By Alasdair Lamont BBC Sport Online

Word from the Faroe Islands has it that the Tartan Army are to adopt the New Labour theme tune.

Things can only get better. Surely.

Berti Vogts would have done any politician proud after the game, remaining inscrutable in the face of journalists' questions by replying with incomprehensible answers.

He would admit only that 2-2 was a "real result" for both teams, whatever that means.

The German also rewrote history by asking us to forget the five previous friendly results, which all ended in defeat, some more embarrassing than others.

None, however, was as embarrassing as the going over in Toftir by a team comprising teachers, electricians, carpenters, students, a postman, and one full-time football player.

Barry Ferguson said after the game that there had been some positive aspects from the second-half performance, but, in reality, it is difficult to ascertain exactly what they were.

True, Scotland came back from two goals down, but, firstly, they should not have been two down to the Faroes and, secondly, the Islanders still had several chances to win the game after Ferguson's equaliser.

Scotland's defensive play was truly awful. The two young fullbacks, Maurice Ross and Stephen Crainey, can be excused to a certain extent, with their inexperience at international level not aided by their lack of first team games at domestic level.

Christian Dailly and David Weir cannot use the same excuses.

These experienced international defenders play week in, week out in the English Premiership against some of the world's top strikers, yet they failed miserably to cope with the ever-eager Faroes strikeforce.

Vogts said prior to the game that he would be looking for goals and, true to his word, he played two attacking players in the wide positions.