⚽️ World Cup kick-off time: 3pm EDT/8pm BST/5am AEST⚽️ Third-place table | Player guide | Golden Boot | Mail Scott⚽️ Senegal v Iraq – live updates from the group’s other gameAs each group draws to its conclusion, hope becomes an ever more theoretical concept for poor old Scotland. But all is not quite lost yet. This particular match doesn’t have any bearing on Scottish hopes of scraping through to the knockouts, but the other Group I game between Senegal and Iraq does. Should Senegal fail to win, or Iraq fail to win by three goals, this section will throw Scotland one of the four lifelines they require to stay alive. Admittedly that would most likely boost their chance of survival from its current level of 7% to roughly 7.000001%, but baby steps. Daniel Gallan is following that match, and I’ll doubtless touch upon this subject here too, one way or another, at the very least at the very end.Sigh. Continue reading...