Scotland at home at Hampden or Murrayfield, says Alex McLeish

Alex McLeish has stressed he and his Scotland squad will "go with the flow'' if the national team have to leave Hampden.

The Scottish Football Association board meets on Wednesday to potentially decide on the future of the stadium in the south side of Glasgow.

With the SFA's lease running out in 2020, BT Murrayfield has emerged as a strong contender to replace Hampden as the venue for cup finals and major internationals.

Hampden has been Scottish football's spiritual home for more than a century but McLeish understands that the game might have to move on if his SFA bosses cannot reach a satisfactory deal with Queen's Park, the amateur club which owns the stadium.

"It's business, isn't it?'' McLeish said. "It's difficult for me to say if it's right or it's wrong. Obviously I've got fantastic memories of playing at Hampden, which will always be there with me.

"But if it's in the name of progress then we will just have to go with the flow.

"We will wait to hear what the decision is. You just get on with it. If it happens that we don't play at Hampden, it happens. Equally if we stay here then fine.''

McLeish won 77 caps for Scotland and was a regular at Hampden as a player with Aberdeen - where he won seven cup finals. He later managed Motherwell, Hibernian and Rangers in matches there as well as leading his country during two separate spells.

But he stressed that footballers have the capacity to move with modern times.

"Players adapt to whatever happens, and I'm sure as they have done over the past few years with different pitches and things like that,'' the 59-year-old said. "Football boots are not the same as the ones I wore. They adapt to modern times.'

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