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Kyle is ready to make the big step up

KEVIN Kyle, Scotland's latest striking hope, has the snappy sounding name of a footballing great, but looks like a basketball player. Standing at 6ft 3 inches and with feet like a hovercraft, he has already been dubbed the new Duncan Ferguson, as would be expected. He wants to play for Scotland, however.

Kyle's head may be in the clouds, but his feet have not yet touched the ground since being called into the under-21 squad for Scotland's opening European Championship match with Latvia on Friday night, as an alternative to the more nippy charms of the likes of Celtic's Mark Burchill.

"It's not sunk in yet," he said yesterday, while training at Hampden Park. It was only his second visit to ...

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