was on the scoresheet for the second game running while Ton keeper Gary Woods made an excellent save in the last minute of this game to deny the hosts an equaliser.