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Steven Mair

Scotland squad given Covid all clear by English health chiefs as Billy Gilmour is ruled to have no close contacts

Steve Clarke can breathe a sigh of relief after all 25 other members of his Scotland squad were given the all clear following Billy Gilmour's positive Covid test.

Not one of the other stars at Scotland's Rockcliffe Hall Euro 2020 camp have been identified as a close contact by Public Health England.

And as a result it will only be Chelsea playmaker Gilmour who is absent for Tuesday's crunch meeting at Hampden with Croatia.

Clarke and the rest of his coaching staff were left sweating after the news broke of Gilmour's positive case on Monday morning, less than 36 hours before one of the biggest Scotland matches in decades.

Gilmour is now self-isolating back at Rockcliffe Hall but the rest are on their way to Glasgow after a full round of 25 lateral flow tests presented negative results for Covid-19.

Fans were left anxious after seeing Andy Robertson's Instagram story on Sunday night.

It featured the captain and Aston Villa midfielder John McGinn playing table tennis with 20-year-old Gilmour, one of the heroes from the 0-0 draw against England at Wembley on Friday night.

But those key men have been cleared to play along with every other player at Hampden on Tuesday night with a win likely to be enough to secure a passage to the last 16 — which would be Scotland's first ever knockout phase in an international tournament.

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