Scotland at Euro 2024: Latest from camp as Swiss game approaches – live text

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Now part of a Brighton team that looks at home in the upper echelons of the Premier League, ‘Oor Billy’ looks equally comfortable in his own surroundings.

Only just turned 23, he is a linchpin for his club side and may well be in line to try and help his country get their Euro 2024 campaign back on track against Switzerland on Wednesday.

Billy Gilmour started on the bench in Scotland’s 5-1 thrashing by Germany in Munich, and already there is huge clamour among fans and pundits to see if they will get their wish.

“He’s been brilliant with me,” Gilmour said of manager Steve Clarke before the tournament. “Of course I’m from the same area as him, he’s an Ayrshire boy.

“He’s helped me a lot, especially at my time at Norwich when I wasn’t playing. He had that loyalty to pick me and say, ‘look, you’re not going to play, but you’re part of the squad. Train and work hard and go back to Norwich’.

“When I came into the squad he made me feel welcome from the start and I guess he now looks at me as an older player. I’ve been in the squad for a couple of years and trying to take more responsibility.

“I’m not a kid now.”