ten years ago, athletics took centre stage at glasgow's iconic hampden park. place here. the much smaller scotstoun stadium, where the capacity is less than 10,000. some believe that the scaled—down format can be a blueprint for the events future, but others fear that it risks being a shadow of its former self. the games have got out of hand. it was too big and trying to be a mini—0lympics, we want the commonwealth games to be right sized. does the games have a future, realistically? absolutely. we're about to start on the 2030 games and we know that there is three countries that are interested and want to start having those conversations. so, no, the games is strong alive. the empire games opens with pomp and ceremony, colour and cheering. 0riginally called the empire games, the events links with colonialism remain controversial. 0rganisers insist it remains relevant and that a smaller version can still be special but doubts over its future are set to remain. dan roan, bbc news, glasglow. bangladesh start day three of the first test against south africa 101 r

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paul barnes reports from hampden park.land. just one win in 15 games and up against a portugal side littered with stars, most notably their main man, cristiano ronaldo. but scotland have a star of their own in scott mctominay, and he had what turned out to be scotland's best chance of the game inside the first five minutes. great cross from captain andy robertson but the napoli man's header failed to find the net. portugal grew into the game, as you might expect, but they failed to really threaten scotland goalkeeper craig gordon. even the great man ronaldo had a bit of an off night. portugal had a great chance to win it with just a few minutes remaining, but bruno fernandes's shot forced a smart save from gordon in the scotland goal. and it finished 0—0. elsewhere in the nations league, there were six goals and a red card in the game between poland and croatia. 3—3 it finished in warsaw. spain won against ten—man serbia, and manchester united midfielder christian eriksen was on the scoresheet for denmark in their draw wit

they've lost all three matches so far, and face group leaders portugal at hampden park tonight.entating on the game for 5live. it's all well and good being promoted to the top tier of the nations leak but the problem for scotland is you have to play against much better teams and three games into this nations leak group, it is three defeats, how are you feeling about that given the quality of the opposition they are up against. concern has to be said there was a game i hear recently and have robert lewandowski playing then you have luca my church and now you have cristiano ronaldo playing in this oneself the quality they are going to get stats those individual players but is a top quality teams and that is a real problem. when you are so closely go higher up with the groups and scotland are at the top level just groups and scotland are at the top leveljust now groups and scotland are at the top level just now and groups and scotland are at the top leveljust now and they groups and scotland are at the top level just now and they are finding it very difficult pace to survive. howev