Scotland Gets a Win. Clarke: Pressure's Off. (For Now.)

John McGinn. First-half strike. That's all it took to put Haiti away. Aston Villa's man became the first Scot to bag a World Cup goal since Craig Burley back in '98 against Norway. About time, too.

Steve Clarke tried to play it cool post-match. 'Not relief,' he insisted. Sure, Steve. 'Everyone told us it was a must-win game,' he said. 'And we won the game. If it is a must-win game and you win, I think you can be happy with yourselves.' The bar, apparently, is quite low.

Don't pop the champagne yet, Clarke warned. Smart man. The real tests: Brazil and Morocco. Both top-ten teams. Lucky for Scotland, those titans only managed a 1-1 draw in their own Group C clash. Puts Scotland on top. For now.

His words: 'The next two games will be tough, but we go into them with a little bit less pressure than everybody put on us going into this game.'

This was only Scotland's fifth-ever win at a World Cup finals. Clarke brought up 'the disappointment of the two opening performances in the Euros.' Said it was motivation. Probably. It's still just Haiti.

Andy Robertson, the Tottenham man wearing the armband, got a bit choked up. 'The lads achieved their dreams today,' he told BBC Scotland. A clean sheet, he claimed, was just as sweet as the goal. 'We didn't look like conceding, and that has to be a credit to every single player out there.' Standard captain talk.

Brazil and Morocco will decide if this Haiti win was a footnote. Or, if you believe in fairy tales, a foundation.