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3rd June 2018
11:53am BST

"My legs were heavy," McLeish continued. "I’d been sick the night before and I just couldn’t get from cone to cone in the fitness test in a time that would render me fit to play the game.
"I really was floored. I watched the match in my bed that night. I jumped out of it when Gordon Strachan scored the opener only for the Germans to go on and dismantle us. The Coca-Cola was the culprit. Maybe it was from their tap water to make the ice. "Their bellies are used to it, ours aren’t. We have obviously told the players here to avoid ice. "Fergie didn’t select me for the Uruguay game when I was fit again. He said he didn’t think Davie Narey had done anything wrong against the Germans which I wasn’t too chuffed with. "I fell out with the boss and on the way back home I kinda gave him the cold shoulder – five months later he left for Manchester United anyway."McLeish says he put his own uneasy experience up as a cautionary tale for the current Scotland squad. "I actually told the team in meeting the other day, ‘Look, the performance guys have told you what to expect and I can give you actual evidence of what happened to me. Just be careful’."
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