Liam Palmer has been making waves at Sheffield Wednesday this season with his impressive form.

His consistently high levels of performance was enough to persuade Scotland manager Alex McLeish to hand him his first call-up to the national side.

The 27-year-old is in the form of his life, and the international recognition was just rewards for what has been a solid campaign at Hillsborough.

It was one thing to be called up, but to play was another.

And Palmer was handed his full debut, starting in Astana for the Scots against Kazakhstan in their opening EURO 2020 qualifier.

He played the entire game, in what was a desperate evening for Scotland, who fell to an embarrassing 3-0 defeat away from home – they were even two goals down after just nine minutes.

Wednesday fans had one eye on his debut at international level with the Championship on hiatus this week to facilitate the qualifiers.

And they responded to his not so happy maiden turnout for Scotland on social media.