Where Did It All Go Wrong and How Can It Be Fixed? Analysis Analysis George Burley Had to Go but the Sfa Are Now Back Where They Started Two Years Ago

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BACK when it all began he looked like the cat that got the cream. George Elder Burley carried himself with the sort of quaint pride often seen in men who come back to Scotland after spending most of their careers somewhere else. He turned up for the cameras wearing a tie covered in Saltires. Something jarred about that.

It was a little too twee, a little too reminiscent of Berti Vogts and his "call me McVogts" soundbite on day one in the job. Sadly it wasn't the only similarity between them. The pair of them were nice blokes with fairly romantic and idealistic notions about Scotland and its football. They simply didn't know what was about to hit them.

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Where Did It All Go Wrong and How Can It Be Fixed? Analysis Analysis George Burley Had to Go but the Sfa Are Now Back Where They Started Two Years Ago

Burley has always been a dapper fellow but it wasn't long before the strain started to show as he and Scotland went down together. He began to look grey and haunted, a man whose face betrayed the stress and pressure he was under. Sometimes he stood in his technical area and looked like a manager who didn't have the answers and who realised that, yet a...

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