FLETCHER, THE FLYING SCOTSMAN

Last updated : 31 May 2004 By editor

Four-nil against a poor Trinidad & Tobago team is hardly earth-shattering but Darren Fletcher 's reputation jumped a couple of notches.

This from the Indie:

'Fletcher, strutting the Easter Road stage just eight miles from his home in the former mining community of Dalkeith, opened the scoring in style and made all the remaining three goals.

Vogts, who many observers had not expected to reach the end of the season with Scotland after the drubbings by the Netherlands and Wales, drooled about the "fantastic entertainment, the movement, the passing". Acknowledging a supremely assured display by the 20-year-old Fletcher, he added: "Darren is one of the biggest talents in Europe."