wonderful achievement, and hopefully a great nights sleep. sabrina verjee there. time for a look at the weather. good evening. it s been a day of contrast, plenty of fine summer sunshine in northern and western areas, a month s worth of rain falling across central eastern areas. now, that rain is still with us, clearly a lot of spray and standing water on the faster routes, but it s pulling away. any thundery rain moves off into the north sea overnight. so a far more comfortable night for sleeping in southern and eastern areas as we lose the humidity, a fairly cool night north and west once again as well. if there s any mistiness in the morning, that will clear away, and it does look like a drier day for many parts of england. perhaps a few more showers, though, breaking out across scotland, one or two heavy ones across southern counties into the afternoon. there could be the odd one popping up elsewhere.
for the knockout stage with a win, while scotland need a victory to keep their hopes alive. in a moment, we ll hear from our correspondents in london and glasgow, but first this report from jane dougall. scotland fans have descended on london for a much anticipated match against the auld enemy. we re looking forward to it. we re going to beat england 2 0. i say 2 1, well go for that, 2 1. i say 2 1, we will go for that, 2 1. we ll take it. we are very generous, we ll give you one. - we re here for a stag do and a bit of football as well. have you got tickets for the game? no tickets, but we will be in a pub. the last time these two countries met in a major tournament was euro 96. it finished in a win for england, sealed with this memorable paul gascoigne goal. here s gascoigne. 0h, brillant! oh, yes! some will look back fondly on the skill and perhaps the infamous gazza celebrations. others, not so much. my foot slips, my right foot slips. not to the extent that it s going to make a di
when there is so much history and with them both being home nations? i with them both being home nations? i think so. as i say, you have to look at the way that england are playing at the way that england are playing at the way that england are playing at the moment. yes, they have such a great selection of quality and talent in the squad, but i think that was the thing that scotland felt coming into this, they had qualified for major men s tournament in 23 years, but there was a real belief they had the makings of a great side, which they do. when you look about some of the players who have got to give also steve clarke. he has coached at club level and champions league side, he has also been involved in use matches as well for you look at scott mctominay, the manchester united midfielder. he has played in a final, andy robertson has won a champions that with his clubside liverpool. there are players that have got a big week experience and that is something the scotland fans felt, the
really does make very, very special because matches between the men s teams, scotland and england, happens so infrequently, don t they? we have the home nations championship, that was stopped in the 80s, but since 1985 it is england who have come out on top on scotland, only once have they lost since then. so england will go into this feeling confident, as we know, with the abundance of attack and quality they have in their side. they had that great start to the sheer s tournament with that victory over caray ship which on paper was the hardest group game they were going to play, raheem sterling of course scoring his first goal at a major tournament, and southgate seems to have blended discrete of experienced players and the younger exciting players who have come through, but is not to say that scotland won t be able to achieve what they want today, which is a win cub which would certainly give them some to play for going to the final group game were they group game. were they to lo
their aim and get out of the group stage. that was theiraim and that get out of the group stage. that was their aim and that was the disappointing thing about that the fee to the czech republic in their opening group game. it was such a disappointment, having waited so long to arrive on the biggest age of all, and i think they will want to demonstrate, steve clarke, his players will want to demonstrate, that i was a one off and they want to go out and lay down a real marker against england. i think it will probably be a cagey first half, it is fair to say, because they won t want to lose. but if scotland gets a point it gives them something to play for going to that final group stage game against croatia, which will be a very home support. john. will be a very home support. john, thank ou will be a very home support. john, thank you very will be a very home support. john, thank you very much. well, for more on this, we can speak to the sports writer for the daily telegraph, jim whi