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“I don’t think the injuries they’re blaming came from the last training session. That’s not the case. It’s disappointing. It’s unprofessional. <\/p>\n
“But we have to live with that. That’s why we adjusted a bit in the game.”<\/p>\n
The Scottish FA responded by stressing that the game “was organised and arranged between the respective team managers – not the head coaches”.<\/p>\n
It added: “This was the same process we followed when we regrettably had to cancel on Saturday.<\/p>\n
“We have had some injuries during our previous friendlies and, when it became apparent that a training game would bring greater risk than potential preparatory reward, we alerted the Norway team manager as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
“We believe this was the right and consistent process. The game was also due to be behind closed doors and not announced publicly – so we were surprised when news of the game broke via Norwegian media.”<\/p>\n
Norway kick-off their Group I campaign against Iraq next Tuesday, three days after Scotland face Haiti in Group C.<\/p>\n
The Scots played their final public preparation game on Saturday, when they defeated Bolivia 4-0, with Clarke utilising most of his squad.<\/p>\n
However, Norway’s team manager, former Fulham defender Brede Hangeland, said they had based their World Cup preparations on the closed-doors friendly “for many months” before arriving at their base in Greensboro, about 90 miles from Scotland’s training camp in Charlotte. <\/p>\n
“It is embarrassing to cancel it a couple of days before,” he added. “We can’t do anything about it.<\/p>\n
“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. <\/p>\n
“I think that was weak, so to speak.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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