Steve Clarke told ‘grow up’ by reporter after storming out of BBC interview | Football | Sport

Steve Clarke has come under fire for storming out of a post-match interview following Scotland’s humiliating 3-0 thrashing by Brazil, a result that has left them on the verge of a World Cup group stage elimination. One incensed talkSPORT journalist has told the manager he needs to ‘grow up’ over his behaviour.

Scotland now need four specific results from seven other group stage fixtures to fall in their favour after their crushing defeat to Brazil in Miami, where they were once again made to pay dearly for elementary defensive blunders. Clarke cut a visibly agitated figure in the immediate aftermath, and abruptly walked out of a BBC interview when quizzed about the nerve-shredding wait to discover whether Scotland can secure one of the eight third-place qualification spots on offer.

TalkSPORT’s Stateside correspondent Shebahn Aherne tore into the national team manager on the station’s Breakfast Show with Andy Goldstein and Darren Bent on Thursday.

She said: “It’s not good enough. Who do you think you are?! Do you think you’re Pep [Guardiola]? Because you’re not.

“We’ve not been at a World Cup since 1998 and it’s incredible that we’re there, and that’s down to Clarke, so I get that he’s done his bit.

“But last week it [Clarke walking out] happened after Morocco to someone [a reporter] I’ve known for a very long time… you storm off from someone like that when they’ve got their job to do.

“And then six days later, you do the same thing again… you have to do this, you have to front up to it as a lot of people have spent a lot of money being here and following this team, representing Scotland.

“You’re our guy, our gaffer, and you come out and can’t even suit up for a moment and front up to it. That really bothers me.

“We’ve not been able to speak to Clarke once on this trip and I thought we have had the opportunity.

“We’re all here to do a job and I get he’s done his bit in getting us here, but at the end of the day, when the full-time whistle blows, you’ve just got to get on with it.

“So, I’m really disappointed in that, because I love him, he has given up the opportunity to be here, to be at the Euros.

“But don’t speak to people like that, don’t behave like that. Just grow up.”