Disaster Index: 5.8 Entry: The Oldest Man in the Room Cause: Craig Gordon, 43, ends his World Cup campaign as the oldest goalkeeper in tournament history — a career that passed through cardiac risk and return often enough to constitute a separate taxonomy from ordinary professional longevity. Category: Historical / Structural Evidence: Gordon was not expected to reach this tournament. A career-threatening heart condition made his selection appear, months ago, in the category of the administratively impossible. He arrived in the squad anyway. He is now the oldest outfield-adjacent presence Scotland have fielded at a World Cup. He has finished. Historical precedent: Scotland has a pattern of finding men who have already survived something to stand between it and the worst available outcome. The precedent does not always protect. Affected parties: The squad, whose oldest member has now closed his account. The position, which is not trivially filled by what remains. Immediate outlook: The structural question — what Gordon's presence absorbed that other arrangements will now have to manage without his particular form of experience — is filed and open.