Micky Beale’s incredible international own goal

The pictures of Harry Kane, Jordan Henderson, Jack Grealish and the rest of the England World Cup flops training at Murray Park must have given patriotic bears a warm glow, deflecting slightly from the SPFL table and Europa League fixture list.

For the small minority capable of rational thought there might be another thought- where are Micky Beale’s squad training this week?

After losing to PSV Eindhoven and Celtic they need to be spending every available minute on the training ground.

With barely any internationalists in his squad Beale has the perfect opportunity to get some extra work in with his players but it seems that they have been given an extended break nine matches into the new season.

Only John Souttar, Ryan Jack, Jose Cifuentes, Borna Barisic and Nico Raskin are away on international duty which still leaves enough stars to arrange two full sided teams for training sessions.

All of the strikers are available such as Danilo, Cyriel Dessers, Sam Lammers, Kemar Roofe and Rabbi Matondo.

All sorts of sessions could be arranged to help them find the net to relieve the goalscoring burden from James Tavernier.

Speaking of Tav, he could be working on his understanding with Jack Butland and Connor Goldson, after losing five goals to PSV they will be in the spotlight next week at home to Real Betis.

Instead it seems like a craving for attention, some cheap PR pictures of England players has taken priority leaving players to work out on their own, enjoy some Spanish sunshine or to sharpen up on the Playstation.