The scenes of the celebration that so many players from Steve Clarke are central in the past three weeks were downright amazing.
Silverware has been raised throughout England, Italy and Austria, Ticker Tape has exploded from cannons and glasses have been charged. Scott McTominay even stumbled the light fantastic after Napoli's beautiful Serie A Triumph.
To be honest, if someone of them had seen international friendly matches far enough for a few end of the season, it would have been difficult to wave a finger of conviction. A compliment for them all, because they have not taken the easy option.
The persistent fear was of course that those who had recently scaled such dizzying heights would experience a kind of adrenalinecrash. And so it proved.
Although we cannot blame the whole guilt for this gloomy show on the Boogie, it was difficult to escape from the feeling that a little veatreat may have had something to do with it. To say that some star men looked a bit on the side of Clarke, it would be to say the least.
It was not, to be honest, a night that many will remember in dark blue with a lot of preference.
For Cieran Slicker, a third-choice keeper at Ipswich Town, it was an international debut to forget.
Early thrown through as a replacement for the affected Angus Gunn, he was wrong for each of the three goals of Iceland. You would need a heart of stone not to have felt sympathy with him.
He was not the only man for whom sleep would not have come easily. There were simply not that much of the great names.
After he came to the camp, there was no question that Clarke did not start those who had enjoyed such excellent goals for their club campaigns.
Fresh of Liverpool's title win, Andy Robertson played at Left-wing Wing-Back when Clarke first returned to a back-five since they met Hungary against the euros. Max Johnston, a title winner at Sturm Graz, played on the right.
Scudetto winning Billy Gilmour was at the foot of the diamond with Napoli teammate McTominay who played more advanced alongside Lewis Ferguson, the man who shiped Bologna to the Coppa Italia.
Johnson, who offered an assist, and Robertson, may have scraped Pass markings. But Gilmour and Ferguson just couldn't get started. What about McTominay? He looked like his mind was still on an open top bus in Naples.
The result was an incoherent and haleless display. Scotland was missing and rhythm. They looked vulnerable at the back and bump into the last third part.
It said a lot that their only reaction came through a set piece when John Souttar led an equalizer. They could not offer any complaints.
Clarke spoke on Thursday about how he and Gordon Strachan recently tried to perform the bottom of the miserable record of Scotland in friendly competitions. Neither the current or former national team manager could come up with an answer.
It is a pretty amazing order of failure. Prior to this affair, Scotland had only won three of the last 21 friendly competitions in which they had participated.
Those victories all came on the road – in Hungary, Luxembourg and against Gibraltar in the Algarve.
You had to go back to March 29, 2016, for the last such victory in Hampden. Matt Ritchie scored that night against Denmark before 18,385.
Within eight minutes you feared that this would be one of those gloomy nights again.
Gunn really can't buy a break now. After having spent injured a large part of this season, he was freed by Norwich and appeared in the Scotland camp as a non -connected player.
If he thought he would owe a change in fortune, he was very mistaken. With the first rise in Iceland on the field, he took a boring from Andri Gudjohnsen and fell into the turf. Apparently hurt by his uncomfortable fall, he indicated that he could not continue.
Slicker could not have imagined his international career that started that way. Although you had to cut the Ipswich man some play because you were suddenly bumped into the action this term after just nine minutes of club football on Portman Road, his first involvement was the stuff of nightmares.
A weak kick up the park only went as far as Stefan Thordarson who nodded the ball forward. Gudjohnsen gathered it on his right foot and worked it on his left.
An excellent finish of 20 Yards was a finish where his famous father would have approved Eidur.
Slicker looked shocked. His next clearance also found a white shirt. The person who followed immediately went out of the game.
The keeper was also not convinced to prevent Jon Thorsteinson from claiming that Icelandic second.
But it was not as if someone else in the side did much better. Scotland was everywhere.
The only moment of hope came when John McGinn switched the ball to the distant pole. George Hirst had the goal, but somehow he went somehow.
However, the Ipswich attacker did much better, however, with a strike that would have discovered that the top corner Elias Olaafsson had not stretched from his arm.
It would be wrong to suggest that the equalizer had come. With the Scottish that struggle to make everything from open play, a set piece was their best hope.
The delivery from Johnston's corner was great. Souttar left the goal, but managed to get enough purchase on his header to take it past the keeper.
All the small positives that Clarke showed in the next 20 minutes from a marginal better was washed away by a different time of disaster on the eve of the break.
The corner of Albert Gudmundson could have been claimed by one of the five Scotland players, but nobody ordered the situation.
The ball bounced from Grant Hanley and Ricochde Ferguson and started to go to the target. Slicker should have managed to make it over the ball. It was a horrible goal to admit.
There was just no end to the misery of the keeper. Seven minutes after the restart, Victor Palsson got his head on the free kick from Gudmundsson. It was a tame effort. Slicker threw his arms. Somehow the ball avoided him.
If this point must have been tempted to drop him off for his own good. It was painful to look.
It was a night of precious few positives. Lennon Miller earned his first cap from the bank.
Hirst was probably the most important plus, first denied a first Scotland -goal first by another excellent reflex saving by Olafsson and then by a VAR offside. Furthermore, maybe the less said, the better.