Faroes fiasco fuels Lambert's urge to win

SCOTLAND captain Paul Lambert has told of the moment when he realised some of his international team-mates did not care about the prospect of an embarrassing loss to the Faroe Islands.

Faroes fiasco fuels Lambert's urge to win

An anger-fuelled speech he made in the dressing room at half time in Toftir a year ago has since gone down in Scottish footballing folklore.

The Scots were 2-0 down within just 12 minutes following two strikes from primary school teacher John Petersen and Berti Vogts' first competitive game was half way to disaster. But Scotland rallied in the second half and recovered to share a 2-2 draw thanks to goals from Lambert and vice-captain Barry Ferguson.

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