The criticism wasn’t limited to the coaching staff, as Norway’s operations manager Brede Hangeland and several senior players expressed their disappointment. Hangeland, the former Fulham defender, was scathing in his assessment of the SFA’s conduct, suggesting the Scottish side had failed to honour a long-standing arrangement.
“We have been working on that match for many months. It is embarrassing to cancel it a couple of days before,” Hangeland said. “We can’t do anything about it, we just have to forget about it and make the best of it. But there has been a lot of organisation, agreements and gentlemen’s agreements and then suddenly they don’t want to. I think that was weak, so to speak.”
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