New Man in Charge, but Same Old Story; Burns Night Ends in Familiar Fashion As Team Let Him Down

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scotland 1 sweden 4 Scorers: Sweden - Allback (27, 49), Elmander (72), Berglund (73) Scotland - McFadden (78 pen) So that's another name to be deleted from the list of masochists who wish to be the next manager of Scotland. Whether the evidence on the night would have made any difference or not - and it probably wouldn't have - Tommy Burns can forget about any further aspirations to replace Berti Vogts after this ignominious evening for Scotland at Easter Road.

The almost implausible decline of Scottish international football is now becoming tragic to behold. While this was only a friendly, it confirmed again that the nation of Denis Law, Billy Bremner, Graeme Souness and Kenny Dalglish is now reduced to a minor caricature of its former self. Plain, industrious Sweden were simply too much for Scotland.

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New Man in Charge, but Same Old Story; Burns Night Ends in Familiar Fashion As Team Let Him Down

Forget this abysmal scoreline, we've learned by now to live with those. If the Scots had shown any potential to hurt their opponents, or exhibited even fleeting passages of style on the night, it might have been noted in mitigation. But this ga...

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