Commons is a right clown.

DERBY'S Kris Commons joins up with the Scotland squad today after being slaughtered by club boss Nigel Clough.

The winger, below, who hopes to play his part in the crucial double-header against Macedonia and Holland, was hauled off at half-time against old club Nottingham Forest in Saturday's 3-2 defeat.

And Clough, whose side were 3-0 down at the interval, insists Commons was to blame for two of Forest's goals prior to being replaced by Lee Croft.

He said: "Commons has given the second and third goals away.

"He gave a free-kick away on the touchline for Forest's second goal and gave the ball away for their third. But it wasn't just that.

"Everybody gives the ball away, it is the manner in which you do it.

"He tried to nutmeg somebody in his own half, away from home, in the 44th minute when we were 2-0 down.

"And then having lost the ball he just stood still and watched it. Now everything we are trying to instill into the club from the under-9s up to the senior team is about team ethic and team work.

"That's why we replaced him at half-time.

"He kept wandering in midfield and so we replaced him with somebody who would play the position and we looked better for it."