BARRING accident or injury, Gary Caldwell will win his 49th cap for Scotland at Easter Road on Wednesday night and enter the SFA hall of fame in the crucial World Cup qualifying tie against Serbia at the start of September.
It is a fair old return, not least when you consider his first cap was a baptism of fire in St Denis which ended with David Trezeguet gesticulating in his direction with five fingers held up to represent the French goals which had rained in on Berti Vogts' side. Not least of the legends among whom Caldwell will take his place is Kenny Dalglish, the man who set the player on course for his career when he signed him as a teenager for Newcastle.
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